Around 10 seriously ill Covid-19 patients have been visiting the hospital on a daily basis in the past few weeks.

The dialogue takes place two days after the home minister met the agitating group whose demands include the release of jailed lawmaker Resham Chaudhary.

The mob set fire to a traffic post at Lamki Chowk and pelted stones at the area police office, said police.

With natural lakes in Kailali drying up, authorities are making efforts to turn Ghodaghodi wetland area into one of the main habitats of migratory as well as domestic birds.

Thirteen border pillars and more than 100 subsidiary pillars have already been lost to the Mohana and Karnali.

A local youth club has been protesting against Bohara after the latter started constructing a concrete house on the forest land.

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.