Accountability

Nepal government is ignoring the plights of sickle cell patients
While the number of sickle cell patients keeps on rising, the government appears indifferent to the disease’s impacts. As the...
Lawmaker Mohan Basnet’s ‘grift business!’
After he was denied the Rs. 120 million he demanded, former minister and Nepali Congress lawmaker representing Sindhupalchok-2 Mohan Bahadur...
Hope and despair in Suntala Superzone
Spoilage loss inhibits plan to buttress value chain of mandarin oranges in Syangja.
Ministry distributing donations to community hospitals going against its own directive
While public hospitals are reeling under lack of human and economic resources, the government is donating large amounts of funds...
The narrative of the local level election: independents decisive in party-based elections
The parties that lead protests and are champions of change give birth to new political narrative—this is the public perception....
Broken promises: how Nepal’s political parties turned election manifestos into empty dreams
Nepal’s political parties floated a lot of dreams in their local-level election manifestos to lure voters; five years on, those...
Fraudulent cooperatives get state protection
How have cooperatives supposed to be instrumental in uplifting the poor have instead become mediums to rip them off? The...
Siraha’s local unit committees are failing at their duties
In Siraha, various topical committees have been formed in the local units as per existing laws, but almost none of...
“War-era dreams still haunt us,” maimed Maoist ex-fighters feel betrayed
How do former Maoist combatants feel about the People's War these days? Injured and physically disabled former Maoist combatants say...