Darchula, Jan. 26 -- With semester examinations just days away, students from Gokuleshwar Multiple Campus in Darchula have travelled to the central office of Far Western University in Mahendranagar, protesting the prolonged absence of subject teachers, mainly the mathematics teacher. The students accompanied some professors to pressure the university to fill the vacant posts.

Omkar Joshi, a sixth-semester science student, said examinations are scheduled to begin on February 6, but students have been forced to prepare for exams without a mathematics teacher. "We repeatedly asked the campus and the university to send a maths lecturer, but nobody listened. We even locked the campus for nearly 20 days in protest, yet our demand was ignored,"...