The park covers an area of 637.39 sq km and is spread across Parsa, Bara and Makwanpur districts.

There are about a dozen streams and 15 ponds inside the park. But most of them dry up during the dry season, between September to April.

Soybean and palm oil shipments in the first five months of the fiscal year were worth Rs8.58 billion.

The District Police Office has been formulating a phase-wise programme to give continuity to the campaign.

Hotel entrepreneurs and campaigners lament that the major tourist hubs in the district are left in the shadows.

Teaching/learning activities in Nepal Rastriya Basic School get halted when bereaved families and villagers perform funeral rites in the village crematorium.

Officials at the rural municipal office said there’s a lack of teachers and infrastructure in almost all schools in the municipality.

The locals of Birgunj have initiated the campaign with the aim of making the Sirsiya stream and Birgunj city pollution-free.

The migratory pathway of the wild elephants is part of the forests that is set to be striped for the proposed Nijgadh International Airport.

Looking at the number of patients flocking the hospital, doctors suspect that around 500 people have been infected with the dengue virus in Birgunj.

Industrial waste from the Parsa-Bara Industrial Corridor has become a major contributor to the pollution of Sirsiya stream, say authorities.

As part of conservation efforts, for the past three years, a community-based unit has been raising awareness about the importance of conserving pangolins in coordination with the Zoological Society of London.

Dengue detected in all 32 wards of the metropolis, health officials say.

The ghastly sight of garbage heaps and unpleasant smell have forced locals and tourists alike to avoid the area.