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Highway accidents are no accident in Nepal

Reckless driving, poor engineering, and a lack of emergency response make Nepal’s highways deathtraps

Shristi Karki

Nepal’s other pandemic: road fatalities

More people die on Nepal's highways every year than in all natural disasters combined

Anita Bhetwal

Waiting till the cows come home

The first thing one notices these days while travelling by road in the Tarai are hundreds of cattle blocking the East-West Highway,...

Kunda Dixit

Nepal’s deadly roads take their toll

At least seven people were killed when a bus heading to Narayangad from Beni lost control and fell 70m from the road...

Don’t go quietly into the night

Hundreds of children had been walking past the gaping open drain outside the gates of Laboratory School in Kirtipur every day for...

Kunda Dixit

Murder, not accident

Yoga teacher Shyam Sundar Shrestha,38, left his home in Kirtipur for a quick spin in his bicycle on Saturday evening. When he...

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