KATHMANDU, 11: The Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) is working to make bricks out of the dust collected from the city.

LAMJUNG, April 10: A brick found at Barbot village along the Marsyangdi River bank has been handed over to the Department of Archaeology (DoA).

David Aguilar has built himself a robotic prosthetic arm using Lego pieces after being born without a right forearm due to a rare genetic condition.

ROLPA, April 30: Two children have been rescued from a brick kiln located at Changunarayan of Bhaktapur.

Brick kiln worker shot at

March 20, 2018 11:08 am

RAUTAHAT, March 20:An unidentified group shot at 50-year-old Ramashish Yadav who works at Nem brick factory at Katahariya Municipality-8, police said.

SIRAHA, March 9: There is a small village to the south-east of Siraha Municipality known as Sukhchaina. To the west of this village lies Muslim settlements called Nawatoli and Madar while Dhanuk Tole is to the north of the village. The southern part of it is attached with the Indian border. In the middle of these settlements runs the Rishi Brick Factory.

SIRAHA, March 9:  There is a small village to the south-east of Siraha Municipality known as Sukhchaina. To the west of this village lies Muslim settlements called Nawatoli and Madar while Dhanuk Tole is to the north of the village. The southern part of it is attached with the Indian border. In the middle of these settlements runs the Rishi Brick Factory.

LALITPUR, Feb 17: Brick kiln entrepreneurs in the South Asian region agreed to operate industries based on a modern and environment-friendly technology. Brick kilns are taken as a major contributor to increasing air pollution in the region.

Costlier coal worries brick manufacturers

February 13, 2018 02:45 am

KOHALPUR, Feb 13: The price of coal, which is used by brick entrepreneurs to fire their kiln, has increased by as much as 25 percent with the imposition Goods and Services Tax (GST) by India.

BANEPA, Oct 15: Nishan Chandi Shrestha and his two friends who were searching for job after completing their MBA have now become entrepreneurs based on their learning from 2015 earthquake. While volunteering to help the earthquake survivors, they found out that there was scarcity of bricks for reconstruction. That gave them an idea to look for an alternative to the traditional red brick.

KATHMANDU, June 12: A new study has said around 27 percent of children who are working as child laborers at brick kilns in Kathmandu valley are being deprived of their right to attend schools.