Ashish Devkota

Be reasonable than agreeable

[Ashish Devkota @Devkota93]

We're all guilty of holding double standards

[Tridev Gurung @tridevgurung]

requiring the executive director to be a nepali citizen makes complete sense. but disqualifying nepali citizens simply because they hold temporary or permanent residency elsewhere feels unnecessarily limiting.

this role is about much more than running a government office. it is about building resilient national digital infrastructure and setting the standards for engineering, security, reliability, governance and controls.

for something this important, we should probably be widening the pool, not shrinking it. people who have worked in mature engineering environments and seen systems operate at scale can bring experience that is difficult to replicate.

commitment to nepal should absolutely matter. but "nepal first" should also mean bringing the best nepali talent and experience back to build for nepal, wherever that experience was gained.

[Kushal Pandey @acidradical]

I knew something was up when this guy acted so dramatic on the rostrum ...

[Sulav Karki 🇳🇵 @SulavKarki]

So much disinformation regarding Nepal government decision to bury unidentified dead bodies in Chitwan (after their proper documentation including taking fingerprints and DNA samples) mainly due to lack of cold storage facilities and hence chance of decomposition was high. Yes in future, Government should absolutely have such facilities built and in standby but the question was what to do now?

Dr. Harihar Wosti is one of Nepal's top forensic experts who has worked in this field for decades and he explains the situation here. I would rather listen to him and his years of expertise than someone who knows nothing and is engaging in criticism for the sake of it.

[Ramesh Bhushal @RameshBhushal]

चिनीयॅा साथिले पठाउनुभएको फोटो अनुसार तल्लो ताल फुटेर अब नरहेको र माथिल्लो तालको पानी पनि आधाभन्दा धेरै बगिसकेको देखिन्छ। यो पानी बगेर त्रिशुलि कटिसकेको छ। यि अस्थायी तालबाट अब जोखिम नरहेको अनुमान लगाउन सकिन्छ। धन्यवाद!!! ( नितेश खड्का, फेशबुक)

[नेपालको सत्य @thenepalitruth]

Nepal government official rescue portal has come into operation.
https://t.co/J3AI8Ud8My

[San Zin ⚡ @sanzinme]

Just had another call with people from Betrawati & Tupche. 90% of houses were swept away at 9:30 AM on Wednesday. It's Sunday today & there has not been any support for those who survived until now. If food supplies reached there. If anyone knows, please let me know. #Help

[🫵 @kirannnnnn18]

Nepal’s Army and Police are no less than gods. For such little pay, they put their lives on the line and stand at the forefront of every disaster to save ours. Yet they rarely get the respect they deserve. They deserve so much more.

[Ramesh Bhushal @RameshBhushal]

***हिमालय Dispatch भाग १ ***
रसुवा बाढी, विज्ञानले के भन्छ? तयार गरेको छु। अर्को भागमा हामीले के गरेनौ र तेस्रो भागमा के गर्न सक्छौ भनेर कलाउनेछु। #himalayas #nepal #tibet #rivers #glaciers

[Rejina Khadka @Rejinaakhadka12]

Guys emergency medicine shortage in Rasuwa , Kalika Gaupalika , Ward 5 , Jibjibe Hospital , if possible please add these medicines in the further donation:

1)Paracetamol
2)Ceitirizine
3)Amplidine ( or any other for blood pressure)
4) Metformin

[NDRRMA @NDRRMA_Nepal]

विपद्पछिको उद्धार तथा राहतका लागि यो लिङ्कमा गई विवरण भर्नुहुन अनुरोध छ। यो सन्देशलाई समबन्धित सबैमाझ सेयर गरिदिनुहुन समेत अनुरोध गर्दछौं।
https://t.co/tImU6LkvSJ

[NDRRMA @NDRRMA_Nepal]

रसुवा भोटेकोशी बाढीसम्बन्धी आपत्कालीन अवस्था, खोज तथा उद्धारको २०८३ भदौ ११ गते, बिहीबार बिहान ९:१६ बजेसम्मको अपडेट (स्थिति प्रतिवेदन #०५)
@moha_nepal

[नेपालको सत्य @thenepalitruth]

मेरो बुबा छविलाल श्रेष्ठ आफैंले चलाएर लैजानुभएको बा ५ ख १२५० नम्बरको बस आज बिहान धादिङ निलकण्ठ–१२ बाट गोसाइँकुण्डतर्फ गएको थियो।

बिहान करिब ९:१५ बजे बेत्रावती पुगेको जानकारी हामीले पाएका थियौँ। त्यसपछि बस बगाएको र “हामी सुरक्षित छौँ” भनेर जानकारी आएको भन्ने कुरा सुन्नमा आएको थियो। तर त्यसलगत्तैदेखि मेरो बुबासहित बसमा रहेका यात्रुहरूसँग कुनै सम्पर्क हुन सकेको छैन र अहिलेसम्म पनि सम्पर्कविहीन हुनुहुन्छ।

त्यसैले बेत्रावतीदेखि धुन्चेसम्मको बाटो तथा आसपासका क्षेत्रमा उक्त बस वा यात्रुहरूबारे कुनै जानकारी पाउनुभएको छ भने कृपया तुरुन्त खबर गरिदिनुहोला।🙏

बाटोमा बस देख्नुभएका, स्थानीय बासिन्दा, चालक साथीहरू, प्रहरी तथा सम्बन्धित सबैमा तत्काल सहयोग गरिदिनुहुन हार्दिक अनुरोध गर्दछौँ।

सानोभन्दा सानो जानकारीले पनि उहाँहरूलाई खोज्न ठूलो सहयोग पुग्न सक्छ।

कृपया यो पोस्टलाई धेरैभन्दा धेरै शेयर गरिदिनुहोस्।

[Becky Anderson @BeckyCNN]

Nepal is scrambling to respond to a deadly flash flood, the scope of which is hard to understand right now. Nepali Parliament member Dhananjay Regmi tells me more about the dire situation on the ground and what he’s hearing from people there:

[Sann @san_x_m]

No rain fell in Rasuwa in Nepal this morning. The river still rose and swept away everything in its path. Here is why.

