Dang, March 5 -- Two polling centres in Dang-3 has been without voters till noon in the elections taking place today.

So far, no ballots have been cast at the Deuti Secondary School Tallo Malaikhola polling centre in Babai Rural Municipality-7 and the Janata Basic School Jila polling centre in Babai-1.

Tek Bahadur Khadka, presiding officer at Tallo Malaikhola polling station, said that although preparations for voting had been completed since early morning, no voters had arrived to cast their ballots.

He said that although representatives had attended the earlier all-party meeting, no one had taken part in the voting.

Residents of the area, which lies in the buffer zone of Banke National Park, had earlier announced that they would not...