Once-promising programmes in civil engineering, agriculture, and animal sciences lie dormant for lack of staff and funds.

Hundreds of mostly poor and vulnerable patients denied treatment under government health insurance and social security schemes.

Once a celebration of sibling bonds and village culture, the iconic deuda songs now struggle to survive amid modern music trends.

The vehicle, travelling from Achham to Kailali, veered off the Bhimdatta Highway and fell about 100 metres down the slope.

After months of working in India, youths return home for the festival.

A 28-year-old woman and a 7-year-old girl die while sleeping under a tarp; another woman seriously injured.

Move comes after falling donor support pushed the hospital to suspend crucial services.

The punishing custom of banishing menstruating women to isolation sheds continues due to superstition, fear and social pressure.

Families in Pulbazar area are hit hard by repeated flooding and displacement. Calls for lasting solutions go unheard.

At a recent health camp, two women in their 80s revealed years of silent suffering from uterine prolapse, worsened by poverty and family neglect.

Families in Pulbazar area are hit hard by repeated flooding and displacement. Calls for lasting solutions go unheard.

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.