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With birthing centres out of reach, medical equipment failing, and roads often impassable, home births remain a dangerous ...
Nepal’s clean energy transition, almost entirely dependent on hydropower, is dangerously exposed to the very climate risks it hopes to solve. Mukesh Pokhrel reports from Kathmandu, Nepal ...
Snowfall in the Hindu Kush-Himalayas is at a 23-year low, threatening two billion people who depend on snowmelt for water.
Assam CM Sarma alleges Congress MP Gogoi's visits to Pakistan and Nepal, promising evidence soon. Gogoi challenges Sarma's claims, raising questions about Assam's governance.
But what it has plenty of is rivers. Decades of donor ... “It takes five years just to get permission to cut trees,” says Nepal Electricity Authority official Chandan Kumar Ghosh.
That's where Panchakanya Group comes in. Known for its long-standing presence in Nepal's construction materials market, the ...
While traditional electric vehicles have been incentivized in Nepal, electrifying public transport and two-wheelers would mean higher consumption of hydroelectricity, less road congestion, and better ...
Currently, India lacks the required infrastructure to use the Indus system as an effective hydro-disciplinary tool.
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Indus sees steepest 5-year drop, Mekong & Salween lose over 50% snow. ICIMOD urges urgent basin-level action, adaptive infrastructure & regional cooperation to avert drought crisis.