Committee members are responsible for evaluating projects but they don’t have the necessary skills.

Tikapur municipality provides training to target groups, but lack of monitoring, among other factors, mars its output.

Since federalism came in place, the local unit has placed a lot of emphasis on building concrete settlements, and little on keeping arable land intact--changing the face of Tikapur.

The Satti Karnali Community Forest has been providing training to make furniture from canes sticks.

The school was established around 12 years ago, with efforts by the locals.

The district is blessed with around 200 natural lakes but they are at risk due to environmental degradation, say conservationists.

The bird, enlisted on IUCN’s red list of threatened species, started to disappear in the area due to heavy encroachment of wetland areas, its major habitat.

Participants at a conference marking four years of the Tikapur incident said that they would launch a decisive movement for a Tharuhat province.

Although the art of weaving these traditional baskets have been handed down generations, in recent years, young people are refusing to take it up.

The hospital has only three doctors to tend to the sick.

Women prefer to give birth at home because they lack awareness on reproductive health.

Two people were killed and over a hundred injured when the windstorm tore through three districts in western Nepal—Kailali, Kanchanpur and Bardiya

Ten people were injured when a clash broke out at Lamki Bazaar in Kailali district following the death of a 19-year-old cyclist after being hit by a truck on Tuesday.

The ripples created by the 2015 Tikapur incident had just begun to settle down. The town’s residents were gathering themselves from the incident that resulted in violent killings of nine people, and nearly stoked communal violence between the Tharu and non-Tharu communities.

Tharu women have started to take the role of community chief, also known as Badghars or Bhalmansa, in some villages of Kailali district.