Works have started at the under-construction Arun Third Hydroelectricity Project in Sankhuwasabha district. The project’s works were halted due to the lockdown announced to prevent COVID-19 pandemic. The 900-Megawatts capacity project is situated at Makalu and Chichila rural municipalities. Construction works have been resumed after the district administration permitted for

– Bhabin Karki The Bhotkhola rural municipality in the remote northern region of Sankhuwasabha has been facing a food crisis. The food crisis is due to the closure of the Kimanthanka transit with neighbouring China, which remains shut since the past 2.5 months following the spread of the Coronavirus. People

Construction of the Arun Third Hydroelectricity Project has been halted due to the coronavirus menace. The 900-Megawatts capacity project is being built in Sankhuwasabha. The Project Office here has said construction works on the project have been suspended after the government announced a lockdown on Tuesday to prevent the spread

Over 11,000 trees were chopped down in course of the implementation of two hydropower projects in Sankhuwasabha, the district in State 1. Such a number of trees were felled for the implementation of 900-megawatt Arun III hydropower project and 220-KV Koshi corridor transmission line. The trees were being managed by

The Kimathnka transit point in the northern belt of Sankhuwasabha district has been closed. China has shut the transit point after the spread of corona virus in China. Fourteen Nepalis who had gone to Changa on the other side of Nepal-China border in search of work have been stranded there

Armed Police Force (APF) has established a border outpost (BOP) at Kimathanka checkpoint in Bhotkhola rural municipality-1. APF sources said this was so far the first armed police post along the northern border. Brigadier chief of APF Eastern Region Headquarters Nagendra Bahadur Thapa and Chief District Officer Jeewan Dulal jointly