The government provides a Rs4,000 monthly social security allowance to impoverished communities, but Netuwas are deprived of this benefit.

Although women have started looking at institutional delivery as an option, the majority of women from rural areas still give birth at home.

A police team was dispatched to the area after the police were tipped off that people were trading narcotics in the Bank Colony area in ward 8 of Siddharthanagar.

Gaps in public health awareness have turned malnutrition into a serious problem.

The former minister for land management, agriculture and cooperatives has been accused of issuing cheque without sufficient balance.

Proprietors accused of being involved in gold smuggling to India.

The identity of the deceased is yet to be ascertained, according to Highway Safety Traffic Management Office, Butwal.

The awareness campaign targeting pregnant women, new mothers and would-be fathers is mostly conducted at the initiation of female elected representatives.

A team of Nepal Army and Nepal Police personnel disposed of the IED created by inserting explosives into a pressure cooker.

Lumbini has the highest mortality rate among all seven provinces in the country at 207 deaths per 100,000.

As many as 26 members in the 87-strong assembly are under 40 years of age.

The increasing number of women entrepreneurs reflects the progressive mentality of the family and society, officials say.

Police say the smugglers opened fire in an effort to scare-off the security personnel stationed to monitor the border area.

The session has been called at 1 pm.

Min Bahadur BK of Kanchanpur-5 in Rupandehi district was sentenced to 30 years in prison by the Kapilvastu District Court in 2015.