KATHMANDU, March 28: Holi, the festival of colors, is being observed with huge fanfare in the mountainous and hilly regions of the country on Sunday.

PHOTOS: Reaping rice

October 3, 2020 19:52 pm

KATHMANDU, Oct 3: The locals in the suburbs of the Kathmandu Valley these days are busy harvesting their paddy crops.

KATHMANDU, Sept 18: Farmers around Sankhu, Kathmandu, are busy harvesting paddy these days.

KATHMANDU, Aug 4: Amid the heightened fears of the novel coronavirus disease, this year’s Gaijatra was celebrated without much fanfare in Sankhu, Kathmandu.

Motorcyclist dies in road mishap

January 14, 2020 13:21 pm

SANKHAU, Jan 14: A motorcyclist died in a road accident at Sankhu of Sankharapur municipality today. The deceased has been identified as Shiva Sunar, 24, of Melamchi municipality in Sindhupalchowk district.

KATHMANDU, June 11: Locals have been agitated after the road construction from Chabahil to Thali via Sankhu, started four years ago, has not been completed yet.

SANKHU, April 4:The under-construction Chabahil-Sankhu road section is full of fog resulted from pile-up of dust and smoke. The road section has seen all-pervasive chaos with scattered and uncoordinated works on drainage construction, road expansion and gravel placement.

12 gamblers arrested

February 3, 2019 09:37 am

SANKHU, Feb. 3: Police have arrested 12 gamblers from the house of a local resident Krishna Bahadur Thing near Chapbot at Nanglebhare of Shankarapur Municipality in the district last night.

Case filed against 18 for prostitution

December 10, 2018 19:41 pm

SANKHU, Dec 10: Police have filed a case against 18 persons on the charge of indulging in prostitution in various parts of Boudha in the capital. Of them three are hotel entrepreneurs.

KATHMANDU, Sept 10: Reconstruction of heritages of Kathmandu's historical city, Sankhu, which was devastated by the April 2015 earthquake, has not gathered momentum.

KATHMANDU, April 3: Bajrayogini Jatra at Sankhu is celebrated every year in the month of April (Chaitra/Baishak) for eight-long days where the idols of the Gods from the Bajrayogini temple are brought down to the town and carried around the entire town.

KATHMANDU, Nov 28: CPN-UML leader Madhav Kumar Nepal has spoken of the need of promoting the historic city Sankhu and making it internationally known.

SANKHU, Nov 22: After waiting for almost two years after his house was destroyed by the earthquake, Krishna Charan Shrestha of Sankhu in Shankharapur Municipality started rebuilding his house. As he finally started working on the foundation of his new house, the only worry Shrestha now has is whether he will receive the housing grant from the government.