Nepal estimated it suffered losses of about $586 million and that nearly 15,000 people lost their jobs after protests toppled the government in September. More than 27,000 people applied for the temporary police jobs on Friday and Saturday, the first two days of applications, Nepal police spokesman Abinarayan Kafle said. "I am also Gen-Z, but I do not have a job," she told AFP in the capital Kathmandu on Sunday. "Sunday was a public holiday but so many people, most (of them) youths, were queueing outside police stations with great excitement," police spokesman Kafle told AFP. "I used to work in a hotel as a cook, but I am jobless now," Nischal Poudel, 30, told AFP from an application queue in Kathmandu.

Source: Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha January 12, 2026 10:12 UTC