Landslides along the road section have blocked the highway for 23 days within the last five months.

Maternity homes are ill equipped to deal with maternity-related complications, say health authority.

Eight trafficked children were rescued from Kathmandu before they were reunited with their families on Friday

One hundred kilometres of the Khulalu-Salli Salla road section along the Karnali corridor is now open for vehicles. The completed road section runs from Jite in Kalikot district to Kuwadikhola, a border point in Humla.

Chan Bista and his brother Narendra Bista from Kotbada in Naraharinath Rural Municipality, Kalikot, attacked Dilli Kami, a 57-year-old Dalit man, citing that he failed to come to their house for work last week.

Police suspect that the massive fire that destroyed 32 houses at Khada settlement of Palata-1 in Kalikot district on December 24 was caused due to the carelessness of drunken revellers.

A massive fire that broke out at Khada settlement of Palata Rural Municipality-1 in Kalikot on Monday morning destroyed 39 houses and displaced as many as 285 people including 111 children.

The second District Assembly of Kalikot on Tuesday decided to declare the district as an “alcohol-free zone”.

Three socially committed groups have empowered and educated 440 illiterate women residing in Palata Rural Municipality (1 to 6) in Kalikot District.

Lab test has confirmed influenza AH3 as well as influenza B in sputum samples collected from flu patients of Khadachakra Municipality in Kalikot district.

All schools in Khadachakra Municipality-1, 2, 3 and 4 of Kalikot district have been closed for four days due to viral influenza outbreak in the area.

The local administration continued curfew order in Manma, the district headquarters of Kalikot, on Sunday after lifting it for two hours in the evening.

The local administration clamped curfew in Manma, the district headquarters of Kalikot, on Saturday, as the protest against Friday’s killing of a Myadi Prahari (temporary police) personnel turned violent.

A Myadi Prahari (temporary police) personnel was shot dead by police when a clash broke out between the two sides in Kalikot on Friday. More than two dozen others were injured.

Many Nepali migrant workers, who had come from India to celebrate the Dashain and Tihar festivals, have postponed their return to become temporary police personnel or Myadi Prahari for the upcoming elections.