To keep themselves warm, the locals make fire from hay and sit beside it all night.

The centre was built nine years after the state said it would set up such centres in several other districts.

There were days when Madhesi women in Janakpur were mostly confined to their homes, limiting themselves to doing household chores like cooking, doing the dishes and washing clothes. This was what a routine day was like for them—the cycle repeating itself day in and day out.

Province 2 government started the implementation of the ‘Beti Bachau-Beti Padhau’ campaign—an insurance scheme to encourage girl education—from January 15.

About 90 percent construction work of the Janakpur-Jayanagar broad-gauge railway line has been completed, according to engineers working in the project.

The construction of a permanent bridge over Jamuna River along the Nepal-India border at Bhadariya in Dhanauji Rural Municipality, Dhanusha has been delayed due to the obstruction of Indian Seema Shasatra Bal (SSB). The bridge has been under construction for the past four years.

Viral diseases have downed hundreds of people in the landslide-affected areas of Phalelung Rural Municipality in Panchthar.

In an attempt to conserve red panda—the shy and charismatic endangered mammal species, among other birds and animals—conservation education has been included in school curriculum in Panchthar, Ilam and Taplejung districts from this academic session.

People living in Yashok Bazaar, Sayabrumba and Ranigaun in Kummayak Village Council of Panchthar district are reeling under acute water shortage, as sources have dried up.

Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) has started conducting feasibility study of 762MW Tamor Hydropower Project, which, if constructed, would be one of the biggest in the country’s eastern region.

Social entrepreneur and founder of Nepal Wireless Networking Project, Mahabir Pun, has inaugurated a computer and online study programme at Nangin Secondary School in remote Nangin VDC of Panchthar district.

At a time when reports of violence against women keep flowing in from different parts of the country, Rabi VDC in Phidim seems to be on its way to becoming a model village.

A bridge construction project to link Panchthar and Tehrathum districts has been left incomplete by the contractor.

Left out of the government’s priority list of relief distribution, many earthquake survivors in the district have been deprived of Rs15,000 meant to buy galvanised zinc sheets to build temporary huts.

President Bidhya Devi Bhandari said there’s no doubt in implementing the currently promulgated constitution in the country.