Deepak Adhikari
@deepakadk.bsky.social
Collector of anecdotes, teller of tales and interpreter of social maladies.
Freelance Journalist | Former Editor: South Asia Check | Former reporter: AFP, Anadolu Agency, DPA | Fact-checking and OSINT | https://muckrack.com/DeepakAdk
Freelance Journalist | Former Editor: South Asia Check | Former reporter: AFP, Anadolu Agency, DPA | Fact-checking and OSINT | https://muckrack.com/DeepakAdk
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Israel has destroyed more than 1,500 buildings in areas of Gaza that have remained under its control since the ceasefire with Hamas started on 10 October, satellite images reviewed by BBC Verify show.
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Israel has destroyed more than 1,500 buildings in Gaza since ceasefire
Entire neighbourhoods controlled by Israel have been levelled in less than a month, the images show.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 12, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Israel has destroyed more than 1,500 buildings in areas of Gaza that have remained under its control since the ceasefire with Hamas started on 10 October, satellite images reviewed by BBC Verify show.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Nepal's two days of protests inflicts $177m blow on hoteliers
https://asia.nikkei.com/economy/nepal-s-two-days-of-protests-inflicts-177m-blow-on-hoteliers
https://asia.nikkei.com/economy/nepal-s-two-days-of-protests-inflicts-177m-blow-on-hoteliers
Nepal's two days of protests inflicts $177m blow on hoteliers
Autumn trekking season also hit hard with guides report mass cancellations
asia.nikkei.com
September 30, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Nepal's two days of protests inflicts $177m blow on hoteliers
https://asia.nikkei.com/economy/nepal-s-two-days-of-protests-inflicts-177m-blow-on-hoteliers
https://asia.nikkei.com/economy/nepal-s-two-days-of-protests-inflicts-177m-blow-on-hoteliers
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🗞️ Our latest issue is now on sale - SIGN OF THE TIMES! 🚨
Featuring Frances Kelly, @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com , @jamesrball.com, @deepakadk.bsky.social, @alastaircampbell2.bsky.social, @jamieklingler.bsky.social, Matthew d'Ancona and more
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India-China thaw brings Nepal back into Himalayan border dispute
https://asia.nikkei.com/politics/international-relations/india-china-thaw-brings-nepal-back-into-himalayan-border-dispute
https://asia.nikkei.com/politics/international-relations/india-china-thaw-brings-nepal-back-into-himalayan-border-dispute
India-China thaw brings Nepal back into Himalayan border dispute
Kathmandu says New Delhi and Beijing's trade route runs through its territory
asia.nikkei.com
August 29, 2025 at 7:57 AM
India-China thaw brings Nepal back into Himalayan border dispute
https://asia.nikkei.com/politics/international-relations/india-china-thaw-brings-nepal-back-into-himalayan-border-dispute
https://asia.nikkei.com/politics/international-relations/india-china-thaw-brings-nepal-back-into-himalayan-border-dispute
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The forest guardians along Nepal-India border leading red panda conservation
news.mongabay.com/2025/07/the-...
news.mongabay.com/2025/07/the-...
The forest guardians along Nepal-India border leading red panda conservation
TAPLEJUNG, Nepal — In the misty hills of eastern Nepal near the border with India, 48-year-old farmer Surya Bhattarai patrols the steep slopes of Sudap Community Forest in Taplejung district. Braving ...
news.mongabay.com
July 10, 2025 at 10:53 PM
The forest guardians along Nepal-India border leading red panda conservation
news.mongabay.com/2025/07/the-...
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Indian media’s misinformation campaign has incited violence in India and protests in neighboring Nepal & Bangladesh. These events demonstrate how false narratives are not confined to borders, escalating tensions in a region already fraught with historical grievances. www.csohate.org/2025/01/02/i...
Indian Media’s Misinformation Fuels Hate at Home and Across Borders
Indian media’s misinformation campaign has had far-reaching consequences, inciting violence in India and protests in neighboring Nepal and Bangladesh.
www.csohate.org
January 21, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Indian media’s misinformation campaign has incited violence in India and protests in neighboring Nepal & Bangladesh. These events demonstrate how false narratives are not confined to borders, escalating tensions in a region already fraught with historical grievances. www.csohate.org/2025/01/02/i...
