POKHARA, June 3: Gandaki Province recently began the task for demarcating the borders of its local units and wards, starting from Kaski.

KANCHANPUR, July 12: The Bhimduttanagar Municipality has installed internet services in its 10 wards in a bid to make the Municipality information and technology-friendly.

JUMLA, June 23: There isn’t a single health post in any of the 30 wards of Jumla district. This district with a total of 60 wards has seven rural municipalities and one municipality. Though the public has lamented the extremely sorry state of health facilities, authorities do not promise a sign of change anytime soon.

KHOTANG, April 6: All wards of Jantedhunga Rural Municipality of Khotang are struggling in the absence of ward secretaries who have been transferred to other local units.

BAITADI, April 3: Different types of service have been affected in lack of employees at local-level even after nine months of local-level election.

KHOTANG, March 16: Birthing centers have been established in all wards of the Halesi Tuwachung Municipality in Khotang under the ‘one ward, one birthing center’ campaign.

KHOTANG, March 17: Birthing centers have been established in all wards of the Halesi Tuwachung Municipality in Khotang under the 'one ward, one birthing center' campaign.

KATHMANDU, Jan 16:The Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) has banned the movement of four- wheeler on inner route of seven wards within the metropolis from 7:00 am to 7:00 pm.

KHOTANG, Jan 5: With the transfer of ward secretaries to other districts, most wards of rural municipalities in Khotang are operating without secretaries.

JAJARKOT, August 10: Expressing solidarity with Dr Govinda KC, who has been staging a fast-unto-death demanding reforms in medical education sector, Jajarkot-based doctors boycotted hospital wards on Thursday.

KATHMANDU, July 24: Kirtipur Municipality is to provide free Wifi facility at all the municipality wards.

KATHMANDU, July 20: In a bid to make the Bishnumati clean-up campaign further effective, the responsibility for the same would also be shared to the people elected representatives of wards from 100 weeks of the campaign.

One of the major social problems in Nepal is domestic violence. The main reasons for domestic violence are the use of alcohol and drugs. Intoxicants as such distort our feelings, conscience and activities. They make our nerves weaker, resulting in diseases like high blood pressure and tuberculosis. Substance abuse also results in family conflict and animosity among friends. To prevent this, guardians should be psychologically attentive towards their kids from an early age.

DHARAN, July 10: CPN-UML candidates have won the post of mayor and deputy mayor in the eastern town of Dharan Sub-metropolis as vote counting concluded on Monday evening.

DHANGADHI, July 2: The vote count has been halted at two wards in Dhangadhi Sub Metropolitan City.

DHANGADHI, July 2: Vote count has been halted in Wards 3 and 17 of Dhangadhi Sub-metropolitan City over vote-documentation paper dispute  .

KATHMANDU, June 20: The Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) has decided to disburse Rs 2.225 million to 32 wards each. The budget will be provided by the end of current fiscal year.

HETAUDA, May 17: As the vote counting for 33 wards of the various local units of Makawanpur district reached the final stage, Nepali Congress (NC) and CPN-UML have won in equal number of wards in various parts of the district.

NAWALPARASI, May 15: CPN-UML and Nepali Congress have won the election in 2 wards and in 1 ward respectively in Debchuli Municipality of Nawalparasi.

KATHMANDU, March 16: A week after finalizing the number of wards in the new local structure, the government tabled a bill in parliament on Tuesday to determine the number of wards under the new local units.