Tag: #COVID-19 lockdown
Articles tagged with #COVID-19 lockdown
Lockdown+5
Nepal clamped its first Covid lockdown on 24 March 2020, and five years later many have forgotten what it was like
Covid fatigue drives Nepalis to nightspots
All photos: MONIKA DEUPALAKathmandu’s tourist neighbourhood of Thamel has been a ghost town for most of 2020, but just like Pokhara and Chitwan…
Unlimited flights to Nepal from 1 October
Photo: KUNDA DIXITNepal’s Civil Aviation Authority (CAAN) announced on Sunday that it will allow international carriers to resume an unlimited…
When the sun sets, it is fun time in Nepal
All photos: ROBIC UPADHYAYThe complete ban on the sale of alcohol in India’s Bihar state had fostered a booming business in bars and…
Nepal sees drop in wildfires during lockdown
Comparisons of satellite images show that the Covid-19 lockdown has resulted in a reduction in the number of wildfires in Nepal in the spring of…
Kathmandu Lockdown 2.0
All photos: BIKRAM RAIThe first day of the second lockdown in Kathmandu Valley saw major intersections mostly deserted with main roads heavily…
Kathmandu airport reopens in 2 weeks
Photo: KUNDA DIXITAlthough the government had announced that regular domestic and international flights would open from 17 August, the uptick in…
COVID-19 leaves millions of South Asian children hungry
Photo: Marty LoganChildren are collateral damage in the flight against the COVID-19 pandemic: some 4 million of them in South Asia under the age…
Coronavirus Nepal Lockdown Month 2
After 50 days what is utterly extraordinary has come to seem normal, the unimaginable is commonplace
6 musk deer killed by poachers during lockdown
Three of the musk deer found dead in traps laid by poachers during the COVID-19 lockdown in Sagarmatha National Park on Sunday. Photo: DAWA NURU…
Ramadan during the COVID-19 lockdown
Mohammad Jamshed Ansari and his son Mohammad Nurani Ansari pray in separate rooms on the first day of Ramadan. All photos: BIKRAM RAIMohammad…
How Nepal should plan to exit lockdown
With the COVID-19 lockdown officially ending 27 April, the government is expected to extend it but announce a partial easing of restrictions…
Nepal vs COVID-19
At 4:30 AM on a gloomy Friday morning in Frankfurt, Aman Bhattarai gets on a conference call with his colleagues to identify final technical…
A month into the COVID-19 lockdown
All photos: MONIKA DEUPALAOne month into the COVID-19 lockdown, hundreds of temporary migrant workers who have run out of money or been evicted…
Shopping Therapy
Photos: MONIKA DEUPALABhat Bhateni supermarket chain has been allowed to open all seven outlets in Kathmandu starting 18 April with strict…
Shape up the lockdown
Going through the motions to quarantine people haphazardly will not prevent an outbreak
UAE warning to send back workers, including Nepalis
The warning by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to punish countries that refuse to repatriate workers wishing to go home by suspending bilateral…
Diary of a soul in semi-isolation
Today is Day 7 of 15 and I’m in it to win it.I am now 64. Some would say that I actually turned 65 when the lunar rat scurried into February…
Confusion persists about lockdown rules
Nepal Police making an arrest using multifunctional rescue and arrest device during the lockdown. Photo: RSSThe calls started coming at 10:30 at…
Pandemic Pangs
Illustration: DIWAKAR CHETTRIIf there was no COVID-19 epidemic, what would be on the international news lineup this week? Before the pandemic…
Home health care during a lockdown
Photo: ALISHA SIJAPATIEven before the two-week lockdown, more and more Nepali families with elderly relatives hired nursing care at home.…
Kathmandu festivals muted amidst coronavirus lockdown
Photos: MONIKA DEUPALASpring is the season for Kathmandu Valley’s traditional festivals like Bhaktapur’s Bisket Jatra, Machhindranath in…
More stranded tourists evacuated from Nepal
HIMALAYAN AIRLIFT: A Qatar Airways Airbus330 takes off from Kathmandu on Saturday with European tourists stranded after Nepal’s COVID-19…
Lockdown and the surge in domestic violence
Popular singer and songwriter Samriddhi Rai tweeted this at 4:05 in the morning of Thursday March 26. With the surge in COVID-19 cases around…