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Karnali apple farmers' market worry sets in months before harvest season

Surkhet, June 6 -- The apple orchard of Banche Mahatara in Chhayanath Rara Municipality of Mugu is heavily laden with fruit this year. He has planted around 1,000 apple trees on nearly 10 ropanis of l... Read More


Five bridges along Bheri Corridor left incomplete for seven years

Surkhet, May 25 -- Even seven years after the track was opened, vital segments of the strategically significant Bheri Corridor remain incomplete. The failure to construct five crucial motorable bridge... Read More


Monsoon yet to set in, but Karnali is already seeing rain losses

Surkhet, May 22 -- Floods triggered by a severe rainstorm accompanied by hail on Tuesday night in Nepka, ward 5 of Chankheli Rural Municipality in Humla, swept away the Danfe Basic School along with h... Read More


Rising flood and landslide risks leave Karnali settlements exposed

Surkhet, May 22 -- Floods triggered by a severe rainstorm accompanied by hail on Tuesday night in Nepka, ward 5 of Chankheli Rural Municipality in Humla, have swept away the Danfe Basic School along w... Read More


Kailash-Mansarovar pilgrimage season begins

Surkhet, May 15 -- Mansarovar pilgrimage season has begun this year with the arrival of 25 Indian tourists on a chartered flight on Thursday. Tour operators say nearly 15,000 Indian pilgrims have alr... Read More


Earthquake survivors in Karnali still stuck in temporary shelters after two and a half years

Surkhet/rukum West, May 11 -- More than two years after a deadly earthquake struck Karnali Province, thousands of survivors in Jajarkot and Rukum West are still living in cramped temporary shelters, w... Read More


Earthquake survivors Karnali still stuck in temporary shelters after two and a half years

Surkhet/rukum West, May 11 -- More than two years after a deadly earthquake struck Karnali Province, thousands of survivors in Jajarkot and Rukum West are still living in cramped temporary shelters, w... Read More


To Karnali people, unreliable passenger flights are sickening

Surkhet/jumla/dolpa, May 10 -- year-old Kal Bahadur Adhikari of Hima Rural Municipality-6 in Jumla was admitted to the Karnali Academy of Health Sciences Teaching Hospital after his diabetes worsened.... Read More


Pleasant surprise as Karnali students get free textbooks at enrolment

Surkhet/kalikot, May 7 -- For Jayanti Baral, a sixth grader at Badimalika Secondary School in Raskot Municipality, Kalikot, the start of the new academic session used to be a period of worry rather th... Read More


Karnali's yarsagumba season set for late May, but yields are thinning and risks rising

Surkhet, May 3 -- The highland pastures of Karnali province are set to open for the annual yarsagumba picking season in the final week of May. The high-value caterpillar fungus, prized for its purport... Read More