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For Chhangru and Tinkar locals, livelihood comes before national borders

For Chhangru and Tinkar locals, livelihood comes before national borders

The lack of health centres, schools and roads in the villages means that the villagers have to walk for days...
Provincial Lawmakers’ Development Fund: Contract signed in May/June, and development work done in June/July

Provincial Lawmakers’ Development Fund: Contract signed in May/June, and development work done in June/July

Lawmakers of the Sudurpashchim Province are preparing to complete development work in June/July after their contracts were signed in May/June....
स्थानीय सरकारमा बेथितिः अनुदान दिंदै, आफैं लाभ लिंदै

स्थानीय सरकारमा बेथितिः अनुदान दिंदै, आफैं लाभ लिंदै

स्थानीय सरकारका जनप्रतिनिधिहरू आफैं संलग्न सहकारीलाई अनुदान दिंदै त्यही अनुदानबाट आफैं लाभ लिंदै गर्न थालेका छन् ।आकाश क्षेत्री: खोज पत्रकारिता...
Why Kathmandu’s land prices continue to skyrocket

Why Kathmandu’s land prices continue to skyrocket

Nepal’s moneyed classes, aided by unscrupulous banks and an irresponsible government, have turned land into a quickly tradeable commodity. Rudra Pangeni:...
Police to replace tear gas with water cannons

Police to replace tear gas with water cannons

Nepal Police says, “water cannons will be used to disperse crowds after questions were raised about use of tear gas.”...
Authorities in Bajura indulge in foul play while distributing relief materials

Authorities in Bajura indulge in foul play while distributing relief materials

As Covid-19 continues to spread, a section of unscrupulous authorities and people's representatives of the Balimalika Municipality of Bajura are...
Public disinterest litigations

Public disinterest litigations

Over the past 25 years, Nepal’s governments have blatantly ignored court decisions, especially on public interest petitionsEkal Silwal: Centre for...
Local level authorities win people’s hearts during hard times

Local level authorities win people’s hearts during hard times

Amid stark criticism from several quarters of the federal and provincial governments for failing to execute its commitments, 11 local...
Nepal quarantines hotspots for disease

Nepal quarantines hotspots for disease

Western Nepal may be seeing spike in COVID-19 as returnees from India head home without testsRamu Sapkota: Centre For Investigative...
Lamjung farmers left in the lurch as those with 'access' usurp agricultural grants-in-aid

Lamjung farmers left in the lurch as those with 'access' usurp agricultural grants-in-aid

Beneficiaries butcher goats and pigs they received as part of the grant-in-aid program as authorities look away.Aas Gurung: Centre for...
Authorities in Bajhang pocketing money by creating fake labors 

Authorities in Bajhang pocketing money by creating fake labors 

Local authorities have stooped so low as to forging documents showing a one-year-old baby receiving a salary. Bhuwan Bahadur Singh:...
Misplaced priorities: Wasting public money on view towers amid the Covid-19 pandemic 

Misplaced priorities: Wasting public money on view towers amid the Covid-19 pandemic 

All three levels of government have been wasting taxpayers’ hard-earned money by earmarking over Rs 2.5 billion to erect useless...
Castles in the air

Castles in the air

Buyers of units in high-rises and colonies continue to get ripped off by developers because the authorities have turned a...
In Saptari, a Covid-19 relief package for all but the poor

In Saptari, a Covid-19 relief package for all but the poor

A dead man is purported to have received the relief package even as over 200 destitute families returned home empty-handed...
Federalism in action: How Belaka Municipality is ushering development 

Federalism in action: How Belaka Municipality is ushering development 

The Belaka Municipality in Nepal’s eastern Udaypur district, once struggling to get basic facilities, has set a perfect example with...
Target groups bear the brunt of Covid-19

Target groups bear the brunt of Covid-19

Budgets allocated by local governments to support socially and culturally disadvantaged women, Dalits, persons with disabilities and other target groups...
A crying shame: The Nepal Police has been using expired tear gas shells and is likely to continue doing so

A crying shame: The Nepal Police has been using expired tear gas shells and is likely to continue doing so

Tear gas shells used by security forces for crowd control are always hazardous for health. What’s worrying is that the...
Legal guidelines go for a toss as blacktopped roads in Dhangadhi abound with trees and poles 

Legal guidelines go for a toss as blacktopped roads in Dhangadhi abound with trees and poles 

Over 282 Sal trees, 204 electricity poles and two transformers dot the 50 km road sections completed in the first...
In Ghorahi, paying the contractor his rates

In Ghorahi, paying the contractor his rates

In the projects totaling worth over Rs 70 million, Ghorahi Sub-metropolitan City hired bulldozers, rollers and excavators from municipal engineer...