Leaders should recognise and act on dangers facing people living on the margins in urban centres, a report states.

The Kathmandu Metropolitan City is in the dark about the status of implementation of a greenery project that it launched in January, 2012.

Until a few months ago, Kathmandu Valley denizens would walk past the Bagmati River covering their noses.

The Kathmandu Metropolitan City is preparing to launch a pilot project for a biogas plant in the Kathmandu Valley.

KATHMANDU: The Kathmandu Metropolitan City Office will implement a special sanitation programme from tomorrow in view of Constituent Assembly polls slated for November 19.

The fifth South Asian Conference on Sanitation (SACOSAN-V) concluded here today with the signing of the Kathmandu Declaration.

Bangladesh has identified urban slums, floating people and coastal areas as the major hurdles for achieving ‘total sanitation by 2013’.

Though generation of waste has gone up steeply in the Capital in particular and the Kathmandu Valley in general, local bodies have largely failed to dispose of waste.

The amount of lead used in paints by Nepali companies is mostly unsafe and poses a serious threat to children’s health, according to a recently launched report.