The Himalayan Times is an English-language broadsheet newspaper published and distributed daily in Nepal.
[1] In the annual newspaper classification report published by Press Council Nepal, it was placed in the A+ category, the highest possible rank.
The paper's competitors tried to organise and lobby against the entry of foreign-owned newspaper in the country, but were not successful.
[4] At the time of its founding, it published in 12 pages, six of them coloured, and was priced as Rs 2.
Within a year, it had become one of the premier English language dailies in Nepal, and claimed to be number one in terms of readership.