News
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More than 70 lives have already been lost to this past week’s rains with the toll only expected to rise.
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The Wire
Features
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Air pollution has devastating consequences for human health and the environment.
Perspectives
8 min read
There are strong links between economic stressors caused by climate change and child marriage around the world. A spattering of evidence suggests this is a serious problem in parts of Nepal as well.
Perspectives
5 min read
Bagmati’s wastewater is perhaps the largest biological threat to public health in Kathmandu and as Covid-19 has shown, threats to public health affect everyone.
Perspectives
4 min read
In two weeks, the birds taught me many things: to be compassionate, to be kind, to be angry even. But most of all, to love with patience.
Record Blog
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The majority of businesses, especially in the service sector, will probably not survive in the absence of state aid packages and guarantees
Features
4 min read
By helping them understand the importance of balanced feed, a Nawalpur-based grass resource center is providing farmers with the means to grow and balance their own livestock feed.
Features
4 min read
Hundreds continue to flock out everyday from the joblessness, hunger and desperation that has come to plague their lives during the lockdown.
Features
6 min read
Nepal has had a record number of landslide-related deaths this year