The two men were on their way to celebrate election victory and had climbed on the roof of a bus when they touched electric live wires hanging overhead.

Lack of motorable roads makes birthing centres inaccessible to pregnant women while birthing centres closer home lack skilled health staff.

Wild animals from Banke National Park enter human settlements and destroy crops, local farmers say.

Seven students have lost their lives crossing the river in the past three years, say locals.

Families living in settlements near the Banke National Park say life has become unbearable as they cannot work in the fields or go to forests even during the day.

The residents of Bagchaur Municipality and Chhatreswori Rural Municipality are forced to visit private clinics since the primary health centres in the local units don’t have doctors or medicines.

A drinking water project has finally connected Chotre and Hingbare to a supply line.

The 40-bed district hospital does not have an ICU and ventilator facility in the absence of skilled manpower to operate the medical equipment.

The stone-and-mud building with four rooms shelters 129 inmates, including 22 women and three of their children.

The halt in surgical services has forced people in the district to go to Nepalgunj, Surkhet or other places for treatment.

Poor road condition, coupled with human negligence, unserviced old vehicles and disregard for traffic rules, leads to fatal road accidents.

The bus en route to Tulsipur of Dang from Salyan plunged into a river near Kapurkot Rural Municipality-5.

There are around 5,000 individuals living with disabilities in the district and most of them face difficulties in availing services from government offices.

Lack of trained human resources and absence of proper medical equipment have rendered the health centre at Chhatreshwori Rural Municipality useless, local residents say.

An estimated 100,000 goats are sold during the Dashain festival in Kathmandu, according to the Department of Livestock Services.