Raikal had reportedly looted 30,000 rupees in cash from the victim after the assault.

People still hold faith healers in high regard and ignore medical advice resulting in deaths of numerous pregnant women, infants and patients.

Dalit rights activists say non-Dalits refuse to interact with them, extend services, rent rooms or even sell them milk.

Adarsha Rural Municipality in Doti district has provided 55 teachers to various community schools in its jurisdiction.

Springs in Adarsha Rural Municipality are drying up, leading to an acute water shortage.

Thirty-four people from eight families have been living under one tarpaulin tent in Uparkada.

Six people died, seven injured and hundreds were displaced in the November 8 quake.

Hundreds in Doti and Bajhang have been awaiting resettlement to safer places.

At least six people died, 12 were injured, and hundreds displaced in M6.6 earthquake that rocked the Purbichauki Rural Municipality in Doti district on Wednesday.

The earthquake occurred at 2:12am on Wednesday with epicentre at Khaptad National Park, according to National Seismological Centre.

West Seti, a storage-type hydroelectric project in the Far West, stands as example of Nepal’s sluggish development.

The high court overturned the life imprisonment term of four individuals to a 5-year prison sentence while Laxman Tharu, who was sentenced to a 3-year prison term, will now serve a life imprisonment sentence.

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

Officials say they can’t test every body because of limited resources.

Some districts are solely dependent on understaffed and underequipped health desks to stave off coronavirus.