Lukla sees a rush of tourists as trekking season picks up
Growing numbers of international visitors are crowding the mountain airport, with limited flights making tickets to and from Kathmandu harder to secure.
Growing numbers of international visitors are crowding the mountain airport, with limited flights making tickets to and from Kathmandu harder to secure.
Provincial selections will run from November 13 to 20, while athletes in 31 disciplines will undergo closed-camp training ahead of the December 2-13 competition.
Police arrested the two men during a vehicle check in Aathbiskot Municipality on Tuesday morning. Six others remain at large.
The escape, three days after a new duty in-charge was assigned, has raised questions about prison security and surveillance. Five of the escapees were serving sentences for rape cases, and three were involved in theft cases.
The tourists are stranded in Danigad of Shey Phoksundo Rural Municipality as several days of heavy snowfall disrupt life in the high Himalayan region.
The two had been missing since September 18 after setting out with a 13-member group to collect medicinal herbs near the Mugu-Humla border.
Rescue teams find the bodies of people missing since the August 26 Bhotekoshi floods as search continues inside the tunnel for possible further victims.
The province exported 77,495 tonnes of crops and other farm produce, while imports of livestock products continued to outpace local production.
Rescuers discovered the bodies while searching tunnels for people missing since the August 26 floods.
The disasters highlight an escalating crisis across Jajarkot, where extreme weather is battering fragile communities still reeling from the earthquake.
One person remains missing as rescue teams struggle to reach areas cut off by blocked roads and repeated landslides.
Sedatives, painkillers and other prescription medicines are being misused as intoxicants, exposing a new challenge for law enforcement and health workers.
Shahi was appointed after Yamalal Kandel resigned as chief minister; he secured support from 24 lawmakers in the 40-member provincial assembly.
Despite Nepal’s legal ban on marriage before the age of 20, many girls continue to marry underage and become pregnant during their teenage years.
Emergency airlifts are saving the lives of teenage mothers and newborns in remote districts, where difficult terrain and limited health facilities often turn childbirth into a life-threatening ordeal.