Three nurses speak about higher pay, greater appreciation and learning opportunities in Britain
If nurse salaries and work conditions do not improve, we will have to ask why nurses stay, rather than why they leave.
Actor Michael Palin and Agnès Callamard, Secretary General of Amnesty International.British actor Michael Palin and Amnesty International on…
For the first time in weeks, Nepal recorded more than 3,000 new cases on 20 July. There were 25 deaths. The country is on the tail end of what…
The world is at a tipping point in the battle to contain the spread of Covid-19. Countries across Asia are struggling to access vaccines while…
There is breaking news every other day: the United States donates 2 million Moderna shots to Bangladesh and Pakistan. Denmark announces 250,000…
The flood of social media posts of donated medical supplies being unloaded at Kathmandu airport every day, gives the impression that the outside…
Oxygen To save lives, Nepal’s most urgent need now is oxygen. Not just cylinders, but oxygen generators, concentrators and liquid oxygen. Most…
Nepal’s Covid-19 crisis has figured in a US Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing in Washington on Wednesday, where members heard USAID…
Reservoir pond of the Pharping hydropower project 12 km south of Kathmandu Valley. Photo: ASMIT RAJBHANDARIIt was 6:30pm on 22 May 1911, and the…
A health worker in Jumla administers Covidshield AstraZeneca vaccine to an elderly this week. Photo: LAXMI NGAKHUSI/UNICEF NEPALOver 1.6 million…
Nearly four decades after being allotted its own geostationary orbital slot, Nepal Telecommunication Authority (NTA) is finally preparing to put…
Nischal Shrestha, a caregiver in Israel, getting vaccinated last week.Long before Nepalis in Nepal will be vaccinated against the coronavirus,…
The introduction of vaccines against the coronavirus have been described as the light at the end of the tunnel. But for most of the poorest…
Ever since she witnessed the violent disintegration of her country, and after fleeing war-torn Bosnia at the age of 17, Irena Taskovski has used…
A unique ‘tree twinning’ project between British and Nepali schools has shown how trans-continental partnerships like these can increase green…
The 100kWp Solar Mini Grid in Gutu of Surkhet. All photos: Alternative Energy Promotion Centre (AEPC)We are at a critical moment for the future…
Puneeta Sharma working on the restoration of the 160-year-old water colour on paper painting by Rajman Singh Chitrakar of a Tibetan antelope at…
The Covid-19 pandemic hit Nepal much later than the rest of the world, and now the country is being battered by a surge of positive cases.…
The Nepal government decided on Sunday to extend its national lockdown by another week till midnight 7 April, and to continue the ban on all…
Manoj Rai was a 17-year-old student in a school in Tashigang, Bhutan in 1990, when soldiers arrived at his dorm and took away all the Nepali…
Shakha Ratna Rai, 61, was at Kathmandu Airport last month, waiting to return to the UK after a family visit. Like many army wives, she had left…
A classroom full of Bhutanese refugee children in Beldangi. Many of them have been denied resettlement to be with their families already in the…
Across the world, from the Philippines to the United States, and in Central European countries like Hungary and Poland, we have seen worrying…
