Shortage of staff and rise in the number of patients have affected service delivery.

Loose boulders rolling down the Yarubhir in Dharche-1 are becoming a major cause of frequent accidents.

Rescue efforts to airlift the injured have been hampered due to bad weather and continuous rainfall, police say.

Hundreds of passengers have been stranded due to disruption in vehicular movement.

A month-long study conducted in all local units of the district shows the presence of the microbe, raising concerns of an outbreak of water-borne diseases, including cholera.

The Department of Hydrology and Meteorology issued a notice on Wednesday appealing to the residents of Kawasoti, Danda and Giruwari areas to exercise caution.

The festival was organised by the Pokhara Tourism Council to mark National Paddy Day observed across the country today.

Census conducted two months ago put the animal’s number at 1,290, a dip from 2,202 five years ago.

Lack of qualified teachers and high qualification requirement for courses are to be blamed.

Tamankhola Rural Municipality in Baglung has decided to provide scholarships to one MBBS student every fiscal year on the condition that they serve in the rural municipality for at least five years.

The 32-year-old actor, who has been accused of raping a minor, had appealed against the lower court’s decision at the high court on Tuesday.

The flooded Kaligandaki river damaged around 50 metres of the embankment during last year’s monsoon.

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.