Stranded

New contract has been awarded for two road sections, Phoksingtar-Simpani and Andherikhola-Phoksingtar.

The officials deployed in upper Dolpa to conduct the elections to the House of Representatives (HoR) and Province Assembly on November 20 have been airlifted to the district headquarters in Dunai.

Five members of a family were killed after the car they were travelling in rammed into a stranded container truck.

Jeevan Ram Shrestha has directed rescue of foreign and domestic tourists and mountaineers.

Thousands of Russian tourists are stranded in Thailand’s beach resorts because of the war in Ukraine, many are unable to pay their bills or return home because of sanctions and cancelled flights.

Scores of passengers, including students, leaving Humla district for their destinations have been stranded as they have been struggling to book air tickets.

Many domestic tourists visiting Mugu district on the occasion of the Dashain festival have been stranded as flights from and to district have been suspended due to rain since October 18.

Seven tourists including four foreigners who were stranded at Tumling of Namkha Rural Municipality in north Humla have been rescued by helicopter.

Home Minister Balkrishna Khand has directed the concerned agencies to promptly rescue foreign tourists being stranded in different parts of the country due to flooding, landslide, and inundation after the recent incessant rains.

Four Nepali workers stranded in Qatar have been rescued at the initiative of the Nepali Embassy and the Non-Resident Nepali Association, Qatar.