Roshan Sedhai

Sher­pa vil­lages in the lap of Mount Ever­est are reel­ing from COVID-19 as climb­ing sea­son ends on world’s high­est peak.

Key ques­tions an­swered as pres­i­dent dis­solves par­lia­ment and calls a snap poll amid a wors­en­ing COVID-19 out­break.

Nepal reg­is­ters record num­bers of in­fec­tions and deaths as a sec­ond wave sweeps the Hi­malayan na­tion of 30 mil­lion.

Nepali crick­et team has now been recog­nised, but lack of in­fra­struc­ture and sup­port to play­ers re­main big hur­dles.

Cam­paign­ers call on Nepali au­thor­i­ties to step up ef­forts to de­mys­ti­fy men­stru­a­tion af­ter chau­u­pa­di claims an­oth­er life.

A month af­ter Nepal held land­mark post-war gen­er­al elec­tions, anger is grow­ing over a de­layed trans­fer of pow­er.