Cruelty and compassion
Rambhu Paswan was among 100 men hired by the Gadimai Temple this week to kill animals on behalf of at least 2...
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Night before the slaughter
The village of Bariyapur in Nepal’s plains is getting ready for the Gadimai Mela despite national and international outrage against the mass...
Activists decry animal slaughter at Nepal temple
Mahagadimai Municipality of Bara district is preparing for an influx of millions of visitors next month for the practice of mass animal...
Life in the time of tornadoes
This is the season for windstorms, and even though the whirlwind that hit the central Tarai on 31 March killing 28 people...
Lightning kills more people than floods in Nepal
The devastating tornado that ravaged Bara and Parsa districts last week, killing 28 people and injuring 600, made daily headlines. But lightning strikes kill...
Ground zero in Pheta
Unprecedented, but not unforeseen
Disastrous management in Nepal
T he tornado that killed dozens of people on the night of 31 March highlighted Nepal’s vulnerability to disasters. It proved that...
The new normal
The devastating storm that ravaged Bara and Parsa districts on Sunday night leaving at least 30 people dead and hundreds injured now...
Toll expected to double to 50 in tornado
The death toll in a major storm, suspected to be a tornado, that hit villages in the plains of southern Nepal along...
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