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Fatalism and fatalities

Travel safety in Nepal cannot be an island of efficiency when the entire political machinery is dysfunctional

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The other global pandemic: road fatalities

Nearly 2,800 people were killed on Nepal’s roads in the past year: that averages at seven fatalities per day. No data is...

Environmental destruction is a medical emergency

Last month Kalpana BK delivered a healthy newborn baby on the way to Bayalpata Hospital in Achham, but her placenta did not...

Nepal’s deadly roads take their toll

At least seven people were killed when a bus heading to Narayangad from Beni lost control and fell 70m from the road...

Reckless fecklessness

A drain in the middle of the road outside the gates of a school in Kirtipur had its concrete slabs removed for...

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