Observers swiftly criticise the poll body’s decision.

Manan Thakur, who has been running a salon for 30 years in Kathmandu, says he has run out of money, even to buy medicines, and food for his family with no business for the last 75 days.

I’ve always written news pieces and features about other people in pain, but now I’d like to pen my own story of returning to my birthplace