Eight Nepali containers carrying bamboo stools, handicrafts and ornamental items made up of copper left for China on Tuesday.

Nepali traders were frantic they might miss the festival shopping season this year too if their goods did not arrive on time.

Traders don't mind the extra cost and time since there is no risk of their shipments being held up, they say.

While some families have taken grants from the government to buy a plot of land, most are awaiting relocation to integrated settlements built by the government.

As per the agreement, Chinese cargo drivers will drop the goods off at the Nepal border point in Rasuwagadhi and once the Chinese loaders and drivers leave, Nepali drivers and loaders will receive the shipment and take them.

The road section, which was severely damaged in the 2015 earthquakes, is riddled with potholes every few metres.

Border security meeting also discusses ways to ease movement of people via Rasuwagadhi border.

Officials say it was the first ever sightings of these elusive creatures in multiple numbers within the same area.

The 9.4 km Gosainkunda cable car project’s upper terminal has been recommended at an altitude of 4,205 m

Although the bridge is now officially declared “open”, the Chinese side is planning to officially handover the bridge to Nepal next week.

Rasuwa Customs Office in Timure is close to meeting its annual revenue collection target, four months before the end of the current fiscal year. The office has collected revenue worth Rs7.25 billion in the first eight months of the current fiscal year

Various parts of Rasuwa district including Dhunche witnessed a heavy snowfall on Thursday morning.

Following the major crackdown on gold trafficking in Rasuwagadhi and other northern border points, gold smugglers have started to use a new illegal trading point in Malagadhi, an area that lies near Nepal-China border in Rasuwa, to smuggle gold from China.

The customs office in Rasuwa on the northern border with China collected revenue totalling more than Rs2.30 billion in one month as traders started importing clothes from the northern neighbour for the Dashain festival earlier than usual.

The Rasuwagadhi Hydropower Project achieved a major milestone on Monday as it completed the digging of a 4.18km tunnel that channels water diverted from the river to the power house.