Lightning, landslides, floods, and earthquakes wreak havoc as Koshi emerges as a disaster-prone region.

Industrialists say unannounced outages have disrupted operations in over 350 factories and driven up costs and job fears.

Despite increasing domestic production, Nepal’s betel nut market is overwhelmed by cheap imports and illegal re-exports to India, leaving local farmers in crisis. Authorities fail to contain a deeply rooted smuggling network.

On May Day, locals reflect on the birthplace of the country’s first organised workers’ protest.

Four Bhutanese refugee youths who were flown to Thimphu have arrived in Nepal and returned to their old refugee camps in Jhapa.

Nepali authorities arrested three of them from Beldangi refugee camp and the fourth one from Bahundangi last month.

Prasai fled after the March 28 Tinkune protest that left two dead and over 100 injured.

People in several districts in eastern Nepal have been barred from cultivating, selling or developing their land since 2020.

Bhutan refuses to accept them, redirecting them to Nepal amid fears over their legal status and human rights concerns.

Fire incidents have been reported from various places over the past 24 hours with the onset of the dry season.

With the addition of purple-backed sunbird, known as Baijani Dhade Bungechara, Nepal’s bird count has risen to 898.

A Morang local unit is working to construct a drainage to channel factory sewage into the Khadara and Singhiya streams, but locals fear flooding and pollution.

A few tea enterprises, including orthodox producer Gorkha Tea Estate in Ilam, have registered their products for export with the General Administration of Customs of China.

The Maoist Centre candidate secures 6,969 votes.

Demand to ban Nepali tea grows louder in Darjeeling as Indian traders fear losing market share.