Tag: #construction
Articles tagged with #construction
Where rivers are not the Phoenix
When rivers are angry, they surge back to life again
Putting Nepal on the right track
A train network will generate jobs in construction and operation, bring efficiency and connectivity
Nepal’s shortsighted view-tower craze
Resunga tower in Gulmi. Photo: WIKIMEDIA COMMONSPoliticians at all three levels of government in Nepal appear to be racing against time to build…
Hiding their head in the sand
Illegal sand mining on Chure rivers displaces farmers, decimates a fragile landscape
Building back better (and stronger) with bamboo
Photo: HABITAT FOR HUMANITY NEPALBamboo, the perennial and plentiful plant, is the next big thing in sustainable construction.For centuries,…
Nepal building a highway to Everest
Excavators at work on Thamdada, 24km south of Lukla, despite the fact that the Khumbu Municipality has run out of money to complete the…
Building back Rani Pokhari even better
https://youtu.be/27DSJhsNLYgFive years after the earthquake destroyed its central temple, the 350-year-old Rani Pokhari royal pond at the centre…
Unlocking the economy post-lockdown
Illustration: DIWAKAR CHHETRIThe COVID-19 pandemic has caught the world off guard, with enormous repercussions for Nepal’s economy because of…
“Business, bureaucracy and politicians all plundering the Chure”
Photo : MANISH PAUDELOn 10 January, 24-year-old Dilip Mahato was killed for opposing the ‘Crusher’ industry in Dhanusha that was illegally…
EDIFICE COMPLEX
This monsoon, precipitation has not been particularly heavy over Nepal. In fact, total rainfall so far has been below the seasonal average in…
The right path
Photo: KUNDA DIXITIt is easy to be disappointed by Lumbini. Scruffy, dusty and unbearably hot this time of year, it looks from the outside like…
U Thant, Kenzō Tange and the Buddha's birthplace
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBmGxGmpg8E&feature=youtu.beWhen the Burmese Buddhist Secretary-General of the United Nations, U Thant, visited…
Dozers and Nepal’s development
One of the most prominent changes we see while travelling across Nepal these days is the presence of earth movers, bulldozers, tipper trucks and…
Tall Order
Pic: BIKRAM RAISuresh Shakya (pictured above) was sitting down for lunch with his family in his house in Itum Bahal four years ago when there…
Shaking up the health sector
Nepal’s hospitals have not even recovered from the 2015 earthquake, and now need to be ready for the Next Big One
Lessons Unlearnt
Photo: BIKRAM RAIFour years later, Central Nepal is still being rocked by aftershocks of 2015. That peculiar earthquake shook everything to the…