The children left behind by Nepal’s deadliest floods
The Post spoke to 12 children from the flood-affected areas and gathered their experiences and the nightmares that still follow them.
The Post spoke to 12 children from the flood-affected areas and gathered their experiences and the nightmares that still follow them.
More than a month after the catastrophic floods, people in Nuwakot are combing the wreckage of their homes and shops for documents, photo frames, keepsakes, and anything else they can salvage.
Apartments and homes are increasingly listed in US dollars, edging out Nepali renters and operating in a legal gray zone that no regulator has ever tested.
Juthe Tamang is living under a tarp in Nuwakot after losing his shelter and work, but the image on his citizenship certificate has been an issue for opening a bank account, a must for receiving relief money.
Damp weather has raised health concerns for infants and vulnerable groups as permanent resettlement plan awaits central government approval.
With family members dead or missing, many women see the need to rise up and find work to support their children and remaining ones.
The religious organisation’s global leadership has suspended eight Nepal-based officials pending an inquiry, nearly five months after a family reported alleged abuse to police. The person accused of sexually abusing a girl remains at large.
In crowded shelters, pregnant women and new mothers are struggling for privacy, adequate food and access to maternity care as damaged roads cut them off from hospitals.
Guna Maya Bohara was rescued from an elderly care home where she had lived for more than a decade. But her survival was only the latest chapter in a life marked by loss, resilience and a family she built around herself.
A week into the country’s deadliest disaster in a decade, mental health teams are only beginning to reach survivors and the deeper trauma may still be ahead.
Despite being part of the curriculum through grade 8, Comprehensive Sexuality Education is often reduced to a few chapters, hampered by limited teacher training, and dropped from the compulsory curriculum just as adolescents enter their teenage years.
While media groups and press freedom advocates have criticised the police action, others say the veteran journalist’s arrest is justified, pointing to a long record of publishing private and targeted content.
Nearly two decades after a landmark Supreme Court ruling advanced legal recognition of gender identity, Nepal’s menstrual health policies and services still largely exclude trans men.
Artists say their songs are being recreated with cloned voices and sold on digital platforms without permission, even as the technology quietly becomes the soundtrack of everyday life.
A student-led campaign changed the law, but has reignited debate over personal freedom, school discipline, and how far the state should regulate schools.