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.

The corridor will be extended in future to reach Nepal-India border through Marchawar area, say authorities.

Forty-seven cooperatives have been established in Dang, Banke, Bardiya, Kailali and Kanchanpur for the upliftment of the former Kamalaris’ economic status.

The doctors have not received the promised allowance for months.

Immunisation programmes have also been disrupted in Lumbini Province.

Landslides at Limgha and Thulolumpek in Gulmi district had claimed 13 lives and displaced around 100 families last year.

Park officials say using technology has helped control illegal activities inside the park while they intensify anti-poaching operations ahead of the festive season.

A chunk of the budget was spent on procurement of medical equipment but the government failed to manage the required human resource to use those equipment.

Road office says it does not have the funds to repair the highway this year.

The hospital had received three ventilators from provincial government but there are no staff to operate them.

It is a good sign that the people’s representatives despite their age have decided to pursue education; it sends a positive message of the importance of education, say teachers.

The provincial assembly also endorsed Deukhuri Valley in Dang as the capital of the province.

The district administration has enforced a four-day-long prohibitory order in major places of Butwal starting Sunday morning.

Fourteen provincial assembly members representing the NCP wrote a ‘note of dissent’ during the parliamentary party meeting.

The number of critical Covid-19 patients has started to increase in hospitals after the government stopped contact tracing, health officials say.