Around 10 seriously ill Covid-19 patients have been visiting the hospital on a daily basis in the past few weeks.

While families of patients complain of a lack of ambulance services, ambulance drivers say they worry about their health safety.

Around 700 to 800 people are returning home from Gadda Chauki border point on a daily basis. However, only a tiny fraction of them are being tested for Covid-19, health officials say.

The pandemic has only highlighted the poor health infrastructure in the province, say health workers

Winter crops production was down by over 90 percent in most farmlands this year, according to officials.

There is no official record of entries through the other five border points in Darchula.

A proposed landfill project has failed to take off due to protest from some town residents who do not want a waste management facility near their homes.

Most women ward members say the inclusion policy has only served as a token gesture to fulfil gender and caste representation requirements at the local level.

As many as 34 returnees entering Nepal from Gauriphanta border point tested positive for Covid-19 in the past five days.

Tharuwan/Tharuhat Rashtriya Morcha says it will continue their movement until the government releases all prisoners connected to Tikapur incident and withdraws false cases filed against them.

The mob set fire to a traffic post at Lamki Chowk and pelted stones at the area police office, said police.

The contractors have refused to transport goods citing financial losses on the trips they make to the hilly regions.

A woman from each household in the settlement has come together to build a biological embankment along Banahara River to control erosion.

The park is conducting controlled bonfires in different parts of the grassland to manage wildlife.

Local residents living in disaster-risk zones have been requesting relocation to safer areas but authorities are yet to come forward with a plan.

In the last fiscal year, the municipality started allocating budget to each community school to distribute sanitary pads to girl students.

In the last two years, the hospital established several medical units to enhance its services.

The family had earlier refused to receive her body demanding forensic medical reports yet to arrive from Kathmandu lab.

They believe more people may have been involved in the mudrer besides the teenage suspect.

The suspect is a teenage boy studying in the same school as the victim, said police.