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The last mayor of Kathmandu

Aditya Batra in conversation with Keshab Sthapit, a mayor famous for muscling his way to urban renewal

Health hazard

World Water Week 2023: We must invest in natural solutions like spring revival for water security

Time to move away from a hard-engineering approach and embrace nature-based solutions for water security in hill and mountain communities  

Communities require policy support to manage forests well, says FAO

UN body recommends setting up forest and farm producer organisations so that small-scale forest producers can compete with large-scale business

‘Brick kiln workers in India underpaid and exploited’

India employs double the number of labourers than China, yet produces one-fifth of China’s annual brick production of 1 trillion

EU nations can ban GM crops, says EU environment panel

Will this move set the precedent for GM-free food production in the world?

Sikkim earthquake was unusual for Himalaya

It occurred due to sliding, not thrust motion

COVID-19: More than thousand Nepalese migrants stranded in India during harvest time

All the migrants have only one request for authorities in Nepal: To arrange for them an entrance to their home country

Science and Technology - Briefs

MDG Report 2014: India among worst performers in poverty reduction, maternal death and sanitation

Report shows good progress in areas like poverty alleviation and access to clean water and controlling diseases like TB, Malaria

South Asian nations will now cooperate to save the vulture

Most rapid decline in vulture populations recorded in Asia

Letters

Lives of others

Wildlife is more of an academic concern except when the charismatic tiger is wiped out from a protected forest or our favourite fish vanishes …