Yarsagumba pickers travel to highlands with no guarantee of safe return
Over 200 people have perished on their way to pick yarsa across the country in the last decade, according to locals.
Over 200 people have perished on their way to pick yarsa across the country in the last decade, according to locals.
A team of independent Dalit candidates wins four out of five seats in Ward 8 of Kanakasundari Rural Municipality in Jumla, including the post of chair.
Dhan Bahadur Kami has been elected Ward 8 chair along with three Dalit members.
Many people are in a hurry to go to the uplands this harvesting season since they haven’t been able to make the journey in the last two years because of the Covid-19 pandemic.
The temple made the decision following complaints that a large number of child marriages take place in the shrine.
A micro hydropower project has changed the lives of the locals of Guthichaur Rural Municipality.
Three of the deceased are siblings while the fourth victim is their cousin. They were aged 1 to 14.