Coronavirus suspects reluctant to get tested due to social stigma, health workers say.

Health workers who were engaged in setting up quarantine and isolation facilities and providing treatment to Covid-19 patients last year say they feel cheated by the authorities.

Unlike last year when authorities in Lumbini made quarantining mandatory for returnees, no such measures have been implemented this year.

The road is always covered in billowing clouds of dust after the drinking water pipes were installed using excavators.

Wildfires have affected 1,558 hectares of forestland in the district since mid-March, according to the Division Forest Office.

The municipality has pledged to invest more than Rs60 million in the Youth Self-Employment Programme.

The training programme aims to turn out 1,500 dhaka entrepreneurs in three years, officials say.

Forest officials and security personnel lack tranquiliser guns and various other equipment required for a safe and immediate rescue of wildlife.

A 64-year-old man was fatally burned and beaten in the name of treatment.

Rescue efforts have been affected due to adverse weather conditions and active landslides in the affected areas.

A bus en route to Achham carrying returnees from India fell off the road in Doti, killing three persons and injuring 33 others.

Continuous rainfall in the past few days has triggered landslides at multiple places in the district.

On Monday, a group of the local unit chiefs visited Chief District Officer Yadav Subedi and demanded speedy testing of all the quarantined individuals.

Police have registered as many as 35 drug-related cases in the past three years.

The school has introduced the technical courses to make students employment-ready when they complete school education.