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What’s behind Nepal’s convention halls construction frenzy?
May 30, 2025 Large-scale convention halls constructed with the expense of Rs 26 billion are not in use. Many such halls, built without...Investigative Stories

Hundreds of Nepalis are languishing in foreign jails without legal help
Over a thousand Nepalis are behind bars in Malaysia and gulf countries without access to lawyers or family members. With...
Uncooperative cooperatives
A Rs1 billion project aimed at promoting farmers failed due to mismanagement
Corruption convicts are still enjoying properties ordered to be seized
Even after years since courts ordered confiscation of properties amassed through illegal means, corruption convicts and their families continue to...
Government move to lift ban on felling of Sal trees benefits powerful traders instead of small-scale farmers
Last year, the government lifted the decades-long ban on felling of Sal trees grown on private land. But by introducing...Federalism

Reversal of Political Parties and The Election Commission: Dalit Women on the Brink of Losing Quotas
In the local election held a year ago, Dalit women did not give candidacy in 123 wards out of 6...Discrimination

Life after death
Funerary spaces for cremations and burials are shrinking rapidly for Nepal’s minorities.Climate Crisis

Hundreds of sheep die in lightning strikes
Almost 1,500 sheep have been killed in lightning skills in Baghjale in Jumla District. As they lose their cattle to...Accountability

Nepal’s parliamentarians appoint personal secretaries arbitrarily, flouting law
Many parliamentarians have appointed personal secretaries who do not fulfill the qualifications mandated by law. This has not just flouted...Kleptocracy

Harka Sampang’s house of cards
Dharan elected him after being fed up with old political parties and bureaucrats but the new mayor’s list of misdeeds...Crime

Violence, Exploitation and Trafficking in the Name of Entertainment
Most women and girls who end up at dohori saajh and cottage restaurants essentially want to escape poverty and violence....Cross-Border Investigation
