River restoration is not just an ecological act

Despite decades of restoration efforts by a rich ensemble of state-development actors, cultural heritage votaries and rights activists, the …

A civilisational loss

For more than two decades, Huta Ram Baidya has led the Save Bagmati River campaign. An affable, octogenarian activist and Nepal’s first …

A requiem for the Bagmati

Bagmati breaches embankment

Probe may put Buta Singh in a fix

Slum settlers along Bagmati face eviction, uncertain future

They demand alternate accommodation

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (December 4, 2023)

Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal  

A sustainable engineering disaster

Floods kill 26 persons in Bihar

Bagmati, Mahananda and Kosi rivers in spate; large-scale displacement in four districts

Officials unmoved by court order

Officials unmoved by court order

Darkling waters

The Bagmati loses its way in Kathmandu amid political vacuum and urban chaos

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