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Nepali nurses gone and going to the UK
Three nurses speak about higher pay, greater appreciation and learning opportunities in Britain
Nepal’s nurse flight
If nurse salaries and work conditions do not improve, we will have to ask why nurses stay, rather than why they leave.
Renewed call on UK to rush vaccines to Nepal
Actor Michael Palin and Agnès Callamard, Secretary General of Amnesty International.British actor Michael Palin and Amnesty International on…
Vaccines, variants and a third wave
Photo: AMIT MACHAMASIFor the first time in weeks, Nepal recorded more than 3,000 new cases on 20 July. There were 25 deaths. The country is on…
Global solidarity needs intensive care in pandemic battle
Photo: MONIKA DEUPALAThe world is at a tipping point in the battle to contain the spread of Covid-19. Countries across Asia are struggling to…
Vaccines too little, too late for Nepal?
Photo: MONIKA DEUPALAThere is breaking news every other day: the United States donates 2 million Moderna shots to Bangladesh and Pakistan.…
Vacillating on vaccines
Photo: AMIT MACHAMASIThe flood of social media posts of donated medical supplies being unloaded at Kathmandu airport every day, gives the…
It’s an Emergency
Photo: AMIT MACHAMASI1. Oxygen To save lives, Nepal’s most urgent need now is oxygen. Not just cylinders, but oxygen generators, concentrators…
International help for Nepal picks up
Nepal’s Covid-19 crisis has figured in a US Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing in Washington on Wednesday, where members heard USAID…
International help for Nepal picks up
Nepal’s Covid-19 crisis has figured in a US Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing in Washington on Wednesday, where members heard USAID…
Nepal’s 1st hydroelectric plant is a museum piece
Reservoir pond of the Pharping hydropower project 12 km south of Kathmandu Valley. Photo: ASMIT RAJBHANDARIIt was 6:30pm on 22 May 1911, and the…
Despite doubts, Nepal sticks with AstraZeneca jabs
A health worker in Jumla administers Covidshield AstraZeneca vaccine to an elderly this week. Photo: LAXMI NGAKHUSI/UNICEF NEPALOver 1.6 million…
Finally, Nepal to get own satellite
Nearly four decades after being allotted its own geostationary orbital slot, Nepal Telecommunication Authority (NTA) is finally preparing to put…
Nepalis overseas get first vaccinations
Nischal Shrestha, a caregiver in Israel, getting vaccinated last week.Long before Nepalis in Nepal will be vaccinated against the coronavirus,…
Nepalis overseas get first vaccinations
Nischal Shrestha, a caregiver in Israel, getting vaccinated last week.Long before Nepalis in Nepal will be vaccinated against the coronavirus,…
90% in poor countries will miss Covid vaccinations
The introduction of vaccines against the coronavirus have been described as the light at the end of the tunnel. But for most of the poorest…
90% in poor countries will miss Covid vaccinations
The introduction of vaccines against the coronavirus have been described as the light at the end of the tunnel. But for most of the poorest…
Irena Taskovski virtually in Nepal
All photos: ALESSANDRA SILVER Ever since she witnessed the violent disintegration of her country, and after fleeing war-torn Bosnia at the age…
Nepal-Britain tree twinning
Students in Pokhreni Secondary School in Sundarijal prepare to plant a sapling in Kathmandu.A unique ‘tree twinning’ project between British and…
Nepal can lead in zero-carbon
The 100kWp Solar Mini Grid in Gutu of Surkhet. All photos: Alternative Energy Promotion Centre (AEPC)We are at a critical moment for the future…
An antelope and an artist
Puneeta Sharma working on the restoration of the 160-year-old water colour on paper painting by Rajman Singh Chitrakar of a Tibetan antelope at…
UN and DFID join hands for Nepal Covid fight
Photo: BIKRAM RAIThe Covid-19 pandemic hit Nepal much later than the rest of the world, and now the country is being battered by a surge of…
Nepal COVID-19 lockdown extended till 7 April
Sunday's Cabinet meeting in Baluwatar where ministers and the prime minister maintained physical distancing. Photo RSSThe Nepal government…
Ex-refugee takes refuge in music
Photo : GOPAL GADTAULAManoj Rai was a 17-year-old student in a school in Tashigang, Bhutan in 1990, when soldiers arrived at his dorm and took…