Around 500 households living on the proposed site at Baijanath Rural Municipality for generations demand that the government first manage housing for them.

More than a dozen huts have been set up inside Jaya Kusumba Devi Community Forest in Gulariya after the formation of Land Problems Resolution Commission last March.

The district hospital is ill-equipped and faces a shortage of essential medicines and infrastructure.

The villagers are hugely affected by the water crisis that starts from November and lasts till mid-June every year until the arrival of monsoon rains across the country.

With Nepali men going to work overseas, Indian workers take a big share of the labour market. As women workers are more sincere, there are signs that may change in the near future.

Local residents say they want the leaders to work on improving the education and health sectors rather than engaging in publicity stunts.

The cycles were handed over to girls from impoverished, Dalit and Muslim families pursuing higher education.

Forest officials and security personnel lack tranquiliser guns and various other equipment required for a safe and immediate rescue of wildlife.

Most people in Pyuthan are compelled to seek medical care elsewhere as doctors are not always present at the district hospital.

A 64-year-old man was fatally burned and beaten in the name of treatment.

Daily wage earners, children and senior citizens are hardest hit.

Traffickers have been using the Jamunaha border in Banke to smuggle girls and women to India on the pretext of sending them abroad for jobs, anti-trafficking officials say.

Smugglers have been using Butwal as a transit point to smuggle wildlife parts to China from Korala border point, police say.

The waste processing centre will be able to process 400 tonnes of garbage on a daily basis, authorities say.

Covid-19 patients in the district are deprived of proper health care with the closure of the isolation centre in Jaljala Multiple Campus in Liwang.

Birds from as far as Siberia, China, Mongolia, Turkmenistan, and Kyrgyzstan, among other countries, migrate to Jagadishpur lake every year during winter, say ornithologists.

The district is not doing much to contain the virus spread while local residents are not following health measures.

Police have detained 18 people in connection with the murder of a 12-year-old boy.

Home births have picked up in some parts of the district during the Covid-19 pandemic.

The deceased was taken in custody 25 days ago on a murder charge, said police.