Central Nepal engulfed in smoke

Haze shrouds Bhaktapur on Monday afternoon as smoke from fires in Chitwan engulfed Kathmandu Valley and Central Nepal. Photo: AMIT MACHAMASI athmandu Valley and Central Nepal was engulfed in thick haze on Monday afternoon as prevailing winds whipped up fires in Chitwan and Parsa National Parks. Infrared satellite images from NASA’s FIRMS (Fire Information for […]

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Number of smokers in Nepal decreases by 34.1 percent

KATHMANDU, Nov 28: The number of people who smoke cigarettes has decreased in Nepal.

Number of smokers in Nepal decreases by 34.1 percent

KATHMANDU, Nov 28: The number of people who smoke cigarettes has decreased in Nepal.

NAC plane bound to Japan aborts flight after smoke detected in aircraft

KATHMANDU, Sept 14: The Nepal Airlines Corporation’s widebody RA 433 aircraft bound to Narita, Japan from Kathmandu returned within half an hour after smoke was detected in the aircraft on Tuesday night.

Celebrating menstruation in Nepal

f you Google the words ‘menstruation’ and ‘Nepal’, one will come across articles upon articles about tragic deaths in menstrual chhau huts from smoke inhalation and snake bites. Much of the media attention is focused on extreme cases in the Far West. But largely left is how many women and girls across Nepal lack the basic right […]

Celebrating menstruation in Nepal

f you Google the words ‘menstruation’ and ‘Nepal’, one will come across articles upon articles about tragic deaths in menstrual chhau huts from smoke inhalation and snake bites. Much of the media attention is focused on extreme cases in the Far West. But largely left is how many women and girls across Nepal lack the basic right […]

Nepal needs to learn secondhand smoking is as injurious as direct smoking

In Nepal, secondhand smoking, inhaling the smoke from the cigarettes burned by others, is very common but most people have failed to recognise it as a problem. The post Nepal needs to learn secondhand smoking is as injurious as direct smoking appeared first on OnlineKhabar English News.

Nepal chokes on smoke, ash as wildfires rage

In the eight years that Basudev Pokharel has worked as a forest guard, he has rarely seen a fire as huge as the one that raged through his village in western Nepal in March.

Nepal is going up in smoke

For the third straight day, air quality over Nepal has been at hazardous levels. In Pokhara, the smoke obliterated a view of the other side of the lake. Photo: BHUSHAN TULADHAR here were already indications in December that the wildfire season in the Himalaya was starting early. There had been no rain for three months, […]

Wildfires in Nepal cause air quality to plummet

Smoke from wildfires was thick enough to nearly block out the sun in Kathmandu. Photos: KUNDA DIXIT athmandu Valley endured one of the worst air quality in recent years on Friday as wildfires fanned by strong winds scorched forests in the Himalayan foothills. NASA Worldview satellite photograph taken at 1300hrs on 26 March showed thick smoke […]

Wildfires ravage Nepal mountains

The fire in Manang started on 26 November and is still raging as seen in these pictures taken on Tuesday. Photos: NABIN LAMICHHANE/RSS three month drought in central and eastern Nepal has sparked wildfires across the Himalaya which has shrouded the mountains in smoke, adding to the urban and crossborder pollution. The big forest fires in Pathibhara in […]