Kathmandu, Aug 29: Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal has commended the contribution and courage of the people of Rolpa district for the political change in Nepal.

ROLPA, May 12: A laborer has died after a tractor fell off the road last night at Machheti village in Lungri Rural Municipality-5, Rolpa.

ROLPA, Feb 9: A company that has not completed any work for 25 months after being awarded a contract in Rolpa has gone missing after receiving an advance of Rs 66.6326. Tripureshwari-Vibhanshu JV, based in Kathmandu, had signed a contract on December 15, 2020 to electrify various locations in the district for a total cost of Rs 376.447 million, to be completed within 18 months. Despite this, the contractor reportedly asked locals to donate labor, which was not part of the original contract.

ROLPA, Nov 23: According to the latest vote count results in Rolpa, Barshaman Pun of the Maoist Centre has maintained his lead in the race for the House of Representatives. When 29,971 votes were counted, Barshaman Pun got 19,271 votes, while Purna Budha of the UML got 8,001 votes.

ROLPA,Nov 23: In the vote counting for the membership of the House of Representatives, Purna Gharti Magar of the Maoist Center has maintained a wide lead. While Gharti got 9,995 votes, his closest rival CPN UML candidate Kailash Kumar Malla got 4,058 votes.

ROLPA, Nov 23: CPN (Maoist Center) candidate Shakti Bahadur Basnet is leading with 10,297 votes in Jajarkot. CPN-UML candidate Niraj Prasad Acharya is in second place with 7,522 votes. Nar Bahadur Karki of the Independent has received 572 votes.

ROLPA, Nov 22: According to the latest election results in Rolpa, Barshaman Pun of the Maoist Centre has taken the lead in Rolpa. Out of the 9,406 votes counted for the House of Representatives election, Barshaman Pun of the Maoist Center got 5,732 votes, while Purna Budha of UML got 2,274 votes.

ROLPA, Nov 22: According to the latest results in Rolpa, Barshaman Pun of the Maoist Centre has taken the lead. For the House of Representatives, 7,635 votes were counted,

ROLPA, Nov 20: The Nepalese Army carried out aerial patrols from helicopters in Rolpa and Rukum during the election. Government authorities informed Republica that the aerial patrols were conducted near polling stations in sensitive areas of the two districts.

ROLPA, November 18: Almost all polling staff deployed in Rolpa for the November 20 polls have reached their respective polling stations.

ROLPA, September 13: A person who was on the run after being charged in an illegal drugs case on March 12, 2020, has been arrested by the police. Rolpa District court has sentenced him to one and a half years in prison and slapped a fine of Rs 15,000.

ROLPA, August 23: The Nepal Banda (general strike) announced by various parties including the Netra Bikram Chand-led CPN has affected normal life in Rolpa on Tuesday. All the markets including the headquarters Liwang market, Sulichaur, Ghartigaon, Holeri etc of the district are closed.

KATHMANDU, JULY 6: A prisoner was found hanging in the toilet of Rolpa Prison on May 18. According to the prison office, the prisoner was Vijay Bikram Shah, 27, of Barahatal Rural Municipality-1 of Surkhet. He was serving a five-year prison sentence in an arms and ammunition case.

ROLPA,July 16: Ever since the onset of monsoon, farmers in the district are worried due to the lack of chemical fertilizers. At a time when shortage of fertilizers has become a daily dose of news, it’s reported that a consignment of chemical fertilizers which was meant for Rolpa and was on the way to the district was vanished mid-way by the middlemen. As many as 100 sacs of fertilizers that were supposed to arrive in the district have gone ‘missing’. Similarly, there are no records as to how and where 150 bags of fertilizers brought in the district earlier were sold.

ROLPA, June 12: Two children of the same family died when a mound of soil fell on them in Rolpa.

ROLPA, May 17: The CPN (Maoist Center) has won the elections for five local governments, including a municipality, while the Nepali Congress (NC) has won elections in two local bodies of Rolpa district.

ROLPA, May 16: Nepali Congress (NC) candidate has been elected to the post of chairman of Rolpa's Gangadev Rural Municipality. Hari Bahadur Pun of the NC got 2,548 votes while his closest rival Roshan Kumar Wali of the CPN-UML got 2,499 votes.

ROLPA, May 15: Independent candidates have won in one ward of Rolpa. Nepali Congress (NC) rebel candidate Netra Bahadur Giri has won the ward chairmanship as an independent candidate for the second time in Sunil Smriti Rural Municipality-2 of the district.

