The religious sister is the first female director of Caritas Nepal. She spoke to AsiaNews about her social work and missionary commitment in a country ravaged by landslides, floods, and earthquakes, where many people live at a subsistence level in inaccessible places, between tropical forest and the Himalayas. In rural groups and cooperatives, women represent 60-70 per cent of participants.

Nepal's anti-corruption commission has indicted 55 former politicians and officials and the state-owned China CAMC Engineering of inflating the costs of Pokhara International Airport, built with a Chinese loan as part of Beijing’s Belt and Road Initiative, but currently without regular international flights. The investigation is testing the new caretaker government, which does not want to jeopardise ties with Beijing.

At least nine people have died in two separate incidents in just a few days. For local sources, “it will take time” to recover some of the bodies due to weather conditions. Weather phenomena like cyclones are increasing the risk of avalanches. Changes in snowpack stability, greater precipitation, and accelerated glacier melting are the main dangers.

A journey among the expectations of young people who, in the name of fighting corruption, forced to the departure of Sharma Oli's government. “Deep inequalities” are at the root of the protests, said Sister Durga Shrestha (Caritas Nepal). Now the challenge is to generate “structural changes.” For Jesuit Father Ekka, the education system must be a priority.

While negotiations continue in Sharm el-Sheikh for the release of the hostages still alive, the family of Bipin Joshi, the last Asian hostage whose fate is still unknown, has authorised the release of some images proving that he was still alive two months after he was seized. The family is “barely holding on” to this.

Emerging out of the rubble of the 2015 earthquake, the group has worked across the country for the past ten years to help people in need, earning trust for its transparent management of funds. In its anti-corruption campaigns, it has become a point of reference for young Nepalis disillusioned with the country’s political elite. It also organised the online poll that led to the appointment of Sushila Karki as caretaker prime minister, who will now lead the country through the 2026 elections.