Manthali-Lukla direct flights begin

March 24, 2024 20:30 pm

MANTHALI (RAMECHHAP), March 24: With the start of the trekking and mountaineering season, daily flights to Lukla have started from Ramechhap's Manthali Airport.

Doramba, Aug 17: Prime Minister and CPN (Maoist Center) Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal has said that his party will take a lead role to end anomalies and ill-practices in the country.

13 passengers injured in bus accident

October 9, 2022 13:37 pm

RAMECHHAP, Oct 9: At least 13 passengers were injured when a bus (Ba 3 Kha 4048) headed for Kathmandu from Doramba skidded off the road and met with an accident near Sitka bazaar at Khandadevi Rural Municipality-3 in Ramechhap district today.

KATHMANDU, Oct 1: The regular flight from Kathmandu to Solukhumbu to Lukla has been shifted to Manthali in Ramechhap.

KATHMANDU, July 6: CPN (Maoist Centre) Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal has expressed grief over the demise of 13 persons in a tragic bus accident that took place in Ramechhap on Tuesday.

RAMECHHAP, July 7- The bus accident which took place in Ramechhap, Sunapati Rural Municipality - 5, near Lubhughat, on Tuesday morning took the lives of 13 people. However, only nine of the dead have been identified so far.

RAMECHHAP, July 7-A fatal bus accident took place in Ramechhap, Sunapati Rural Municipality-5, near Lubhughat. As many as 12 people died in the accident. According to Chandra Kumar Shrestha Chief from District Traffic Police office, Ramechhap. The bus (Ba 3 Kha 8396) was on its way to Kathmandu via Kandadevi-Senapati

KATHMANDU, July 5: The death toll in the bus accident that took place in Ramechhap on Tuesday morning has risen to nine. A passenger bus coming to Kathmandu from Ramechhap met with an accident this morning. As many as 24 24 persons who were injured in the accident have been sent to various hospitals for treatment.

KATHMANDU, July 5: At least six people have been killed when a bus on its way to Kathmandu from Ramechhap met with an accident on Tuesday. The accident took place at the border of Sunapati Rural Muinicipality-5 and Khandadevi Rural Municipality-1 of Ramechhap this morning.

KATHMANDU, March 19: Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba today inaugurated the country's second-largest power substation amid a ceremony. The Prime Minister inaugurated the new Khimti 220-132 KV substation at Sankhe (Fulasi) in Manthali Municipality-13 of Ramechhap.

OKHALDHUNGA, Dec 21: After six years of signing contract, the contractor has resumed construction of bridge over Molung River at Mandre Dobhan. The bridge would connect Okhaldhunga district headquarters to the western side of Saghutar of Ramechhap district.

RAMECHHAP, Sept 23: Lata (name changed) was studying in the seventh grade when she got married. A resident of Likhutamakoshi Rural Municipality – 4 of northern Ramechhap, she gave birth to a baby boy next year. Now she is 20 and her son is three year old. Her husband left for Malaysia last year and ‘does not ring her that often’.

SINDHULI, Aug 6: When he running for the recent local election, Prem Bahadur Tamang, the current chairperson of Khadadevi Rural Municipality, would face just one major question from the locals – “When will the bridge of Khairenighat be built?”

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RAMECHHAP, Aug 3: An unidentified group exploded a cylinder at the ward office of Khadadevi rural municipality-3 on Saturday morning.

RAMECHHAP, July 25: As many as three houses were reduced to ashes as a massive fire broke out at Sangutar Bazar in Ramechaap district on Thursday morning.

KATHMANDU, July 24: Tourism entrepreneurs, who were initially apprehensive about the decision to divert Lukla flights from Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA) in Kathmandu to Manthali Airport in Ramechhap, are now taking the decision positively.

RAMECHHAP, June 30:  A person was killed while another sustained critical injury after a Bolero jeep met with an accident in Likhu Tamakoshi Rural Municipality-1 of Ramechhap on Saturday morning.

KATHMANDU, June 14: Two persons died and 12 others sustained injuries when a passenger bus met with an accident in Ramechhap last night.

KATHMANDU, April 22: An aircraft of Tara Air skidded off the runway while trying to land in Ramechhap, on Monday morning.

RAMECHHAP, Jan 21: Two persons were killed while several others sustained injuries when a passenger bus went out of control due to brake failure in Ramechhap on Sunday.

Motorcycle-hit claims pedestrian

November 23, 2018 19:55 pm

RAMECHHAP, Nov 23: A pedestrian has died after being struck by a motorcycle at the district headquarters Manthali on Friday.

DOLAKHA, Nov 20: The Charikot-Khadichaur road widening project has come to a halt due to the negligence of the authorities concerned and the contractors, locals alleged. The delays in upgrading the road that links the mid hilly districts with Kathmandu has made it inconvenient to the business fraternity, and millions of commoners who use the road regularly. The Charikot-Khadichaur road connects Kathmandu with Sindhupalchowk, Dolakha, and Ramechhap, among other hilly districts.

RAMECHHAP, Nov 17: Finance Minister Yuba Raj Khatiwada and Chief Executive Officer of National Reconstruction Authority (NRA) Sushil Gyawali visited the Majhi settlement of Ramechhap along with external donors on Friday.

Govt Rs 150b short for housing grants

November 17, 2018 07:47 am

MANTHALI, Nov 17: The government is going to face cash crunch to distribute grants to the earthquake survivors whose houses were destroyed in the 2015 earthquakes.

RAMECHHAP, Oct 16: One person died and 29 others were injured in a passenger bus accident in Ramechhap on Tuesday.

RAMECHHAP, Nov 11: The electoral battle between the left alliance comprising CPN-UML and CPN (Maoist Center) and the 'democratic' alliance comprising Nepali Congress (NC) and other parties has turned very competitive in Ramechhap. Candidates of both alliances expect a tough battle in the upcoming parliamentary and provincial assembly elections. In all previous elections, the contest used to be trilateral as the three major parties - NC, UML and Maoists - would compete against each other. But now the contest is between the two alliances.

3 killed in Ramechhap bus accident

September 23, 2017 02:38 am

RAMECHHAP, Sept 23: Three persons were killed and 18 others injured when a passenger bus met with an accident in Sanabari of Ramechhap district on Friday.

RAMECHAP, July 16: Two people have been killed while three have gone missing after flood and landslide debris in Chatibane River swept through a settlement in Khimti of Likhu Rural Municipality in Ramechap district on Saturday.

RAMECHHAP, July 16: The death toll in Ramechhap lasndsllide has climbed to two after one more dead body was found in the incident site.

RAMECHHAP, May 11: One house was reduced to cinders after it caught fire in Umakunda Rural Municipality of Ramechhap district on Wednesday.

RAMECHAP, March 31: District Election Office, Ramechhap, has fixed altogether 90 polling stations for two municipalities and six rural municipalities of the district for the upcoming May 14 local level elections.

Paradise clinches Ramechhap volleyball

January 20, 2017 21:50 pm

RAMECHHAP, Jan 21: Paradise Youth Club of Khimti has clinched the 2nd Ramechhap National Open Men's Volleyball Tournament defeating Himganga Village Development Committee on Friday.

DOLAKHA, Jan 1: Highland areas around Jiri in Dolakha and some areas of Ramechhap district have received snowfall from Saturday noon, affecting normal life.

Four killed in tipper mishap in Ramechhap

December 14, 2016 11:09 am

DOLAKHA, Dec 14: Four people were killed when a tipper, Ba 2 Kha 6888, headed for Choprang from Galpa, skidded off the road and plunged some 250 meters down the road at Khadadevi-1 of Ramechhap district on Tuesday evening.