The Kaligandaki Corridor has been obstructed due to a landslide. District Police Office Gulmi's Information Officer, Deputy Superintendent of Police Ganga Bahadur Saru, informed that a landslide occurred at Barlawa of Kaligandaki Rural Municipality - 6 around 12:30 p.m. today.
After successful trials of tea cultivation in Gulmi, the cultivation has now been expanded to a larger area. Last year, over ten thousand tea saplings were brought from Ilam and planted on a trial basis in Dhunwa Khola in Kaligandaki Rural Municipality-7. As the saplings grew well, local residents have stated that tea farming is now being expanded to a larger area.
Birendra Khadka, 27, of Jabang Dudilabot, Madi Rural Municipality-1, Rolpa, anBirendra Oli, 31, of Parivartan Rural Municipality-5, are making a good income from watermelon farming. The youth involved in watermelon farming on the banks of the Babai River in Ghusra, Ghorahi Sub-metropolitan City-7.
The Magar community in Lumbini province is celebrating the Bhume festival today.
Dialysis section chief in the hospital, Lina Badel, informed that the hospital needs engineers from Kathmandu to repair the dysfunctional machines, but they did not come despite repeated requests. "Maybe, they did not come, for the machines are of old design. The machines left conked out have created huge problems in regular treatment."
The Revenue Investigation Office, Butwal, has seized illegal currency worth Rs 34.655 million till date of the current fiscal year. This includes currencies of various countries including Nepalese rupees.
The number of visitors to Banke National Park (BaNP), the youngest national park established for the conservation of the globally rare Bengal tiger and the protection of a vital biological corridor, has been steadily increasing.
The third edition of the Western Travel Mart (WTM), organised in Nepalgunj with the aim of promoting the tourist destinations of Western Nepal and increasing the number of Indian tourists, concluded on Tuesday.
The youths from Nisdi rural municipality of Palpa district have demanded upgrading of a local road. They staged a sit-in at the office of the local level to exert pressure on their representatives.
Minister for Energy, Water Resources, and Irrigation, Deepak Khadka, today inaugurated the Settling Basin constructed under the Nepal Gandak West Canal Irrigation System in West Nawalparasi. The Minister, alongside Binod Chaudhary, the Member of Parliament representing the constituency, jointly inaugurated the infrastructure at a programme organised by the Nepal Gandak Paschim Irrigation Management Office in Semari, Nawalparasi.
The physical progress of the Siddhababa Tunnel construction project, a project of national pride, has reached 54 percent, while the financial progress stands at 48 percent.
Work to widen the Butwal–Narayangadh road-section has reached its final stage. The one-way blacktopping is now almost com