'Water planners ignore social issues'
Nepal is slated to be a major hydropower supplier in South Asia with the recent signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the …
Monsoon of death
Every monsoon, Baba Raghav Das Medical College of Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh, witnesses hundreds of children dying of viral encephalitis or Acute …
'Ministries play the blame game'
Jagdish Bahadur, an expert on glaciers and former joint advisor, department of science and technology, and Syed Iqbal Hasnain, who heads the …
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 …
‘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 …
Power the people
For the country where only 15 per cent of its population have access to electricity, Nepal has come a long way. It took 84 years to achieve power …
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 …
Seven months after earthquake, Nepal unlocks disaster funds
The government of Nepal has finally allotted funds for reconstruction across the country, that were pledged by international donors in June
A bigger, stronger earthquake is in the offing
New study reveals how small and medium earthquakes in turn trigger giant Himalayan earthquakes
Teaching children they will inherit the earth
In Nepal, camps for making children more environmentally conscious are proving increasingly popular. And in many families it's the …
Book review: Hands around Everest
National boundaries can serve as links rather than instruments of division -- so expounds this book. Cooperation between nations, it says, is the …
Book notice: Indigenous Honeybees of the Himalayas
Nepal's native honeybees are an acknowledged vital cog in maintaining the region's biodiversity, as they naturally pollinate an assortment of …
Cleaning Nepal, brick by brick
The 2015 earthquake has given Nepal an opportunity to adopt cleaner brick kiln technologies
A junkyard in the sky
An average trekker uses as much firewood in a day as an average Nepali family would in a week.
Farm community abandons old practice
A Nepalese community that grows vegetables using traditional techniques is now succumbing to population pressures and rapid urbanisation.
Panel inspected
The inherently flawed investigation of Nepal's Arun III dam project has undermined the credibility of the World Bank's new Inspection Panel
Children worst hit by Nepal earthquake
According to UNICEF, at least 94,000 children are currently living in areas severely affected by the earthquake
Harsh reality goads Nepal NGOs into action
Environmental degradation in Nepal has spurred several non-governmental organisations into working on conservation measures, including teaching …
Another, after Arun
The government of Nepal has again plunged into a major hydropower project after the Arun fiasco
Farmers in this Nepal district struggle to cope with crop raiding by wild animals
Almost all farmers in Aiddhungra, Budechaur and Bagargot villages have abandoned maize and millet farming due to increasing incursions by wild animals
Flood decontrol
Every action has an opposite and equal reaction. If you embank a river it bursts its embankments. So much for flood control measures
India, KFC blamed for bird flu spread in Nepal
Free dumping of farm produce and import of poor quality chicken by Kentucky Fried Chicken from India is causing spread of disease, say politicians,…
Nepal earthquake reconstruction won't succeed until vulnerability of survivors is addressed
In Nepal, 80% of human settlement is often referred to as “informal”. These are households not in compliance with building norms and …
Bridge over troubled waters
NGOs want an integrated approach to solve water disputes between nations and prevent programme duplication
Unkindest cuts
Large-scale smuggling of timber from Nepal to Tibet threatens the pristine forests in the northern Himalaya