A five-member panel will review the approval of academic programmes and seat allocation at Geta, as well as additional MBBS seats at Army Medical College.

Education Minister Sasmit Pokharel says over 35 hectares of land have been recovered in Kathmandu Valley, but university employees and professors say no land has actually been handed back.

The government says most of KC’s six demands are being addressed, but the medical education reform campaigner accuses it of going back on a July agreement and insists his protest will continue.

Nepal reserves 33 percent of medical education seats for foreign students, but only 746 enrolled last year.

The Medical Education Commission has added 418 seats for the upcoming academic year, including 50 MBBS places in Geta. Medical reforms campaigner Dr Govinda KC has challenged the decision over concerns about infrastructure and staffing.

Of the 57 educational institutions assessed in Rasuwa, Nuwakot, and Dhading districts, 28 were damaged and 15 were completely destroyed.

Hakubesi Basic School from Amachhodingmo Rural Municipality is now operating from the premises of Kitini Secondary School in Godawari.

More than 200 homes were swept away in Gorkha, while destroyed bridges and trails have left northern settlements cut off from relief supplies.

Locals began alerting one another at 4:45 am, but the local police post in Gorkha released the first official warning only at 5:30am.

An estimated 35 to 40 houses and several bridges have been swept away in Gorkha, while a suspected landslide may have triggered the flooding. Five people have been reported missing as rescue efforts continue.

A study of 584 children living in holding centres in Kathmandu, Nuwakot and Rasuwa finds that 41 had lost both parents, 161 their fathers and 67 their mothers.

The university has at times taken over a year to publish results and these delays can force students to postpone further studies for an entire year or miss job opportunities.

The integrated exams are set to be held on October 31, and this has led many medicine aspirants to enrol in other programmes, despite hoping to secure a medical seat.

Travel restrictions imposed on several major highways. Snowfall has disrupted trekking in mountain areas.

Sharma helped build Kathmandu University into an autonomous institution with an international profile during more than two decades of leadership.