In the Bardiya region of Nepal, near the western border with India, Bhadai Tharu grew up with tales of tigers. They were not common in the forests around his home. At the turn of the 20th century, ...

The two parties agree to recognize Tikapur incident as a 'political movement' and 'Tharu protected area'The Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) and former leaders of the Nagarik Unmukti Party (NUP), along ...

The Tharu are an ethnic group located in the Terai lowland region of southern Nepal and northern India. Sanjib Chaudhary from Global Voices caught up with Adhikari and Tharu to talk about the book and ...

One misconception about the Tharu people is that they never got malaria. In fact they did, but less than hill settlers. A US-led insecticide spraying campaign against malaria in Chitwan in the 1950s.

KATHMANDU: Tharu students have ur-ged the government to do more to uplift their educational status for the broader interest of more than 1.6 million indigenous people living in the Tarai for hundreds ...

The traditional jewellery and costume of Tharu community is on the verge of extinction, thanks to lack of appropriate conservation. The Tharu community has said that the reason for this is the weak ...

UP’s first tribal museum or Tharu Janjati Museum, which was among the pet projects of UP chief minister Yogi Adityanath, will come up at Imilia Koder village, a Tharu populated area in Balrampur ...

Youths of Tharu tribe residing in West Champaran district of Bihar do not demand or accept any dowry in their marriages. And, if any case of this social evil is reported, the erring family is ...

Volkswagen has rebadged the Skoda Karoq for China where it will sell it as the Tharu, with sales starting in the third quarter of the year. A production version of the VW Powerful Family SUV concept ...