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In early September 2025, the Nepali government imposed a ban on several major social media platforms after their parent companies failed to register and comply with anew social media law imposed by the Nepali government...

In light of Sri Lanka's economic crisis, OSAC is examining economic security across South and Central Asia and the physical security implications for the U.S. private sector in a series of reports. This report concludes...

Kathmandu has been the site of multiple days of protests against a U.S. aid agency, a culmination of frequent protest activity that was generally anti-U.S.. These protests do not show intent to harm foreign travelers and...

This is a graphic digest related to the COVID-19 outbreak in South and Central Asia. This report summarizes essential COVID-19 data to give OSAC members a fundamental basis for assessing the health security risk of trave...

South Asia has been the subject of a particularly severe monsoon season this year. Torrential rains, floods, and landslides have affected millions of people, resulting in widespread displacement, damaged infrastructure,...

Amidst growing public frustration with the government’s handling of the COVID-19 outbreak in Nepal, hundreds of protestors gathered in Kathmandu for demonstrations this month. Authorities arrested seven foreigners during...

Nepal is scheduled to hold the second phase of its provincial and parliamentary elections on December 7. Voters in the hill and mountain districts in the north already cast their ballots on November 26. Though there were...

Twenty years after its last polls, Nepal is expected to hold the first phase of its local elections on May 14, marking a significant step in adopting the Constitution passed in September 2015. The second phase is expecte...

A death near Nepal's border with India has prompted anti-India protests throughout the region.

The journal Nature Geoscience published a study on July 11 on the potentiality of a “giant earthquake [possibly] building beneath Bangladesh and eastern India [that could threaten] as many as 140 million people” as the I...

After two earthquakes caused extensive devastation in April and May, Nepal is once again gripped with instability-- this time over its new constitution. Nepal has been operating under an interim constitution since the Hi...

A 7.8-magnitude earthquake hit Nepal on April 25, leaving nearly 8,000 people dead and well over 14,000 injured, and these numbers are expected to rise. The significant damage from the quake, its aftershocks, and resulta...

A 7.8-magnitude earthquake hit Nepal on April 25, leaving over 6,200 people dead and countless injured. While many U.S. citizens are being housed at the U.S. Embassy in Kathmandu and at the American Club nearby, others a...

On September 3, a video statement emerged online of al-Qa’ida leader Ayman al-Zawahiri announcing the formation of a new branch, al-Qa’ida in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS), the group’s fifth official affiliate and its f...

A string of businessmen, foreigners, and politicians have been targeted for attack in Nepal in the last three months. The latest victim was a consular officer, Mehboob Asif, at the Embassy of Pakistan in Kathmandu. Accor...

Please find the latest edition of the OSAC Regional Analysis Bulletin (RAB). This week’s RAB contains articles highlighting the recent string of violent attacks against businessmen, foreigners, and politicians in Nepal,...

Hundreds of suspected Nepalese Maoists launched a surprise attack on the border town of Riga, India.

As of 2:45 pm, demonstrations have been called off.

Non-emergency U.S. Government staff and families have been ordered to depart Nepal.