Around 27 percent Nepalis indebted due to Covid-19: UNICEF
Twelve percent of the population reports selling assets, according to the study.
Arjun Poudel
Nepal reports first deadly African swine fever outbreak
934 pigs have died so far from the highly contagious virus in the Kathmandu valley.
Funds shortage hits plan to expand nutrition rehabilitation centres across Nepal
According to the Multiple Indicator Survey-2019, the nutrition condition of the country worsened long before the Covid-19 pandemic started.
Nearly half of the pregnancies in Nepal are unintended, UN agency says
According to a report, some 13 percent of ever-partnered women and girls, aged 15 to 49 years, have been subjected to intimate partner violence in the past 12 months.
Around 60 per cent of Nepal’s tuberculosis cases go undiagnosed
Nepal started providing treatment some 85 years ago, but it continues to remain one of the major public health burdens.
Climate change displacing the most vulnerable
The impacts of climate change have affected multiple sectors and the daily lives of many people in Nepal, officials concede.
Snakebite, an invisible neglected crisis in Nepal
Close to 3,000 people die of snakebites every year in Tarai alone, many before reaching the hospital.