Efforts to conserve lakes in the district have been affected due to a lack of an authorised body to look into the matter, stakeholders say.

The country saw opening of 3,000 km of new roads (dirt road) in the last three fiscal years (2010-11 to 2012-13).

Citing financial constraints, the government has slashed the number of diseases and physical conditions by more than half for which it provides treatment support financially.

The government is preparing to declare Bhaktapur Open Defecation Free (ODF) district during the upcoming South Asian Conference on Sanitation (Sacosan) to be held in Nepal for the first time.

Concerned over serious public health and environmental impacts of mercury pollution, Nepal is likely to be a signatory country to the Minamato Convention on Mercury, a legally binding treaty agreed

Around 2,300 trees were fell down whilst widening roads inside Kathmandu Valley within the last two years, said the Department of Roads (DoR) on Tuesday.

Bird flu has been confirmed in two poultry farms at Kamaney in Hetauda-8, Makawanpur district.

Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) has reduced the capacity of Tamor Hydropower Project to 200 MW from 530 MW.

The government has planned to expand the five-year Multi-Sector Nutritional Plan (MSNP), that aims to reduce chronic malnutrition by one third of the current prevalence of 41 percent of the childre

A day after the government failed to declare bird flu emergency in Bhaktapur, the H5N1 strain of the flu was confirmed in chickens on five poultry farms in the district on Monday, the day the flu w