Banbasa dam caused flood in Nepal, Uttar Pradesh

Sluice gates were opened on June 22 following unprecedented water build up

309,000 infants die on first day

India tops global list of first day deaths of infants; chronic malnourishment blamed

Nepal battles poor food safety standards

Pramod Koirala is the spokesperson for the department of food technology and quality control of Nepal. He was in Delhi recently to attend a media …

Towering problem: Nepal seeks international help to measure Everest

China has often contested the present height. It says the world’s highest mountain peak is four metre shorter

Toxic waste

Scrutinising disasters

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Bone of contention Nepal's water bill

Cooking on toxic fumes

Burning biomass causes TB

Zinc supplements don't help healthy children

COVID-19: More than 500 migrant workers in Nepal escape quarantine

They protested congestion, lack of basic facilities at quarantine centre

Nepal’s civil society wants right to food to become fundamental right

Country is in the process of drafting a new Constitution and civil society organisations are demanding that food security be included in the text

‘Forests can’t survive without communities’

Nepal’s Forest Act of 1993, which allows communities to manage their forests, is admired and emulated by governments and movements across …

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 …

Bioprates in the dragnet

Illegal smuggling of insects from the Himalaya comes into focus with the arrest of two Russians in Sikkim

Peafowl deaths in Punjab linked to pesticides

The Himalayan waters: complex challenges and regional solutions

Countries in the Hindu Kush Himalayan region should recognise the potential of water resources for sustainable development

COVID-19: Nepal families wait for bodies of workers who died abroad

Families not getting a chance to hold funerals for their loved ones

India less committed to reducing hunger than Nepal or Bangladesh: HANCI report

India ranked 19th among 45 developing countries assessed by UK-based organisation

Musk procurement for Jagannath temple starts a row

Activists say Odisha government's request letter to Centre to help it procure kasturi from Nepal is illegal

Flood update

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To ensure food for tomorrow

Rice and wheat yields are falling. To check it a new initiative has been taken

Floods in north and east India kill 120 people

Release of flood waters from Nepal affect large parts of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar

‘The great Himalayan earthquake’, yet to arrive

It has been hypothesised for long that a large earthquake, called the “great Himalayan earthquake”, can strike anytime, but its time …