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Preparing for Kathmandu’s heat waves
All photos: NEPALI TIMESThe day my father brought home a shiny new motorcycle for the first time in Kathmandu, we were thrilled.After smashing a…
Non-climate cause of Nanda Devi flood
The origin of the Nanda Devi massif rockslide and the debris flow on a CubeSat image at 10:30 IST, just before the flood reached the Tapovan…
Who is in charge in Nepal?
Photo: RSSThe confusion and chaos that followed the sudden cancellation of repatriation flights on 16 August was just the latest proof that the…
Ke garne attitude kills people
Epidemics are nothing new in Nepal. In fact, the country’s history is littered with references to frequent outbreaks of cholera, influenza,…
Development = Destruction
Photo: Bikram RaiNaya Patrika, 17 JulyNationwide, there are problems with landslides and floods. People have been killed, made homeless, crops…
Only half prepared for floods in Nepal
Pic: SEWA BHATTARAIThe memory of the catastrophic flood of 2017 is still fresh in the minds of the people of Rautahat district. But even though…
Nepal Tarai learns from past floods
Pic: BIKRAM RAIAt Saraswati Primary School in Bhalohiya village in the central Tarai last week, children in Class 5 sweat in the humid heat,…
Flood of recrimination in the Nepal Tarai
Pic: BIKRAM RAIWith the advent of the monsoon, we will be flooded with stories of floods, landslides and other water-induced ‘natural disasters’…
Life in the time of tornadoes
Tornado in Bara. Photo: RSSThis is the season for windstorms, and even though the whirlwind that hit the central Tarai on 31 March killing 28…
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…
Lightning kills more people than floods in Nepal
BOLT FROM THE BLUE: A cloud to ground lightning flash strikes Chobar, illuminating Swayambhu and the Balaju area of Kathmandu in 2011. Photo:…
Ground zero in Pheta
Unprecedented, but not unforeseen
Disastrous management in Nepal
Photo: RSST he tornado that killed dozens of people on the night of 31 March highlighted Nepal’s vulnerability to disasters. It proved that…
The new normal
PHOTO: KIRAN NEPALThe devastating storm that ravaged Bara and Parsa districts on Sunday night leaving at least 30 people dead and hundreds…
Toll expected to double to 50 in tornado
Prime Minister KP Oli inspects the site of storm (pictured below) on Monday afternoon. The deadly storm that ravaged Bara and Parsa districts in…
4 years after quake, Sankhu rises from the dust
Of all the parts of Kathmandu Valley worst hit in the April 2015 earthquake was the historic town of Sankhu. But this is also where elected…
Making gods for a living
Photo: SONIA AWALEI'm not sure how to tell my story. There is so much pain inside me that I never get to share … I am terrified to voice them.”…
Staying positive
Photo: BIKRAM RAIAt 65, Ishwori Bhandari is a happy-go-lucky woman. She has no family, no obligations, and lives alone. She recently went to…
A house for the Nepali family
Photo: BIKRAM RAIPampha Nepali never learnt to read and write, and yet at age 50 uses a measurement tape to stitch blouses for her customers. It…
Surviving the aftermath
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aE07W6QOG6A&feature=youtu.beIt has been four years, but for Nanmaiju Prajapati it seems like yesterday. She was…
Remembering Boxing Day 2004
After four days on a trek, news of the tsunami sounded like the end of the world
Mapping the earthquake with art
https://youtu.be/OIPXh1HNxO4Curious onlookers gather around Prabin Shrestha as he paints the post-earthquake reconstruction of the imposing…