A series of wild animal attacks have raised concerns among locals and authorities in the Nawalpur area.

The main contractor, China State Construction Engineering Corporation, has not issued payments since March, placing suppliers in financial distress.

Police have impounded the vehicle and arrested the driver.

Officials preliminarily estimate that the rhino died of natural causes.

In the last two years, over three dozen factories have come up along the new corridor with investments of over Rs50 billion.

The deceased is a 22-year-old man of Kaski.

The 58-year-old man was convicted of murder by a court in 2002. He was on the run since the verdict.

The protesters claimed that smoke and dust released from the mill polluted the environment.

Bodies of the middle-aged couple were found near their buffalo shed.

Another girl, the victim’s sister, who also drowned while swimming at a local fish pond, is undergoing treatment at Bhairawaha Medical College.

The accused was accompanied by an Indian national in committing the crime, police said.

The Kali Gandaki corridor comes up from the Tarai plains and passes through Mustang to end at Kora La.

The injured are undergoing treatment at Butwal-based Lumbini Regional Hospital, police say.

The fire that started from a warehouse in Sunwal Municipality has completely destroyed properties of seven nearby stores, police say.

Sugarcane farmers can’t get their money because the mills have not submitted purchase details to the government.