GORKHA, June 24: With the onset of monsoon and the subsequent fall in the numbers of trekkers, owners of hotels and lodges along the Manasalu trekking route are closing their facilities and returning home.

POKHARA, June 29: Monsoon is considered an off-season for trekking. Until few years ago, hotels in Manang along the popular Annapurna Circuit trek used to get very less clients during monsoon. With low tourist traffic, hoteliers also used to engage in farming and other household works.

LONDON, June 6: Arsenal says Bosnia-Herzegovina defender Sead Kolasinac will be the club's first signing in the transfer window.

BHOJPUR, April 21: Transportation has been affected in the district with many rural roads damaged by off-season rains that started recently.