Out of Rs. 580 million allocated for blacktopping the Gokuleshwor-Darchula road section in Darchula district, around Rs.

The government is going to start the preparations of the detailed project report (DPR), country's largest hydropower project.

Ninety-five per cent of the houses in Nepalgunj municipality are at high risk from earthquake, the Nepalgunj Municipality stated.

The Kailali District Development Committee (DDC) has prepared a five-year plan for the disaster risk management.

Only 65 percent population in Nepal has access to safe drinking water whereas the remaining 35 percent is compelled to drink polluted water.

Use of pesticides in different farm products including food grains and vegetables has suddenly jumped up in the country in the past few years.

The Department of Roads has so far reconstructed a total 40 kilometres of roads in the Kathmandu Valley in course of the ongoing road-widening works.

Food Security Project has been launched in highly vulnerable different 10 VDCs of Dadeldhura in food security in the district.

A master plan is to be prepared with an objective to manage rural roads constructed in different villages in Baglung district.

Locals have been staging a sit-in in front of Hulas Wire Factory, Bansbari, in Morang district, from this morning, blaming it of polluting the local environment.