Investigative Stories
Garbage from Dharan and Itahari sub-metropolis brings diseases, pollution
Dharan and Itahari sub-metropolitan cities have made the citizens sick by dumping garbage indiscriminately and polluting the environment.
‘Sting Operation’: CIAA’s illegal tool to trap opponents
Should the constitutional body itself get involved in offering bribes to public position holders and arrest them in a planned...
Why Kathmandu’s land prices continue to skyrocket
Nepal’s moneyed classes, aided by unscrupulous banks and an irresponsible government, have turned land into a quickly tradeable commodity.
Police to replace tear gas with water cannons
Nepal Police says, “water cannons will be used to disperse crowds after questions were raised about use of tear gas.”
Public disinterest litigations
Over the past 25 years, Nepal’s governments have blatantly ignored court decisions, especially on public interest petitions.
Authorities in Bajhang pocketing money by creating fake labors
Local authorities have stooped so low as to forging documents showing a one-year-old baby receiving a salary.
Castles in the air
Buyers of units in high-rises and colonies continue to get ripped off by developers because the authorities have turned a...
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...
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...
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...
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...