The teenager, whose body was found in Rajdevi Community Forest on August 3, had been out of contact since July 28.

The proposed area is home to 500 families, mostly flood and landslide victims, squatters and impoverished households.

Population burst and urbanisation adversely affecting forest cover, conservationists say.

The road project that started some 26 years ago is still incomplete due to the negligence of construction companies, locals say.

The logs were left in the forests as the federal government decided to ban logging, collection and sale of timber nationwide.

Poor people with Covid-like symptoms forced to stay home as they can’t pay for expensive tests.

Covid-19 patients from the municipality had to go to isolation facilities in the neighbouring Sindhuli district for treatment.

The passengers were returning to their villages from Ladakh in India for the upcoming Dashain festival, said police.

The 40-bed hospital in Chaudandigadi Municipality will come into operation by the end of October.

The district has reported 125 coronavirus cases as of Saturday, according to the record of the District Health Office.

Until Wednesday, 92 people had tested positive for coronavirus in Udayapur. Among them, seven are from Katari.

The Saptakoshi is gaining strength as it gushes through provinces 1 and 2, eroding embankments, flooding settlements and displacing people.

The first positive case in the province was reported in Udayapur on April 17; the infection has spread to six other districts in a month.

A journalist reporting from Bhulke in Triyuga Municipality tested positive for the coronavirus.

The office took the decision in the wake of increased incidents of bushfires, trees felling, smuggling of woods and hunting of wild animals across the country.