The number of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) working in Nepal has grown significantly since the 1990s due to a range of factors. A total of 39,759 NGOs and 189 international non-governmental organizations were registered in Nepal between 1977 and 2014 in various sectors, including health, agriculture, poverty alleviation, and good governance. Despite thousands of NGOs and significant amo...

The Mw 7.8 Gorkha earthquake of 25 April 2015 triggered thousands of landslides in the central part of the Nepal Himalayas. The main goal of this study was to generate an ensemble-based map of co-seismic landslide susceptibility in Sindhupalchowk District using model comparison and combination strands. A total of 2194 co-seismic landslides were identified and were randomly split into 1536 (~70%...

Nepal is a landlocked country blessed with stunning natural bounty. The nation still caught amidst process of transformation and restructuring is recuperating after an excruciating decade of civil war brunt of which mostly bore by its premature infrastructure. Nepal has several vital sectors categorized into top-priority for the revival process. It is saddening that “Science and Technology” doe...

This research work is an exploratory study of occupational stress among executive officers of Nepal. The main objective of the study was to find out the significance relationship between the occupational stressors among executive officers of Nepal. Scores on the stress scale using a t-test of significance between correlated means. The results showed that among executive officers of Nepal do exp...

In the last decade there has been a quantitative growth in medical schools in Nepal, a developing country in South Asia. Medical Humanities (MH) uses disciplines traditionally termed as the humanities in the pursuit of medical educational goals. The subject is slowly developing in Nepal. Sessions have been conducted at Manipal College of Medical Sciences, Pokhara and KIST Medical College, Lalit...

Introduction Exercise Himalayan Venture VI was the Army Mountaineering Association Expedition to Mount Api (23,390 ft), West Nepal in the Spring of 1980_ The expedition consisted of a party of 12 British servicemen accompanied by seven Nepalis travelling from Kathmandu by road through Nepal and India for one week to a roadhead at Dandeldhura, and then on foot through Far West Nepal for two week...

Address for correspondence Dr. Gauri Shankar Shah Professor and Head Department of Paediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, B P Koirala Institute of Health Sciences, Dharan, Nepal Email: [email protected] How to cite this article ? Shah GS, Yadav S, Thapa A, Shah L. Clinical Profi le and Outcome of Neonates Admitted to Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at a Tertiary Care Centre in Eastern...

Nepal is highly vulnerable to global climate change, despite its negligible emission of global greenhouse gases. The vulnerable climate-sensitive sectors identified in Nepal's National Adaptation Programme of Action (NAPA) to Climate Change 2010 include agriculture, forestry, water, energy, public health, urbanization and infrastructure, and climate-induced disasters. In addition, analyses carr...

Nitrous acid (HONO) plays a significant role in the atmosphere, especially in the polluted troposphere. Its photolysis after sunrise is an important source of hydroxyl free radicals (OH). Measurements of nitrous acid and other pollutants were carried out in the Kathmandu urban atmosphere during January–February 2003, contributing to the sparse knowledge of nitrous acid in South Asia. The result...