On 25 April, a 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck Nepal, claiming over 5000 lives and affecting millions of people. Satellite images are being used to support emergency aid organisations, while ...

SERVIR, a joint development initiative of NASA and USAID, is working to help Nepal recover from the earthquake that struck on April 25, 2015. SERVIR partners with leading regional organizations around ...

Nepal, June 27 -- At a time when civic space in South Asia is visibly shrinking and global headlines warn of it being under threat, Nepal still retains some characteristics of an open society. Yet, as ...

Freedom Forum said the government should immediately lift the barriers on public spaces and guarantee citizen rights. This statement was originally published on freedomforum.org.np on 29 February 2024 ...

A composite portrait of Nepal made by joining ten satellite pictures taken during cloudless days between 2-23 March, 1977. This famous Landsat image was prepared by the Nepal Remote Sensing Centre ...

Kathmandu, Feb. 10 -- Experts from Nepal, China, India and the United States said Nepal's geopolitical position has become more complex as global power centres compete for influence. They argued that ...

As farmers in Nepal prepare for a fruitful monsoon season, NASA scientist Dalia Kirschbaum anticipates a different impact of the torrential rains– the loosening of earth on steep slopes that lead to ...

The Universal Periodic Review (UPR) report on freedom of expression and civic space was submitted by Freedom Forum and Free Press Unlimited in the thirty-seventh Session of the Working Group on the ...

A global rights group has rated the civic space in Nepal as “obstructed” amid an ongoing police crackdown on protests, media censorship, and harassment of journalists in the country. In its report ...

Kathmandu, Nepal is featured in this image photographed by an Expedition 25 crew member on the International Space Station. The capital and largest city of Nepal, Kathmandu occupies much of the ...