The government is set to mobilize more than 17,000 security personnel for responding to monsoon-related disasters, in ...

Nepal, May 23 -- The odds are stacked against Nepal's poor people. Not only do they need to overcome the hardships of life ...

Santosh had dreams of improving his life for the better ... He was given medicine and sent back to Nepal. When he was back home, he was once again jobless, still poor, but now also with a chronic ...

Persistent poverty in Nepal is also linked to skewed land ownership ... on the cost of the calories intake per day of a person to lead a healthy and active life. Nepalis require 2,236 calories per day ...

As Nepal shifts to decentralised governance it is struggling to implement to fair fiscal management, leading to calls for the ...

Confessed French serial killer Charles Sobhraj, who was convicted and sentenced to life in prison in Nepal, was ordered Wednesday to be released because of poor health, good behavior and having ...

The Himalayan Mountain range exists due to a collision between the Indian Plate and the Eurasian plate, on whose boundary Nepal sits ... weak infrastructure, with poor construction that does ...

I have never seen such an extreme flood in my life," the 65-year-old told ... including to his neighbours -- many of whom left poverty-stricken villages in rural Nepal to eke out a precarious ...

The luxuries of modern life — smartphones ... the world to survey close to 3,000 members of 19 poor, small-scale societies located in 18 different countries. They visited Kumbungu in Ghana, Laprak in ...

Kathmandu (AFP) – When floodwaters submerged large swathes of Nepal's capital ... a regular fact of life for the estimated 29,000 squatters among Kathmandu's urban poor, who build by riverbanks ...