Technology and tectonics
What recent earthquakes in Burma and Nepal reveal about our fragile humanitarian systems, and how to fix them
What recent earthquakes in Burma and Nepal reveal about our fragile humanitarian systems, and how to fix them
Strict building codes, emergency preparedness and proper land use to make public buildings safer
The Xigatse earthquake coincided with anniversaries of 1934 and 2015, and were reminders to be better prepared
Photos: BIKRAM RAI/NEPALI TIMESEarthquakes are inevitable in Nepal. It is not a question of ‘if’, but ‘when’. And ‘when’ was 2:28PM on...
Sambhu Kumar Mandal is from Sitamarhi in Bihar. Like hundreds of other migrant workers from India, they have been in Nepal working...
Nepal sits upon a pyramid of problems: poverty, inequality, exclusion, domestic violence, social injustice, lack of food ... the list is long.On top...
Nepal’s National Earthquake Safety Day commemorates 15 January 1934, the day when a magnitude 8.3 quake epicentred in Okhaldhunga, killed at least...
Five years ago, I was in the Langtang Valley with my parents at the moment when the earth shook. The earthquake released a massive,...
Patan’s historic temple is not just being rebuilt, but restored to its pre-1934 look
This is the season for windstorms, and even though the whirlwind that hit the central Tarai on 31 March killing 28 people...