The Poverty Alleviation Fund has decided to put its 32,000 subordinate community institutions under local units to keep up with the new federal governance system.

Jorayal Rural Municipality in Doti district has launched a campaign to end maternal and infant deaths in the municipality.

Nepal Communist Party Co-chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal has said that the country will face a crisis if the peace process and constitution are not implemented.

The District Court Palpa has registered 122 divorce cases in the first six months of the current fiscal year Among those seeking divorce were 87 women and 35 men

A 14-year-old boy has admitted to killing his female employer Rupa Thapa of Mudabhari in Rapti Municipality-6, Chitwan.

Efforts are underway to protect king cobra, a rare species of snake, at Koshepani forest at Beni Municipality-9 in Myagdi.

Snowfall coupled with breezing wind has troubled normal life in Humla since Monday midnight.

Bajura police has started collecting data of Chhaupadi sheds in 69 wards of nine local units in the district in the run-up to the anti-Chhaupadi campaign.

The Ministry of Health and Population has planned to expand free dialyses in 16 districts across seven provinces.

Minister for Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Bhanu Bhakta Dhakal has said the government is planning to reform the country’s judicial system to reinforce people’s trust on judiciary.

A task force has been formed to solve the problems facing the Koshi corridor transmission line project in Dharan, Sunsari.

The Bhaktapur-based Nepal Engineering College has been operated as a community education institution contrary to claims that it was being run by the private sector, a task force formed to investigate alleged irregularities in the college concluded in its report.

Chief of Army Staff (CoAS) Purna Chandra Thapa left for New Delhi on Friday for a six-day visit to India. The Army Chief set out to India this morning at the official invitation of his Indian counterpart General Bipin Rawat.

Students from the mountainous districts of Karnali Province have to sit their final exams without completing the annual course every year.

The Ministry of Urban Development is preparing a design for the construction of a landfill site in Bancharedanda, Nuwakot, to ensure a permanent solution to the Valley’s waste management.