About The Nepal Standard
An English-language business publication about Nepal: the companies, families and leaders who build the economy, for decision-makers at home and abroad.
The Nepal Standard exists for the people who run Nepali business and the people who invest in it. We cover the companies, the families and the leaders who build the economy: how they rose, how they are run, and what happens when they fall. We hold every story to a standard a chairman, a banker and a regulator can all rely on.
What we publish
- Profiles and cover stories of Nepal’s business leaders, at home and abroad.
- The Rise & Fall Ledger, our running record of fortunes made and lost.
- The Eight Thousanders, our new annual list of the people who stand highest in Nepali business, first published in Baisakh 2084 (April 2027).
- The Briefing, a selection of the day’s business news from across Nepali media, three times a day.
Independence
Editors alone decide what we cover and who appears on our lists. Nobody can pay to be profiled, listed or ranked. Advertising and sponsorship are kept separate from our journalism and are always labelled.
How we report
Our articles draw on company filings, regulators’ data and court records, and on the work of Nepal’s newspapers and broadcasters. Every story lists the publishers it relies on, with links. We never republish another outlet’s article. Where we have interviewed someone ourselves, the story says so.
Use of AI
We use AI tools to research and draft much of our journalism. They gather the published reporting and official data on a subject, and the story is then written and checked against those sources. Every story produced this way says so at the end, and lists its sources. Figures that sources disagree on are attributed or left out. AI is never asked to invent facts, quotes or figures.
Our bylines name a desk, such as the Markets Desk or the Profiles Desk. Desks are subject areas, not teams of reporters. House opinion is signed by The Editors. Unless a story says otherwise, we have not interviewed or contacted the people named in it; it draws on published reporting, and anyone named may reply.
Short dated updates on running stories are added from a linked source, some of them automatically by our daily routine and reviewed by an editor afterwards. Updates to stories about people facing investigation or charges are always approved by an editor first. Publication dates are the moment a story first appeared on this site.
Press releases
We sometimes publish press releases from companies. They are labelled “Press release”, carry the company’s name as the byline, and are published as supplied, translated where necessary and lightly edited for style. They are not our reporting, we do not verify their claims, and nobody pays for them to appear. They never appear as a front-page lead and are not sent to Google News.
Fairness and corrections
An arrest, investigation or charge is not a finding of guilt. We say so, and we update stories when courts rule. Anyone named in our reporting can ask for a correction or a right of reply.