This archive collects solutions-journalism stories and milestones from Nepal — covering health, environment, education, and community-led progress. Each entry highlights real advances reported from or about the country.
Albania, Bhutan, Costa Rica, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Iceland, Namibia, Nepal, Norway, and Paraguay all now generate more than 97% of their electricity from renewable sources.
In an amazing show of progress for wildlife, Nepal is on track to become the first of the world’s countries to double its wild tiger population since 2010.
Significant progress has been made in wild tiger conservation in Nepal with the population doubling from 2009 to 2018.
In the 1960s, Nepal’s rhino population hit a frightening low of fewer than 100. But it seems the government’s conservation efforts have paid off.
The country becomes the first in WHO’s South-East Asia Region to defeat the world’s leading infectious cause of blindness.
Nepal’s federal republic was born on May 28, 2008, when a newly elected Constituent Assembly voted 560 to 4 to end 240 years of Shah dynasty rule. King Gyanendra was given 15 days to leave the royal palace, which reopened as a public museum. One of Asia’s longest monarchies closed not by revolution alone, but by ballot.
Mount Everest was summited for the first time on May 29, 1953, when Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay reached 29,035 feet at 11:30 in the morning. They lingered just 15 minutes at the top before oxygen forced them down. Their climb opened a new era of high-altitude mountaineering and brought overdue recognition to the Sherpa community.
Nepal’s unification reached its turning point in 1768, when King Prithvi Narayan Shah of Gorkha captured the Kathmandu Valley’s three Malla kingdoms. His campaign had begun 26 years earlier, powered by a multi-ethnic Gorkhali army and a vision of a Himalayan state strong enough to survive between larger neighbors. The kingdom he founded endured 240 years.
The Licchavi Kingdom took root in Nepal’s Kathmandu Valley around the late fourth century C.E., ruling for nearly 300 years. A stone inscription from King Mānadeva, dated 464 C.E., records military campaigns and royal succession, offering one of the Himalayas’ earliest detailed historical documents. Its art, script, and governance shaped Nepali civilization for centuries after.
Around 800 B.C.E., a king named Yalambar defeated the last Mahisapala ruler and claimed the Kathmandu Valley, founding what would become the longest-ruling dynasty in Nepal’s recorded history. Genealogical texts list between 28 and 32 Kirat kings across roughly 1,225 years. Their descendants, including the Rai and Limbu peoples, still carry that heritage today.
