Officials have engaged shamans to help end Chhaupadi tradition and related gender-based superstitions.

Authorities fail to take action against contractors responsible for delays. Despite repeated warnings, contractors have failed to improve performance.

Dozens left homeless; local officials say Rs80 million in properties destroyed in April 8 inferno.

Cases of the disfiguring disease in Achham are declining, but many may still go unreported out of fear of social exclusion, say officials.

14-year-old Ishara Khadka and 15-year-old Saraswati Khadka were brutally killed after refusing physical relations.

The 58-year-old alleged perpetrator, a distant relative of the victim, is now in police custody.

Legal and medical barriers prevent abortion as the victim, who is still unaware of her pregnancy, has already reached 30 weeks.

Bodies of Ishara Khadka, 14, and Saraswati Khadka, 15, were found in a forest in Dhakari-8 on January 24.

Police say two detainees have confessed to the crime; CIB team to join investigation.

Families suspect foul play. Bodies sent to Nepalgunj for post-mortem examinations.

Families suspect foul play; bodies sent to Nepalgunj for post-mortem.

Fifteen people were injured when panicked passengers jumped off a train and were hit by another, Wednesday.

Bajura’s Tribeni Municipality is cut off for months every year due to lack of a permanent motorable bridge. Pregnant women, elderly, and sick most impacted.

As many as 129 cases of domestic violence were registered at the police over the past 28 months. Many go unreported.

To avoid temple, Dailekh girls either use a broken bridge or miss classes, and the school fines them for absence.