Thirty-five families have been displaced by a landslide at Malladehi VDC in the district.

Despite the district declaring an open defecation free zone, local people of Shikharpur VDC-3 and 7 defecate in the open due to lack of toilets at homes.

Lakes carrying historical and archaeological significance in the district have been shrinking due to utter negligence of the authorities concerned.

The number of children suffering from tuberculosis in Parsa, Bara, and Rautahat districts in mid-Tarai is far greater than that shown by government statistics.

Construction work for the Upper Balephi ‘A’ Hydropower Project located in Sindhupalchok district has started.

Local people in Ramechhap are having an extremely hard time coping with water woes, while school students are the ones who are affected the most.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered that the road planned through Baisdhara Park-Balaju not be constructed without conducting a feasibility study involving experts.

A new UN agency report released on Tuesday shows that cancer is the biggest natural killer and that developing nations will bear its brunt in coming decades.

Deforestation has gone unchecked at a forest spreading over 270 hectares of land in Nyali VDC in the district, locals said.

Fifty-seven percent work has been completed on the much-prioritised 456-MW Upper Tamakoshi Hydropower Project (UTHP).