As mayor, Rai’s model of development has been celebrated by locals for turning Dharan into a modern, cosmopolitan city.

The eastern hilly region is seeing a 30 percent increase in production of the sweet fruit.

The Nepal Communist Party (NCP) and the Nepali Congress (NC) have intensified their poll activities targeting the swing voters of the landless squatters.

The campaign was launched after authorities found out that locals living on both sides of the border had encroached upon no-man’s land.

A city of many faces flanked by the Tarai plains and the Eastern hills welcomes you for an experience of a lifetime.

17 people of Kushaha and Jutwan were killed in elephant attacks in the last two years.

The Epidemiology and Disease Control Division has been collecting data only from the state-run health facilities.

In Dharan alone, 3400 patients have been officially diagnosed with the fever.

Last week, the regional laboratory at Biratnagar, after an examination of the dead cattle, had stated that soil-borne Anthrax viruses were found in the animals.

The students want microbiologists to be recognised as health professionals.

Last week, 44 cattle died in Sunsari which conservationists and veterinarians say could pose immediate danger to park animals and local residents.

More than 3,000 people have been infected with dengue in the city in the last two and a half months, health workers say.

It is the first dengue death in the sub-metropolis this year; around 1,500 people were infected with the disease.

Institute agrees to increase quota in Medicine, Paediatric and Surgery streams for Nepali students

Doctors demand one-third quota should apply in each department.