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For the past weeks, there is one news item that has overshadowed news of the MCC or Ukraine: allegations that Nepali actor and model Paul Shah…
Nearly an entire generation of Nepali youth has grown up following the Comprehensive Peace Accord (CPA) that was signed on 21 November 2006, and…
In recent years, rape survivors and victims of sexual abuse in Nepal have increasingly gone public with their experience and many are choosing…
On 10 October 2020, the #ajhaikatisahane movement went viral on social media and gained attention like we were hoping it would. In the weeks…
When the coalition government of Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba took office in July, many had hoped it would restore stability after a…
When the Immigration Department last month proposed travel restrictions for women under 40, Nepalis took to the streets wearing black, chanting…
Communist parties the world over are obsessed with anniversaries. October Revolution Day, Mao Zedong’s Birthday, North Korea’s Day of Victory in…
Former Speaker of the Nepal Parliament Krishna Bahadur Mahara was acquitted by the Kathmandu District Court of case in which he was accused of…
The Nepal Communist Party (NCP) government completes two years in power next month. Despite its strong majority, the party’s performance has…
Children sit in a circle experimenting with different colours on palettes at a shelter in Godavari one morning this week. Some design flowers in…
Wearing a plain white polo shirt and a hint of a smile, former House Speaker Krishna Bahadur Mahara walked out of Norvic Hospital on Tuesday…
TO JAIL: House Speaker Krishna Bahadur Mahara who resigned last week after being accused of raping a staffer was arrested on Sunday evening from…
The Kathmandu District Court on Sunday ordered the arrest of former Speaker of the Nepal Parliament, Krishna Bahadur Mahara, who resigned from…
The on-again, off-again saga of the rape allegation against the Speaker of Nepal’s Parliament took on a new twist after the victim lodged a…
At International Alert, as a global peacebuilding organisation, we often point to Nepal alongside South Africa or Northern Ireland as a country…
Activists protest government's reluctance to solve the rape and murder of Nirmala Panta, a teenager whose body was found near her home in…
Dharna at Mahendranagar in front of CDO office, Nirmala Panta's step-mother, Laxmi, at center.Six months after the unsolved rape and murder of…
Game of Thrones actress Amrita Acharia has joined the online appeal for funds for the charity ChoraChori that has rescued 147 trafficked and…
When Durga Devi Panta poured her husband some water, he thanked her like she was a stranger, shook hands with her and asked the reporter to take…
Rameswor Bohara in Himal Khabarpatrika,28 October – 11 NovemberDhanusha’s Sunita Devi Yadav was alarmed one October night to discover that her…
Like all festivals in whichever religion, Dasain probably has its origins in pre-historic harvest rituals. The rains are over, the sky is blue…
It was raining hard that Tuesday night on 11 September in Chandrapur of Rautahat. In the Das family home, teenage sisters Samjhana and Sushmita…
There is an argument that there has not been an abrupt rise in the number of rape cases in Nepal, it is just being reported more now. It is…
