Nearly three years after the outbreak of Covid-19, every day life is mostly back to normal. Photo: SUMAN NEPALIFor the first time since it was…
Rohit is from Bihar and drives an auto rickshaw in Mumbai. Life has been a struggle ever since he lost his parents in a car crash. Like many…
Vehicles are one of the biggest emitters of PM2.5 and other pollutants in Kathmandu. Photos: AMIT MACHAMASIIt is that time of the year again…
Photo: AMIT MACHAMASIThe fact that Omicron was detected in an individual who had arrived in Nepal five days before the new variant was first…
Minor girls from Nepal stopped at the Indian border at Gaddachowki last week by an anti-trafficking group. They are handed over to their parents…
Farming communities across Nepal came out by their hundreds of thousands to transplant rice seedings on Tuesday, which is officially National…
All photos: KRISHNAMANI NARALAfter raining every day for the past two weeks since the monsoon rains arrived, Pokhara got a rare respite from…
All illustrations by Brian Houghton Hodgson.“Does it have a tail?”“I can’t see because it's sitting on it.”“What about its eyes and…
Everything about living in Nepal these days is smart, and getting smarter. When he got elected, Kathmandu's Mayor declared that he could make…
Nepal has had one emergency heaped on top of another for more than a year now. The Covid-19 emergency, wildfires, and now floods.Political flux…
The UAE on Wednesday sent a consignment of 150 ventilators, 150 trolleys, 318600 masks, 9000 coverall, 15000 gown and 20000 goggles to the Nepal…
The Covid-19 crisis has accelerated the digitisation process of government services from telehealth to telework, online meetings to remote…
Climbers with bottled oxygen on the last stretch of the summit ridge of Mt Everest. Photo: Damien Francois / Nepali Times Archive“It is…
Kathmandu’s main infectious diseases hospital in Teku is full, and pateints are being cared for in open verandahs and parking lots. Photos: AMIT…
All photos: AMIT MACHAMASINepal is very close to hitting that ominous mark of 10K new cases a day with 9,196 positive RT PCR and RDT tests on…
Photo: KRISHNA MANI BARALKaski has become the latest in the list of districts to be placed under strict lockdown following the surge in new…
An increase in depression, anxiety and low moods could lead to another mental health pandemic
All photos: ALISHA SIJAPATIEven as the pandemic spread across the Subcontinent last year, and one country after another went into lockdown, I…
https://youtu.be/Fcpz1Dj-ZFcThere is a feeling of déjà vu in Nepal as the country goes into a Covid-19 lockdown all over again one year later.…
On Wednesday, Nepal’s positivity rate was 24.5%. On 21 October 2020, when the country recorded its highest daily Covid-19 cases, the figure…
