Beni Bazar Drinking Water Project initiated a project to lift water from the Myagdikhola at a cost of Rs5 million.

The incident occurred after a pickup carrying voters to a polling station in Waling Municipality fell some 500 metres off a slope, police say.

Commuters and local residents are severely impacted as the authorities don’t bother to repair the dilapidated road.

School enrolment campaign has not been able to make much headway since most people are either out participating in political rallies or listening to the political campaigners, say educators.

People of the remote villages have to pay three times the actual cost to bring in essentials, including food, clothes and construction materials, on mules.

Population growth and pipes in disrepair causing water scarcity in two villages.

Local representatives distributed 1,197 temporary land ownership documents to landless families in Shuklagandaki and Bandipur last week.

Six cases of elephantiasis have been reported in Narayansthan and two cases in Kushmisera in the past 10 months, according to the data of the District Health Office in Baglung.

The project deadline has been extended time and again. The latest timeframe ends on April 13 this year.

While the fire in the Tatopani and Mauwaghari forests is out, Chisapani Community Forest is still burning, say locals.

Half a dozen schools had been conducting classes out in the open since the earthquakes damaged their buildings.

Rs106.2 million was spent on the project that supplies water to over 1,000 households in Baglung Municipality.

Local residents complain that relevant authorities are not doing anything to curb illegal extractions from Marshyangdi river at Dhaptar.

Jaimini Municipality to give Rs300,000 to the beneficiaries under the programme.

The school gained popularity after Prince Harry helped in its reconstruction in 2016.

The rickety condition of two bridges has forced the locals and tourists alike to risk their life and limb while crossing them.

A roadside tree in Shuklagandaki Municipality where a pair of slender-billed vultures had built nest and laid an egg has been felled for widening the road.

Around 100 vultures have died of electrocution at Shishuwa Bateri in Byas Municipality in the past two years.

Several drinking water projects are underway with an objective of supplying water to each household in Ghiring Rural Municipality.

Service seekers, mostly men, are not used to seeing an all-female staff manning a health post. But for female patients, the health post is a welcome change, health workers say.