Dinesh Subedi

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Child marriage is killing dreams of Rolpa’s young girls

Published On: July 21, 2020 08:30 AM NPT By: Dinesh Subedi

ROLPA, July 21: Over 80 girls below the age of 20 gave birth in Rolpa District Hospital in the last fiscal year. Among those, 12 had to go for surgery due to health complications. According to the hospital officials, a significant number of underage women seek abortion service. Women’s health in Rolpa is scary, thanks to child marriage.

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Liwang sealed off amid sharp increase in COVID-19 cases

Published On: July 20, 2020 02:33 PM NPT By: Dinesh Subedi

ROLPA, July 20: Liwang and Gurung Gaun in Rolpa district have been sealed off after they reported a sharp increase in the cases of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19).

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Seven persons killed in Pyuthan road accident identified

Published On: July 19, 2020 12:27 PM NPT By: Dinesh Subedi

PYUTHAN, July 19: All the seven persons who lost their lives in a tractor accident at Swargadwari Municipality-3 Saturday night have been identified.

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Youth committing suicide in quarantine facility had COVID-19

Published On: July 3, 2020 03:18 PM NPT By: Dinesh Subedi

ROLPA, July 3: A youth who committed suicide in a quarantine facility on July 1 tested positive for COVID-19 on Friday.

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Rolpa’s Sunil Smriti Rural Municipality to hire teachers on its own

Published On: June 30, 2020 10:50 AM NPT By: Dinesh Subedi

ROLPA, June 30: Sunil Smriti Rural Municipality in the eastern Rolpa has proposed a new plan to address the issue to privately paid teachers in the community schools.

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In Rolpa, quarantine facilities are packed but proper testing is still hard to come by

Published On: June 4, 2020 07:15 PM NPT By: Dinesh Subedi

Rolpa, June 4: At present, almost all the COVID-19 quarantine facilities in Rolpa are already filled with people. Although the federal and provincial governments haven't done anything significant to provide help, local authorities have tried their best in facilitating people with better services. As per the data recorded until Wednesday, a total of 8,645 people have already returned home from various quarantine facilities in the district. Currently there are 2,068 people quarantined.

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Rolpa finds it harder to cope with lockdown, mental health issues surfacing

Published On: May 18, 2020 07:40 AM NPT By: Dinesh Subedi

ROLPA, May 18: Every next household in the Rolpa villages live with the hidden wounds of the decade long insurgency. Hundreds were killed and disappeared from here as it was made the epicenter of the bloody war. While the nation still struggles to satisfy the war time complaints leaving victims largely disappointed, those severely hit people in Rolpa have stated that the lockdown triggered by Covid19 has left them even more disturbed. Unlike the normal days, they now have plenty of time to miss and long for their lost beloved family members.

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Ambushes everywhere: Rolpa folks forced to go through recurring pain even 14 years after end of Maoist insurgency

Published On: May 9, 2020 04:06 PM NPT By: Dinesh Subedi

ROLPA, May 9: It’s already been almost 14 years since the then Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) and Nepal government signed the Comprehensive Peace Accord (CPA) in 2006, ending a decade-long war and starting the peace process. The peace process is said to have been concluded. However, the vestiges of the war, which was fought for more than a decade, have been troubling the people of Rolpa time and again.

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Lightning kills two in Rolpa

Published On: May 7, 2020 08:00 PM NPT By: Dinesh Subedi

ROLPA, May 7: A lightning strike killed two persons in Rolpa on Thursday.

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Rolpa mourns tragic death of four minors killed in bomb blast (with photos)

Published On: May 2, 2020 01:42 PM NPT By: Dinesh Subedi

ROLPA, May 2: Lal Bahadur Khatri, a brick kiln worker in Kathmandu, reached his home in Rolpa in the afternoon on April 30 after spending 14 days at a quarantine facility amid coronavirus outbreak fears.

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Four minors killed in Rolpa bomb blast

Published On: May 1, 2020 08:25 AM NPT By: Dinesh Subedi

ROLPA, May 1: Four minors were killed when a powerful bomb left by an unidentified group exploded in Rolpa Thursday evening, authorities said.

