CPN-UML Chairman KP Sharma Oli has said that the decisions made by the incumbent caretaker government aimed at bleeding the state coffers are unacceptable. He said that his party is firmly against the Sher Bahadur Deuba-led government’s populist decisions that would seriously affect the next government’s smooth functioning.

A museum to commemorate ‘Kavishiromani’ Lekhnath Poudel is being constructed at the poet’s birthplace in Lekhnath Municipality-27, in Pokhara. The construction is carried out under the initiative of Lekhnath Janmasthal Bikash Samiti.

Sixteen years ago when Jhalak Jalari of Begnas started to dig a pond to begin a fish hatchery business, everyone laughed at him. But 40-year-old Jalari had the last laugh when he became a successful hatchery owner.

Voters in the rural parts of Kaski gave candidates campaigning for upcoming elections a surprise when they asked: “Are we supposed to vote again?”

A few years ago when Manjita Bhandari of Pokhara heard about commercial floriculture, she was taken by surprise as she had no idea that flowers could be farmed like vegetable and other crops.

Two people died after their house collapsed due to a landslide triggered by incessant rainfall at Badagaun in Galkot Rural Municipality-9 here in the district on Friday.

Four people died on the spot and six other have sustained injuries when a jeep they were travelling in met with an accident at Gwalichaur of Bodyguard-5 in Baglung district on Monday.

New hotels and lodges have started sprouting in the vicinity of the western Nepali district of Baglung, as the construction of Mid-Hill Highway has raised movement of people, generating economic opportunities.

A majority of Dalit families at Kalakol and Pakhare in Bobang VDC, Baglung, are practicing open defecation because of water scarcity.

A student appearing in this year’s School Leaving Certificate (SLC) examinations from a school in Tanahun district was allegedly detained by his headmaster for 30 minutes for not paying the tuition owing to which he was late for Thursday’s test.

At age 80, Danumaya Thapa Magar lives all by herself at Manpang VDC-2 in Tanahun district.

Teachers at Sarada Primary School in Sabung Bhagawatipur-2, Tanahun, have regularly been cleaning their school premises for the past one year.

With commercial farming gaining pace, Animal Resource Development Farm and Milk Producer Cooperative of Baglung, based in Bhimpokhara, has begun operating a cow farm with an investment of Rs50 million.

Education activist Chij Shrestha and health activist Dr Madan Piya of Bandipur have started building houses for earthquake victims from Dalit and economically deprived communities.

Bishwa Subedi of Bhimad, Tanahun, has collected Rs 3 million from Nepalis residing outside the country for providing relief to the victims of the April 25 earthquake