The early warning system sets off a siren after detecting the movement of elephants and also notifies locals through the ‘Hatti Ayo’ mobile application.

In the past week alone, 62 fever patients who visited the district hospital for treatment tested positive for dengue virus.

Medical waste, highly hazardous to health and generated by various hospitals in Birtamod, has been finding its way to the Biring River of late.

The river changed course and turned west through Dumribote and entered several wards of Belaka Municipality.

Ban on human movement inside 14 community forests in Taplejung expected to provide favourable space for the shy animal.

The trio had left their home on Saturday afternoon together to go for a walk, according to family sources.

With elections just months away, parties again renew efforts to name the province, only to end up bickering.

Poachers and smugglers instal traps in various places of the conservation area every year to catch musk deer and Himalayan black bear for their body parts.

The prison is accommodating inmates more than three times its capacity.

Province 1 government undertook the reconstruction, excavation of Bungnam Gadhi in Okhaldhunga without consulting Department of Archaeology.

Trees, mostly chir pines locally called Khote Salla, growing in around five hectares of forest land have dried up, according to the division forest office in Dhankuta.

Experts say human-wildlife conflict has risen because of encroachment of the bio-corridor by humans over the years.

Squatter settlements along the river banks have been most affected by the floods, police said.

18.6-km railway linking Katahari, Morang with Bathnaha, India gets bogged down in land compensation issues.

Mechinagar locals encircled the calf, lassoed it and brought it to the ground with a loud thump.

At least 30 families in Sirijangha Rural Municipality have been displaced by the landslide.

A team of experts and technicians confirmed classical swine fever in Dharan’s pig farms as commercial farms report a high number of swine deaths in the past two months.

They warn of stern protest if government fails to address their demands of either providing due compensation or lifting provision halting their land registration process.

Construction of roads, transmission lines and infrastructures, rampant use of forest products and overgrazing are threat to rhododendron conservation.

Around 13.5 tonnes of garbage collected daily from Dhankuta Municipality is turned into compost manure by mixing the decayed garbage with soil, which is later used to fertilise a flower garden.