A picker used to collect 25 to 30 pieces of yarsa until a few years ago but one has hardly found three to seven pieces this year.

People from about half a dozen villages have been risking their lives to reach the district headquarters.

In the old days when trade was flourishing, Nepali traders used to import goods from Taklakot using porters, mules, sheep and horses.

The current academic session started six months ago but the supplier failed to deliver books to 23 community schools in Apihimal Rural Municipality.

The project was delayed due to problem in transporting construction materials.

Around 124 students of Samaiji Basic School have been affected as they do not have proper classrooms.

Five individuals were killed, two others injured and several families displaced in the August 29 floods.

Three persons died, two others have gone missing in Duhun Rural Municipality of Darchula district in the past 24 hours.

Local residents have been unable to bring in food and essentials from India after Sashastra Seema Bal personnel cut off all improvised cable crossings across the Mahakali river around two weeks ago.

Floods and landslides have severely damaged the foot trail linking the villages to the rest of the district, local residents say.

‘Probe underway’, says Kathmandu, showing no urgency to pursue the matter a day after a youth fell into the Mahakali as Indian security force denies role in dismantling cable.

At least 18 homes in Naugad Rural Municipality are at risk of inundation.

Fifteen families are at risk of inundation, local people say.

At least seven people were killed and several others injured in monsoon-related incidents in the last 24 hours.

Although the water level in the river has been receding since Sunday evening, the threat of the river breaking its embankment is still high.