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By Abhaya Raj Joshi KATHMANDU — On the morning of Aug. 1 in Dodhara-Chandani, a town on the banks of Mahakali, which serves as the western border between Nepal and India, a 23-year-old woman was attacked and killed by a tiger while working next to a sugarcane field. The big cat emerged from the sugarcane field and struck a blow on her head, killing the woman instantly. In May 2023, a tiger was reported to roam the Kalika Community Forest near the Nepal-India border in Bhajani Municipality-5 in far-western Nepal. According to local officials, the tiger was believed to have emerged from the surr…

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