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Demographics of disaster in Nepal quake

Most of the 157 killed in Friday’s midnight earthquake are women and children

Owning land gives former slaves self-respect

After living most of his life as a bonded labourer, Jaglal Dagaura Tharu is building a home on a plot of land...

Carrying on the hunting legacy in Nepal

It was bitterly cold up at 2,800m in a village in the mountains of western Nepal as a cold rain fell, and...

Lightning kills 500 sheep in western Nepal

A massive thunderbolt in Nepal’s remote Jumla district on Sunday killed at least 500 sheep grazing in pastures high in the mountains,...

Nepal extends COVID-19 testing but no new cases

After being in lockdown now for nearly three weeks, Nepal has started testing vulnerable groups in high-risk areas, but so far there have...

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...

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Western Nepal potential COVID-19 outbreak

The detection of three new cases of coronavirus in Dhangadi on Sunday has led public health experts to urge more widespread testing...

Nothing to lose but their chains

https://youtu.be/W4CZxpM1mrITen years after the government finally abolished bonded debt labour, tens of thousands of Haliyas in western Nepal continue to suffer from...

Fasting, feasting and festivities of Gaura

https://youtu.be/4adGA4P0k54The buses to Darchula, Baitadi, Doti or Dadelhura were all packed last week for the annual Gaura Festival of womanhood, celebrated in Western Nepal, and wherever people from...

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