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The data collected by Forest Guardians – from red panda sightings and GPS mapping to camera trap footage and patrol logs – is regularly compiled and used to shape conservation strategies and policy briefs.
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July 15, 2025 at 10:58 AM
The data collected by Forest Guardians – from red panda sightings and GPS mapping to camera trap footage and patrol logs – is regularly compiled and used to shape conservation strategies and policy briefs.
scroll.in/article/1084...
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Via Mongabay India
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Via Mongabay India
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In eastern Nepal, local communities are leading the effort to monitor the elusive & endangered red panda, our contributor Deepak Adhikari reports.
Fewer than 10,000 red pandas now remain in the rapidly disappearing bamboo forests of the eastern Himalayas across India, Bhutan, China & Nepal.
Fewer than 10,000 red pandas now remain in the rapidly disappearing bamboo forests of the eastern Himalayas across India, Bhutan, China & Nepal.
Nepal’s forest guardians monitor the elusive red panda
In eastern Nepal, local communities are leading the effort to monitor the elusive and endangered red panda, contributor Deepak Adhikari reports for Mongabay. Fewer than 10,000 red pandas (Ailurus…
news.mongabay.com
August 5, 2025 at 10:53 AM
In eastern Nepal, local communities are leading the effort to monitor the elusive & endangered red panda, our contributor Deepak Adhikari reports.
Fewer than 10,000 red pandas now remain in the rapidly disappearing bamboo forests of the eastern Himalayas across India, Bhutan, China & Nepal.
Fewer than 10,000 red pandas now remain in the rapidly disappearing bamboo forests of the eastern Himalayas across India, Bhutan, China & Nepal.
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In western Nepal’s Bardiya district, farmers from marginalized communities are replacing traditional crops with turmeric — a plant elephants avoid — dramatically reducing human-elephant conflict.
In western Nepal, farmers switch to growing turmeric; elephants stay away
KATHMANDU — Nayaram Sunar vividly remembers the day at the end of monsoon season in 2019, when rain was pouring in relentlessly on his sister’s corn field in the village of Madhuwan in western…
news.mongabay.com
August 13, 2025 at 11:10 PM
In western Nepal’s Bardiya district, farmers from marginalized communities are replacing traditional crops with turmeric — a plant elephants avoid — dramatically reducing human-elephant conflict.
With USAID pulling out of Nepal's wildlife conservation project, the government has halted the once-in-five-years rhino census, citing lack of funds.
Can we move beyond the costly & risky elephant-back method? My piece @mongabay.com #wildlife #rhinos #nepal #usaid news.mongabay.com/2025/05/us-f...
Can we move beyond the costly & risky elephant-back method? My piece @mongabay.com #wildlife #rhinos #nepal #usaid news.mongabay.com/2025/05/us-f...
US funding shortfall halts Nepal’s rhino census, sparks debate over methods
KATHMANDU — In March 2021, dozens of elephants marched through the grasslands and sal (Shorea robusta) forests of Chitwan National Park, their riders armed with GPS devices and notebooks, searching fo...
news.mongabay.com
May 30, 2025 at 1:52 AM
With USAID pulling out of Nepal's wildlife conservation project, the government has halted the once-in-five-years rhino census, citing lack of funds.
Can we move beyond the costly & risky elephant-back method? My piece @mongabay.com #wildlife #rhinos #nepal #usaid news.mongabay.com/2025/05/us-f...
Can we move beyond the costly & risky elephant-back method? My piece @mongabay.com #wildlife #rhinos #nepal #usaid news.mongabay.com/2025/05/us-f...
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Empowering desk editors to understand & minimize #misinformation: I, Deepak Adhikari & Mohan Mainali led two-day workshop on December 16 - 17, organized by Center for Investigative Journalism Nepal in Kathmandu talking to 10 journalists on their roles in combating misinformation through fact-checks.
December 17, 2024 at 2:01 PM
Empowering desk editors to understand & minimize #misinformation: I, Deepak Adhikari & Mohan Mainali led two-day workshop on December 16 - 17, organized by Center for Investigative Journalism Nepal in Kathmandu talking to 10 journalists on their roles in combating misinformation through fact-checks.
