Gen Z uprising
The 2025 uprising and its economic aftermath.
The long view The Gen Z uprising and business
Kailash Sirohiya's Kantipur survived an arrest and a fire. Its business model is the harder test
Nepal's largest media house came through its chairman's 2024 arrest, which ended without charge, and an arson attack. Revenue down about 70% in a decade and its heir's exit over the newsroom's journalism are harder problems.
One year after the uprising, insurers have paid less than two-fifths of claims
The September 2025 protests cost the private sector Rs 33.5bn (about $216m) by official count. Businesses are still waiting for most of the money.
Tourism recovers from the uprising as China returns and Manaslu snows shut
Arrivals rose 12% in September and climbing royalties are up, but bad weather and a still-gutted Hilton show how fragile the season remains.
Burnt banknotes and arrest warrants: the money-laundering inquiries after September 9
Cash fragments in burned homes started a probe into three former prime ministers. The cases are moving slowly.
Akshay Golyan takes the chair at one of Nepal's biggest exporters
The 37-year-old heir now runs a group behind close to a tenth of Nepal's exports, a freshly listed yarn maker priced at 141 times earnings and a 700 MW hydropower ambition.
Binod Chaudhary, Nepal's only billionaire, a year after the fire
The uprising burned his home and the election that followed took his seat, yet Forbes still values Nepal's only billionaire at $2.1bn and the new prime minister has invited him to talk investment.
Bhat-Bhateni has reopened ten of its twelve burned sites in a year without cutting a job
The supermarket chain reported losses above Rs 11bn, about $71m, when its stores burned in the Gen Z uprising. A rebuild costing about Rs 15bn is nearly complete, with Damak due in December and Hetauda in January.
Balen Shah courts business leaders as investigators detain some of them
The prime minister promises not to arrest entrepreneurs without cause. His finance minister is holding meetings of his own. Investors are watching both.