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3 children killed after landslilde buries house

Published On: September 4, 2018 07:23 AM NPT By: Devendra Basnet

DANG, Sept 4: Three children of the same family in Salyan were killed when a landslide buried their home on Sunday evening. Landslides buried the house of Balaram Dangi, a local of Bamphukhola of Bagchaur Municipality-12 in the district. It led to deaths of his three children, informed District Police Office (DPO), Salyan.

Families still hopeful of return of disappeared kin

Published On: September 4, 2018 07:19 AM NPT By: SHIVA LAL SUBEDI

GULMI, Sept 4: Data maintained by the district chapter of TRC shows that over a dozen people from the district were victims of enforced disappearance. GULMI, Sept 4: Laxman Marasini of Resunga Municipality-9 of Gulmi, formerly known as Tamghas-6, had left home on January 26, 2001 to meet his brother in Butwal. He never returned home. His wife Shanta is still hopeful of seeing him return home alive after all these years.

NMA protests partially affect hospitals on second day

Published On: September 4, 2018 07:16 AM NPT By: Republica

KATHMANDU, Sept 4: On the second day of the protest called by the Nepal Medical Association (NMA), the professional organization of doctors, the administrative works were partially affected at the hospitals and health facilities across the country on Monday although the doctors had previously decided to halt all but emergency services.

The Naubise-Nagdhunga ‘nightmare’

Published On: September 4, 2018 07:03 AM NPT By: Sarita Shrestha

DHADING, Sept 4: After leaving Dhadingbesi of Dhading at 5:30 in the morning, a passenger bus reached Kathmandu at 3 in the afternoon. Normally, it is a three hour distance but the miserable road has made travelling lengthier these days. The sloppy and bumpy road, multiple bends, overloaded and speeding vehicles, more often than not, lead to congestion. That in turn leaves passengers stranded for hours.