Rice transplanting improves on last year's pace

Kathmandu, Aug. 20 -- Rice transplanting is nearing completion across Nepal, with farmers having covered 97.48 percent of the country's paddy fields by August 14, compared with 94 percent at the same ... Read More

More farmers are getting insurance, but crops are still left behind

Kathmandu, Aug. 19 -- Agricultural insurance has expanded in Nepal, but its benefits have yet to reach crop farmers to the expected scale. More than 700,000 policies have been issued over the past fiv... Read More

Bird flu hits 162 poultry farms; Rs507 million paid in compensation

Kathmandu, July 23 -- Bird flu outbreaks have affected 162 poultry farms across Nepal over the past four months, with the government distributing more than Rs507 million in compensation to affected fa... Read More

Government's digital services buckle under repeated system failures

Kathmandu, July 19 -- At around 9am last Thursday, long queues had already formed outside the Land Reform and Land Revenue Office, Bhaktapur. People clutched land ownership certificates, citizenship c... Read More

Technical glitch disrupts land services

Kathmandu, July 16 -- A technical problem has disrupted the public service system operated by the Department of Land Management and Archive for the past two days, affecting land-related services and c... Read More

Rs26.39 million returned to 1,754 cooperative victims in two months

Kathmandu, July 14 -- More than 1,700 depositors of troubled cooperative institutions have received around Rs26 million in refunds over the past two months, according to data from the Problematic Coop... Read More

Families to remain first line of care under proposed elderly policy

Kathmandu, July 10 -- A draft of the National Policy on Senior Citizens 2026 proposes making families the primary support system for elderly care, while placing greater responsibility on local governm... Read More

Burn violence survivors push for legal reform beyond acid attacks

Kathmandu, July 1 -- Sapana Tamang (name changed) of Makawanpur came to Kathmandu a decade ago in search of work and a better life. She found a job at a carpet factory and, for a while, life unfolded ... Read More

Government launching women-only 'Blue Bus' service amid sustainability concerns

Kathmandu, June 3 -- The government is preparing to launch a women-only transportation initiative called the 'Blue Bus' service. First announced in March as part of a 100-point governance reform agend... Read More

Government doubles child nutrition allowance, widens social security spending

Kathmandu, May 30 -- The government has allocated Rs2.27 billion for the Ministry of Women, Children, Gender and Sexual Minorities, and Social Security for the upcoming fiscal year 2026-27. The alloca... Read More