Haat Bazaar is a general term for a weekly market organized in a rural society. Generally held on a playground or an open fieldthey help local farmers earn supplemental income by selling surplus ...

Every visit to the rural vicinities across Nepal today presents a new sign of change, a call to marketers that they will have to re-strategize their promotion plan. But there is no specific formula to ...

However, significant achievements in the micro hydropower sector have also brought about various challenges like MHP-national grid interface Micro hydropower plants (MHPs), starting as small turbine ...

Pastor Soman Rai and his group of volunteers from Kathmandu walk to a small church in the village of Shilaprabat, in Sindhupalchock, an area left devastated by the deadly earthquakes that shook Nepal ...

Nepal suffered 2 major earthquakes and subsequent aftershocks in April & May 2015. 8,700 people were killed and 25,000 suffered injuries. The international community has been working together to ...

Community Health Worker Jamuna Saud distributing eggs to members of a mother's group in Patalkot village. It is nearing 6PM and Mandeep Pathak is on the daily evening round of the in-patient ward at ...

As solar-powered pumps bring water closer to home, income from apple-growing is on the rise - and men feel less pressure to migrate in search of work JUMLA, Nepal, March 5 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) ...

Nepal’s Alternative Energy Promotion Centre (AEPC) is searching for a consultant to undertake monitoring and quality assurance of rural renewable energy installations, including solar home systems.

Nepalis crossing the border into the country through the Gauriphanta checkpost in Dhangadi, Far Western Nepal. Photos: DINESH KHABAR A week before Nepal declared a nationwide lockdown to prevent ...