Rupandehi women continue to face abuse on witchcraft charges, with local unit officials’ complicity
Instead of mitigating violence against women on witchcraft charges, Rupandehi’s local unit officials appear to be abetting it.
In Barahakshetra, pregnant women and poor people die in the absence of ambulance
Due to lack of ambulance service in Barahakshetra, a municipality of 80,000 population in the district of Sunsari, pregnant women...
Foul play causes devastation in Save Fewa Lake mission
A major dam constructed to stop silt deposition in Fewa lake faced damage due to substandard construction. The remaining three...
People’s representatives grab people’s land
Ruapandehi is urbanising rapidly, and all types of land, from farmland to public land are being grabbed and sold. In...
Nepal’s ‘Dummy Writ Petitioners’: Filing PIL for Whom?
One needs to understand behind curtain play to understand intent behind filing the writ petition, implication of single bench order...
Bhutanese political prisoners have been languishing in jails for nearly 30 years
Majority of Nepali-speaking Bhutanese nationals who were forcefully evicted from the country since 1990 have now settled in various countries...
Lack of a weather forecast system causing unprecedented loss and damage
Nepal’s mountain region is witnessing excessive rain in recent years because of rising temperatures. But these areas lack temperatures and...
Corruption in Karnali: Those in power use rented ‘storehouses’ to house relatives
The Karnali government provides ministers and members of the provincial assembly accommodation in its quarters, and to those who don’t...
Bhutan’s happiness index ‘illusion’
The truth is that Bhutan carried out a horrific ethnic cleansing in the 1980s and 1990s--one of the biggest in...
Business of converting fake licences into genuine ones
Around 500 fake driving licences issued illegally by the Office of Transportation Management, Butwal, were converted into genuine licences in...
Public service at the local level affected due to a shortage of human resource
Nepal’s apex court has questioned and stopped the employee integration decision made based on federal law. As a result, local...
Pandora papers
Sixteen Nepalis have illegally invested in offshore companies in overseas tax havens
An international investigation has revealed how many Nepali business persons and companies have used tax havens to stash wealth and...
No doctors for hospitals
Incompetent political leadership and corrupt administration has meant no new doctors have been appointed in the past four years. This...
