Authorities in Nepal have extended restrictions in the Kathmandu Valley, comprising three districts, for another ten days and also scrapped the odd-even rule it had earlier imposed for public transport

Agriculture made up 66.9 percent of Nepal’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in 1970. Close to five decades later, agriculture accounted for just 25 percent of the GDP in 2018, although 60 percent of Nepalis still depended on it for a living, according to a report

Nepal’s ruling CPN-UML chair and prime minister K.P. Sharma Oli has given an ultimatum to the Madhav Kumar Nepal-led party faction to withdraw the signatures in the writ petition filed at the Supreme Court demanding the restoration of the House of Representatives and the appointment of Nepali Congress President Sher Bahadur Deuba as prime minister

Nepal’s National Human Rights Commission may lose the  ‘A grade’ -- a prestigious status for national rights bodies that maintain autonomy and independence from their respective governments-- due to the controversial appointments made to the commission earler this year

Last week the Nepal government issued guidelines for establishing and operating oxygen cylinders in districts, mandating a stock of oxygen concentrators sufficient for 20 percent of the hospital beds in each district

Faced with rebellion within the party, Nepal Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli, the chairman of the CPN-UML,  has taken several measures to bring back party dissidents

Johnson &  Johnson and Moderna, the two American Covid-19 vaccines manufacturers, have expressed their inability to supply vaccines to Nepal this year, dashing the hopes of the Nepal government to sign deals with the two leading American pharma companies

This entire political chaos in Nepal started in April 2020 when differences between the two co-chairs of the then NCP – Oli and Pushpa Kamal Dahal – started escalating. Since then, the environment of unease, with protests – some of them violent – failed to de-escalate

Authorities in Nepal have eased restrictions in the capital Kathmandu, and the nearby regions, allowing public transport with certain conditions

Over two dozen cases of the rare mucormycosis disease, commonly known as black fungus, were detected in Nepal. However, government hospitals in the country don’t have the stock of Liposomal Amphotericin B, the drug used for the treatment of the disease

The supply of crucial medical equipment to hospitals across northern Nepal has been disrupted as heavy rain, witnessed in the last three weeks, swept away many crucial roads and bridges. The Tatopani crossing point on the Nepal-China border also remained closed due to damaged roads

In what may easily be described as an unprecedented political consolidation, five former Nepal prime ministers have come together to form what is the “opposition alliance”

The dissolution of the House of Representatives of parliament has put democracy at risk in Nepal, said Nepal's former prime minister and leader of opposition Sher Bahadur Deuba, whose claim to form the government was rejected by President Bidya Devi Bhandari on 22 May

Nepal’s President Bidya Devi Bhandari on Thursday appointed 20 people to eleven constitutional commissions under a controversial ordinance that has remained challenged in the country’s Supreme Court for the last six months

Wildlife workers in Nepal face multiple challenges while on duty, including the risk of contracting Covid-19