Teacher shortages, mass dropouts and migration undermine learning despite rising investment in the province.

172 women have died in nine years due to delayed maternal care. Staff shortages have left most specialist posts vacant and ICU equipment unused.

Commercial production hinges on well testing, say officials.

Families have endured freezing winters, rising debts, and reconstruction delays for over two years.

Some candidates are in cities to meet voters who left due to chill while others have yet to reach high-altitude areas.

Humla has 60 polling stations and 64 polling centres, with a total of 34,502 registered voters.

The road show, which began in Nepalgunj on Saturday, reached Surkhet via Dhangadhi on Sunday.

Cases rise in multiple local units as hundreds fall ill, schools disrupted and health facilities struggle to cope.

As many as 4,993 teachers’ posts from grades 1 to 10 in the province’s public schools are currently vacant.

Lawmakers left idle as reconstruction delay leaves meetings uncertain.

Families now have to trek longer and higher for smaller yields of the caterpillar fungus, prized for purported medicinal value.

Deadline extended for the fourth time by one year as the expansion work remains incomplete even in 5 and a half years.

The phenomenon has led to the waste of millions of rupees and erosion of people’s trust in the provincial government.

Families who usually migrate to lower regions to escape the winter cold have been forced to stay indoors as heavy snow disrupts travel.

The influx of Indian pilgrims has benefited everyone from porters and farmers to hotel owners and airline workers.