Jagat Khadka

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Hypocritical politicians sustain caste system: Dalits

Published On: August 6, 2018 08:59 AM NPT By: Jagat Khadka

BAJHANG, Aug 6: Mangal Aauji of Masta Rural Municipality - 1 still remembers several bitter incidences from his childhood, where he was discriminated on the basis of his caste. He remembers how people belonging to the so-called higher caste would treat him lowly but he would fail to understand for doing so.

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Open gambling in Bajhang DAO

Published On: July 30, 2018 03:00 AM NPT By: Jagat Khadka

BAJHANG, July 30: Government employees and contractors in Bajhang have been accused of gambling under the pretext of playing badminton every morning.

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Confiscated red sandalwood lying idle in warehouse since years

Published On: July 26, 2018 02:30 AM NPT By: Jagat Khadka

BAJHANG, July 26: It's been seven years since a pile of illegal red sandalwood confiscated from the jungles of Bajhang have been lying idle in the warehouse of the District Forest Office (DFO).

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Villagers fear landslide due to rampant deforestation

Published On: July 19, 2018 02:30 AM NPT By: Jagat Khadka

BAJHANG, July 19: With the rise in smuggling of woods, locals of Kedarsiu Rural Municipality-6, Jasuda have started fearing landslides and displacement.

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Villagers build 6km long road selling wives’ ornaments

Published On: June 1, 2018 07:35 AM NPT By: Jagat Khadka

BAJHANG, June 1: Locals of Talkot Rural Municipality-5 in Bajhang district have constructed a six kilometer long road in their village by selling ornaments and keeping their land as collateral to raise the required fund.

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Seti River washes away bridge

Published On: May 19, 2018 08:07 AM NPT By: Jagat Khadka

BAJHANG, May 18: As the Seti River washed away the wooden bridge connecting Durgathali and Thalara rural municipalities, vehicular movement has been obstructed in the region.

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Students head toward highlands for picking Yarsa

Published On: April 22, 2018 07:00 AM NPT By: Jagat Khadka

BAJHANG, April 22: With the beginning of the new academic session, parents were just preparing to enroll their children to schools when a large number of schools in the rural parts of Bajhang were shut down due to the arrival of the Yarsa-picking season.

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No power can save Resham Chaudhary from law: AIG

Published On: March 20, 2018 06:52 AM NPT By: Jagat Khadka

BAJHANG, March 20: Additional Inspector General (AIG) Madhav Prasad Nepal, who is the chief of police in Province 7, stated that no power of the world can save Resham Chaudhary, the alleged mastermind of the 2015 Tikapur massacre, from the law.

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Unavailability of banks in rural parts adds to the miseries of poor

Published On: February 27, 2018 02:30 AM NPT By: Jagat Khadka

BAJHANG, Feb 27: During the local elections, leaders had promised to bring the facilities of Singha Durbar to their local units.

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Child marriage taking toll on rural women's life

Published On: February 24, 2018 09:05 AM NPT By: Jagat Khadka

BAJHANG, Feb 24: Kalpana Bohara was just nine when her family arranged her marriage. The boy was 12. At 14, Kalpana delivered a baby.

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Poachers pose serious threat to wildlife in Bajhang

Published On: January 30, 2018 09:27 AM NPT By: Jagat Khadka

BAJHANG, Jan 30: With the sudden plunge in temperature after heavy snowfall in the mountain region,   wild animals and birds have moved to human settlement areas to escape the bitter cold. However, they have turned victims at the hands of locals and poachers.

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People practicing child marriage to be ostracized and penalized

Published On: January 3, 2018 07:50 AM NPT By: Jagat Khadka

BAJHANG, Jan 3: Holding placards with the slogans "end child marriage, shape beautiful future," women of Bugal Municipality, Bajhang are conducting door-to-door campaigns urging the locals to abolish child marriage.

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Bajhang’s 2nd largest market lacks toilets

Published On: December 31, 2017 08:07 AM NPT By: Jagat Khadka

BAJHANG, Dec 31: It might be hard for some to believe that it is very rare for people to find a toilet in Thalara Kholi, the second largest market of Bajhang, which is famous for the palace of Thalari king.

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People practicing or promoting Chhaupadi in Dhamile to be punished

Published On: December 23, 2017 10:05 AM NPT By: Jagat Khadka

BAJHANG, Dec 22: With the aim of eradicating Chhaupadi, the women of Dhamile, Jaya Prithvi Municipality-11, have launched a campaign to ostracize those families in the area that practice or encourage Chhaupadi.

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Drinking water crisis hits rural Bajhang

Published On: December 19, 2017 02:48 AM NPT By: Jagat Khadka

BAJHANG, Dec 18: As the sources of drinking water have started drying up, dozens of villages in Bajhang are suffering from an acute shortage of drinking water.

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Bajhang's vegetable collection center being used for sex trade

Published On: December 18, 2017 10:30 AM NPT By: Jagat Khadka

BAJHANG, Dec 18: The Tamail Vegetable Collection Center (TVCC) of Bajhang, which was built for collecting and selling vegetables of farmers, has now turned into a sex trade hub and a shed for cattle.

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Stiff competition between NC and left alliance in Bajhang

Published On: November 15, 2017 02:30 AM NPT By: Jagat Khadka

BAJHANG, Nov 15: Former Bajhang district president of Nepali Congress (NC), Prithivi Bahadur Singh, is contesting the upcoming parliamentary elections from the only constituency of Bajhang district. His main rival in the polls is Bhairav Bahadur Singh, an alternate central member of CPN-UML. A tough competition is expected between them in the elections slated for November 26.

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HIV/AIDS becoming a major threat in Bajhang

Published On: October 14, 2017 03:47 AM NPT By: Jagat Khadka

BAJHANG, Oct 13:  Two brothers of the same family in Bajhang who had left for India in search of employment have returned back with HIV. The virus has not just been transmitted to their wives but also to one of their children. Being horrified by the result of the blood tests, which showed all of them HIV positive, the two brothers along with their wives and an infant ran away to India all over again instead of taking medicines.

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Wildlife meat openly bought and sold in Bajhang

Published On: October 14, 2017 03:44 AM NPT By: Jagat Khadka

BAJHANG, Oct 13:    Besides the increase in crime rate, illegal buying and selling of wild animals and birds including the national bird of the country 'danphe' has become rampant in Chainpur, the district headquarters of Bajhang.

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School girls build toilet on their own

Published On: September 19, 2017 07:48 AM NPT By: Jagat Khadka

BAJHANG, Sept 19: Girl students of a local school in Bajhang village faced hassles due to lack of toilet in the school. As the administration of Majkhori Higher Secondary School (MHSS) in Chhabis Pathibhara Rural Municipality- 6, Bajhang did nothing about it, the girls themselves took the initiative to build a toilet. And they say, they are proud of it.

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