Jagat Khadka

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Tomatoes cost Rs 180 a kg in Bajhang

Published On: September 13, 2017 09:06 AM NPT By: Jagat Khadka

BAJHANG, Sept 12: The price of tomato has been increasing exponentially in the local market of Bajhang. Citing low production by the farmers, vendors are selling tomatoes at Rs 180 per kg these days.

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Unable to use school toilets, students practice open defecation

Published On: September 1, 2017 03:41 AM NPT By: Jagat Khadka

BAJHANG, Aug 31: More than 500 students of Durga Higher Secondary School, Sainpasela, Bajhang are compelled to practice open defecation after three toilets in the school could not be brought into use.

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Landslides caused by road expansion damage paddy

Published On: August 14, 2017 09:44 AM NPT By: Jagat Khadka

BAJHANG, Aug 13: Landslides have destroyed the paddy fields of dozens of farmers in the district, turning them into riverbanks. With their farms lost, the farmers have become landless.

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Ex-Maoist combatant living a miserable life for four years

Published On: July 25, 2017 04:15 AM NPT By: Jagat Khadka

BAJHANG, July 24: It has been more than four years since Surendra Damai,40, a former Maoist combatant, has been struggling with life in a small dilapidated hut, which too is built in someone else's land because he doesn't have his own land.

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Landslide debris obstructing vehicular movement on Jay Prithvi Highway

Published On: July 18, 2017 04:15 AM NPT By: Jagat Khadka

BAJHANG, JuLY 17: Landslide debris on the Jay Prithvi Highway has not been cleared even after ten days, obstructing vehicular movement and adding to the woes of the locals.

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Landslides obstructs Jayprithivi Highway

Published On: July 11, 2017 04:24 PM NPT By: Jagat Khadka

BAJHANG, July 11: The Jayprithvi Highway section from Jyapu of Baitadi to Maluwa at Jayprithivi Municipality of Bajhang has been obstructed due to incessant rainfall.

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Bajhang farmers rues lack of market

Published On: July 9, 2017 10:30 PM NPT By: Jagat Khadka

BAJHANG, July 9: Vegetables are rotting in farms as farmers in Bajhang are not finding market for their produce.

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Bajhang women to vote for those pledging to end chhaupadi

Published On: June 15, 2017 08:33 AM NPT By: Jagat Khadka

BAJHANG, June 14: Some women in Bajhang have announced that they will vote for candidates in the upcoming local level elections who express commitment to end the tradition of chhaupadi. They have openly forwarded this demand to mayoral candidates of Maoists (Center), CPN-UML and Nepali congress, among other political parties, during the latter’s door to door election campaign.

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Migrant workers return home to vote in local polls

Published On: May 20, 2017 10:09 AM NPT By: Jagat Khadka

BAJHANG, May 19: A lot of Nepali migrant workers, who had left the country for jobs abroad, have returned home to caste their votes in the local elections being held after a gap of almost two decades.

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60 schools shut for 3 months for picking yarsa

Published On: May 11, 2017 12:50 AM NPT By: Jagat Khadka

BAJHANG, May 11: Without the consent of the District Education Office (DEO), 60 schools of Bajhang have announced three months of holiday for the teachers and students to pick yarsa.

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Where Dalits can’t buy milk

Published On: April 18, 2017 08:13 AM NPT By: Jagat Khadka

BAJHANG, April 18: Though Kalpana Nepali is aware her caste can put her in difficult position, it’s not possible for her to avoid it. A resident of Patadeval village last week she was once again traumatized for being a Dalit. A milk seller in the district’s headquarter Chainpur refused to sell milk to her just because she is a Dalit.

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Election fever grips rural villages

Published On: March 31, 2017 08:38 AM NPT By: Jagat Khadka

BAJHANG, March 31: The election fever has not just gripped towns and cities, but also the rural villages in the country. With the local polls now just 44 days away, political leaders in Bajhang district of the far west region are busy visiting rural households, appealing to the locals to vote them.

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Studying in open

Published On: March 29, 2017 09:50 AM NPT By: Jagat Khadka

BAJHANG, March 29: In lack of classrooms and furniture, students of several community run schools in Bajhang are forced to study under the open sky. Whether regular classes or examinations, they sit on school ground. According to Gachhe Pani Lower Secondary School’s principal, Krishna Rokaya, there is no other way for them other than to run classes in the open air.

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Bajhang Locals forced to drink dirty river water

Published On: March 23, 2017 08:02 AM NPT By: Jagat Khadka

BAJHANG, March 23: Most rivers in Bajhang are not very clean because locals throw dead cattle into them, wash clothes and above all defecate on their banks. Despite knowing how much the water is impure the same locals are forced to drink water from these rivers as other water sources are drying up fast.

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Is Women's Day only for the well-offs?

Published On: March 9, 2017 12:20 AM NPT By: Jagat Khadka

BAJHANG, March 9: Putali Sarki, 35, of Melbisauna-7 was almost beaten to death by her husband for not opening the door instantly after his arrival at home on Tuesday.

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Vaccination, iron tablets not available in rural Bajhang

Published On: February 17, 2017 01:30 AM NPT By: Jagat Khadka

BAJHANG, Feb 17: Women and children in the remote villages of Bajhang district have been deprived of vaccination and iron tablets.

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Child marriage, teen pregnancies affecting female health

Published On: February 11, 2017 09:42 AM NPT By: Jagat Khadka

BAJHANG, Feb 11: Kalpana Dhami of Dahabagar VDC - 3 was mischievous and playful as a child. Few girls in her locality would want to go to school, but she was among those who had a strong urge for going to schools with the boys. Her dream was never fulfilled.

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Toilets off-limits to menstruating females in Bajhang

Published On: February 8, 2017 08:20 AM NPT By: Jagat Khadka

BAJHANG, Feb 8: For Bajhang, toilets are a recently introduced novelty. Within some years they have become ubiquitous. However, male and elder female members of 20 villages in the district have decided to keep them off limits to women during menstruation and during post-delivery period, at least.

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Pregnant women deprived of iodized salt in Bajhang

Published On: February 1, 2017 02:16 AM NPT By: Jagat Khadka

BAJHANG, Jan 31: Pregnant women and new mothers in over two dozen of VDCs in Bajhang district have been deprived of iodized salt as the salt has not been supplied to those areas. The women say they hardly have any idea about the salt. The government has limited the availability of iodized salt only to the district headquarters Chainpur, depriving locals of remote areas of the much-needed salt.

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Ex-Maoist combatant now a successful vegetable farmer

Published On: January 30, 2017 12:40 AM NPT By: Jagat Khadka

BAJHANG, Jan 30: There was a time when Hari Datta Awasthi of Sunkuda, Bajhang proudly walked with his rifle and a bag of  dynamite on his back with the aim of changing the society with his revolutionary spirit. This former deputy battalion commander of the Maoist army is now reinventing his life by starting a vegetable farming in the dry lands of Sunkuda.

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