Among the 39 passengers, three dead one still missing.

Following an altercation with the passengers, the driver exited the vehicle which had its engine running, causing the accident, police said.

Most of the facilities in Kalikot do not meet the basic requirements set by the federal government.

The local units do not have a concrete plan yet on how to tackle the mass unemployment that the crisis has wrought.

Palata Rural Municipality’s disaster management committee has urged the people to self-isolate themselves in their homes and report to the health post if they show any symptoms of Covid-19.

The municipality spent about Rs 500,000 on the project, while the locals paid for the pipeline and other construction materials.

The rural municipality has been working on upgrading traditional mills and making them affordable to the population.

The solar power was connected to a total of 4,200 households in Rupsa and its outlying villages such as Lalu, Malkot, Kumalgaun and Kotwada.

Women who took literacy class have started to learn self-employment skills in the villages.

Politicisation of school management committee elections in community schools expose students to highly volatile political atmosphere hampering their studies.

Although complete eradication of the practice seems like a far cry at the moment, various anti-Chhaupadi campaigns launched by young women have paved a way to fight against the practice.

The Road Sector Development Project of the World Bank had helped the department to construct road safety barriers as a pilot project.

The health camp offered free medical exams, medicines, physiotherapy and mobility aids.

The Netra Bikram Chand-led Communist Party of Nepal has claimed the responsibility for the incident.

Decades of rice supplies by the government and the World Food Programme have led locals to adopt rice as a staple food, even though it was never an indigenous grain.