The International Press Institute (IPI) today urged Nepal’s government not to allow the murder of a journalist early Wednesday morning to go unpunished. The chair of IPI’s Nepal National Committee, Padma Singh Karki, said print and television journalist Yadav Poudel, 38, was found dead in Birtamod in the south-eastern Nepalese district of Jhapa at approximately […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today called for the immediate release of prominent Nepali publisher, editor and columnist Kanak Mani Dixit, who was arrested by authorities on corruption charges Friday. Dixit, founder of the Kathmandu-based news magazine Himal Southasian, was taken from his home in Patan, Lalitpur district by some 20 police officers deployed by […]

The Nepal earthquake of April 2015, with a magnitude of 7.8 on the Richter scale, was the deadliest in the country’s recorded history and caused massive destruction. More than 8,000 people were killed and tens of thousands were left injured, homeless and severely traumatized. The earthquake and its more than 120 major aftershocks – many […]

Nepalnews, which helped set the pace for online news in Nepal, is this year’s recipient of the Courageous Journalism Award given by the International Press Institute’s Nepal Chapter and Freedom Forum. The English-language news portal was honoured on May 2, ahead of World Press Freedom Day, in recognition of its early role in developing the […]