Fifty-three Dalit and Janajati households at Chepang Basti in Barahatal Rural Municipality-5, Surkhet, have benefited from the construction of a solar lifting drinking water project.

Karnali province in western Nepal comes last in electricity generation among the seven states despite its potential of 18,000 MW as per government statistics. However, that status will change drastically once the projects that have been planned to be built here roar into life.

Preliminary investigation into the suspicious death of a student appearing in Secondary Education Examination (SEE) in Surkhet reveals the complicity of a traffic police officer.

A student appearing in Secondary Education Examination (SEE) has been found dead at Babiyachaur in West Surkhet.

Province 6 has been first among the seven federal states of the country to get its name.

The CPN-UML and CPN (Maoist Centre) are facing difficulty picking the parliamentary party leader for Province 6 with heavyweight leaders vying for the post.

The Bheri Bhabai Multi-Purpose Diversion Project has completed digging 15 percent of the tunnel since the work started two-and-a-half months ago, thanks to Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM).

Gopal Prasad Sharma, who lost his eyesight in an acid attack by Maoist rebels during the insurgency in Rukum, has filed his candidacy for the National Assembly (NA) elections from the Nepali Congress (NC).

A taskforce formed by the Mid Western Regional Administration Office here is preparing to repair and refurbish the existing government buildings to set up Provincial Parliament Hall and offices of provincial government agencies once the country fully adopts the federal set-up by electing the members of federal parliament and provincial assemblies.

Most candidates running their election campaigns in the Karnali region are trying to sell the voters the promises mentioned in the central manifestos of their parties since they have not prepared provincial manifestos.

Police on Friday seized a huge cache of explosive materials from Panchapuri Municipality-11. Acting on a tip-off, security personnel seized 60 detonators, 555 gelatins and 22 mitres of fuse wire from a jeep (Dha 1 Ja 106) in Dhunge Bazaar.

As many as 300 polling centres have been listed as “most sensitive” in Province 6 from the security point of view.

Conflict victims here say the Truth and Reconciliation Commission office though was established four months ago, it has failed to address a single case.

The first ever tunnel boring machine (TBM) to be used in a construction project in Nepal will be installed within a month. The TBM will be used to dig the tunnel of the the Bheri Babai Diversion Multipurpose Project.

CPN (Revolutionary Maoist) Chairman Mohan Baidya has ruled out the possibility of his party’s merger with mother party, CPN (Maoist Centre). He remarked that he has no common ideological basis with CPN (Maoist Centre) Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal.