A 13-year-old girl succumbed to the disease on Sunday, taking the death toll from the outbreak to seven.

Health centres have been established in a majority of wards to make health services easily accessible to all.

Malarani Rural Municipality in Arghakhanchi aims to fill the void left by the absence of skilled and educated professionals in the rural municipality.

Garbage is dumped on the riverbanks as the city does not have a waste processing site.

The project was initiated with an aim to irrigate around 239 hectares of farmland in Swargadwari but given the lengthy delay, farmers have lost all hopes for the project’s completion.

Debris from several landslides caused by monsoon rains along the road stretch of the Kaligandaki Corridor has not been cleared.

Women and senior citizens from impoverished families have hugely benefited from health insurance facilities initiated by the government.

At least 700 fever patients diagnosed with scrub typhus at Tansen-based United Mission Hospital in last three months.

Budget issued by the federal government for the programme is not sufficient to cover all expenses, hospitals say.

The District Administration Office in Rupandehi has clamped a curfew in Motipur Industrial Corridor Area for an indefinite period to avert any untoward incidents.

The clash ensued when police deployed to demolish illegal huts erected on government land were attacked by squatters.

Over two dozen people including police personnel have sustained injuries during the incident, said police.

More than 300 patients have checked in to the 15-bed Shivaraj Hospital since Monday following diarrhoea outbreak in the local unit.

Of the 1,724 people who opted for permanent family planning measures in Lumbini last year, only 235 were men.

The sheer volume of people entering Nepal through Nepal-India border points has made it difficult to test all returnees, health workers say.

The number of infant deaths has increased across the district in last four years despite several programmes implemented at the local and district levels to save mothers and babies.

The haphazard construction of settlements near forest areas has increased human-wildlife conflict, officers say.

The man was attacked and dragged into the forest area by a tiger at Kusum Gabhar, say locals.

Four women travelling from Ghorahi to Nepalgunj died when their car was hit by a flood at Sisnelkhola in Dang last night. The driver has sustained injuries and is currently receiving treatment at a hospital, said police.

More than a dozen sandalwood trees were stolen from the Pyuthan village in the past six months.