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For years, hotels and industries have quietly filled up on the same subsidized 14.2kg cylinder meant for households. A new seven-member task force has two weeks to design a fix.
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Four months into office, Nepal's finance minister made his first foreign trip to New Delhi, where talks with Nirmala Sitharaman ranged from flood condolences to trade, energy and connectivity.
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A Rs 1,000 QR payment to the Prime Minister's Disaster Relief Fund somehow became a winning lottery ticket in the government's bill-taking scheme. The department says the code was wrong, the rules don't allow it, and the money is going straight back to the fund.
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As floods leave roads across Nepal in worse shape than usual, the government is betting a simple complaint app can speed up how fast broken roads actually get fixed.
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A viral video led to a fast arrest in Bajhang but under Nepal's current law, even a proven case of animal cruelty carries a maximum penalty of just three months in jail or a Rs 500 fine.
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After 18 days and a newly cut 270-metre bypass, Nepal's most stubborn post-flood chokepoint reopens restoring the country's main link between Kathmandu and other parts of the country
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Five workers trapped inside the flood-hit Chilime Hydropower Station in Rasuwa have been identified and their bodies handed over to their families. The recovery comes nearly three weeks after the Bhotekoshi River flood buried the power station's tunnel and severely damaged its infrastructure.
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The Bhote Koshi flood's toll has climbed to 1,409 but with holding centers emptying and the missing count unchanged since Monday, the response is entering a slower, more uncertain phase.
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Of 64 suspension bridges that once linked rural Rasuwa and Nuwakot to the outside world, 53 are damaged and the government is now racing to repair some within days while rebuilding others from scratch.
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Three weeks after the Bhote Koshi disaster, recovery teams have found 1,395 bodies but with 4089 people still missing, the fuller scale of the tragedy remains unknown.
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Weeks after Nepal's worst flood disaster in decades, Finance Minister Wagle to make his first trip abroad, straight to New Delhi, for talks that could shape how Nepal finances its recovery.
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A Nuwakot rural chairman walked into Singha Durbar to talk flood recovery with the Prime Minister — and walked out straight into a pre-arranged arrest.
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A young party that swept seats across Madhesh is now confronting a harder question: why couldn't it hold a basic party convention in seven of the province's eight districts?
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A decade after winning one of Nepal's most ambitious telecom licenses, United Telecom Limited loses it for good — undone by unpaid debt, a stalled foreign rescue deal, and a network it never modernized.
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Prime Minister Balendra Shah convened top Nepali industrialists to tackle the national economic slowdown, pledging state backed investment security, infrastructure guarantees for remote manufacturing, and a phased strategy prioritizing domestic private capital over foreign direct investment.
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A festival of joy meets a year of mourning, as Nepalis worldwide reshape Teej around the floods that changed everything.
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A routine curriculum-consultation stop in Siraha turned into an uncomfortable moment for Nepal's youngest minister — caused due to RSP' local leaders.
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Friday's government update shows 13,676 people rescued and more than 21,000 security personnel still deployed. Around 5,130 people remain missing a number that has barely moved in days, leaving diaspora families still waiting for word on relatives.
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Nearly three weeks after the Bhotekoshi flood, Nepal's tourism sector says the country is open — but "open" means something specific. Here's exactly what that means for your flight, your road trip, and your trek.
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A government update issued Thursday morning gives the most current official casualty figures for the Bhotekoshi disaster, more than two weeks after the flood and clarifies an apparent contradiction in earlier missing-person figures reported this week.A government update issued Thursday morning gives the most current official casualty figures for the Bhotekoshi disaster, more than two weeks after the flood and clarifies an apparent contradiction in earlier missing-person figures reported this week.
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A crisis that began with a distant war has been compounded by flood-damaged highways, and now a minister's resignation. Supply in the Valley remains below a fifth of demand, with black-market prices nearly 50 percent above the official rate.
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Deepak Kumar Shah has taken charge as Nepal’s new Minister for Industry, Commerce and Supplies after the resignation of Gauri Kumari Yadav.
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Amresh Kumar Singh, an RSP lawmaker within Prime Minister Balendra Shah's own governing alliance, said no adviser has the right to travel abroad "in collusion with any intelligence agency" language that echoes a months-old, still-unresolved dispute over the PM's chief adviser's reported visit to New Delhi.
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Deepak Kumar Sah has been put forward to take over the Industry, Commerce and Supplies portfolio the same day Gauri Kumari Yadav resigned over her remarks on the gas shortage — the government's third such handover since March.