A recently-introduced ordinance criminalises loan sharking. It defines loan sharking activities and specifies penalties for the perpetrators.

15 others sustain injuries.

The government has made it mandatory for beneficiaries to receive their allowance through banks.

Nineteen-year-old Prem Kala Thakur has sustained injuries all over her body and hospitalized after an incident of domestic violence in Musaharniya of Rajbiraj Municipality-15, Saptari.

Two persons died and five others were injured on Tuesday when a wild elephant wreaked havoc in Hanumannagar Bazaar, the old district headquarters of Saptari.

Madhesi Janadhikar Forum-Loktantrik (MJF-L) Chairman Bijaya Kumar Gachhadar has remarked that he is not against Madhes and for him the nation comes first before Madhes.

An eight-year-old child was abducted and subsequently murdered in Saptari district.

Rastriya Prajantantra Party Nepal (RPP-N) Chairman Kamal Thapa has remarked that a proposal to end secularism and reinstate Hindu state should be brought along while tabling the constitution amendment proposal to address the demands of Madhes-based political parties.

A seven-year-old girl abducted by her neighbour over family dispute has been rescued from India by Saptari District Police.

Sadbhawana Party Chairman Rajendra Mahato has remarked that no infrastructure should be built at no-man’s land along Nepal-India border without the agreement between the two countries.

A bilateral meeting between security officials of Nepal and India held on Friday has agreed to immediately halt the construction of levee at Dasgaja area (no-man's land) across Tilathi of Saptari district.

The Indian side has started the construction works of a dam near Tilathi, Saptari at the border between Nepal-India by transgressing the Dasgaja area.

Dozens of families have been displaced as hundreds of houses have been inundated after incessant rains triggered floods in different rivers of the Saptari district on Friday.

A Kathmandu-bound Buddha Air aircraft made an emergency landing at Biratnagar airport on Friday due to a technical glitch.

Black marketeering of diesel has spread in eastern Nepal as the market has been hit by a shortage after Nepal Oil Corporation (NOC) reduced deliveries to gasoline stations.