A 400-metre long tunnel of the Kabeli-A hydroelectricity project at the Kabeli River has been completed by the project’s contractor Zhejiyang Hydropower Construction and Installation Company Limited.

Kabeli B1 hydropower project is scheduled to start test production within three months as 95 percent of construction works has been completed, the project said.

Police have arrested seven cadres of Netra Bikram Chand-led CPN Maoist for carrying out anti-election activities from different places of Bhojpur and Panchthar districts.

Five people including three members of a family died and nine others were taken ill after consuming wild mushroom in in Panchthar district on Sunday.

Dalgaun VDC in the district had decided to distribute all its annual budget among villagers to construct toilets.