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Uncooperative cooperatives

Uncooperative cooperatives

A Rs1 billion project aimed at promoting farmers failed due to mismanagement
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Corruption convicts are still enjoying properties ordered to be seized

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...
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Harka Sampang’s house of cards

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...
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Lessons still not learnt

Lessons still not learnt

By banning women from going to the Gulf, the government continues to put them at a higher risk of exploitation...
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Federalism

Reversal of Political Parties and The Election Commission: Dalit Women on the Brink of Losing Quotas
Discrimination

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
Tradition

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
Lightning strikes

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
policy corruption

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

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
Trafficking

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....