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