Nepal’s Hindu right is climbing on to a train without knowing which way it is headed
An ideological vacuum is turning the Madhes into fertile ground for the religious right
As Nepal enters the last lap in federal and provincial races, candidates and their cadres seem more excited than voters. Across the Inner Tarai…
A healthy, diverse natural forest in Chitwan with three vegetation layers. All phoos: LILA NATH SHARMA.It was sunny afternoon in December in…
Illegal sand mining on Chure rivers displaces farmers, decimates a fragile landscape
The death of five children by drowning last month in Dhanusha made headlines. A week later, two boys drowned in a pit left by a brick kiln in…
A landslide in Jajarkot last year. Photo: RSSBy any measure, the past year has been disastrous for Nepal. The Covid-19 lockdowns devastated the…
Over 172 million infections and nearly 4 million lives later, the exact origin of the Covid-19 pandemic is still a matter of debate. But…
The B.1.617.2 strain of SARS-CoV-2 that started entering Nepal from India in early April first affected the border cities and districts in the…
In early April, the coronavirus cases were at an all-time low and we were reporting from Janakpur, and the surrounding border region for two…
Nepal’s first wave of the coronavirus last year now looks like a ripple, and what the country is now witnessing is the main eruption. A lot of…
The fervour of the local elections three years ago had taken sway over the eight districts of Province 2. Sangihya Samajbadi Party and Rastriya…
Wildfires lead to hazardous air quality for third straight day, with no end in sight
Just as it has every winter, the cold wave in Nepal’s Tarai has had a devastating impact on the livelihood of its people, but local governments…
Lavkant Chaudhary’s art depicts historical wrongs against the indigenous Tharu of Nepal. This is part of a series of drawings on digital prints…
One misconception about the Tharu people is that they never got malaria. In fact they did, but less than hill settlers. A US-led insecticide…
It started with persistent skin allergy for 15-year-old Uma Kumari Sah. She got a checkup at a leprosy hospital in Dhanusa, and later in India.…
Mingma Nuru Sherpa left the village he was born in the region below Mt Everest at age 18 to study environment science in Kathmandu. When he goes…
Girls attending an interaction program. Photos: UNFPAThirty child marriages took place in one municipality in Sarlahi District during the…
Today is International Mountain Day, when the world’s attention is drawn to the mountains that are home to 1.1 billion people, contain half of…
Lisa Choegyal’s column ‘The Elephant Dilemma’, 4 October 2020 elicited many comments from readers, some of which are excerpted here:As a group…
On Friday, residents of Rajbiraj near the Indian border could see clear across the breadth of Nepal to mountains like Cho Oyu and Makalu that…
Nepali workers entering the border from India through Behaliya checkpoint in Rupandehi. Photo: MANORANJAN SHARMAIn July, as the government eased…
Nearly 100 years after Nepal’s first railway line was constructed to join Raxual with Amlekhganj, the country has finally taken a new stride by…
