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Democracy
Nepal’s President Puts Her Foot Down, Refuses to Sign Citizenship Bill
If signed into law, the bill will grant citizenship rights to thousands of people, mostly of Indian origin. How the proposed law could help...
Climate change
Every Minute Counts: Growing Community Ownership of Flood Early Warning Systems in Nepal
The Koshi River can be a bane during monsoons. Now, in a unique experiment in early warning from ICIMOD, an alarm system programmed to...
Mental Health
Nepal’s Suicide Rate Spikes by 72 Per Cent Over a Decade
According to the Epidemiology and Disease Control Division of Nepal’s health ministry, the suicide rate is increasing in the Himalayan country where 19 persons...
Air
Nepal has ‘World’s Highest’ Lung Disease Death Rate
A new study reported that Nepal had the highest reported death rate from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in 2019, primarily due to air pollution....
Agriculture
In Nepal, Farmers Are Cutting Paddy to Feed Their Cattle
Nepal’s Department of Hydrology and Meteorology (DHM) on Wednesday announced that most parts of the country have thus far received below-average rains during this...
Animals and wildlife
Nepal’s Wild Tiger Population Triples Over 12 Years
The Nepal government announced that the nation’s tiger population had increased from the baseline established in 2009 – an increase of over 190 per...
Disaster Management
Hydropower and South Asia’s Energy Future: Three Key Issues to Ponder Upon
There are concerns that hydropower projects benefit cities and downstream populations more than the local people who bear the direct social and environmental costs....
Disaster Management
42 out of 56 Koshi Barrage Sluices Opened
The sluices were opened after the flow of water measured 243,180 cusecs per second and the surge in the water levels in the river...
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Non-communicable Diseases Emerge as ‘Top Killers Globally’ – WHO
Authors of the report say that every two seconds, one person under the age of 70 dies of a...
How to Make COP27 a Success
From melting glaciers to a ‘monster’ monsoon, record-breaking floods have left a third of Pakistan currently under water and...
Have MGNREGA Workers Become Bonded Labourers?
Millions of workers remain unpaid for their work for several months. Despite over Rs. 21,000 crores of pending wages,...
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Non-communicable Diseases Emerge as ‘Top Killers Globally’ – WHO
Authors of the report say that every two seconds,...
How to Make COP27 a Success
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