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Man dies in quarantine in Rolpa

Published On: April 28, 2020 01:52 PM NPT By: Dinesh Subedi

ROLPA, April 28: A 62 years old man died in a quarantine facility set up at Madhigau Rural Municipality, Pariwang Ward no 2, Rolpa district, last night.

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Photos: A difficult journey from Kathmandu to Rolpa with children on tipper

Published On: April 25, 2020 10:10 PM NPT By: Dinesh Subedi

ROLPA, April 25: After an 18-hour long journey from Kathmandu to Rolpa on a tipper truck, a group of laborers got off at the Bal Mandir in Libang, the district headquarters of Rolpa. They had their children and bags with them.

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He saw the 1943 plague wipe out his family and village in Rolpa

Published On: April 19, 2020 07:47 PM NPT By: Dinesh Subedi

ROLPA, April 19: When the plague came to my village in Rolpa in 1943, my neighbors started dying. People fled to the forests to escape from the disease. My mother also passed away in April 1943. No one from the village came to cremate her dead body. My maternal uncles from another village dug a hole to bury her and returned without visiting our home. “My father tied a rope around the waist of the dead body, dragged it to the hole and buried,” Nandalal Pokhrel, 87, of Rolpa Municipality-1, Mewang, recalled the story of the epidemic, which haunted Nepali society some 77 years ago.

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Amid lockdown, Rolpali youths undertake distance learning via radio, YouTube

Published On: April 11, 2020 04:30 PM NPT By: Dinesh Subedi

ROLPA, April 11: Targeting the Secondary Education Examination (SEE) examinees, some youths of Rolpa have initiated a distance learning program.

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Complaints of the disappeared have themselves disappeared!

Published On: March 15, 2020 07:27 AM NPT By: Dinesh Subedi

ROLPA, March 15: A huge number of families in Rolpa who had sought the whereabouts of their family members disappeared during the decade-long Maoist conflict have come to know that the complaints they had filed at the commission concerned have themselves disappeared. While a total of 132 complaints were filed at the Commission of Investigation on Enforced Disappeared Persons’ (CIEDP) from Rolpa three  years ago, the commission does not have more than 98 complaints with it now. The rest have disappeared! With this, the affected people’s hopes for justice have turned bleak.

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Caste-based domestic violence against women rife in Rolpa

Published On: March 8, 2020 08:55 AM NPT By: Dinesh Subedi

ROLPA, March 8: Police in Rolpa have stated that the cases of domestic violence against women are rife, and ample of such cases are related to caste-based issues. Child marriage in the district is common and the marriages are rather 'love marriage' these days where caste and class become a secondary matter for girls and boys initially.

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With poor health facilities in Rolpa, fear of coronavirus leaves people concerned

Published On: March 7, 2020 10:25 AM NPT By: Dinesh Subedi

ROLPA, March 7: Health posts and hospitals in Rolpa are not well-equipped. The shortage of medicines and doctors here often make the headlines. As the news of the spread of coronavirus across the world is making rounds, locals in the rural areas of Rolpa have raised concerns over the poor health facilities they have. They have urged the government to avail sufficient medicines at the local health units and the district hospital. On the other hand, health professionals in the district hospital have also lamented the inefficiency of the hospital and health units.

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Students compelled to sit for exams before completion of course

Published On: March 5, 2020 10:12 AM NPT By: Dinesh Subedi

ROLPA, March 5: Nepal Rastriya Secondary School in Fagam of Rolpa is a great hope for the bright future of children in the remote village. In lack of this school, many would not have got an opportunity to study as there are not many schools in Rolpa. However, given the current situation of the school, guardians and students can be least optimistic. Students sitting for the upcoming Secondary Education Examination (SEE) in the school state that they have not turned beyond 24 pages of their English book.

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Overloaded trucks take toll on Ghorahi-Holeri Road

Published On: March 5, 2020 09:33 AM NPT By: Dinesh Subedi

ROLPA, March 5: The quality of Ghorahi-Holeri Road, or Shahid Marga, is fast deteriorating due to movement of overloaded tipper trucks carrying limestone for a Dang-based cement factory, locals say.

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