Nepal has opened Mount Everest and other Himalayan peaks from Thursday after nearly 5-month closure due to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a Tourism Department official, media reports. All spring season expeditions that usually last from March to May were suspended in the wake of the pandemic, reports Xinhua news […]
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Nepal deported 671 foreigners in a year
Nepal deported 671 foreigners last year (in 2019), informs the Department of Immigration, media reports. Among them, 578 were expelled from the country on the charge of overstaying whereas 93 faced other charges. Most of those overstaying their visas in Nepal are Chinese, the department says, adding 415 Chinese nationals […]
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India asks Nepal to stop ‘Illegal’ Citizen Movement in Kalapani area
India has asked Nepal to prohibit its citizens from “illegally” entering the Kalapani, Limpiyadhura, Lipulekh and Gunji Indian territories, according to local media sources. In a letter to the Nepali administration, an Indian official earlier this month said that Nepalese people in groups wanting to “illegally” enter into these Indian regions […]
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Coronavirus is expected to push one third of Country’s population into poverty: Post COVID Crisis in Nepal
The continuing Coronavirus pandemic could drive almost one-third of Nepal’s population below the poverty line due to the loss of livelihoods following the COVID-19 health crisis, the World Bank said in a report. The Nepal Development Update, a biannual study released on Thursday by the global lender, said that an […]
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Social distancing between the state and poor migrants in India
Many of India’s internal migrants will die this summer because of how the state has handled this crisis. n 25 March 2020, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi imposed the world’s largest lockdown in a bid to stem the threat of COVID-19. The stringent lockdown triggered a mass exodus from cities across India, […]
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Can Nepal cope with the return of migrant workers?
With thousands of Nepali migrant workers forced to return home because of COVID-19, the country is facing serious challenges COVID-19 is forcing an unprecedented level of reverse migration of Nepali migrant workers from around the world. The underlining problems related to the dependence on temporary labor migration and remittances is […]
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Darshan: an intimate experience of transformation
A new documentary on the sacred art of South Asia provides a message of hope in divisive times. “Art is life and life is art,” says Lok Chitrakar, a Nepali folk artist and teacher whose smile lights up his face as he talks to the camera. What Chitrakar is trying […]