Around 250 households in wards 1 and 2 of Mallarani Rural Municipality endure hours-long gruelling treks uphill and downhill to fetch water.

Lungrimadi Irrigation Project intended to serve 1,200 hectares of croplands in Swargadwari Municipality through a 12-km canal system.

Sonu Sunar of Pyuthan Municipality was killed in the war two weeks ago.

Identity of seven victims ascertained.

School administrations are pulling out all stops to bring their former students back and to encourage new students to join.

The fire spread to the human settlement from a community forest.

Earlier Puranthanti villagers had to travel for miles even for minor treatments.

Twelve others were injured in the incident, police said.

Authorities concerned have offered assurances but haven’t done anything to resettle the displaced victims yet, they say.

Residents are forced to use murky water from rivulets, raising public health concern.

The students who are forced to walk six hours daily said their studies have taken a hit. Some have opted to drop out.

The jeep was carrying pilgrims returning from Swargadwari temple.

Eight people died when a jeep carrying a wedding procession swerved off the road at Gaumukhi Rural Municipality-6 in Pyuthan on Saturday.

The project was initiated with an aim to irrigate around 239 hectares of farmland in Swargadwari but given the lengthy delay, farmers have lost all hopes for the project’s completion.

More than a dozen sandalwood trees were stolen from the Pyuthan village in the past six months.