Decision follows mounting pressure from transport entrepreneurs and federal authorities as nationwide shutdown paralyses public mobility.

The lake’s newly measured area is 6.343 square kilometres, 0.617 square kilometres more than the last official record.

The widening of Phirke bridge, stalled by years of land disputes, contractor negligence and red tape, remains a chokepoint and accident hazard along Pokhara’s model highway.

A Chinese trekker, who had gone missing after an avalanche while returning from Annapurna Base Camp, was found dead on Saturday.

Asymmetric information may be one of the reasons behind the fast rise in the Nepse