In Saptari, a Covid-19 relief package for all but the poor
A dead man is purported to have received the relief package even as over 200 destitute families returned home empty-handed...
Federalism in action: How Belaka Municipality is ushering development
The Belaka Municipality in Nepal’s eastern Udaypur district, once struggling to get basic facilities, has set a perfect example with...
Target groups bear the brunt of Covid-19
Budgets allocated by local governments to support socially and culturally disadvantaged women, Dalits, persons with disabilities and other target groups...
A crying shame: The Nepal Police has been using expired tear gas shells and is likely to continue doing so
Tear gas shells used by security forces for crowd control are always hazardous for health. What’s worrying is that the...
Legal guidelines go for a toss as blacktopped roads in Dhangadhi abound with trees and poles
Over 282 Sal trees, 204 electricity poles and two transformers dot the 50 km road sections completed in the first...
In Ghorahi, paying the contractor his rates
In the projects totaling worth over Rs 70 million, Ghorahi Sub-metropolitan City hired bulldozers, rollers and excavators from municipal engineer...
Domestic violence survivors coerced into ‘compromise’
Despite brutal physical assaults from husband and family members, domestic violence survivors are compelled to reach a compromise with perpetrators...
Ordeal of kidney patients during lockdown
Over 30,000 kidney patients, who need to go through regular dialysis, are facing life-and-death situation due to lockdown enforced aimed...
How Nepal’s Satyadevi village connected to int'l drug trafficking network
In the past four decades northern villages of Dhading have been connected in global cases of drug trafficking, trading and...
Elected representatives’ intervention approach to end child marriages
In what has come as an exhilarating move to many, a total of 40 child marriages were averted with the...
Local levels refuse to pay Rs 140 million of drinking water, electricity dues
12 local level governments of Banke and Bardiya have been impertinent to pay more than Rs 140 million dues they...
Internet fraud: Helpless consumers, apathetic regulator
Fraud is rampant in Nepal’s internet service. It is committed in two ways: by not delivering even a fourth of...
How banks enabled Nepal's biggest fraud and ruined people's life
Six hundred families sank their life savings into the promise of an apartment. Other 7000 people have lost their savings...
Medical expenditure: KMC throwing money down the drain
In past two fiscal years, the Kathmandu Metropolitan City has disbursed a total of Rs 6.8 million in the name...
An unknown nexus of Nepali child trafficking
A revelation of how a substantial number of Nepali children are trafficked to the United States and Europe in the...
One year of Nepaleaks Money laundering: Political-administrative protection for big financial offences
While the government tries to influence the economically active group showing that it has been setting up the legal and...
Study in state’s fund, serve in a foreign land
After studying MBBS on government scholarship spending Rs 4 million, fresh graduates leave the country in the name of pursuing...
Misuse of Residential Buildings Raises Safety Concerns
Across urban Nepal, a growing number of hospitals, schools, offices and grocery stores are housed in residential buildings. The misuse...