Lessons still not learnt
Photos: BIKRAM RAI/NEPALI TIMESEarthquakes are inevitable in Nepal. It is not a question of ‘if’, but ‘when’. And ‘when’ was 2:28PM on...
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After the deluge in Nepal
Sambhu Kumar Mandal is from Sitamarhi in Bihar. Like hundreds of other migrant workers from India, they have been in Nepal working...
Disasters in Nepal come in waves
Nepal sits upon a pyramid of problems: poverty, inequality, exclusion, domestic violence, social injustice, lack of food ... the list is long.On top...
Be prepared
Nepal’s National Earthquake Safety Day commemorates 15 January 1934, the day when a magnitude 8.3 quake epicentred in Okhaldhunga, killed at least...
The courage and endurance of the Langtangpa
Five years ago, I was in the Langtang Valley with my parents at the moment when the earth shook. The earthquake released a massive,...
Good as old after two earthquakes
Patan’s historic temple is not just being rebuilt, but restored to its pre-1934 look
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...
Terrifying assessment of a Himalayan melting
While the global media’s attention is on the Greenland ice sheet, the Arctic and eastern Antarctica, a landmark report released this week...
AIN’T SEEN NOTHING YET
What makes Nepal scenic is also what makes it seismic. The country is located in one of the most vulnerable regions of...
Mayoral airs
As winter sets in and air quality deteriorates, most of Kathmandu Valley’s 18 mayors gathered on Thursday in Patan to listen to...
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