Author: Sam Allcock

Less than a week before Christmas, at least 27 Indian pilgrims died in a bus accident in central Nepal. The tragedy struck on Friday when a vehicle with 43 passengers on board, a tourist bus, swerved off a major highway and fell 150 meters deep into Marsyangdi River with a strong current. The victims are from Maharashtra and were on a group tour of cultural sites in Nepal for ten days when the tragedy happened while they were on their way from Pokhara to Kathmandu. The event has raised concerns in Nepal and India, and families of victims in Jalgaon,…

The hospitality industry of both Nepal and Itahari is especially looking to receive a major upliftment with the upcoming Ramada by Wyndham Hotel, which is scheduled to be operational by 2024. The franchise agreement between the Indian hospitality company Grand Central Hotel Private Limited and the global hospitality company Wyndham Hotels & Resorts is a major step forward in the city’s developing tourism and business environments. New venture: A new Ramada by Wyndham Itahari Pashupati Marg hotel will be built in the heart of one of the most vibrant commercial centers of eastern Nepal and will introduce a new range…

One woman was charred to death, and many houses were fully damaged after a fire erupted in the early hours this morning in the Itahari locality. The deceased has been identified as Gopimaya Katwal, 52, who was caught inside her house at ward no. 6 of Itahari when the fire started. The local police authorities and firefighters were quick to respond to the scene, but they could not rescue Katwal from the flames, which were fast-moving. The fire started at 3 AM, and within a short time, this side of the neighborhood saw several houses catch fire, and people were…

A recent car crash involving a governmental vehicle in Bhungkhani, Ward No: 2 of Galkot Municipality, Baglung, has taken away the three precious lives of human beings, which has sensationalized the whole area. Another life was also lost in a tragic accident early this morning as another one was left critically injured; all these are happening on the road, causing concern about road safety in the area. The victims of the accident were in an official car, one of the victims is a subchief of the local government. Of the victims, Bhupendra Budha Magar from Putha Uttarganga Rural Municipality of…

In a recent update on the November floods in Baglung, the death toll had risen to three after search parties found the body of Kaml Sapkota, aged 20. The young man has not been seen since Thursday night when flash floods hit Bandre Adhaithar of Baglung Municipality-4. Sapkota was found dead about 500 meters away from the spot where the incident occurred, District Police Office’s Sub-Inspector Pratap Poudel said. The main flood happened at around midnight on Thursday and left several people unprepared while moving along the riverside. The raging water current of the Bandrekhola rivulet in the valley flushed…

The fans in Dhangadhi are jubilant and happy for their city to be set to host matches in the Second season of the Nepal Super League (NSL). The mega football event starting from today in Kathmandu will be the prestigious tournament featuring Dhangadhi FC also in a pool of nine teams of the country. The locals are looking forward to the first local league match, which will be played this Sunday against Birgunj United. The second-placed team of the last season, Dhangadhi FC, has also been preparing for the tournament. The team management also has faith in the current squad…

Dhangadhi was recently ravaged by a fire which burnt a hospital and several shops to ashes. It started at Bhandari General Store owned by Dal Bahadur Bhandari when there was a short circuit and it extended to the buildings of Sarathi Hospital Pvt Ltd. The occurrence has left people especially the local government and inhabitants stunned as they cut their losses on the life altering inferno. Eyewitnesses said that after the explosion, dark columns of smoke could be seen rising from the scene as firefighters scrambled to the scene. The few fire tenders that arrived on the scene fought hard…

The newly inaugurated cable car at Bhairahawa is another site, which has developed as a tourists trap after it was plunged into operation earlier this week in Butwal. Currently under construction is the cable car, which links Butwal in Rupandehi to the hill of Basantapur in Palpa, and this tourist attraction which has been quickly attracting locals and visitors including Indians from Gorakhpur. Currently the project is being implemented by a private sector known as Lumbini Cable Car which has committed around Rs 3 billion for the project, 75 percent as funded by the IME Group and the remaining percent…

Chaired by Rabi Lamichhane, the Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) has been accused of fraud in a cooperative which is to take Lamichhane for further investigation in Butwal after the Tihar festival. The Rupandehi District Court has allowed to interrogate Lamichhane, who is also the former managing director of Gorkha Media Network Pvt Ltd, Chhabilal Joshi who is the vice-chair of media company and 12 other people in the case. The verdict is a part of the current investigation of a cooperative fraud linked to the Supreme Savings and Credit Cooperative based in Butwal. The bench of Judge Shyam Prasad Shrestha…

This paper notes that Nepal has effectively begun the process of addressing the digital divide through the introduction of an extensive national digital literacy effort. The program announced by the Ministry of Education, Science, and Technology on Wednesday will seek to build technology literacy among millions of Nepalis within the next five years. The program, known as ‘Digital Nepal for All’ is intended for the inhabitants of all the 77 districts of the country with a focus on rural and hard to reach areas. It will make provision for free computer illiteracy lessons related to the use of computers, the…