One question rises above all others on the 2-year anniversary of the earthquake in Nepal: how could it take so long to distribute the government reconstruction grant? Until now, less than 2,000 of the over 600,000 eligible households who lost…
Hans Andersen
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Wild animals lurk as a real threat to villagers living near some of Nepal’s national parks and local forests.
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Cabinet decided on February 2nd to instruct the Election Commission to get things ready for local elections by mid-May. So, it finally announced at least an approximate election date. Will the elections happen for sure, though? Well, it’s hard not to be optimistic. However, there are still hurdles ahead, to say the…
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Troubled bridge over Kamala waters in Sindhuli
It’s just another example of local infrastructure projects that are left half completed for years, sometimes forever. We once witnessed a similar case in Chitwan where the government was said to have funded a dike project along a river to…
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Young ultra-runner, Mira Rai, grew up in a village in the eastern district of Bhojpur. As a young girl, she joined a local Maoist platoon – it was under the Maoist conflict – where she learned not only guerilla warfare…
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The formation of Nepal Reconstruction Agency (NRA) in the fall of 2015 was as political as the creation of many other “high-level” commissions and agencies in Nepal.
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She is the only woman to have ever been accepted into the highest order of shamans.
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Ever tried to contact a ministry by email and never get a reply? Well, many have, and now the chairman of the Local Bodies Restructuring Commission (LBRC) has too.