The injured are undergoing treatment at hospitals in Damak, Birtamod and Biratnagar

The tea estate owners have not increased the daily wages in four years, citing losses incurred during the Covid-19 pandemic and the ongoing recession, post-Covid.

Deputy mayors want more market monitoring.

Tea farmers allege that the Nepal Electricity Authority has made the tariff regulations without having an adequate study of the industry.

There are around 40 permanent and more than 150 seasonal workers in such plantations.

There is a great distance between the egg producer and the egg consumer, insiders say metaphorically as they call for fair prices.

The accused had allegedly repeatedly chastised the victim, causing mental trauma, leading to the victim taking her own life.

The eastern district is now what Biratnagar used to be between 1990 and 2010.

The tea industry is one of the oldest and largest export-oriented sectors in the country, but it has no social protection scheme.

Medical waste, highly hazardous to health and generated by various hospitals in Birtamod, has been finding its way to the Biring River of late.

Lack of adequate fertiliser could cause a 30 percent drop in tea output this year, insiders say.

The Inaruwa-Kakarbhitta railway line will be 106 km long, and it is estimated to cost Rs90 billion.

Fertiliser shortage is major problem repeating every crop season in the past several years.

The remote village in Jhapa is cut off from the rest of the district for most of the year due to rise in water level.

The 50-bed hospital is being built by the Kathmandu Institute of Child Health. The health institute plans to operate at least one children’s hospital each in all seven provinces.