by Basant Pratap Singh in The Kathmandu Post, Dec 14, 2023.On October 22, a 40-year-old woman from ward 4 of Kedarsyun Rural Municipality in Bajhang, fell off a cliff while cutting grass and suffered critical injuries. She was rushed to Dhangadhi town of Kailali for lack of a good hospital in Bajhang. But the doctors in Dhangadhi advised her family to take her to a well-facilitated hospital. However, her family thought it better to take…
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Reuters report, October 15, 2023KARACHI/LAHORE: Salma Faheem has not spoken to her husband, Mohammad, since June, when he dropped her and their three children off in his home village of Dalma in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) because he could no longer afford to have them living with him in Karachi. Now instead of living in one room in an urban slum with water on tap and a gas-powered cooker, Salma has to walk an hour every…
by Basant Pratap Singh in The Kathmandu Post,Sept 16th, 2023Kalu Dhami from Dhalain in ward 1 of Saipali Rural Municipality is a sheep farmer. Until four years ago, Dhami would go to Taligumpha village near Taklakot on the tri-junction of Nepal-China and India, to meet his friends. Dhami would routinely visit Taklakot, also known as Purang, the first city in Tibet that travellers encounter after leaving Nepal. Located at an altitude of 4,755 metres, Talklakot…
report in Prothom Alo, Aug 29, 2023Nearly 24.5 per cent families have left villages for towns due to lack of scope of work there while over 20 per cent left the rural areas with the hope of something better. Crisis in agriculture production has made the rural people internal migrants, finds a study ‘Poverty in urban areas in Bangladesh’. The research findings were presented in a seminar ‘Urban poverty in Bangladesh: Land, Migration and Basic…
by Mohammad Al-Masum Molla/ Porimol Palma in The Daily Star, Aug 2, 2023Myanmar may take back the Rohingyas living in the Cox’s Bazar camps to their own villages in North Maungdaw and nearby places instead of any camps or model villages. Such an indication was communicated to Bangladesh by the Chinese Special Envoy for Asian Affairs Deng Xijun during his meetings with Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen and Foreign Secretary Masud Bin Momen on Monday,…
By Dipendra Shakya in The Kathmandu Post, April 27, 2023The writer is the Sankhuwasabha correspondent for Kantipur Publications.Food shortage is looming large in the Bhotkhola area of Sankhuwasabha, a hill district in Koshi Province. The villagers, who live near the border with China in Bhotkhola Rural Municipality and are dependent on Tibetan markets for daily supplies, are facing a shortage of food grain and other essentials after the border closed by China since the Covid…
by Quamrul Islam Rubaiyat in The Daily Star, Mar 6, 2023People of the Ahmadiyya community in Panchagarh have been spending their days amid fears of further attacks by Islamist outfits. Many of them, especially the elderly, women and children, have already fled their houses and taken shelter in mosques, educational institutions or their relatives’ homes. They even took their cattle, household essentials and other valuables with them, villagers said. Ahmednagar, Shalsheri and Phultala — the…