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Lockdown+5
Nepal clamped its first Covid lockdown on 24 March 2020, and five years later many have forgotten what it was like
Nepal hopes for tourism rebound in 2021
Lukla used to see up to 35 flights full of tourists daily till March 2020. This year there are only 2-3 flights a day, with mostly locals.…
Jabs and jab-nots
Indian Ambassador to Nepal Vinay Mohan Kwatra at a press meet. India has donated 1 million 1 million Covidsheild vaccines to Nepal, which…
Rowing across the Atlantic to help Nepal schools
The crew with their boat as they train for the rowing challenge. Photo courtesy: ASHLEY JONESThe four crew members have completed military tours…
Rowing across the Atlantic to help Nepal schools
The crew with their boat as they train for the rowing challenge. Photo courtesy: ASHLEY JONESThe four crew members have completed military tours…
The lost ‘Covid Generation’
The Covid-19 infection rate in Nepal is much higher in younger age groups but most fatalities are of people in their sixties and above. However,…
When will Nepal’s Covid vaccine turn come?
Photo: MONIKA DEUPALAWith the pre-winter resurgence of Covid-19 around the world and in Nepal, pressure is mounting on governments to procure…
This year's dangerous Dasain
Photo: BIKRAM RAIThe coronavirus used to be imported, from Europe, China or India. No more. It is now here among us, and this Dasain it could be…
Home alone in Dasain
Lalu and her neighbours collectively harvest fodder grass in Udaypur. With menfolk away, women have formed savings and loans cooperatives to…
Covid-19 will get worse before it gets better
Nepal’s capital has run out of affordable ICU care for Covid-19 patients, but public health experts warn that the worst is yet to come with the…
Running to remain in place
Illustration: DIWAKAR CHHETRIThe vote of no-confidence this week by former UML leaders of the Nepal Communist Party of (NCP) in Karnali Province…
Nepal tries to ensure Covid-19 insurance
Since insurance companies in Nepal announced Covid-19 schemes in April, more than 1.4 million applied, but many patients are having payment…
Declare a health emergency
Two weeks to go to Dasain, a feckless government and reckless citizens are dragging Nepal headlong into a health emergency. Even as the total…
Dead body management training in Nepal
All photos: MONIKA DEUPALAWhen Nepal recorded its first Covid death in May, a 29-year-old woman who had recently given birth to a baby boy…
Nepal’s women envoys make a mark
Nepal has a female president and a Constitution that reserves positions in government and legislatures to women, and in the foreign service…
Nepal’s domestic flights resume
All photos BIKRAM RAISix months after being grounded due to the Covid-19 lockdown, Nepal’s domestic airlines took to the air again on Monday,…
Nepal’s QFX cinema needs a happy ending
A poster for the film Mulan, which was the coming attraction at QFX Cinemas before they were closed down in March. All photos: MONIKA DEUPALAThe…
Why Internet speed is slower and slower
Photo: MONIKA DEUPALANepal’s Internet speed was slow to begin with, but with surging demand for bandwidth as people spend more time at home, it…
Lockdown eased in Kathmandu
Signs for seven provinces at Kathmandu airport. All photos: BIKRAM RAIThe jumbled up signs for seven provinces at Kathmandu airport is symbolic…
Nepalis in Saudi Arabia stage protest
Stranded Nepali workers who have been unemployed since March, staging a protest in a labour camp demanding to be repatriated home.Hundreds of…
Viruses past, present and future
Nepal’s history shows that nature matters in dealing with epidemics but, social differences do, too
Big story of small pox in Nepal
Recurring epidemics shaped the course of history in the Himalaya in unexpected and important ways
COVID-19 and the global power balance
We have long speculated on the moment when the shift of global leadership from the United States to China would take place. From Washington to…
Nepal’s exit strategy
Sooner or later, governments around the world have to decide between economic survival and public health. The choice for politicians is between…