The Pharping Power Plant, commissioned in 1911, was one of Asia’s earliest hydropower plants. Credit: Sujitabh Chaudhary on Unsplash Nepal aspires to become the “hydropower battery of South Asia,” ...

Several devastating floods and landslides hit Nepal during this year’s monsoon season. The most recent occurred in late September, affecting millions of people, causing widespread loss of life, and ...

Nepal’s national electricity grid is supplied with power from a remarkably decentralised array of 162 hydropower projects and 14 solar photovoltaic schemes spread across 43 districts, supplying power ...

A total of 18 people, including 12 Nepali and six Chinese nationals, are missing in the flood along the Nepal-China border, local officials confirmed to ANI. Early this morning: Nepal-China Border ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Nepal’s private hydropower developers await the full text of a Supreme Court verdict that will decide the fate of infrastructure, such as dams and ...

Civil society leaders in Nepal continue to raise concerns about the in-development Tanahu hydropower project in Gandaki province, citing a lack of proper consultation, inadequate compensation for ...

Kathmandu, June 28 -- The 139.5 MW Lower Manang Marsyangdi Hydropower Project obtained its production license in 2018. Its ...