KATHMANDU, NOV 02 - Every year, 11,000 children under five years of age die of pneumonia, despite the state's claim that its efforts to contain child mortality are paying off.

According to the Ministry of Health (MoH), over 58,000 children aged below five years die of various diseases, including pneumonia.

For all the money and attention devoted to the child labourers in Nepal, no one has yet worked out, where they are and what it has done. That is to say, plopping the whole lot into a subject called

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The Kathmandu Upatyaka Khanapani Limited (KUKL) is planning to increase water tariff soon. It claims the proposed hike is in line with recommendation of Asian Development Bank, the main donor for Melamchi drinking water project.

Recent government data shows that the rate of deforestation has increased since the end of the decade-long conflict.
According to Department of Forests (DoF), about 100,000 hectares of forest cover was encroached and denuded in the last fiscal year that ended mid-July 2008.

Rampant use of plastic products and their haphazard dumping has been a matter of headache not only for the environmentalists but also for those involved in waste management. However, for the women of Sidhhipur in Lalitpur, thanks to their Suiro campaign, waste plastic material is now an eco-friendly source of income.

Construction of Mid-Marsyangdi Hydroelectricity Project has been completed. The country's second largest hydro-power project is undergoing a series of tests before coming into operation.
Project Assistant Director Lok Prasad Nepal confirmed that works relating to construction and equipment installment of the 70 MW project have been completed.

On April 5, 2006, police arrested three wildlife traffickers along with 40 kg tiger bones and a leopard skin at Kalanki in the capital. The confiscated animal parts were found in a wicker basket wrapped in a bed-sheet and placed 40 inches below the ground. On the ground, they (traffickers) had placed idols of gods. The traffickers were living as squatters on public land

A national consultative meeting on management of preventing natural disasters that take place in the South Asian countries kicked off in the capital on Wednesday.
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Home Affairs Bamdev Gautam attended the inaugural function of the meeting organised by the European Commission (EC).

Claiming that some 13 hectares of farmland was registered in an illegal way, cadres of CPN-Maoist have prevented landowners from harvesting their ripe paddy here at Kurainiya of Bhaktipur VDC.
The Maoists returned the land, that they captured five years ago, to the rightful owners last year as per the agreement of an all party meeting.