KATHMANDU, April 3: An organization, Biocomp Nepal, has collected 143.55 metric tonnes of waste from the rivers of the ...

As in the past, people bring the bodies of deceased loved ones to the banks of the river but prefer using water from bottles purchased in shops to purify the body these days.

Nepal’s holiest river has deteriorated so greatly that today it is also the country’s most polluted, dramatically altering how the city of about 3 million interacts with the Bagmati on daily ...