The local authority urges people not to go to those houses as guests that do not have a kitchen garden.

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

The province’s Health Directorate says the tender to procure the nutrient-enriched flour was cancelled after the product’s samples were found to be substandard.

The government allocates a monthly allowance of Rs 400 to children below five years, Rs 1, 000 to single women and people between 60 to 70 years, and Rs 2,000 to people over the age of 70 and to the completely disabled

Plans were introduced to construct a terminal tower, but work is yet to start.

The District Soil Conservation Office had introduced a master plan to conserve the lake some nine years ago but the project never took off.

Mothers as young as 16 struggle to build a comfortable life for themselves and their children.

Rs 100 million allocated under under ‘people’s road programme’

Community groups cutting down trees on the pretext of managing old and fallen trees

Lives of many women and their newborns at risk, health workers say

The priced caterpillar fungus was scarce in Dolpo this year due to frequent snowfall, storms and rains, locals say

The number of students at Malika Secondary School has fallen by 20 percent because of poor state of the classrooms

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.

A case has been lodged at Kanchanpur district court against six police officials for their involvement in destroying evidence in the rape and murder of Nirmala Pant. The 13-year-old school girl was raped and murdered on July 26, 2018 in Bhimdutta Municipality, Kanchanpur.

Eleven people died on the spot and another sustained serious injuries in a jeep accident in Darchula on Friday. The incident occurred at Ratakatha Bhir of Duhu Rural Municipality-3 at around 8pm yesterday.

In the warmth of the December sun, little children run around dusty alleys while elderly women, scarlet-shawled and bedecked in heavy brass ornaments, lazily smoke out of wooden chillums. The school is closed for the winter, so the children get to stay home for two months, and the elderly women have little else to do but bask in the sun while it is still warm outside. The water has not frozen yet, so the younger women wash clothes and bathe at the village communal tap. Early in the morning, tendrils of smoke rise from small stone-and-mud houses.