Locals affected by the construction of the Bheri Babai Diversion Multipurpose Project will benefit from a lift irrigation project which the government has planned to implement together with the national pride project.

Protesters on Wednesday took to the street at Birendranagar Bazaar in Surkhet district, defying curfew orders.

People displaced by last year’s floods in the district have protested the government’s recent decision to provide Rs 75,000 to each affected family to help procure land and build a house.

Kakre Bihar, a ruin of an ancient Hindu-Buddhist temple on top of a small hillock in Surkhet Valley, is slated for renovation.

Tunnelling works at the Bheri Babai Diversion Multipurpose Project are slated to start in two months. The national pride project is located in the Mid-Western Region.

As the police confirmed six more deaths on Monday, the toll from Sunday’s bus plunge in Surkhet has reached 18. Fourteen people died on the spot while four others succumbed to injuries

Surkhet Airport, once a major aviation hub in the Mid-Western Region, now presents an abandoned look after traders started using surface transportation to ship their goods.

Staffers at the District Administration Office (DAO) have started working for up to 11 hours, starting from 7am, daily

The government has decided to boost the capacity of the Kohalpur-Surkhet transmission line to 132 kVA from the existing 33 kVA in a bid to address the shortage of power lines.

The government has prioritised the distribution of tent and food items as immediate relief for more than 115,000 victims displaced by the recent floods and landslides in the Far West.

Eighteen people were killed and 36 others went missing on Friday when flash floods triggered by incessant rains for the past two days swept away scores of houses

People from the Raute community padlocked the District Development Office (DDC) on Sunday

District Forest Office (DFO) in Surkhet has appointed four people from the Raute community as forest guards.

Police have revealed that Rajan Buda, who was found dead in Shiva Community Forest at Jarbutta VDC-1 in the district last week, was murdered at the behest of his former wife.