Photo Essays
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Generation Equality: Realizing Women’s Rights
International Women’s Day (IWD) is celebrated worldwide on March 8.The annual calendar event, according to United Nations, “is a time to reflect on progress made, to call for change and to celebrate acts of courage and determination by ordinary women, who have played an extraordinary role in the history of their countries and communities”.
This year International Women’s Day is being celebrated with the special 2020 theme, I am Generation Equality: Realizing Women’s Rights. Like many other countries, Nepal has announced a public holiday and has organized various events to mark the day.
Brickklin worker in outskrits of Kathmandu valley.
Women workers carry sand in a doko- kind of basket made from bamboo at a construction site in Pokhara.
Women walking down trial with their dokos in Pokhara
Children play along with their grand mother at a front yard in Sarangkot, Pokhara.
COVID19
Features
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No timeline has been made public yet for COVAX’s second shipment of vaccines nor the 4 million doses that Nepal is reportedly purchasing from China.
Features
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History Series
25 min read
Part 1: Recruiting haggles, Chandra, the game-changer, and getting a “K” for Bhim
Features
Explainers
8 min read
The Nepali economy is going through a liquidity crunch. The Record explains just what that means.
Explainers
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At least two memes are circulating on social media in Nepal praising Russian President Vladimir Putin for granting audience to a visually-impaired Russian teenager. Some of the claims made in the memes are false.
Week in Politics
6 min read
The week in politics: what happened, what does it mean, why does it matter?
Features
7 min read
Gelje, one of the 10 men who summited K2 in the winter for the first time, is now aiming to set a record as the youngest to climb all 14 eight-thousanders.
Features
24 min read
The harrowing journeys that Nepalis and others from Asia and Africa undertake to get to the US
The Wire
News
8 min read
Nepal's labor migration defies easy analysis. Migrant men and women are profoundly changing society, but at what cost?
