Women globally have played a critical role in ani­mal advocacy since the 19th century. While there are many organizations doing work in their locality to promote animal wel­fare and rights, the organizations below stand out particularly for the...

Nabina Khadka, 41, is a rare female taxi driver in Kathmandu. She has met a few other woman taxi drivers but most of them have either already dropped out of the profession or gone back to their village. Before being a cab driver, Khadka, who has b...

  Of the 3,000 partici­pants in Nepal’s first International fran­chise dance reality show Boogie Woogie, which premiered on March 29 on AP1 HD channel, only 18 could make it to the on-air rounds. Among them, 18-year-old Kabita Nepali of Kathm...

The Purple Haze Rock Bar in Thamel was jam-packed on August 4: taking in 1,000 folks, most of them dressed in black, creat­ing a claustrophobia-inducing atmo­sphere. Most of these ‘metalheads’ in their late teens and early twenties (strictly 18...

It’s not often I find myself in Scot­land at the right time—festival time that is! August is the main festival month in Edinburgh and a time when the majority of the city’s residents like to head out of town and out of the path of the thousands ...

These days, cases of inhumane treatment of animals are gaining national attention. But this certainly hasn’t put a stop to these transgressions. Every day, the nine registered animal shelters in the valley receive over a hundred request calls ea...