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By Abhaya Raj Joshi KATHMANDU — A recent Supreme Court verdict extending no-construction zones along the banks of major rivers in the Kathmandu Valley has triggered frenzied reactions from different stakeholders. While environmental campaigners have welcomed the court’s decision as a crucial step toward saving the rivers of the valley, where encroachment and dumping of untreated solid and liquid waste is rampant, the federal government, under pressure from the local people, has filed for a review of the decision. “This is a landmark verdict in the context of Nepal,” said Sanjay Adhikari, one o…

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