In a bid to address the overarching issues related to the environment, forests and climate change in the new federal structure, the Ministry of Forest and Environment has started drafting and amending
Transportation workers of Butwal, Rupandehi district seized two tankers from the regional office of Nepal Oil Corporation (NOC) at Bhairahawa and distributed it to entrepreneurs at the existing rate on Sunday. They resorted to such an action saying that shortage of petroleum goods was creating hand-to-mouth problem. The workers affiliated to All Nepal Transportation Workers Union, Rupandehi, brought the tankers at local Durga Diesels at Bhairahawa and gave the fuel away to entrepreneurs.
At least four people were killed after being buried in a landslide caused by incessant rainfall at Tibling VDC in Dhading district on Tuesday night. According to police, one of the deceased has been identified as Lakshya BK. Details are yet to be ascertained as the site is some three days walk away from the district headquarters Dhading. A police team has been sent to the site, the district police office informed. Landslides and floods claim about a hundred lives every year during the monsoon season in the country.
Shahid Malik, British Minister for International Development for Asia, Saturday announced that the United Kingdom has agreed to provide
The Environmental Camps for Conservation Awareness (ECCA-Nepal), along with the Team for Nature and Wildlife (TNW) theater group is running a drama called "Drishaya-Aadrishya,' on the theme "Think about School Environment,' from June 20 to 22 at Gurukul Theater at Baneshwor, Kathmandu.
Local health workers have rescued four children infected with HIV/AIDS from remote Belapur VDC after they were they were thrown out from their home. Four children of a family-- Laxmi BK, 15, Suni BK, 13, Tej BK, 11 and Karishma BK, 6-- were driven out from their house after they were found to be patients of HIV/AIDS. Jahare Luhar, the grandfather of the destitute children drove them out from the house mercilessly. The children, whose parents died of HIV/AIDS , were pushed into grave difficulty after their grandfather took such a decision.
World Food Program (WFP)-Nepal said more than 250,000 people in nine districts of the countries mid and far western regions were facing a precarious food security situation due to significant crop failures locally. "The food security situation in the mid and far western regions is very worrying,' said an emergency update of WFP-Nepal . According to the report, more than 250,000 people in Achham, Bajura, Dailekh, Dolpa, Humla, Jajarkot, Kalikot, Mugu and Rukum are facing severe food insecurity with crops failing by a whopping 20-70 percent during the last harvesting season.
As the capital's streets get littered with garbage due to failure of Kathmandu Metropolitan City's (KMC) efforts to dump it, doctors on Monday warned this could result in outbreak of various diseases among residents of the capital. With the arrival of monsoon, street corners heaped with garbage pose health hazard, said Dr Laxmi Bahadur Thapa, Director of Epidemiology and Disease Control Division.
Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) Tuesday decided to dump the garbage collected from the capital at Sundarighat in Kirtipur after the obstruction of the local residents of Okharpouwa landfill site. According to KMC's Chief Executive Officer, Dinesh Thapaliya, a decision on the garbage management at Sundarighat will be taken by this evening and the garbage will be collected from tomorrow. KMC informed that Sundarighat can be used as landfill for another three years.
- Poor and excluded communities, especially women, are most vulnerable to the negative impacts of climate change, said a minister on Tuesday. Inaugurating a two-day national seminar titled "Women, Science and Technology and Climate Change", Hisila Yami, minister for Physical Planning and Works said that due to poverty and lack of access to adaptive measures against natural disasters, women are highly affected by impacts of climate change.
Residents of Okharpauwa in Nuwakot district Sunday obstructed dumping of garbage at the landfill site in the west-north of the capital. The locals picketed around 18 trucks heading from the capital carrying waste at Kauti VDC, Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) said. KMC began to pick up the wastes--accumulated for the last one week--from today after the heaps of garbage started to give off awful smell in the city. KMC Chief Dinesh Thapaliya said that the garbage dumping was obstructed by different people with various demands.
