The health institution is treating patients out of its lobby for a lack of space.

Some respite for survivors as 52 families receive land plots for relocation while the process to move 37 families is underway.

Hardly any Yarsagumba is found in Silichong while Yarsagumba harvest has significantly plunged in Makalu in the past few years, say pickers.

More than a hundred families from two villages in Sankhuwasabha were displaced by a landslide two monsoons ago. The displaced are still living in temporary shelters.

Passenger bus en route to Damak of Jhapa from Sankhuwasabha swerved off the road and fell around 300 metres down a cliff.

Police say the suspects killed six members of a family because of their personal vendetta against the family.

The 25-year-old man committed the crime because of personal vendetta, police said.

The Central Investigation Bureau of Nepal Police has reached the village and is starting investigation from Wednesday.

Mutilated bodies of the victims were found scattered near the house on Monday morning, said police.

Suspected patients have to travel to cities outside the district for PCR tests.

Personnel have been mobilised in the area to search for them, according to the District Police Office.

Local residents are having a tough time managing essential commodities and finding markets for their products.

People living in downstream settlements urge authorities to mitigate the risk.

Bad weather had hampered rescue efforts in the remote village that lies a day’s walk from Khandbari.

Eleven people are missing while four have been rescued alive. The landslide has washed away nine houses.