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Govt employees return to burnt offices and destroyed computers
Hindustan Times
|September 15, 2025
POLICE STATIONS AND GOVERNMEN BUILDINGS WERE THE TARGET OF PROTESTERS, WHO SET ABLAZE MULTIPLE INSTALL’ IONS
Kapil Timalsena, an undersecretary in Nepal's ministry of health population, stood along with his colleagues outside the completely charred ministry building on Sunday afternoon.
The building no longer has functional offices, computers, desks or anything worth of note. Timalsena came in the morning, marked his attendance for the day and stayed outside throughout the day.
‘Similar was the ordeal for thousands of government employees across Kathmandu on Sunday morning —the first working day in Nepal after violent protests last week rocked the Himalayan nation and claimed at least 72 lives.
This story is from the September 15, 2025 edition of Hindustan Times.
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