Five to six members of a family are showing similar symptoms but few have been seeking Covid test.

As many as eight people have been killed by wild elephants in Shuklaphanta and its surrounding areas since 2016.

Around 1,000 people are entering Nepal through the Trinagar border point in Kailali on a daily basis

There are more than 500 health institutions in the district and none of them is equipped to provide essential services.

60 new Covid-19 patients have been admitted to Mahakali Provincial Hospital in the last three days.

They have long been demanding competitive salaries and allowances but to no avail.

Neither the police administration nor the local units and local people are showing interest in effectively implementing the campaign, women say.

Bajhang branch of Hulak Bachat Bank, a financial unit under the Postal Services Department, lured customers especially from low-income groups such as women daily wage workers and the elderly with attractive interest rates only to steal their savings later.

As many as 86 cases of domestic violence were reported at the District Police Office in the past 20 months.

The current academic session started six months ago but the supplier failed to deliver books to 23 community schools in Apihimal Rural Municipality.

The women leaders and activists take up all the space and in doing so exclude real victims from conversations about gender violence, local women say.

The women of Khori spearheaded a movement wherein development projects took off and social evils slowly disappeared with the men looking in from the periphery.

People complain of discrepancies in beneficiary list prepared by District Administration Office as fake victims lay claim to government grants.

Around 20,000 families are left without safe drinking water, which could lead to outbreak of diseases.

Residents of the affected settlements have urged authorities to move them to safer locations.

In the absence of a bridge, local residents use boats and tyre tubes to cross the Mahakali river and buy daily essentials and get medical treatment in India.

Middlemen have been buying tickets from airlines and selling them at higher prices, local residents say.

Recent floods and landslides swept away several electricity poles and blocked roads.

Various settlements are at high risk of flooding with the increase in the flow of Mahakali and Karnali rivers.

At least 60 people are waiting to be rescued from the flood-affected area.