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
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
Over the past 25 years, Nepal’s governments have blatantly ignored court decisions, especially on public interest petitions.
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
Western Nepal may be seeing spike in COVID-19 as returnees from India head home without tests.
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
Local authorities have stooped so low as to forging documents showing a one-year-old baby receiving a salary.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 the projects totaling worth over Rs 70 million, Ghorahi Sub-metropolitan City hired bulldozers, rollers and excavators from municipal engineer...
Domestic violence survivors coerced into ‘compromise’
Despite brutal physical assaults from husband and family members, domestic violence survivors are compelled to reach a compromise with perpetrators...
Ordeal of kidney patients during lockdown
Over 30,000 kidney patients, who need to go through regular dialysis, are facing life-and-death situation due to lockdown enforced aimed...
How Nepal’s Satyadevi village connected to int'l drug trafficking network
In the past four decades northern villages of Dhading have been connected in global cases of drug trafficking, trading and...