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Endangered Raute community has lost its another senior member.

Nandaram Shahi, a senior member of the Raute community, passed away on Thursday.

Shahi (75) died of a heart attack this morning.

They had migrated from Chandanpur, Birendranagar Municipality-11, Surkhet some time ago.

Lal Bahadur Khatri, who was working as a teacher for the Raute Project, said that Shahi, who had been living in the Jhuprakhola forest of Lekbeshi Municipality-10 in Surkhet, passed away today.

Nandaram Shahi’s wife had died just a year ago.

He has seven grand children. 

The Department of Tourism has worked to ensure a well-managed and technology-friendly service delivery.

The Department has prioritized procedural simplification, system reforms and technological regulations in its work execution.

As stated in a recently published annual report of the Department, it has set goals for a business-friendly tourism governance while establishing this sector as an investment-friendly entity and technology-friendly.

The international practices would be integrated into the national system while prioritizing and expanding the tourism activities.

Director General of the Department, Dr Narayan Prasad Regmi, said that efforts were initiated to make the Department's performance simplified, accessible and business-friendly.

He added that policy-level reforms were also on the cards.

Dr Regmi was of the view that enhanced activities in the tourism sector would contribute to the creation of employment and self-employment while resulting in quality tourism and a better hospitality industry. 

Development of tourist infrastructures, quality hospitality service management, promotion of adventure and mountaineering tourism, and management of mountaineering are also being advanced with additional planning, Dr Regmi added.

At least 11 people were injured when a jeep they were travelling in met with an accident in Darchula on Thursday.

The four-wheeler (Sudurpaschim Province 04001 Ja 0103) was en route to Hoparigad from Hopari in Naugad Rural Municipality when the incident occurred this morning.

According to the District Police Office, Darchula, four of the injured are in critical condition.

The severely injured have been identified as Parbati Tamata (25), Mohan Thagunna (26), Apsara Mahata (18), and Umesh Thagunna (35).

All the injured have been taken to Gokuleshwor for treatment.

Police Inspector and Information Officer Chhatra Bahadur Rawat said that the accident occurred due to a brake failure.

Further investigation into the incident is underway, said police.

A US federal court has issued an order in favor of President Donald Trump administration pertaining to the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) of immigrants.

With this order, the deck has been cleared for the Trump administration to remove 7, 000 Nepalis by ending their TPS status.

In a decision issued on Wednesday, the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco granted an emergency stay pending an appeal. Immigrant rights advocates allege that the administration acted unlawfully in ending Temporary Protected Status (TPS) designations for people from Honduras, Nicaragua and Nepal, Aljazeera reported. 

This decision means that the Republican administration can move towards removing an estimated 7,000 people from Nepal whose TPS designations expired on August 5. The TPS designations and legal status of 51,000 Hondurans and 3,000 Nicaraguans are set to expire September 8, at which point they will become eligible for removal.