SANKHUWASABHA, June 17: The four workers who were buried on Friday while digging a tunnel after a mould of earth caved in at Sankhuwasabha district have been rescued alive after 39 excruciating hours.

SANKHUWASABHA, June 17: The four people who had gone missing after a huge mass of earth caved in at Numko Fyaisando tunnel site of the Arun III hydropower project were rescued safely after almost 40 hours.

SANKHUWASABHA, June 17: Four persons went missing after a huge mass of earth caved in at Numko Fyakisanda tunnel site of the Arun III hydro power project in Sankhuwasabha district, Friday.

SANKHUWASABHA, June 16: Attempts to rescue four missing people has been affected after continuous landslide at Nunkofyakisanda dam side of Arun III hydropower plant in Sankhuwasabha. Meanwhile, police have suspected two more to be missing.

KATHMANDU, May 11: The prime ministers of both Nepal and India jointly laid the foundation stone for the 900 MW Arun III Hydropower Project on Friday. Prime Minister KP Oli and India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the construction of the project by pressing a button during the bilateral talks in Kathmandu on Friday evening. The project is located in Sankhuwasabha district in eastern Nepal.

KATHMANDU, April 29: The compound wall of 900 MW Arun III Hydroelectric Power Plant’s office in Khandbari-9, Tumlingtar suffered minor damage after a bomb exploded on Saturday midnight.

KATHMANDU, April 26: Prime Minister K P Sharma Oli and his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi are scheduled to jointly lay the foundation stone of the Arun III hydropower project during the latter's two-day state visit to Nepal beginning  May 11.

SANKHUWASABHA, March 25: Gaurav Meghi Gurung who was working as the Senior Manager with the Arun III Hydroelectricity Project in Sankhuwasabha has died due to drowning.

KATHMANDU, Nov 14: The Investment Board of Nepal (IBN) has once again extended the deadline for the developers of Arun III Hydropower Project and Upper Karnali Hydropower Project to achieve the financial closures of both projects.

KATHMANDU, Nov 13: A meeting of Investment Board Nepal (IBN) has extended the deadline of Arun-III Hydropower Project and Upper Karnali Hydropower Project for financial closure.

KATHMANDU, Aug 31: The Election Commission and various security agencies have sought a total of Rs 2 billion for the upcoming third phase of the local polls scheduled for September 18.

KATHMANDU, Aug 30: The Election Commission (EC) has fixed 3,578 polling centers for the third phase of local polls in Province 2 scheduled for next month.

KATHMANDU, Aug 24: Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba, who is currently on a five-day state visit to India, has invited his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi to Nepal to inaugurate Arun III hydro project

KATHMANDU, August 21: Developers of Arun III and Upper Karnali can now use local forest land by paying lease fee as stated in the Project Development Agreement (PDA), which was signed in 2014.

BEIJING, August 9: China has begun preliminary preparations for a potential World War III.

KATHMANDU: An International BP Debating Championship, MahaSangram III, was organized by Debate Network Nepal (DNN), in collaboration with Xavier Academy, Lazimpat from Thursday to Monday.

KATHMANDU, July 7: Rastriya Janata Party Nepal (RJPN), which boycotted the local level elections so far, approached the Election Commission (EC) on Friday, seeking to get registered with the election body to participate in the upcoming elections including the third round of local elections scheduled for September 18.

KATHMANDU, July 7: Rastriya Janata Party Nepal (RJPN), which boycotted the local level elections so far, approached the Election Commission (EC) on Friday, seeking to get registered with the election body to participate in the upcoming elections including the third round of local elections scheduled for September 18.

KATHMANDU, Feb 23: The Indian government has sanctioned an investment of Rs 91.58 billion (Indian Rs 57.24 billion) by the Satluj Jal Vidyut Nigam Limited (SJVNL) for the development of the 900 MW Arun III Hydropower Project, giving new momentum to the project that was first mooted by Nepal some three decades ago.

KATHMANDU, Feb 11: Investment Board Nepal (IBN) has proposed to launch an international bidding for Tamakoshi III Hydropower Project.

KATHMANDU, Jan 9: Investment Board Nepal (IBN) on Sunday extended the deadline to the developers of Upper Karnali and Arun III projects to complete financial closure by a year.

SANKHUWASABHA, Dec 21: Arun Power Development Company (APDC) is about to complete land acquisition process for the Arun III hydropower project (900 MW).

HETAUDA, Dec 17: Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal has said that chiefs of concerned projects should be more responsible to maintain transparency and quality in course of construction development projects of the country.

KATHMANDU, Nov 25: The reconstruction of the upper Trishuli -III A hydropower project that has been halted since the Gorkha Earthquake last year is likely to take place soon.

KATHMANDU, Aug 25: The China Machinery Engineering Corporation (CMEC), a government-owned company of China has expressed interest in making investment in two important hydropower projects of Nepal.