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Lawyers in Nepal are increasingly turning to public interest litigation to demand accountability and stronger enforcement of environmental laws.
Critics caution that litigation must be used judiciously, and that civil society must also mobilize to ensure environmental justice beyond the courtroom.
Critics caution that litigation must be used judiciously, and that civil society must also mobilize to ensure environmental justice beyond the courtroom.
Meet the Nepali lawyers defending nature one case at a time
KATHMANDU — Recently, one morning in Kathmandu, senior lawyer Padam Bahadur Shrestha reclined in his cluttered second-floor office in a neighborhood near Nepal government’s administrative…
news.mongabay.com
May 8, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Lawyers in Nepal are increasingly turning to public interest litigation to demand accountability and stronger enforcement of environmental laws.
Critics caution that litigation must be used judiciously, and that civil society must also mobilize to ensure environmental justice beyond the courtroom.
Critics caution that litigation must be used judiciously, and that civil society must also mobilize to ensure environmental justice beyond the courtroom.
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Sarus cranes, once abundant in Lumbini, the birthplace of the Buddha, are rapidly declining due to unplanned urbanization, wetland loss and habitat degradation, with local elders recalling their disappearance from areas that were once full of ponds and farmland.
Concrete sprawl in Buddha’s birthplace in Nepal threatens sarus cranes
LUMBINI, Nepal — Legend has it that before he became the Buddha, a young Prince Siddhartha Gautama nursed an injured sarus crane (Antigone antigone) back to health. Since then, the bird and the…
news.mongabay.com
May 20, 2025 at 6:14 AM
Sarus cranes, once abundant in Lumbini, the birthplace of the Buddha, are rapidly declining due to unplanned urbanization, wetland loss and habitat degradation, with local elders recalling their disappearance from areas that were once full of ponds and farmland.
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The startup helping rebuild Nepal, one eco-brick at a time
https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Construction/The-startup-helping-rebuild-Nepal-one-eco-brick-at-a-time
https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Construction/The-startup-helping-rebuild-Nepal-one-eco-brick-at-a-time
The startup helping rebuild Nepal, one eco-brick at a time
Build Up Nepal's bricks promise to address major source of pollution, CO2
asia.nikkei.com
May 17, 2025 at 5:23 AM
The startup helping rebuild Nepal, one eco-brick at a time
https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Construction/The-startup-helping-rebuild-Nepal-one-eco-brick-at-a-time
https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Construction/The-startup-helping-rebuild-Nepal-one-eco-brick-at-a-time
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How a Nepali border village learned to live with migratory wild elephants news.mongabay.com/2025/01/how-...
How a Nepali border village learned to live with migratory wild elephants
BAHUNDANGI, Nepal – The heavy thud against the glass window sent Krishna Bahadur Rasaili’s heart racing. Stepping outside, he saw his granary lay in ruins, and an elephant was feasting on his hard-ear...
news.mongabay.com
January 30, 2025 at 5:51 PM
How a Nepali border village learned to live with migratory wild elephants news.mongabay.com/2025/01/how-...
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Indian media’s misinformation campaign has incited violence in India and protests in neighboring Nepal & Bangladesh. These events demonstrate how false narratives are not confined to borders, escalating tensions in a region already fraught with historical grievances. www.csohate.org/2025/01/02/i...
Indian Media’s Misinformation Fuels Hate at Home and Across Borders
Indian media’s misinformation campaign has had far-reaching consequences, inciting violence in India and protests in neighboring Nepal and Bangladesh.
www.csohate.org
January 21, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Indian media’s misinformation campaign has incited violence in India and protests in neighboring Nepal & Bangladesh. These events demonstrate how false narratives are not confined to borders, escalating tensions in a region already fraught with historical grievances. www.csohate.org/2025/01/02/i...
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The Kathmandu Conference is being organized in Kirtipur by the Department of Mass Communication and Journalism at Tribhuvan University in collaboration with the Center for Media Research.
Pannel 1 - Combating Misinformation in the age of AI .
@deepakadk.bsky.social @journalism.academy
Pannel 1 - Combating Misinformation in the age of AI .
