Nepal's holy Bagmati river has long been revered as having the power to purify souls. But as the Bagmati river reaches the valley of Kathmandu, the capital, its color changes from clear to brown and ...

The government is doing groundwork for the implementation of an ambitious plan to make the Bagmati River free of wastewater, besides making its surrounding areas beautiful. According to High Powered ...

The Bagmati River, which is revered as a source of Nepali civilisation and urbanisation, has been facing a severe environmental crisis due to massive pollution in recent years. The Bagmati Clean Up ...

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Dinesh Kumar Mishra highlights the challenges faced by the much abused Bangmati River in Bihar because of solid waste, industrial effluents, encroachment and rampant construction along the river's ...

Kathmandu is one of the fastest growing cities in South Asia, and the rapid transformation of the metropolitan area of the Valley over the past decades has been dramatic – especially in the reduction ...

Tainted by garbage and raw sewage that is dumped directly into the waterway, Nepal’s holiest river has deteriorated so greatly that today it is also the country’s most polluted, dramatically altering ...