India, Sept. 10 -- As many as 261 Telugu tourists are stranded in strife-torn Nepal for the last 24 hours, with no way to leave the neighbouring country and return home, officials aware of the development said on Wednesday.

"The law and order situation on the streets is horrible. We have been asked not to move out of the hotel room. We don't know how long we have to wait like this," former Central Information Commissioner Sridhar Acharyulu Madabhushi, who is stuck along with his family, told HT over phone from Kathmandu.

Madabhushi and family, who left for Kathmandu along with a group of 30 Telugus from Hyderabad last week, went to the Lord Pasupathi and Jal Narayana temples. The group was returning to Kathmandu on Tuesday morning when ...