Three years of living dangerously
For the first time since it was first detected almost three years ago and ravaged Nepal, the SARS-CoV-2 virus has been overtaken...
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Rohit, Amit and Dhana
Rohit is from Bihar and drives an auto rickshaw in Mumbai. Life has been a struggle ever since he lost his parents...
Breathing can kill you
It is that time of the year again when smog makes Kathmandu’s air hazardous to health. Hospitals are swamped not with Covid, but COPD...
Omicron may not be as risky, but take care
The fact that Omicron was detected in an individual who had arrived in Nepal five days before the new variant was first...
People-to-people at India-Nepal border
The checkpoint at the India-Nepal border here has a whole range of Nepalis crossing over: innocent Nepali workers in search of jobs...
Nepal marks rice planting day
Farming communities across Nepal came out by their hundreds of thousands to transplant rice seedings on Tuesday, which is officially National Paddy Plantation...
No visitors in Pokhara to admire view
After raining every day for the past two weeks since the monsoon rains arrived, Pokhara got a rare respite from clouds on Sunday, bringing...
Kathmandu’s other nightlife
“Does it have a tail?”“I can’t see because it's sitting on it.”“What about its eyes and coat?”“Bright and black eyes with spikey...
Smartass lockdown
Everything about living in Nepal these days is smart, and getting smarter. When he got elected, Kathmandu's Mayor declared that he could...
Hunger for governance
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 in...
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