Okhaldhunga district in Koshi province has been battling kala-azar for the past several years with the disease spreading wider every year.

Rising temperatures and pollution have led to an increase in the number of snake encounters in villages in the hilly areas.

The landslide in Champadevi rural municipality swept away three houses.

Several dengue, scrub typhus and Kala-azar cases have been reported in the high hill districts of Okhaldhunga and Kalikot in recent years, health workers say.

The authorities should also check the standard of the construction work rather than only focussing on meeting the deadline, say people’s representatives.

Rai completed the distance in 20 hours, 51 minutes and 36 seconds while Pascua took 26 hours, 20 minutes and 56 seconds to reach the finishing line.

Authorities say they will fine contractors Rs 90,000 per day if they don't deliver on time.

The Infrastructure Development Office has asked the contractor company to present a written work procedure within a week.

Eight years have elapsed since the projects were commissioned, and yet the bridges are far from complete.

Six people died and three others got injured when a car swerved off the road and plunged some 500 metres below at Simpani in Manebhanjyang Rural Municipality-6, Okhaldhunga, on Sunday.

One thousand five hundred and sixty five displaced families from sixteen earthquake-hit districts have received land plots in safer locations to construct their houses.

The reconstruction of Shree Kushmanda Basic School at Pakhe in Chisankhugadi Rural Municipality-5, Okhaldhunga, has been delayed due to a lack of construction materials, according to the school’s Principal Indira Bhattarai.

The construction of Salleri-Surkhe road that links the Everest region to the national road networks has come to a halt in recent months.

The newly-elected representatives of federal parliament and provincial assembly in Solukhumbu district have reached out to the local people of Tingla who boycotted all three levels of elections--local, federal parliamentary and provincial assembly polls.