Rasyalek area, which connects several villages to Kanda, the administrative centre of Saipal, is blanketed with more than seven feet of snow.

The municipality also plans to run various income-generating programmes to make them financially independent.

It’s been three and a half months since PM KP Sharma Oli declared the country ‘Open Defecation Free’.

Local farmers are no longer interested in growing indigenous crops.

Rampant extraction in Bajhang has increased erosion risk of infrastructures like bridges and roads, say locals.

Officials say 70 percent of the construction work at the 85-megawatt plant has been completed.

The marriage between Bohara and BK is a significant departure from an age-old norm--the first such case in the district.

Although the local administration has fixed the rate for public vehicles driving on blacktopped roads at Rs5 per km and on dirt roads at Rs8 per km, most of the jeeps charge eight times more.

Although the constitution guarantees free basic education, most community schools struggle to extend the service to students.

Many people die in the remote district due to superstitious belief and delayed medical response, say health workers.

The Far-west is the country’s poorest province where 33.9 percent of people are under the poverty line. But the sight of the local units and people’s representatives is apparently somewhere else—on the temples.

The report has been published after three-year-long research on the Seti river watershed area.

The hospital had been marred with a shortage of doctors for a long time but the vacant posts are now filled.

More than 1,800 herb collectors have swarmed the district's forest areas, local unit representatives say.

Police believe all four men, who had been trapped since Sunday, died of suffocation.