Balaram Musahar, 18, a resident of Sarawal-7 in the district, sustained burn injuries after he was allegedly thrown into the brick kiln furnace in Dubauliya in the district.

People from Marchahawa of Kudiya VDC-4 in Nawalparasi district on Monday staged a demonstration to protest the murder of 10-year-old Jivan Kohar in a human sacrifice ritual.

The District Police Office in Nawalparasi on Sunday remanded 11 people involved in the “sacrifice” of a 10-year-old boy in custody for probe.

In a shocking incident, a 10-year-old boy has been sacrificed at Kudiya VDC in Nawalparasi district in the name of “exorcising evil spirits”.

Agricultural workers from inner Tarai and bordering Indian villages are thronging Chitwan as the district faces a labour shortage due to migration of youths for foreign employment.

The toll from an accident on the East-West Highway at Daunne on Friday morning has reached nine.

Chitwan National Park (CNP) officials have arrested Swami Krishna Prapannacharya, a follower of spiritual leader Swami Kamalnayanacharya, for encroaching upon forests

Supporters of religious leader Swami Krishna, who was arrested by Chitwan National Park officials on Tuesday night, have obstructed the East-West highway in Nawalparasi.

In a shocking revelation, a minor from the district has been found “sold” at a shop in Rupandehi.

Local people at Kudiya VDC in Nawalparasi staged demonstrations at Balmikinagar, India, to protest the alleged murder of a Nepali national by Indian forest officials.

The subsequent rise of timber smuggling in community forests located in the remote areas of Palpa and Nawalparasi has been blamed on the weakness of DFO and Community Forest.

Indian nationals have reportedly prohibited local people at Susta VDC in the district from tilling farmland inside the Nepali territory saying that the area is ‘disputed’.

While the DDC is preparing to star a bidding process for the extraction of sand and gravel, the DFO has opposed the move arguing that rampant mining may destroy the Chure region.

A health service programme supposed to be implemented under the District Public Health Office (DPHO) around six months ago has not yet been initiated in the district.

People from Bargadawa village in the district, who were displaced after the then Maoist rebels attacked the settlement killing 11 local residents eight years ago, have not returned yet.