The highway’s 80-km Aanbukhaireni-Pokhara section is being widened to four lanes, but pandemic and delay in site clearance have hampered the work.

Commuters and local residents are severely impacted as the authorities don’t bother to repair the dilapidated road.

School enrolment campaign has not been able to make much headway since most people are either out participating in political rallies or listening to the political campaigners, say educators.

She had filed complaints against the actor in February accusing him of raping her with false promise of marriage.

Local representatives distributed 1,197 temporary land ownership documents to landless families in Shuklagandaki and Bandipur last week.

The 32-year-old actor has been accused of rape by a 17-year-old singer.

Around 100 vultures have died of electrocution at Shishuwa Bateri in Byas Municipality in the past two years.

Several drinking water projects are underway with an objective of supplying water to each household in Ghiring Rural Municipality.

Prey depletion is driving leopards outside their habitat and into human settlements, officials say.

In the first phase, trees are being cut down in areas demarcated for construction in Aanbukhaireni and Bandipur.

After three weeks of arrival in the country, monsoon continues to affect people by disrupting road networks and sweeping away houses and farmlands.

Congress activists took out protest rallies in several places on Thursday condemning Poudel’s detention.

Poudel, taken into custody for ‘violating prohibitory orders’, was released after three hours.

Seventy-two camera traps have been installed in various community forests of Bhanu Municipality as officials suspect low prey numbers are driving leopards into human settlements.

The new tourist hub is not prepared to welcome tourists; the road infrastructure is poor and accommodation for tourists negligent, say locals.