Haat Bazaar is a general term for a weekly market organized in a rural society. Generally held on a playground or an open fieldthey help local farmers earn supplemental income by selling surplus ...
Every visit to the rural vicinities across Nepal today presents a new sign of change, a call to marketers that they will have to re-strategize their promotion plan. But there is no specific formula to ...
More than 300 Christian families have been affected, says a local pastor. Nepali Christians are mourning the loss of many of their own after a series of devastating earthquakes in early November. On ...
(opens in a new window) (opens in a new window) (opens in a new window) (opens in a new window) Copy In Nepal, HelpAge network member Ageing Nepal is leading a pioneering initiative to put self-care ...
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The politics beneath Nepal's rural roads

Kathmandu, March 7 -- Roads in Nepal are more than stretches of gravel and dust. They are promises etched into political slogans, development dreams and emblems of progress to secure public support.
Nepal’s revamped truth commissions will need to go beyond ‘ritualism’ to deliver justice to civil war victims Nepal’s attempt to deliver justice and accountability following the country’s decade-long ...
Geoff Childs receives funding from the National Science Foundation. Dorje Dundul recently had his foot gnawed by a brown bear – a member of the species Ursus thibetanus, to be precise. It wasn’t his ...
On the morning of Feb. 6, the road leading to the Bardiya District Administration Office in western Nepal was filled with people moving as one. Dust rose from their footsteps. Voices layered over each ...