Negligence on the part of District Forest Office to take action against the tree fellers has resulted in rampant deforestation in Rautahat forest areas of late.

KATHMANDU: Incidence of poverty has come down by 17.40 percentage points in the last seven years in six districts where the Poverty Alleviation Fund (PAF) is operating its programmes, a latest repo

Floods and landslides have damaged standing paddy and vegetables on 35,804.1 hectares in 17 districts, including the rice-bowl districts of the country such as Bardiya, Banke, Dang, Kanchanpur, Sir

RAUTAHAT: The relentless drought in Rautahat is causing rice seedlings to dry.

A 32-year-old woman died after being attacked by a wild elephant at Nijgadh Municipality-8 in the district on Tuesday. The deceased has been identified as Parwati Majhi of Kanakpur-5, Rautahat.

Epidemics of diarrhea and cholera that gripped Chandrapur-2, Gaidatar of the district some two months ago is still out of control.

Floodwater generally triggers waterborne disease like cholera, jaundice, typhoid and several others, but officials with Epidemiology and Disease Control Division (EDCD) of the Department of Health

In a bid to declare the district ‘Open-Defecation Free’ by next year, some government offices in Rautahat have started issuing written orders to their employees to immediately build toilets in thei

Nepal is developing a plan to receive results-based payment through the Carbon Fund for emission reduction over a five-year period from 2015 to 2020.

The recent diarrhoea outbreak in Makawanpur’s Dhiyal VDC has to do with water sources contaminated with human waste, it has been learnt.