Karnali Provinces’ finance minister assures to address the problem soon by appointing employees on a contract basis.

Though the Division Road Office allocates millions of rupees for road repair work every year, the roads in the district are in dire conditions.

Around 500 landless squatters had received space to build in Salyan district.

Forest committees have spent around Rs 500,000 to distribute gas cylinders and stoves to 100 families. The amount was managed with the income of the community forests.

Guardians’ preference for private schools over community schools is contributing to the decrease in students’ number.

The local unit’s plan to construct a drinking water project to supply water to parched Kagkhola is in limbo as the locals of another village--which is water rich--has refused to share its water source.

The local authority urges people not to go to those houses as guests that do not have a kitchen garden.

The raging forest fire in a community forest of Chhatreswori Rural Municipality-6, Salyan, has not come under control yet.

A woman died while two other people sustained serious burn injuries while trying to contain a massive forest fire at Tusare Simpani of Chhatreswori Rural Municipality-6, Salyan, on Saturday.

Police have arrested four suspected smugglers in possession with leopard hides from Sharada Municipality-1 in Salyan district.

Many psychiatric patients in the district refrain from seeking any treatment fearing social humiliation and stigma attached to mental illness, sources at the District Hospital said.

A former commander of the dissolved People’s Liberation Army, who has been living with shrapnel in his body, has accused the then CPN (Maoist) party and the government of being apathetic