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Weaving dreams for women

Activist turned entrepreneur finds economic independence and empowers other women

Putting Nepal on the right track

A train network will generate jobs in construction and operation, bring efficiency and connectivity

No country for young men

Nepal’s Department of Foreign Employment (DoFE) issued more than 240,000 labour permits for migrant workers in 2021, even as the country reeled...

Shristi Karki

Nepalis abused by Nepalis in Luxembourg

The Nepali restaurant is located in the richest country of the European Union, and its Facebook page is full of recommendations from...

Few jobs created by Nepal employment drive

Almost exactly two years ago, Prime Minister Oli launched an ambitious employment creation scheme, which was widely considered at the time as...

The theory and practice of zero-cost migration

Nepal has set a positive image in the region for adopting a ‘employer pays’ principle that removes the cost burden on its...

Nepali workers returning to India

Three months after nearly 400,000 Nepali workers returned from India following the Covid-19 lockdown, many are now headed back because they have...

Economic cost of 5 months of Nepal lockdown

As serious as the rapid spread in Nepal of the novel coronavirus looks, even more frightening is what the lockdown meant to...

Coronavirus Nepal Lockdown Month 2

After 50 days what is utterly extraordinary has come to seem normal, the unimaginable is commonplace

Lisa Choegyal

Back to the future of farming

The COVID-19 lockdown by the government is an effort at ‘primary protection’, and builds on the experience of how other countries have...