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Nepali workers returning from India face overcharging at the border

Kanchanpur, Oct. 20 -- year-old Kali Bahadur Sahakari, travelling to India for work has been a way of life for nearly four decades. He first went to Kalapahad in India's Uttarakhand state at the age o... Read More


Returning home for Dashain, only to face trouble at the border

Nepal, Oct. 12 -- When Bhim Prasad Khatri of Chaurjahari, Rukum West, crossed the Jamunaha border into Nepalgunj on Friday morning, it felt as though Dashain had arrived. Returning home after four yea... Read More


Eleven days without a call: Three Kanchanpur families wait for news of men missing in the flood

Kanchanpur, Sept. 6 -- For years, Sittu Rana knew what to expect from her husband's phone. Rikesh Rana would call her about three times a day from the hydropower project where he worked in northern N... Read More


Landslides and rising river isolate Kanchanpur village

Kanchanpur, Aug. 4 -- Every monsoon, Khalla Musetti village in ward 9 of Bhimdatta Municipality, Kanchanpur, is cut off by landslides while floodwaters in the Mahakali river threaten to sweep away ele... Read More


Eight years on, Nirmala case still without answers

Kanchanpur, July 27 -- Every year as the anniversary of Nirmala Pant's rape and subsequent murder approaches, old videos of the case resurface on social media, reigniting public debate over one of cou... Read More