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...
Elected representatives’ intervention approach to end child marriages
In what has come as an exhilarating move to many, a total of 40 child marriages were averted with the...
Local levels refuse to pay Rs 140 million of drinking water, electricity dues
12 local level governments of Banke and Bardiya have been impertinent to pay more than Rs 140 million dues they...
Internet fraud: Helpless consumers, apathetic regulator
Fraud is rampant in Nepal’s internet service. It is committed in two ways: by not delivering even a fourth of...
How banks enabled Nepal's biggest fraud and ruined people's life
Six hundred families sank their life savings into the promise of an apartment. Other 7000 people have lost their savings...
Medical expenditure: KMC throwing money down the drain
In past two fiscal years, the Kathmandu Metropolitan City has disbursed a total of Rs 6.8 million in the name...
An unknown nexus of Nepali child trafficking
A revelation of how a substantial number of Nepali children are trafficked to the United States and Europe in the...
One year of Nepaleaks Money laundering: Political-administrative protection for big financial offences
While the government tries to influence the economically active group showing that it has been setting up the legal and...
Study in state’s fund, serve in a foreign land
After studying MBBS on government scholarship spending Rs 4 million, fresh graduates leave the country in the name of pursuing...
Misuse of Residential Buildings Raises Safety Concerns
Across urban Nepal, a growing number of hospitals, schools, offices and grocery stores are housed in residential buildings. The misuse...
The culture of undermining women ward chairpersons
Women ward chairpersons, who number 53 across the country, are facing bigger and different troubles compared to their male counterparts....
Local government: Six thousand complaints in a year
A total of 6,000 complaints have been filed at the Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority against local...
Encroached public spaces are turning into parks
Three elected officials of Kathmandu are leading a campaign to build parks by reclaiming public land from encroachers.Himal Lamsal: Centre...
Chief administrators ruin e-attendance to sign in register for absent days
Five administrative chiefs of local governments who commute from home in Kathmandu Valley mark their presence in the register even...
Monitoring gone wrong at the local level
The law tasks deputy chief of the local government with monitoring plans and programmes. But many elected officials are unaware...
Local levels: Collect revenue but fail to deposit
Local levels are found to have spent the revenue collected from the people. Instead of depositing it in the banks...