Mothers of newborns in Bajura, Humla, and Mugu endure hardships by staying in cowsheds as part of their age-old tradition despite the government’s slogan of ‘regular check-up’, ‘secured motherhood’, and ‘nutritious food’. A report by Mina Sharma for CIJ, after her field-reporting from these districts.

 Mina Sharma: Centre for Investigative Journalism-Nepal

A rare genetic disorder sickle cell anemia has become an epidemic, affecting an indigenous Tharu community of western Nepal, which needs urgent government attention.

KRISHNA ADHIKARI – Centre for Investigative Journalism

At Tribhuwan University’s central departments and constituent campuses, professors, lecturers, university employees, and stationary shop owners collude in a thriving business of plagerised dissertations.

PRAMOD ACHARYA –  Centre for Investigative Journalism

In Nepal’s remote outback, the rich loan-sharks force poor farmers and aspiring migrant workers to sign promisory notes, agreeing to pay four times higher than the borrowed money at steep interest rates. This feudal practice, abolished by law is not only thriving, but is recognized by local court.

EKAL SILWAL- Centre for Investigative Journalism

Nepal’s cabinet secretly ratified National Security Policy which has identified foreign intervention, open international border, border encroachment, infiltration and fuel/energy crisis as key security challenges. 

SAROJ RAJ ADHIKARI– Centre for Investigative Journalism

Four years back CIJ report exposed how government’s Youth Self-employment Fund, set-up to help unemployed youths kick-start their own business was being funneled to fund local politics. Our new investigation shows, situation hasn’t changed at all.

KALPANA BHATTRAI-  Centre for Investigative Journalism

People in the mid-western hill district,forced to purchase properties under ‘People’s Government’ during the insurgency, are facing evection due to question over its validity.There are 3500 families suffering in Rukum district alone.

HARI GAUTAM– Centre for Investigative Journalism

Gross negligence by police, government lawyers and judges have resulted in wrongful conviction of many innocents, who are languishing in prisons across Nepal.  

MUKESH POKHAREL– Centre for Investigative Journalism

Female feticide and unsafe abortion continues unabated in the Far-west Nepal.

PRAKASH SINGH- Centre for Investigative Journalism

The nexus between corrupt bureaucrats and officials at medical council and universities, colluding with the Supreme Court judges, lawmakers and private colleges, have infected Nepal’s medical education system.

RAMU SAPKOTA – Centre for Investigative Journalism

Kathmandu’s private hospitals continue to bribe ambulance drivers to bring in sick-patients with an intention to extort them through their expensive treatment.

PRAMOD ACHARYA- Centre for Investigative Journalism

There was no mass slaughtering of cows in the Far West. Religious outfits exploited public sentiment to push their enveloped agendas.

-SUMITRA BHATTARAI: CIJ

Several people reported missing after the devastating earthquake in Nepal might still be buried in the rubble

-Pratima Baskota: CIJ

The trend of encroaching on public land in the name of landless people and freed Kamaiya has gone rampant in the district. Laxman Kathayat, chief of the District Land Reform Office (DLRO), said that around 20,000 hectares of forest land have been encroached in the district so far. The District Forest Office said that the majority of encroached public land belongs to forests in the district. Local authorities say that people with power are encroaching on public land in the name of freed Kamaiyas and landless people while taking advantage of the drive being launched by various organisations to distribute public land to freed Kamaiyas.

-GANESH CHAUDHARY: CIJ

Pitiable public health service has left people at the mercy of costly and careless treatment of profit hungry private hospitals and clinics. What dangers do that pose and how is the issue being tackled? Can we trust our medical system, or are the very places that are supposed to save us a threat to our lives?

-RAMU SAPKOTA: CIJ

Shova Karki, 29 of Sanghu gave birth to a baby¬-girl on October 31, 2006 through Caesarean Section at Om Hospital and Research Centre at Chabahil.  She was diagnose with a normal baby position during her antenatal care (ANC) visits where the doctors told her that she could have a normal delivery. However, two days before the delivery, attending doctor referred her for a surgery.

INDiRA ARYAL: CIJ

Two years after the incident, Nepal police have managed to nab Ranjit Jha (Rajan Mukti) and Mukesh Chaudhury (Prakash Vidyarthi), considered key links to the Mithila bombing that killed 5 people and injured 32 on the morning of April 30, 2012.

-NAVIN JHA: CIJ