Contractors have warned of stopping 3000 projects if the government does not extend the deadline by one year, claiming that the government has failed to settle their payments and adjust the cost of construction materials to dramatic rise in inflation

Microcredit loans have transformed rural entrepreneurship: returnee migrants are increasingly engaging in agribusiness and the average size of farm loans has risen from Rs1,5 to Rs5million (from 10.500 to 14.00 euros), enabling commercial-scale farming

Tangled wires from utility poles in New Road and nearby areas famous among tourist have been removed by Kathmandu Metropolitan City authorities; haphazardly placed and potentially dangerous, they had long been criticised for also creating an eyesore

Nima Rinji, an 18-year-old Nepalese climber, has written mountaineering history by becoming the youngest climber in the world to join the coveted eight-thousand-meter club, summiting all 14 of the highest mountains above 8.000 metres

After 23 years, Ghodegaun village in Jumla district celebrates the return of electricity, now powered by solar energy from nearby Pokharigaun; the village had lost power due to Maoist insurgency in 2001