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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


Will Karnali students receive textbooks during enrolment drive this year?

Surkhet, April 29 -- As a new academic year begins across Karnali Province, thousands of students are enrolling without certainty that they will receive textbooks on time. Delays in fund releases by s... Read More


In Humla, residents walk six hours for salt - and still don't get enough

Surkhet, April 27 -- In Nekpa, ward 5 of Chankheli Rural Municipality of Humla, Purna Budha is forced to walk nearly six hours one way just to buy salt. "There is no road access in the village, so we... Read More