Roshan Sedhai
Oli’s keyboard karyakartas
The formation of a Cyber Sena to defend Prime Minister Oli’s interests raises the spectre of censorship, trolling, and harassment.
‘Somebody might be listening’
Recent comments by a former Cabinet minister have once again given rise to fears of illegal surveillance by the Oli government
Yet another iron gate, now at Nepal’s immigration
Proposed new immigration guidelines include requiring travellers to present a high school diploma and the ability to speak conversational English
Taken for a ride by Pathao
One of Nepal’s most popular new companies faces scrutiny, and employee ire, for what many say are exploitative business practices
Migrant deaths double during the coronavirus pandemic
An alarming rise in the number of deaths despite low Covid-related fatalities raises doubts over authentic reporting
How the equity gap affects access to Covid tests and treatment
While the affluent can pick and choose, for many who are poor, Covid treatment is a distant reality
Migrant workers deported from Qatar without justification return home
The deportation of Nepali migrant workers from Qatar is just one example of the unfair treatment they have experienced abroad
Nepal’s unprotected, underpaid, overstretched health workers
Many frontline workers are neither being paid the promised risk allowances nor their salaries
Workers left in the lurch
The govt has callously suspended its campaign to repatriate stranded migrant workers
Hospitals complicit in the deaths of at least a dozen patients...
Hospitals across Nepal have denied treatment to patients with Covid-like symptoms. So far, they have not faced any consequences