BHARDEV, Nepal, Aug 25 (Reuters) - In a village a little over an hour's drive from Nepal's capital of Kathmandu, six women wearing yellow rubber gloves and surgical masks work in a shed, gently ...

EAST LONGMEADOW — Next month, Cheri Brady will wrap cash in a silky scarf — a kata — and present it to a village leader in Nepal. The moment will cap a long effort to help Tibetans restore a ...

Langtang, Nepal – On the morning of April 25, 2015, Nima Chhiring Tamang, 30, left his home in northern Nepal’s Langtang village to spend time with friends in the neighbouring village of Kyanjin Gompa ...

The transformation of Nepal’s urban landscape has brought us to a pivotal moment. Having observed this evolution as an ...

Although farmers traditionally practiced agroforestry in Nepal, they gave it up with the advent of the green revolution. A women’s group in Kavre district decided to return to agroforestry four years ...

Nepal is heading to the polls in less than two years. Voters will choose their representatives for three tiers of government – the local, provincial, and federal – which will shape Nepal’s political ...

Thirty-seven people were killed when a landslide on 12 July tore through the settlement of Lidi of Sindhupalchok district. More than half of them were women. When another landslide in nearby Barabise ...

Growing up in a traditional Hindu family in an eastern Nepal village, Durga Shrestha never thought that one day she would become a Catholic nun and work for the welfare of her country’s poor. The ...

Hupsekot Rural Municipality recently inaugurated a 10-bed coronavirus-dedicated hospital. Municipality chair Laxmi Pandey is at centre. All photos: LAXMI BASNET After the first elections under ...

Conversions credited to women evangelists sharing the good news one-on-one in conversations. Tanuja Ghale saw a young woman on the street in Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal, and told her she was ...

KATHMANDU, November 15—The South Asia Women in Power Sector Professional Network (WePOWER) Nepal National Chapter (NNC) was officially launched at the World Bank Country Office in Kathmandu on ...