There are around 50 households in Talium and all of them are engaged in rabbit farming, officials say.

Farm incomes have more than doubled after the roadless villages were connected to the highway network.

Having exhausted all options, the villagers decided to hire watchmen to protect their crops from marauding monkeys.

If Karnali Highway is closed, the apples will rot in the orchards, say farmers in Jumla.

Foreign Minister NP Saud has requested the chief minister of Uttarakhand to rescue Nepalis missing in the disaster.

Preparations are underway to take the injured to a hospital for treatment.

The group locked the houses and set them on fire by sprinkling petrol, says ward chair.

The arrangement is expected to make life easier for the locals from far-flung villages who would otherwise have to go to Khalanga, the district headquarters, to buy salt.

Cows, buffalos and even yaks have been infected, and thousands have died, officials said.

Police have arrested the girl’s brother on charges of criminal arson and caste-based discrimination.

The auto rickshaw heading to Patarasi Rural Municipality from Khalanga met with an accident at Patarasi-7.

One dead, two are missing in the incident at Chyarkhulek.

The irrigation channels damaged by the floods last year have not been repaired.

The rice variety is grown at the highest elevation in the world of 3,050 metres above sea level in far-western Nepal.

The 76-year-old man’s body was found by the side of a river close to the hospital.