The trend of encroaching on public land in the name of landless people and freed Kamaiya has gone rampant in the district. Laxman Kathayat, chief of the District Land Reform Office (DLRO), said that around 20,000 hectares of forest land have been encroached in the district so far. The District Forest Office said that the majority of encroached public land belongs to forests in the district. Local authorities say that people with power are encroaching on public land in the name of freed Kamaiyas and landless people while taking advantage of the drive being launched by various organisations to distribute public land to freed Kamaiyas.

-GANESH CHAUDHARY: CIJ

Pitiable public health service has left people at the mercy of costly and careless treatment of profit hungry private hospitals and clinics. What dangers do that pose and how is the issue being tackled? Can we trust our medical system, or are the very places that are supposed to save us a threat to our lives?

-RAMU SAPKOTA: CIJ

Shova Karki, 29 of Sanghu gave birth to a baby¬-girl on October 31, 2006 through Caesarean Section at Om Hospital and Research Centre at Chabahil.  She was diagnose with a normal baby position during her antenatal care (ANC) visits where the doctors told her that she could have a normal delivery. However, two days before the delivery, attending doctor referred her for a surgery.

INDiRA ARYAL: CIJ

Two years after the incident, Nepal police have managed to nab Ranjit Jha (Rajan Mukti) and Mukesh Chaudhury (Prakash Vidyarthi), considered key links to the Mithila bombing that killed 5 people and injured 32 on the morning of April 30, 2012.

-NAVIN JHA: CIJ

The traffic is snarled on the bridge linking Kathmandu and Patan, but commuters stuck in buses and motorcycles are oblivious to the settlements along the banks of the fetid Bagmati.

-DEWAN RAI: CIJ