Deputy inspector general of Nepal Police will lead the provincial police.

Rescue efforts have been affected due to adverse weather conditions and active landslides in the affected areas.

Phewa Lake is shrinking every year, mainly due to siltation caused by around 50 rivulets that feed it, say geologists.

Prithvi Highway partially opened for traffic from Tuesday evening.

Rescue teams have yet to reach the disaster site in Myagdi as roads have been blocked by both landslide debris and flash floods.

Seven people were killed in three different landslides in Kaski, while three of the same family were killed in a landslide in Lamjung. More than 15 people missing in landslides in Myagdi

Key equipment like lighting systems, communication and navigation aids, baggage handling and other goods, however, have been stranded in Kolkata and Kerung.

Covid-19 cases are on the rise in other provinces and trucks, including people, are coming in. So there’s still a possibility of an outbreak, says the Provincial Health Office.

Pokhara Industrial Estate, which was shuttered after the lockdown was announced, threw open its gates on Monday.

The directive comes three days after the Supreme Court ordered the centre to make arrangements to treat Covid-19 patients.

People in various districts of the province are defying the lockdown using proxy measures.

Even though local units across the districts have set up quarantine facilities of various capacities, officials say the number of returnees who report to the local units is still very low.

They had returned to Nepal carrying the Chinese authorities’ certificates that they were free from Covid-19.

The law says senior citizens, the poor and disabled, can hire court-sponsored lawyers for free, but they often hire attorneys they cannot afford.

Gurung was arrested after a complaint of fraud and banking offences was registered against him on Thursday, police said.