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Cleaning Nepal, brick by brick
14 Jan 2016 2:45 AM ISTAccording to a 2015 World Bank report, Nepal would need one billion bricks to reconstruct 650,000 buildings damaged by the massive earthquake in April...
Fruit scare
7 Aug 2014 2:21 AM ISTMuzaffarpur in Bihar is as infamous for encephalitis as it is famous for its shahi litchis. Acute encephalitis syndrome (AES) has been a leading cause...
Glacier through drone eyes
2 Aug 2014 2:16 AM ISTBut a team of scientists in Kathmandu has for the first time used the technology to study an inaccessible Himalayan glacier.The team from a...
When jailhouse rock meets eco-justice
24 July 2014 2:34 AM ISTChunia devi, 34, and her two sons live in acute poverty in Kadma village in Ranchi, Jharkhand. Her husband, 42-year-old DharamLal Mahto, is serving...
Blood, sweat and tears
7 May 2013 7:09 AM ISTTwenty-year-old Rahul Kumar, a right to information (RTI) activist, knew the land mafia was behind his parents’ murder. His mother and father were...
Not giving her a fair chance
23 Feb 2013 4:31 AM ISTKunti Devi, candidate for mukhiya’s post in Marmakha panchayat, Motihari, was riding pillion with her husband on a motorbike when four pistol-borne...
Lets Talk About Sex
9 Nov 2012 5:30 AM ISTIn the sleepy hamlet of Tekna Farm in Bodh Gaya, Akash Kumar, 15, is known as a rebel. He took on his parents to stop the marriage of his 13-year-old...