Four Korean tourists and their two guides have gone missing on their way to the Annapurna base camp. According to Deputy Superintendent of Police at the District Police Office, Kaski Dan Bahadur Karki, five other Korean tourists and one Nepali were rescued after being caught in avalanche triggered by heavy
Minister for Land Reforms, Agriculture and Cooperatives of Gandaki Province Lekh Bahadur Thapa has said that agriculture is the foundation of prosperity of the province. Speaking at an interaction on mushroom farming here on Friday, he said as a result the agriculture sector was the first priority of the government.
Khagendra Thapa Magar of Dhullubaskot in Baglung, who once set Guinness world record as the world’s shortest man, died on Friday afternoon in Pokhara. Thapa breathed his last while receiving treatment at Pokhara-based Manipal Hospital, the doctors said. Suffering from respiratory related problems, he was admitted to the intensive care
Minister for Forest and Environment, who is also the Chairman of Annapurna Conservation Area Project (ACAP), Shakti Basnet, has promised to run ACAP in a new way—more systematic and revised. At a programme organized by the Ministry in Pokhara on Thursday, Basnet said that the ACAP would be well utilized
A woman has given birth to quadruplets at Manipal Hospital in Pokhara. Twenty-six years old Sunita Pradhan Poudel of Putalibazar municipality-1, Syangja delivered four babies through a Caesarean section at 9 this morning, the Hospital stated. A team of doctors led by Dr Mahendra Pandey conducted the C-section on Poudel.
The Paragliding World Cup Asian Tour (PWCAT) and 19th Nepal Open Paragliding Championship is set to start from February 23 to 29 in Pokhara. To be organised by the Nepal Airsport Association (NAA) and Nepal Paragliding and Handgliding Association in coordination of the International Aeronautical Federation, a nongovernmental and nonprofit
The Gandaki State has begun working to construct a helipad each in all the 85 local level government units in the State. The helipad is being constructed for use is disaster rescue and relief, and also to facilitate the tourists. Minister for Industry, Tourism, Forest and Environment Bikas Lamsal shared
Gandaki state recorded a total of 666 incidents of violation of human rights in the year 2019. During the year, 640 people suffered from violation of their rights, carried out by the state and non-state actors. The Informal Sector Service Centre (INSEC) shared the details at an interaction on ‘human
