Counting of swamp deer and one-horned rhino has begun at Suklaphanta Wildlife Reserve in Kanchanpur from today.

The tiger census was completed at the wildlife area a month ago.

Health experts have warned that the Kathmandu Valley could turn into a city of cardiac and chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases in next five years if nothing is done immediately to curb air pollu

Wildfire has destroyed 600 hectare forest land at various VDCs in Panchthar district in the last few days.

HETAUDA: Hetauda Cement Industry, which has been spewing a lot of dust after its machine to control harmful emissions went defunct, has alarmed locals.

As many as 116 patients have been found suffering from tuberculosis (TB) in the district in this fiscal year, said Krishna Prasad Subedi, TB Inspector at the District Public Health Office.

A sanitation commando team has been mobilized to help declare the district as 'open-defecation free' zone by mid-April 2014.

One-third of approximately three million people, who are diagnosed with tuberculosis every year in South-East Asia, cannot pay for their medical treatment, according to the World Health Organisatio

Majority of paints analysed in seven Asian countries, including Nepal, contained astonishingly high lead content and did not meet the international regulatory standards, according to the Asian Regi

The process to upgrade the 20-km Kathmandu-Sisdole road stretch has begun, the Kathmandu Metropolitan City says.

The stretch links Kathmandu with the Sisdole landfill site in Nuwakot.

Industry Minister Karna Bahadur Thapa today laid the foundation stone of Maure-Kailashmandu and Maure-Toli-Chatara road sections in Bajura.