@deepakadk.bsky.social @journalism.academy
December 23, 2024 at 3:54 AM
The Kathmandu Conference is being organized in Kirtipur by the Department of Mass Communication and Journalism at Tribhuvan University in collaboration with the Center for Media Research.
Pannel 1 - Combating Misinformation in the age of AI .
@deepakadk.bsky.social @journalism.academy
Pannel 1 - Combating Misinformation in the age of AI .
@deepakadk.bsky.social @journalism.academy
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In which I speak about Nepal's disinfo actors, impacts of shallow fakes in the country and an attempt by Hindu nationalists to portray monarchical rule as a golden period csohate.org/2024/12/10/n...
Inside Nepal’s Battle Against Misinformation and Disinformation
In this interview, Deepak Adhikari shares his insight on Tiktok’s critical role in the Nepalese misinformation ecosystem, the growing trend of shallowfakes, and the manipulation of history by the Hind...
csohate.org
December 12, 2024 at 1:26 PM
In which I speak about Nepal's disinfo actors, impacts of shallow fakes in the country and an attempt by Hindu nationalists to portray monarchical rule as a golden period csohate.org/2024/12/10/n...
At high elevations, fir trees are outcompeting once-dominant birches amid warmer, drier conditions
Interesting piece by Saugat Bolakhe @science.org #nepal #himalaya www.science.org/content/arti...
Interesting piece by Saugat Bolakhe @science.org #nepal #himalaya www.science.org/content/arti...
The Himalayan tree landscape is shifting—and so are its ecosystems
At high elevations, fir trees are outcompeting once-dominant birches amid warmer, drier conditions
www.science.org
December 16, 2024 at 7:39 AM
At high elevations, fir trees are outcompeting once-dominant birches amid warmer, drier conditions
Interesting piece by Saugat Bolakhe @science.org #nepal #himalaya www.science.org/content/arti...
Interesting piece by Saugat Bolakhe @science.org #nepal #himalaya www.science.org/content/arti...
Intellectual & political elites in West have very few means to understand, let alone explain, rest of the world. Mainstream journalists try to capture speed & scale of an ongoing world-historical transformation.
Pankaj Mishra on West's ignorance of Global South www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
Pankaj Mishra on West's ignorance of Global South www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
The Last Days of Mankind | Pankaj Mishra
Today, the war on terror is widely accepted as a military and geopolitical failure. But it is still not fully understood as a massive intellectual and moral fiasco: an attempt by the Western media as ...
www.nplusonemag.com
December 12, 2024 at 2:12 PM
Intellectual & political elites in West have very few means to understand, let alone explain, rest of the world. Mainstream journalists try to capture speed & scale of an ongoing world-historical transformation.
Pankaj Mishra on West's ignorance of Global South www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
Pankaj Mishra on West's ignorance of Global South www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
In which I speak about Nepal's disinfo actors, impacts of shallow fakes in the country and an attempt by Hindu nationalists to portray monarchical rule as a golden period csohate.org/2024/12/10/n...
Inside Nepal’s Battle Against Misinformation and Disinformation
In this interview, Deepak Adhikari shares his insight on Tiktok’s critical role in the Nepalese misinformation ecosystem, the growing trend of shallowfakes, and the manipulation of history by the Hind...
csohate.org
December 12, 2024 at 1:26 PM
In which I speak about Nepal's disinfo actors, impacts of shallow fakes in the country and an attempt by Hindu nationalists to portray monarchical rule as a golden period csohate.org/2024/12/10/n...
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Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do;
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion, too.
Imagine all the people
Livin' life in peace.
You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one.
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will be as one.
John Lennon, 10/9/40-12/8/80
It isn't hard to do;
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion, too.
Imagine all the people
Livin' life in peace.
You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one.
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will be as one.
John Lennon, 10/9/40-12/8/80
December 8, 2024 at 1:08 PM
Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do;
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion, too.
Imagine all the people
Livin' life in peace.
You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one.
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will be as one.
John Lennon, 10/9/40-12/8/80
It isn't hard to do;
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion, too.
Imagine all the people
Livin' life in peace.
You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one.
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will be as one.
John Lennon, 10/9/40-12/8/80