Shortages of carboplatin and cisplatin are forcing patients to spend days searching for medicines, disrupting treatment at B.P. Koirala Memorial Cancer Hospital in Bharatpur.

Once a subsistence and food-insecure village, Hapani in Ichchhakamana Rural Municipality is seeing steady rise in household incomes.

Communities in Meghauli are combining forest-side water management and village-based alert systems to reduce rising human-wildlife conflict.

Only two foundation piles have been completed since the contract was awarded to Tundi Construction in June 2023, with repeated design revisions delaying progress.

Decades of efforts to establish new habitats for endangered species have produced uneven outcomes, raising concerns as authorities prepare to relocate blackbucks to Chitwan.

Officials say trees around enclosure could give leopards access to relocated blackbuck, reviving concerns shaped by past wildlife translocation failures in Chitwan.

Hotel and resort owners report full occupancy at cool stations as people escape hot weather, albeit momentarily.

Growing rhino presence in settlements around Chitwan National Park is raising fears among residents and prompting debate over habitat change, urban expansion and wildlife management.

Doctors suspect possible wild mushroom poisoning after siblings developed vomiting, diarrhoea and headaches.

In a remote Chitwan village, an 11-year-old girl is stuck repeating a class she cleared—not because she failed, but because the next school is two hours away.

Chitwan National Park records show seven of the 204 rhinos that died between the fiscal years 2015-16 and 2022-23 were killed by electric current.

Children from the same family in Chitwan’s Ichchhakamana Rural Municipality reportedly fell ill after eating wild mushrooms collected from forest.

Nepal’s first nationwide count of the critically endangered migratory bird found just 2,530 individuals, highlighting the impact of hunting, pesticide use and shrinking wetland habitats.

Delayed mitigation efforts continue to endanger traffic along the Narayanghat-Mugling road. Prolonged closures also disrupt travel and supplies to Kathmandu.

In the hills of Chitwan, residents say the new crossing over the Kayar River could transform daily life in communities long cut off during the monsoon.