Four killed in Kalikot tractor accident

Four people, including the driver, died after a tractor carrying goods skidded off the road and fell down a steep slope near Budadanda in Palanta Rural Municipality-2, Kalikot, on Friday night.

Nepal 21 Apr, 2025

5,000 households in Mugu without power

Five thousand households in the district are without access to electricity and the residents are living in darkness. The students have been affected much due to the lack of power supply.

Nepal 15 Jan, 2024

Food crisis looms large with drought in Bajura district

A huge swathe of farmland northeast of Bajura has been drought-stricken, posing the threat of food crisis.

Nepal 15 Feb, 2022

Emergency maternity service at Bajura's Primary Health Centre comes to a halt

The Primary Health Centre (PHC) in Kolti of Bajura district that had started providing emergency maternity services closed operations a little over a week.

Nepal 02 Mar, 2021

Kolti Primary Health Centre in Bajura begins emergency maternity services

Kolti Primary Health Centre in Bajura district has started providing emergency maternity services. 

Nepal 20 Feb, 2021

Two dead, 12 hurt as overloaded jeep plunges 50m in Bajura

BAJURA: Two persons died and 12 others sustained injuries when the jeep they were travelling on plunged into Bhuwa Khola along the Karnali corridor in Jagannath Rural Municipality- 5 of Bajura district today. Police identified the deceased as Ram...

Travel 19 Jul, 2019

Prolonged drought forces Bajura men to leave villages for livelihood

BAJURA: A continued drought across several rural municipalities of Bajura has compelled most men to leave their homes to earn a livelihood elsewhere, as they battle the longest drought the region has witnessed in 42 years. Most of the fertile...

Travel 16 Apr, 2019

Heavy snowfall obstructs road in Jumla district

Jumla, February 23 The Gamgadhi-Nagma section of the Karnali highway remains obstructed for the past some one month due to accumulation of snow on some stretches of the road. Although efforts were made to remove the snow by using bulldozer and...

Travel 24 Feb, 2019

Mugu man beats wife to unconsciousness, leaves her to die in forest

BAJURA: "We do not have any power and there is no one to speak on our behalf," said the mother of a 17-year-old girl who sustained critical injuries inflicted upon her by her husband, who allegedly beat her to unconsciousness and subsequently threw her...

Travel 08 May, 2018

Two dead, five injured in Bajura jeep plunge

KATHMANDU: Two persons were killed and five others injured after the jeep they were travelling in met with an accident in Badimaali Municipality-8 along the Sanphe-Martadi road section of Bajura district on Monday night, police said. The deceased...

Travel 20 Feb, 2018

Prolonged drought hits districts in Karnali, Seti

Bajura, February 16 Prolonged drought has adversely hit locals of five districts in Karnali and one district in Seti. The three-year drought has badly affected eastern parts of Bajura, Humla, Mugu, Jumla, Dolpa and Kalikot districts. It is...

Travel 17 Feb, 2018

Woman in labour saved

Bajura, December 31 Eighteen-year-old Haijali Chadara of remote Hyanglu in Khatyad Rural Municipality-10, who was in labour, was rescued from Kolti of Bajura today. She was airlifted to Surkhet from Kolti with the joint initiative of District...

Travel 01 Jan, 2018