Babai River News Today

KATHMANDU — Nepal’s Department of National Parks and Wildlife Conservation (DNPWC) released 25 critically endangered gharials (Gavialis gangeticus) into a tributary of the transboundary Mahakali River (also known as Sarda in India) on March 17. This action, the department says, aligns with plans to gradually reintroduce the crocodiles to rivers where they historically had roamed […]

KATHMANDU — Nepal’s pioneering landscape-level ecosystem restoration initiative, aimed at creating dispersal space for tigers, has been globally recognized for its efforts to fight and reverse ecosystem degradation. Yet sustaining the success is rife with hurdles such as infrastructure development, human-wildlife conflict, political instability and climate change uncertainties, experts caution. Launched in 2004, the Terai […]

BARDIYA, Dec 23: A child has died in a tiger attack. A 12-year-old boy, Sumit Tharu of Barbardiya Municipality-4, lost his life in a tiger attack on Saturday afternoon.

KATHMANDU, Nov 21: Central member of Janata Samajwadi Party and former member of House of Representatives, Hari Narayan Rauniyar, has joined the CPN-UML.

The once-pristine lakes face a host of pressures due to land use changes and water pollution and contamination that is helping water hyacinth grow.

KATHMANDU — On Sept. 28, Nepal’s Supreme Court, in a landmark decision, ordered the government to clear all human-made structures within 65 meters (213 feet) from the banks of Fewa Lake located in Pokhara, in western Nepal. Conservationists say the verdict, passed following years of deliberation, provides some level of protection for the iconic lake […]

People of wards 6 and 7 or Kalimati Rural Municipality feel neglected by the local authorities and people’s representatives.

The government is all set to register a new Federal Civil Service Bill in the Parliament after getting it endorsed by the Cabinet.

It may take another 10 years before the schemes in Banke, Bardiya, Kailali and Kanchanpur are ready, experts say.

KATHMANDU, June 30: Hari Narayan Rauniyar, a prominent construction businessman and former lawmaker, has been apprehended by the authorities.