Nepal riot police rout protesters seeking restoration of monarchy
Kathmandu, Nepal Reuters Police in Nepal on Thursday used rattan sticks, tear gas and water cannon to scatter thousands of protesters demanding the restoration of the monarchy abolished 15 years ago. The “Citizens’ Campaign” protesters say governments in place since the monarchy was scrapped, as part of a deal ending a Maoist insurgency, have failed […]
Landslides, floods kill 38 so far as monsoon rains lash Nepal
Kathmandu, NepalReuters Landslides caused by heavy rain have killed at least one person, and blocked a major highway in Nepal this week, officials said on Tuesday, as the death toll from the annual monsoon rains nears 40. People walk along a flooded road along the bank of overflowing Bagmati river following heavy rains, in Kathmandu, […]
Six dead after powerful earthquake hits Nepal, rattles New Delhi
Kathmandu, Nepal Reuters An earthquake of magnitude 6.6 struck Nepal early Wednesday, killing at least six people, destroying multiple houses in the western district of Doti and shaking the Indian capital New Delhi, officials said. Five other people were seriously injured as eight houses collapsed, said Bhola Bhatta, Doti’s deputy superintendent of police, confirming an […]
Heightened vulnerability: South Asia’s poorest city dwellers bear brunt of worsening floods
ATHAR PARVAIZ, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, report on fears marginalised city dwellers across South Asia face even harsher threats ahead as rains becomes more erratic and intense…
Postcards: In Nepal’s capital, piles of garbage put off tourists and residents
GOPAL SHARMA, of Reuters, reports on Kathmandu’s garbage problem…
Air pollution: Nepal chokes on smoke and ash as drought-worsened wildfires rage
AADESH SUBEDI, writing for Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports from Nepal on how air pollution caused by fires is creating hardships…
Kathmandu battles new threat as temperatures rise: dengue fever
Kathmandu, NepalThomson Reuters Foundation For Prabina Maharjan, it started with a headache, which then turned into fever and body pain. When she finally turned up at the Sukraraj Tropical and Infectious Disease Hospital a week ago, tests showed something odd for this high-elevation city: dengue fever, a scourge more associated with Nepal’s low-lying tropics. Hospital […]
WOW!: CAFE BREWS UP HOPE FOR NEPAL’S TRAFFICKING SURVIVORS
GOPAL SHARMA, writing for Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on how the Maiti Cafe in Kathmandu is helping trafficking survivors…
Nepal rejects UN call to compensate man in forced labour case
Kathmanudu, NepalThomson Reuters Foundation Nepal on Thursday rejected a United Nations call to compensate an Indigenous man it said was forced to work as a child then tortured by police on escape, since he had not exhausted the legal avenues for redress. The UN Human Rights Committee, a panel of independent experts with no enforcement […]
Four women arrested in Nepal for “attempting to forcefully convert people to Christianity”
World Watch Monitor Four Christian women were arrested earlier this week in Nepal on suspicion of attempting to convert people to Christianity by force, Asia News reports. The women – two of whom are Japanese – were accused by residents of proselytising door-to-door. They were followed and filmed, and the footage was passed on to police, […]