Nepal and Bhutan lashed by heavy rains over past three days as the annual monsoon season beings.
The end of the endangered wild cat means the end of mountain meadows, which in turn would adversely affect the human population. A former goat herder is trying to reverse the potential disappearance of the stealthy animal.
Nepal plunges into fresh political turmoil as President Bidya Devi Bhandari dissolves parliament and fixes general elections in November amid a worsening Covid-19 outbreak.
Bested by government incompetence, private profiteering and poor international coverage, ordinary Nepalese people are left to their own devices to weather a worsening Covid-19 surge.
Nepal has had eight governments in 10 years, 11 in 13 years and 25 in the past 30 years and now it is without a prime minister with nearly 1,000 people dead of the virus in past 10 days.
Abdul Waraich, 41, of Switzerland and American Puwei Liu, 55, died of exhaustion while descending the slopes of the 8,848.86 metre mountain, expedition organisers said.
Nepal is recording 57 times as many cases as a month ago, with 44 percent of tests now coming back positive, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies said.
An explosion of coronavirus cases and a government caught unprepared despite warnings threaten to overwhelm the country's health system.
UN raises alarm over increase in child and maternal mortality in South Asia after a study commissioned by UNICEF suggests “decades of progress on children’s health in South Asia are now being reversed due to Covid-19”.
It’s been one year since outbound international mail has been suspended, with no end in sight.
“The prime minister will not resign now, there is no question about that. He will face parliament,” Surya Thapa, aide of Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli tells media day after Supreme Court rejected his decision to dissolve the legislature.
A Guardian report highlights Qatar's failure to protect its 2 million migrant workers or to look into the causes behind high death rates among workers.
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