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Mob, movement and mayhem
Photo: GOPAL CHITRAKAR/HIMALKHABAR ARCHIVESThe people's movement in 1990 ended the Panchayat system and ushered in multiparty democracy in…
Nepal Police at the frontlines against coronavirus
All photos: BIKRAM RAIA total of 620 police across the country have been infected with Covid-19, two Deputy Inspector General working in the…
Clamping down on the country
A policeman with a crowd control device. Photo: MANISH PAUDELWhen the COVID-19 pandemic sent Nepal into a nation-wide lockdown, Nepali Police…
What drives wildlife poaching?
Photo : ALEX DUDLEYNepal is the first tiger-range country to double the number of the endangered big cats in its reserves, and has marked five…
Nepal’s suicide rate vastly underestimated
Photo: MONIKA DEUPALANepal’s public health system has no mechanism for recording suicides, and the only statistics about suicides can be found…
Getting away with murder
Rautahat MP Mohammad Aftab Alam, currently in police custody charged with murder, has refused to take a polygraph test, angering the police and…
The great feast of death
Photo: MONIKA DEUPALAR ight before by-elections for a seat in the Parliament, the corpse of a man called Bishweshwar or ‘Bishu’ is found below a…
Dreams and nightmares of the Nepal conflict
Illustration: SUBHAS RAIThe Greek word ‘hagios’ means ‘holy’. A hagiography is therefore an admiring book about people who are praised for being…
Rape rulings in Nepal follow letter, not spirit of the law
Activists protest government's reluctance to solve the rape and murder of Nirmala Panta, a teenager whose body was found near her home in…