Garbage disposal from the capital Kathmandu resumed from Friday following yesterday's agreement between the government and the representatives of Sisdole Waste Management Concern Committee.

Dinesh Kumar Mishra looks back at the history of floods in North Bihar and wonders what this year has in store Had the Kosi river not breached its eastern embankment at Kusaha last year, 2008 would have gone down as a drought year in North Bihar. The rains were scanty and there was virtual drought after the breach occurred. That is why the Kosi hit only 3.3 million people across five

More than 200 people of 39 families have been displaced due to the flood at Sikidim of Tamku-9 in Sankhuwasabha on Thursday.

The police officers who are in the rescue mission have started to collect the numbers of displaced.

Landslides have started to occur at Devithandanda where displaced 18 families with 81 members were sheltered.

While the mid-west has shown no signs of improvement from the diarrhoea, the epidemic has now spread in Sunsari in the east.

The main water sources have been contaminated with the incessant downpour, thus affecting the people in remote places as well as in the district headquarters.

As many as 50 patients are treated for diarrhoea at the hospital in Sunsari district headquarters Inaruwa.

Responding to concerns over the government

The population of Royal Bengal Tigers in the country is satisfactory, the latest nationwide census on the big cat states.

The census, made public on Monday, allays fears that population of the endangered species might have gone down drastically due to increased poaching.

The Finnish government has decided to provide financial assistance of Rs 505 million for biodiversity conservation in Nepal.

An agreement to this effect was signed between Finnish ambassador to Nepal Pirkko Liisa Kyostila and secretary at the Finance Ministry Kapil Dev Ghimire at the ministry on Monday

Hundreds of families have been displaced from their homes in various districts across the country due to floods ensued by incessant rains since the past few days.

The collection of waste in Kathmandu Valley remains uncertain following an inconclusive end to the meeting between the local struggle committee, Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) and the Local Development Ministry on Monday.

This week locals of Kada and Pathraiya VDCs in Kailali spotted four freshwater dolphins in the Mohana River, a tributary of the Karnali. That