Jaimini Municipality is considering building a ‘conservation park’ for monkeys which they say could be turned into a tourist attraction in the future.

Locals of ward 4 of Badigad Rural Municipality in Baglung have been facing difficulties due to lack of the road.

All 11 wards of Galkot Municipality now have health centres qualifying the local unit to declare itself child-friendly.

Around 150 farmers in Galkot wards 1, 4 and 10 planted around 10,000 saplings of walnut last month in around 32 hectares of land.

Hospital administration plans to operate 200 beds along with state-of-the-art services. There is also a plan to set up a trauma centre.

There are approximately 4,700 people with disabilities in the district, stakeholders say.

They believe they could have earned up to 4 times more with proper support infrastructure.

Women workers say despite being skilled, they only get paid close to a third of the wages paid to male workers.

A resident of Jaimini Municipality in Baglung allegedly murdered his 20-month-old daughter.

In November 2000, Maoist rebels took a grade five student and several other young boys from their school. That was the last the parents saw their 13-year-old son.

Lack of government support in production and marketisation amid a decline in the use of such paper has forced factories to shut down, local entrepreneurs say.

People from several surrounding districts have been deprived of even basic maternity services at the hospital as it has been without a gynaecologist for over a month now.

A violent clash during Holi celebrations had left two dead and six injured. The victims were pushed off a cliff by a group during a fight.

The chairman was arrested with a huge cache of marijuana.

Irregularity in prescribed drugs intake is a main reason it is still prevalent in the district, say health officials.