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Timelines

The long view

How Nepal’s biggest business stories got here. Every event is dated and linked to its source.

Nepal's cooperative crisis

1992–2026 · 18 events

How savings and credit cooperatives grew, failed their depositors and drew in a party leader, a media owner wanted on arrest warrants, and a new regulator.

The Nepal Stock Exchange

1976–2026 · 18 events

The milestones, records, rule changes and shocks that have shaped Nepal's only stock exchange.

Nepal's remittance economy

2001–2026 · 17 events

How money sent home by Nepalis working abroad grew into the largest source of foreign income in the economy.

Nepal's hydropower, from load-shedding to exports

2014–2026 · 16 events

How Nepal went from daily power cuts to selling electricity to India and Bangladesh, and what has tested that surplus.

Nepal's LDC graduation

1971–2026 · 13 events

Nepal's path out of the UN's least developed country group, from first meeting the criteria to its request for more time.

The Gen Z uprising and business

2025–2026 · 17 events

The September 2025 youth uprising, the businesses it burned and the slow recovery that followed.

Timelines · The Nepal Standard