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...
retrofitting
Epicentre of two disasters in West Nepal
With the detection of three new COVID-19 cases in Kailali district on Saturday, one of them the country’s first case of community transmission, western...
Tall Order
Suresh Shakya (pictured above) was sitting down for lunch with his family in his house in Itum Bahal four years ago when...
Shaking up the health sector
Nepal’s hospitals have not even recovered from the 2015 earthquake, and now need to be ready for the Next Big One
Lessons Unlearnt
Four years later, Central Nepal is still being rocked by aftershocks of 2015. That peculiar earthquake shook everything to the east of...
Past disasters foretold
Preparing western Nepal for a future megaquake is now even more urgent than reconstruction in areas hit by the 2015 disasterNepalis live...
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