At 8.37 this morning, near the Nepal and China border, instruments picked up strong shaking. Early reports called it an earthquake of magnitude 4.4. The United States Geological Survey has now corrected that. There was no earthquake.

A huge block of ice and rock broke off a mountain and crashed into the valley. The impact was so heavy that it registered like an earthquake of magnitude 5.2. The landslide made the shaking. The shaking did not make the landslide.

That ice and rock fell straight into the Lhende Khola, a small stream that feeds the Bhote Koshi river. It blocked the stream fully and made a wall of ice, rock and mud across it.

The water behind that wall kept rising. Then the wall broke.

What came down was not water. It was mud, boulders and ice moving together. Video from the Rasuwagadhi border post shows the whole crossing vanish in under a minute. Timure and Syafrubesi were hit next. The surge then reached Bidur in Nuwakot and went on to Devghat, more than 100 kilometres downstream.

Police in Bagmati province have confirmed at least 95 dead in Nepal. China has confirmed 3 dead in Tibet with 265 missing there. The Nepal Tourism Board says nearly 400 travellers are missing, including 105 Indians and 37 people of Indian origin, many of them returning from the Kailash Mansarovar route. About 430 megawatts of power generation has been damaged. Bihar has put its districts along the Gandak on alert.

Now the part that matters for anyone living below a Himalayan river.

The same stream did the same thing 14 months ago. On the 8th of July 2025 the Bhote Koshi flooded with no rain. Nepal found that a glacial lake in Tibet had drained in a few hours. Scientists had already marked this basin as one of the most dangerous in the Himalaya for such floods.

These floods give no warning. No rain, no cloud, no alert, because the weather is not what causes them. Ice that stayed frozen for thousands of years is now loose enough to fall.

So remember this. If you are near a mountain river and the water suddenly drops for no reason, or you hear a low roar from upstream, do not stand and film it. That is a blockage forming or breaking. Move up the slope, away from the river, at once. Do not run along the bank. The water is faster than you.

Clear weather is no longer proof that a Himalayan river is safe.

[San Zin ⚡ @sanzinme]

Don't look and wait for others' validation. Just do your best even when no one is looking at you. Be true to yourself, nothing else matters.

[Apil @arapilkc]

@nirajbhusal Is it integrated with the "General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS)" ? or it's a new app?

[Ashish Devkota @Devkota93]

@nirajbhusal This app has been around for a while. The UI for this and Slash Plus's app TravelNepal+ is identical which makes you wonder if the app were both created by the same company.

[Sudheer Sharma @sudheerktm]

केही वर्षदेखि हाम्रो अर्थतन्त्र त्यसै पनि सम्हालिन सकिरहेको छैन । अर्थतन्त्रलाई चलायमान बनाउने एउटा महत्त्वपूर्ण आधार भनेको वित्तीय संस्थापनको स्थिरता र अराजनीतिकरण हो ।

यस्तो अवस्थामा, केन्द्रीय बैंकका गभर्नरको पदावधि ५ वर्षबाट घटाएर ३ वर्षमा झार्ने कदमले वित्तीय तथा मौद्रिक नीतिमा अस्थीरता मात्र निम्त्याउने छ । यसले राष्ट्र बैंकको स्वायत्तता घटाउने र राजनीतिकरण बढाउने सम्भावना हुन्छ ।

गभर्नरको कार्यकाल छोट्याउनु प्रशासनिक सुधार होइन; यसले केन्द्रीय बैंकलाई राजनीतिक चक्रसँग अझ बढी बाँध्ने जोखिम छ । संसदले यस्तो गल्ती नगरोस् !

[Damon Zumbroegel @DamonZumbroegel]

Is a street full of Facades enough? - What makes good design?
I’m an architect, and was just working in Nepal for a few months. The new architecture of Nepal is sooooo bad, concrete post and beam and infill. I went to Patan (oldest part of Kathmandu, and nucleus of the Nepali style) for a week, and saw something amazing…….they were making people put classic facades on the horrible concrete structures! It is lovely, and I appreciated it. But then I started to think…..”is this just Disneyland?” A Hollywood set? Facades on shitty buildings? Yes it is. It looks pretty, but behind the facade is still shit! The design has to go all the way through, not just be make up. Old Nepal architecture was made for life, in the interiors and exteriors.

[Deep State @DnesKazi]

साथीले १० लाख चिट्ठा पर्छ भनेर बिल मागेछन ।
@NepaliArmyHQ को पम्पले यस्तो बिल दिएछ ।
@SwarnimWagle ज्यू यस्तो बिलमा चिट्ठा पर्ला कि नपर्ला ?

नोट : कुनै पनि पेट्रोल पम्पले भ्याट बिल दिदैनन । माग्यो भने कि १०-१५ मिनेट कुरेर लिनुपर्छ कि भोलि आउनुस भन्छन ।