ROLPA, May 14: The Maoists (Center) have made a victorious start in Rolpa. Khum Bahadur Thapa got 987 votes while the Nepali Congress got 370 votes till now in Rolpa Municipality Ward no 1.

ROLPA, May 13:  Former Speaker Krishna Bahadur Mahara and former Energy Minister and Maoist leader Barshaman Pun have cast their votes in Rolpa.

ROLPA, May 11: Police have arrested Prakash KC, a CPN (Maoist Center) cadre, who attacked Nepali Congress (NC) cadre and ward chairperson Man Bahadur Budha, 30, and Kamal Budha, 20, with a Khukuri at Gangadev Rural Municipality-5 on Monday night.

KATHMANDU March 29: Japan handed over a newly-built Health Training Center and Emergency Shelter to Rolpa Municipality in Rolpa district today.

ROLPA, Nov 19: Four people including the driver were killed and 19 others were injured after a passenger bus met with an accident at Madi Rural Municipality-4 Tarkebang in Rolpa district on Thursday evening.

ROLPA, August 18: The village seemed bright since early morning. Soon, the villagers started playing the trumpets. Locals were gathered around. While some were playing musical instruments, others were waiting to welcome someone with colorful garlands in their hands. A remote village in eastern Rolpa, Jailwang, had a different glowing vibe. Narendra Roka, who was sentenced to life imprisonment by an Indian court in a false case of murder 24 years ago, was returning home.

ROLPA, August 14: A man died in an ambulance accident in Rolpa.

Rolpa, August 11: Police have recovered the dead body of a youth who went missing after being swept away by a stream in Rolpa district on Tuesday.

ROLPA, August 4: A study has shown that the cases of child marriage in Rolpa are very high. Out of 354 new mothers at Rolpa Hospital last year, 53 were below the age of 20. Of them, eight had to undergo surgeries to deliver their babies. Likewise, among the 167 women who underwent safe deliveries, 17 were below the age of 20.

ROLPA, July 12: A person in Rolpa has died after falling off a cliff. According to the police, the deceased has been identified as 26-year-old Man Prasad Gharti Magar of Madi Rural Municipality-3.

ROLPA, July 12: The local administration in Rolpa district has decided to provide risk allowances to police officers deployed in the district for the prevention and control of COVID-19 pandemic.

ROLPA, June 24: The ongoing prohibitory orders enforced in the Rolpa district since May 5 have been extended by 10 days.

ROLPA, June 23: Three people have been killed in a landslide in Rolpa.

ROLPA, May 22: As many as 74 people tested positive for COVID-19 in the past 24 hours in Rolpa. With this, the total number of infections in the district has reached 678 out of which 11 have died.

ROLPA, May 18: People here in the district are afraid of an increased risk of the spread of the coronavirus infection as family members themselves have started managing the bodies of their dear ones who died of COVID-19 of late.

KATHMANDU, Dec 2: The 33/11 kV substation of Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) set up in Lakuri area in Rolpa district has been fully charged.

ROLPA, Nov 30: Health professionals in Rolpa have urged the government to add isolation centers and speed up contact tracing to contain COVID19; 'or else get ready for irreparable loss'.

Some schools in the district are considering running physical classes soon

ROLPA, Sept 12: Two children of a family died after they were buried by a landslide at Lungri Rural Municipality-1, Aipe in Rolpa district at midnight on Saturday.

ROLPA, Sept 1: A twelve-year-old boy in Rolpa is in metal chains, and locked up inside a wooden box. He can barely move around. This has been going on for the last four years, since 2016. His family cites poverty and inability to treat him as reasons behind this inhuman condition. The boy, Tilak Khatri, has mental health issues.

ROPLA, July 24: Lockdown order in Rolpa district headquarters Liwang has been lifted after a week starting 1 PM on Friday.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

DOLPA, Feb 4: Locals from upper Dolpa now are suffering from diarrhea. Economically weak population and old-age people mostly live in the upper part of the district.

ROLPA, Feb 2: The government has cancelled the contract with Pappu Koshi and Neupane JV Construction Company after the latter failed to give expected results in a road project for repairing a 20-km road in eastern Rolpa. The company has also been slapped a fine of Rs 90 million. According to chief of 'Rural Road Network Repair' project, Moha Dutta Bhatta, the company had been awarded the road project worth Rs 442.3 million.