April 5, 2021 16:00 pm
KATHMANDU, April 5: Nepal and India have decided to conduct a joint study of the ongoing construction activities being carried by the Indian side along the Nepal-India border in the Darchula district to make sure that these works have not breached Nepal's international border.
March 23, 2021 19:35 pm
KATHMANDU, March 23: A lawmaker of the main opposition party, Nepali Congress (NC), Dilendra Prasad Badu has criticized the government for failing to do anything to stop India’s unilateral move to build an embankment along the Mahakali River in Khalanga.
April 2, 2020 20:48 pm
KATHMANDU, April 2: The Supreme Court has refused to issue a directive to repatriate Nepali citizens stranded beyond the Mahakali River. A single bench of justice Hari Krishna Karki refused to issue interim order in response to a writ petition filed demanding the evacuation of Nepali nationals being stranded in the border entry points as a result of the lockdown imposed by the government to contain the spread of COVID-19.
April 2, 2020 03:05 am
KATHMANDU, April 2: A writ petition was filed on Wednesday demanding the apex court's order to bring Nepali citizens currently stranded in Dharchula, an Indian border town across the Mahakali River in Darchula district.
January 13, 2020 09:28 am
Dark water emerges from the springs of this remote valley in the mountains, a land of exquisite beauty, a land under military occupation for decades.
December 13, 2019 07:16 am
KATHMANDU, Dec 13: A silent ‘disquiet’ in relations between Kathmandu and New Delhi has surfaced ever since India released its new political map in early November, incorporating some territories belonging to Nepal along the latter’s western border. The move by the Indian side to include in their map Kalapani and other territories that lie to the east of the Mahakali River has sparked a series of protests across this country. These protests are ongoing in different parts of Nepal.
November 25, 2019 07:54 am
KATHMANDU, Nov 25: Nepali Congress (NC) is using the ‘good old tactics from KP Oli’s handbook’ as the Kalapani dispute dominates domestic issues amid major political parties’ desperate bid to score political points exploiting the nationalist sentiment.
November 21, 2019 07:47 am
KATHMANDU, Nov 21: At a time of huge public uproar across the country after a political map of India released by the Indians included Nepali territories demarcated by the Mahakali River on Nepal’s western border, any mention of the river, which is known as Kali in India, is conspicuously absent in the ninth edition of the political map released by the Survey of India recently.
August 6, 2019 14:25 pm
KANCHANPUR, Aug 6: Water flow in the Mahakali River is on the rise following the incessant rainfall since Monday night.
May 22, 2019 09:03 am
DARCHULA, May 22: Residents of Darchula villages bordering Mahakali River continue to use tyre tubes to cross the river even though a suspension bridge over the river was completed six months ago. The suspension bridge that connects Nepal and India and is situated in Lekam Rural Municipality – 3 of the district is yet to come into operation.
March 3, 2019 08:42 am
KAILALI/DARCHULA, March 3: People who have been to Ratakatha of Duhu Rural Municipality often get goosebumps when they hear this name. Usually, vehicles do not ply through this cliff, which lies 7 km north from Khalanga, district headquarters of Darchula. It falls along the Darchula-Tinker road section.
February 16, 2019 10:53 am
BAITADI, Feb 16: The locals of Jhulagaht of Baitadi district have sent a memorandum to the prime minister to immediately build a motorable bridge over the Mahakali River.
November 4, 2018 15:11 pm
KANCHANPUR, Nov 4: Two men were killed and four others injured when a tractor (Se 1 Ta 5422) carrying mourners met with an accident along Bhimdattanagar-Daiji section along the East- West Highway today. The deceased and injured were returning home after attending a funeral at the Mahakali River.