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Global Sisters Report (blog)
March 8, 2018
Sabitri Dakhal and her husband, Nilaram Dakhal, were struggling to make ends meet, as do many residents of the west Nepal region of Surkhet. Finding it harder to eke out a living in their mountainside village, the couple migrated to a more populated valley in the area in 2005. Sabitri worked as a maid;Ãâà...
Nepali times
March 8, 2018
Somana Khadka (right) is blind but is studying for her Masters, and is vice president of Asahaya Bidyarthi Sangh in Surkhet. Because of her education and support from her peers in the NGO she is able to anchor district level programs and is aspiring to be a writer and already has published poetry.
The Kathmandu Post
February 27, 2018
Feb 27, 2018-Three persons died and two others were injured in a tractor accident at Malarani in Gurbhakot Municipality-2 of Surkhet district on Tuesday. The deceased have been identified as tractor driver Phatta Bahadur BK, 20, Shashi Ram BK, 25, and Narayan Khatri, 32, of Mehelkuna, Gurbhakot-8, District TrafficÃâà...
The Kathmandu Post
February 24, 2018
The Sher Bahadur Deuba-led government, on January 17, had announced Surkhet as the temporary headquarters. Two motions concerning the provincial name and the capital were tabled in the assembly separately for a vote. The name Karnali was endorsed by 37 of the 40 assembly members. Thirty-sixÃâà...
Himalayan Times
February 11, 2018
The compound wall of Upper Karnali Hydro Project damaged after a bomb blast in Birendranagar, Surkhet, on Sunday, February 11, 2018. ... Improvised explosive devices went off at the offices of the Indian company GMR, investor of Upper Karnali Hydro Project, in Surkhet and Dailekh last night.
Himalayan Times
February 9, 2018
SURKHET: The 'Province level Trade, Tourism and Agro Festival-2074' has kicked off in Birendranagar, the temporary headquarters of Province 6 in Surkhet district on Friday. Inaugurating the festival, Province Chief Durga Keshar Khanal stressed the need to develop the Karnali corridor connectingÃâà...
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