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Price war and flood cloud Nepal EV market

Nepal, Sept. 15 -- The Rasuwagadi checkpoint that was damaged in last year's flood had just resumed being the main entry point for EV imports from China when it was hit by the massive debris flow on 2... Read More


Nepal tallies the cost of its disaster

Nepal, Sept. 14 -- Rebuilding after the Trisuli Valley flood will cost Nepal $4.7 billion, according to a Rapid Damage and Needs Assessment published by the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Manage... Read More


The survivors of Syaprubesi

Nepal, Sept. 13 -- Two weeks after the massive Trisuli Valley flood, tens of thousands of displaced people are living in tents or with relatives and friends. Hundreds of others from Syaprubesi have fo... Read More


The two women of Timure

Nepal, Sept. 12 -- It was November 2004, and we were on a trek to then roadless Rasuwa-Kerung border. This was at the height of the Maoist insurgency, and Army checkpoints were everywhere. On the Chi... Read More


In Nepal, flood followed fire

Nepal, Sept. 11 -- Exactly a year ago, the launch of my book, 'Nepal 2043' had to be postponed. The country was mourning the loss of life on 8-9 September, and still smouldering from the fires that ra... Read More


Damage and Loss

Nepal, Sept. 10 -- he massacre of 19 youth outside Parliament on 8 September 2025 ignited protests the next day that reduced to ashes all three pillars of the state: the legislature, judiciary and exe... Read More


Nepal grapples with limited DNA analysis capacity

Nepal, Sept. 9 -- Unlike the 2015 earthquake, when the death toll could be accurately tallied relatively quickly, the number of bodies retrieved after the Trisuli Flood two weeks ago is one-fifth of t... Read More


Nepal's youth revolt, a year later

Nepal, Sept. 8 -- On 8 September 2025, Icchya Thapa, 23, woke up all excited to join the rally that Nepal's GenZ had been organising online. Like many young Nepalis, she was outraged by a corrupt soc... Read More


Nepal tells tourists: 'Your Visit Matters'

Nepal, Sept. 7 -- Nepal's tourism industry has lurched from one crisis to another: the ten-year Maoist conflict, years of political instability and road closures, the 2015 earthquake and blockade, the... Read More


The return of the Taleju necklace

Nepal, Sept. 6 -- In the sanctum sanctorum of the Taleju Temple dedicated to the matron deity of the Malla kings in Kathmandu was a jewel-studded necklace. In 1970, during the height of the Panchayat ... Read More