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.

Muslims in Tikapur Municipality, Kailali, have been facing difficulties in performing their death rituals as the municipality does not have a Muslim graveyard.

A school teacher was electrocuted and two students sustained injuries during preparations for Swarswati Puja at Dasharath Secondary School in Ghodaghodi Municipality-2 of Kailali district on Saturday.

A six-month-old child died after he was reportedly administered a DPT vaccine at Lamkichuha Municipality-1 in Kailali district on Sunday night.

Women from Kamaiya community, freed labourers, have launched campaigns to end gender-based violence in Kailali district.

On May 18 earlier this year, Yam Lal Rasaily embarked on a solo cycling trip—journeying from Lamki in Kailali to Rara lake in Mugu district. It was an impressive feat, cycling from sea-level up to 2,990 metres in just 13 days.

Hitwa, a dramatic adaptation of the classic Tharu folktale Hitwako Katha, is currently being staged at Tikapur in Kailali district. Adapted and directed by Sushil Chaudhary, the play is being staged in coordination with the Bardiya-based theatre group Saidan Natya Samuha and the Kathmandu-based Shilpee Theatre.