police

Mob, movement and mayhem

The people's movement in 1990 ended the Panchayat system and ushered in multiparty democracy in Nepal. But residual anger from the brutality during the...

Nepal Police at the frontlines against coronavirus

A total of 620 police across the country have been infected with Covid-19, two Deputy Inspector General working in the Nepal Police...

Clamping down on the country

When the COVID-19 pandemic sent Nepal into a nation-wide lockdown, Nepali Police found itself in the difficult position of enforcing it.How to enforce...

What drives wildlife poaching?

Nepal is the first tiger-range country to double the number of the endangered big cats in its reserves, and has marked five...

Sonia Awale

Nepal’s suicide rate vastly underestimated

Nepal’s public health system has no mechanism for recording suicides, and the only statistics about suicides can be found in police records....

Getting away with murder

Rautahat MP Mohammad Aftab Alam, currently in police custody charged with murder, has refused to take a polygraph test, angering the police...

The great feast of death

R ight before by-elections for a seat in the Parliament, the corpse of a man called Bishweshwar or ‘Bishu’ is found below...

Dreams and nightmares of the Nepal conflict

The Greek word ‘hagios’ means ‘holy’. A hagiography is therefore an admiring book about people who are praised for being much better...

Rape rulings in Nepal follow letter, not spirit of the law

Statute of Limitations: A 10-year-old girl is repeatedly raped by her caretaker. Her mother finds out much later. Since the statute of...