Poor infrastructure and a lack of roads have especially put pregnant women at high risk.

The government has increased the minimum support price of sugarcane by 8.39 percent to Rs590 per quintal. The price includes a government subsidy of Rs70 per quintal paid to sugarcane farmers.

The hospital has also launched laboratory, outpatient and 24-hour emergency services.

More than a thousand people have been displaced and several have gone missing with a few reported deaths.

The settlement in Balwa Municipality-4 is one of the most affected areas by floods every year.

The concerned landowners said the valuation of their land made by the Land Compensation FixationCommittee was much lower against their current market value.

In the absence of a ventilator, critical patients of snakebite in Bardibas are sent to other places for treatment.

The girls, aged 10-18 years, were found in Sitamarhi in Bihar by the Indian police and will be handed over to Nepal Police.

The couple was abducted from Sahodwa in Ward No. 5 of Pipara Rural Municipality on February 23.

Around 400 families have been facing water shortage in Ratmate, Bastipur and Raimandal in Ward No. 3 of Bardibas for the last five decades.

The encroachers are working in collusion with the forest officials, forest consumer committee, and Bardibas Municipality, local residents say.

Demonstrators block East-West Highway as they also demand justice for a protester killed in police clash.

Demonstrators took to the streets despite prohibitory order imposed by the local administration.

Three persons injured as police opened fire at demonstrators who took to the streets on Tuesday demanding action against the guilty.

One man was injured after police opened fire to disperse the agitated mob.