The government has ordered issuance of citizenship certificates with the label third gender for people who do not wish to be identified as male or female. Activists hailed the decision, saying it was an achievement for gay and transgender rights. According to the Home Ministry, the order has been issued to all the district administration [...]

The number of tourists visiting Ghodepani, a touristic site in Myagdi district along the Annapurna trekking circuit, has increased sharply. Tourism entrepreneurs said that the number of visitors increased in the Annapurna trekking circuit due to bad weather condition in Lukla and other tourist destinations in the country. Hotelier Teksar Buddhuja said that nearly 400 [...]

Sex education to sex workers women through ´SMS´ has embarked on in Chitwan for the first time. Imparting text message through cell phone has kicked off as a campaign after collecting their mobile numbers. The innovative idea is launched considering the sex workers´ tendency to not speak out their expressions, said Yubaraj Sapkota, Program Coordinator [...]

Thirteen-year-old Bishnumaya is sitting on a concrete brick in a hotel kitchen in Beni, an isolated town in mountainous western Nepal. She is scrubbing dirty plates inside a blue plastic bucket between her knees. “She gets 1,500 Nepalese rupees a month ,” explains hotel owner Sabita Tulachan. “The money goes to her parents. I give [...]

The Supreme Court on Friday ordered Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai and Attorney General Mukti Pradhan to appear in the court within seven days with a written clarification as to why investigation into the murder of journalist Dekendra Thapa of Dailekh has been obstructed. A single bench of justice Sushila Karki issued the order in response [...]

Madhusara K.C, 30, of Baijapur VDC in Banke had no desire to give birth to eight children but being unaware of the family planning methods she unwillingly gave birth to six alive and two still-to-born babies. “I gave birth to eight children by the time I became 30 years old and only six of them [...]

Although the district was declared the child labour-free  zone three  years back , over 3,000 are still involved in the child labour in Banke, the western district of Nepal. It may be noted that at the initiative of the District Child Welfare Committee, Banke and other organizations working in the sector of child rights, the [...]

A  bus crashed on a mountain-side road on Saturday, leaving 30 people dead. The accident occurred near the village of Chhatiwan in Doti district. Twelve other passengers who were seriously injured were taken to hospital. Many of those on the bus were pilgrims, travelling to Hindu events. Police and local residents were able to pull [...]

Two teenage daughters of Dhan Kumari Kulung in Solukhumbu district still sleep in Kokro (a kind of basket used for sleeping infant) as they are handicapped by birth, one of the big problems among Nepali villagers, reports today’s singhadurbar.com. Both the sisters who live at the Gudel village, nearly two hours walk from the district [...]

One of the alleged perpetrators on murdering Journalist Dekendra Thapa after giving him excessive torture has been reported to have taking part in training at the barrack of Nepali Army at Trishuli of Nuwakot district. Ex-Maoist commander Bam Bahadur Khadka ‘Arun’, originally from Dailekh district is involved in training at the barrack after selected in [...]