56 quintals of rice have been imported in the district on Wednesday, according to Nepal Food Corporation district depot.

Around 80 people who returned from India in the past two weeks cooped up in a 28-room hotel in Birendranagar.

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.

A provincial meeting has decided to make an action plan to raise awareness about the pandemic in villages.

The nomad community doesn’t know the world is in the midst of a pandemic as authorities have not yet organised awareness programmes.

Five and a half years since the tragedy struck, victims are still looking for help from the government.

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

While the budget allocated to them is being misused, most farmers in the district remain unaware of the grants meant for them.

Unlike other districts across the country, academic session in Humla starts in mid-February because the district sees extreme weather during winter.

The hospital has started providing 24-hour emergency services, OPD, IPD and lab facilities, maternity and X-ray services and minor surgery facilities.

Delay in supply of textbooks a yearly occurrence, according to students.

As per the data available at the CIAA provincial office in Birendranagar, complaints have been filed against the representatives of all the local units of the province.

Most of the poles are already bent with age and neglect.

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

The government has allocated Rs 900 million for the programme in the running fiscal year.

A combination of heavy snowfall and malnourishment spells disaster for the district.

There are six tuins still in operation across the Karnali river in the district, say locals.

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.

For lack of a chief, locals have to walk for two days to Gamgadhi, the district headquarters of Mugu, to make citizenship certificate.

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