Border casinos draw tourists—but rule-breaking, fake IDs and rising crime fuel concerns
By Dipendra Baduwal & Parbat Portel Businesses say casinos boost footfall in Nepal’s frontier towns, but authorities warn of widespread regulatory breaches, money-laundering risks and political protection enabling illegal operations.
East-West rail-affected receive neither compensation nor release of land
By Parbat Portel A total of 1490 hectares of land belonging to 5,400 families remains frozen for the past five years.
Koshi catches election fever as voters, party workers gear up for March polls
By Nawaraj Subedi, Parbat Portel & Ananda Gautam There is growing realisation that election is only way out of the current political impasse.
Morang youths cheated by traffickers in Cambodia, lose millions
By Parbat Portel Victims lured with promises of easy work forced into hard labour.
Body of missing Morang teenager unclaimed as family demands justice
By Parbat Portel Postmortem findings have not revealed the cause of death, though the report states Anshu died approximately two weeks before her body was found.
Two men held with 54 bullets looted during Gen Z protests
By Parbat Portel 38 rounds of SLR and 16 rounds of INSAS rifle ammunition were recovered from the room of 27-year-old man in Birtamod.
Agriculture, tourism in eastern hills in crisis after disaster
By Parbat Portel, Laxmi Gautam & Ananda Gautam Tourism collapse and blocked exports leave Ilam, Panchthar, and Taplejung reeling from twin blows of floods and unrest.
Koshi government puts flood and landslide losses to infrastructure at over Rs2 billion
By Parbat Portel Weekend’s disaster killed dozens and washed away roads, bridges, and drinking water projects in the province.
Landslide-ravaged Ilam settlements in dire straits as relief efforts lag
By Parbat Portel Landslides and floods over the weekend killed 39 and displaced 276 families in the eastern Nepal district.
Maikhola river swallows entire settlement in Rajduwali, Ilam
By Parbat Portel A massive flooding in the wee hours on Sunday swept away 35 homes.
Scores dead as rains batter Nepal’s east and south
By Laxmi Gautam & Parbat Portel The hill district of Ilam was the worst hit with at least 37 killed and seven missing.
Destroyed municipal offices struggle to restore services
By Parbat Portel, Shankar Sharma, Ramesh Kumar Paudel & Anup Paudel Offices of Biratnagar, Birgunj, Bharatpur and Pokhara metropolises suffered huge damage during Gen Z protests on September 8 and 9.
Local residents step in to restore fire-ravaged public offices
By Deepak Pariyar, Ramesh Kumar Paudel, Arjun Shah, Parbat Portel, Binay Aazad & Jyoti Shrestha Many local units across country have resumed services under makeshift arrangements.
Nepal’s jute industry survives on imports
By Parbat Portel Production collapse puts the golden era of the country’s jute farming at risk of fading into history.
Nepali women being sent to Hong Kong on fake Indian IDs
By Parbat Portel Arrest of 7 Nepali women, 2 men at India-Nepal crossing lays bare how traffickers hoodwink border surveillance.