About Nepali Times Australia

Nepali Times Australia

Overview

Nepali Times Australia is a Nepali-language community magazine published from Strathfield in Sydney, New South Wales, together with a news website of the same name. It styles itself, in its own strapline, "The First Nepali Magazine Published in Australia" — a claim of priority that is the magazine's own billing, repeated here only as its self-description. Library catalogue records date the title from 2008 to the present day.

The magazine should not be confused with the Nepali Times of Kathmandu, the well-known English-language weekly published in Nepal under Kunda Dixit. Despite the similarity of name, the two are separate publications in different countries serving different readerships; this profile concerns only the Australian community magazine.

Nepali Times Australia is operated by MDS Media Network Pty Ltd, trading as The Nepali Times Australia, from Strathfield. Its content is published mostly in Nepali, with some English material, in a monthly magazine format that has historically been distributed free and supported by advertising, and through its website, which carries dated community news stories. When its website was checked in October 2026, it carried a story datelined 26 September 2026 and was promoting a community event scheduled for December 2026 — evidence that the title remains active.

History

The State Library of New South Wales catalogue records Nepali Times Australia as a Strathfield-based publication running from 2008 to date. The magazine's own account of its beginnings, preserved in the description of its mobile app, says that the journey began in early 2008 and materialised in May 2008 with the launch of what it bills as the first Nepali community magazine in Australia. As noted above, that "first" claim is the magazine's own; no independent verification of it is available, and it is reported here strictly as the magazine's self-description.

The same account describes the original format: a monthly magazine, published free of charge, carrying content in both Nepali and English, and funded by advertising. That model — free distribution through community businesses and venues, paid for by advertisers seeking to reach the diaspora — is the classic economics of community-language publishing in Australia, and it allowed the magazine to reach readers across a dispersed community.

The title expanded beyond Sydney as the Nepalese population grew in other states. By 2014 it had added two sub-editions, The Nepali Times Melbourne and The Nepali Times Queensland, extending its masthead to the two other states with large Nepalese communities. It later moved into digital formats as well, launching an e-paper and a mobile app through which readers could follow the magazine on their phones.

Independent traces of the magazine's later publishing life are sparse but real. A biography of a Nepali musician records that he was interviewed in the magazine in October 2020, confirming that it was still publishing more than a decade after its launch. The figure associated with the magazine in its app-era documentation is Prabhu Parajuli, named as the developer of its app and linked with the magazine in its accounts of its early digital period. He is recorded here as that era's documented figure only: he is not named on the magazine's current website, and this profile does not present him as its present-day publisher. The operator of record today is MDS Media Network Pty Ltd.

Content and Coverage

Nepali Times Australia covers the life of the Nepalese community in Australia: community organisations and their events, religious and cultural festivals, profiles and interviews, and news of interest to Nepali-speaking readers, published mostly in Nepali with some English content.

The items current on its website when it was checked in October 2026 illustrate that brief. Its lead story announced a forthcoming community programme to be held over 14 to 20 December 2026 in Auburn, in Sydney's west, and another story was datelined Granville, Sydney, on 26 September 2026. A further item concerned Teej, the Hindu women's festival widely celebrated in the Nepalese community, referencing 12 September. Festival coverage of that kind — Teej, Dashain, Tihar and other fixtures of the Nepali calendar — is a staple of diaspora publishing, serving readers for whom these observances remain central to community life in a new country.

The website also displays a "Read epaper" feature, reflecting the magazine's print heritage. However, no dated current issue of the magazine itself was visible on the pages checked in October 2026, so the currency of the title rests on the dated website stories — most recently the 26 September 2026 dateline and the announcement of the December 2026 event — rather than on a sighted recent print issue. That evidence is stated here exactly as it stands.

Audience and Reach

The magazine's audience is Australia's Nepalese community: Nepali-speaking migrants and their families, concentrated in Sydney but, as the Melbourne and Queensland sub-editions show, present in strength in other states as well. Its free, advertising-supported model was designed to maximise penetration of that community, with copies historically reaching readers through community channels rather than newsagency sales.

No audited circulation, readership or website-traffic figures for Nepali Times Australia are published by the magazine or by any third party that could be found, and no audience numbers are asserted in this profile. What the record does show is durability: a catalogue run from 2008 to the present, expansion into two interstate sub-editions by 2014, a digital presence spanning an e-paper and an app, and a website still carrying dated community news in September 2026. Those facts support describing it as an established fixture of Nepalese community media in Australia, without quantifying its reach.

Digital Presence

The magazine's website serves at the address www.nepalitimes.com.au, and that detail matters for readers: the bare domain without the "www" does not load, while the www address resolves to the full site. When checked on 17 October 2026, the site loaded completely, presented the magazine's branding and its "First Nepali Magazine Published in Australia" strapline, and carried the current items described above. Its footer shows a copyright range of 2017 to 2026.

Beyond the website, the magazine's digital footprint includes the e-paper reading feature linked from the site and the mobile app it launched in its expansion period. The app-store description of that app is also the source of the magazine's own brief history of itself — its 2008 beginnings, its monthly free format and its bilingual content — quoted and attributed in the History section of this profile.

Ownership and Organisation

Nepali Times Australia is operated by MDS Media Network Pty Ltd, which trades as The Nepali Times Australia and is named as such in the contact block of the magazine's website. That company is the current operator of record.

No individual editor, publisher or proprietor is named on the magazine's current website, and none is asserted in this profile. The one individual documented in association with the title is Prabhu Parajuli, who appears in the magazine's app-era materials as the developer of its app and in its own account of its development. His role belongs to that documented period; whether he has any continuing connection with the magazine under its present operator is not stated in any source available to this profile, and no claim is made about it either way.

Contact and Availability

The magazine's published contact address is Suite 206/4 The Boulevarde, Strathfield NSW 2135 — the suburb's name is spelled "The Boulevarde" in the site's own contact block, and the address is reproduced here as published. The magazine lists its telephone number as 61 2 97455 342, its fax as 61 2 9747 0810, and two mobile numbers, 0412 001 769 and 0478 752 589, and it can be emailed at publisher@nepalitimes.com.au.

Nepali Times Australia is available through its website at www.nepalitimes.com.au — readers should use the full www address, as the bare domain does not resolve to the site — where its community news, magazine material and e-paper feature can be read. The magazine itself has historically been a free monthly, distributed within the Nepalese community and supported by advertising.