DEHRADUN: Villagers in Gauri Kund, a key stop on the Kedarnath Yatra, have voted to bar the entry of women and children of Nepali origin starting from the 2026 pilgrimage season, a move that is likely ...

Villagers in Gauri Kund, a key stop on the Kedarnath Yatra, have decided to prohibit the entry of women and children of Nepali origin from the 2026 pilgrimage season. The move, announced in a Gram ...

At the break of dawn each day, dozens of women forced to flee their homes during Nepal's decade-long civil war load their bicycles with vegetables and head to market. The bikes, donated by a foreign ...

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 ...

Women in rural Nepal sleep in huts, caves and animal sheds every month during their periods — a practice called chaupadi. Although it is... It took a long journey, several 10-hour jeep rides, and many ...

A Nepali teenager suffocated to death after she was banished to a poorly ventilated shed for being on her period, according to police reports. Roshani Tiruwa, 15, died as a result of "chhaupadi," an ...

Deepa Majhi opened a local eatery three months ago, near the Chandragiri Hills, a tourist site close to Nepal’s capital Kathmandu. For a passerby, it might appear to be a typical tea shop with a small ...

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Anjali Lama was sitting in a Kathmandu apartment when the Nepali television show came on. “Sangharsha,” it was titled. Struggle. The show depicted the lives of people who felt their identity did not ...

Muna Acharya was married off by her family when she was barely 14 to a man who physically and emotionally abused her for years. He beat her, threw her out of the house in the middle of the night, and ...

There is a village in Thailand, created and settled by the Nepalis after the end of World War II, that neither the Nepali nor Thai governments knew existed till recently. The tiny, isolated village of ...