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Shortage of subject teachers hits Karnali schools, forcing SEE students to rely on private tuition

Surkhet, Dec. 20 -- Shortages of subject teachers in community schools across Karnali, the country's biggest and remotest province, have paralysed classroom teaching, forcing thousands of students pre... Read More


Karnali Provincial Assembly stalled since September vandalism

Surkhet, Dec. 9 -- The Karnali Provincial Assembly has remained paralysed for the past four months after the arson and vandalism during Gen Z protests rendered the assembly hall unusable. The sixth se... Read More


Yarsagumba pickers rue shrinking harvests as winters grow warmer

Surkhet, Nov. 25 -- When Dan Bahadur Giri looks at his village in Sukadhik in ward 8 of Khatyad Rural Municipality in Mugu district, he says it no longer resembles the place he grew up in. "Until 2000... Read More


Yarsagumba pickers rue poor harvests as winters grow warmer

Surkhet, Nov. 24 -- When Dan Bahadur Giri looks at his village in Sukadhik in ward 8 of Khatyad Rural Municipality in Mugu district, he says it no longer resembles the place he grew up in. "Until 2000... Read More


132 kV transmission line expansion in Karnali unfinished for 5 years

Surkhet, Nov. 15 -- The work to expand the 132 kV electricity transmission line in Karnali has remained stalled for nearly five and a half years. Various long-standing issues such as disputes over com... Read More


Ambitious programmes announced by one government left abandoned by another

Surkhet, Nov. 9 -- The second provincial assembly of Karnali elected CPN (Maoist Centre) leader Raj Kumar Sharma as the chief minister. Sharma remained in the post for about one year. While assuming o... Read More


Resumption of Kailash-Manasarovar pilgrimage boosts economic activities in remote Humla

Surkhet, Oct. 19 -- Humla, a remote mountain district in Karnali Province, has witnessed an economic revival this year, thanks to the reopening of the Kailash-Manasarovar pilgrimage route through Nepa... Read More


Travel is never safe during festivals in Karnali

Surkhet, Oct. 12 -- On September 29, the Phulpati of Hindu's biggest festival Dashain, tragedy struck along the Rapti Highway in Salyan district. A Dang-bound jeep from Rukum West crashed near the Cho... Read More


Upper Dolpa faces rice shortage ahead of Dashain

Surkhet, Sept. 28 -- Jawahan Lama, from ward 3 of Shey Phoksundo Rural Municipality in Dolpa, says the barley his seven-member family produces lasts barely three months. With heavy snowfall and no irr... Read More