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 ...

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 ...

A research project conducted in the Himalayas has shown that implementing telehealth technologies to reach patients in rural areas can improve access to care for women and girls. The findings in rural ...

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 ...

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 ...

A 30-year-old software engineer from a remote Nepali village has spent the past year quietly building what he claims is Nepal’s first fully homegrown artificial intelligence platform one designed not ...

New Jersey native Maggie Doyne is seeing firsthand the toll that the Covid-19 pandemic is taking on women and children in rural Nepal. In Surkhet, a district in the country’s Midwestern region, ...

Later, after serving breakfast, he’ll head to the forest to collect firewood before tending to the fields. Finally, he’ll make it back across the village to help Pabrita prepare the evening’s meal. At ...

TURMAKHAND, Nepal — Not long ago, in rural western Nepal, Gauri Kumari Bayak was the spark of her village. Her strong voice echoed across the fields as she husked corn. When she walked down the road ...