Locals worry transportation will suffer if repairs aren’t done before the rainy season.

The delay has left employees and social security beneficiaries without pay for three months and stalled projects.

Hospital services cut back for want of enough personnel, cancer treatment centre delayed.

Burglars entered the bank by breaking a padlock and stole the money stored in metal boxes, police say.

Ward 7 of Ishanath Municipality in Rautahat has been under curfew since Saturday after two groups engaged in a violent clash on Friday.

Acting on a tip-off, a police team from the Area Police Office in Paterwa Sugauli impounded the vehicles loaded with sand from the Bhedaha stream on Thursday morning.

Police arrested the driver based on several complaints that the vehicle was operating recklessly in the city and rural areas of the district.

Supporters of mayor and deputy mayor engage in scuffle over shifting of civil registration branch.

They cut through a wired fence on the centre’s roof, jumped to the house attached to the correctional facility and escaped, said police.

A truck transporting cargo from Birgunj to Pathlaiya has to pay at least Rs2,400 in assorted local taxes, traders say.

A group of juvenile inmates transferred from a reform centre in Bhaktapur assaulted the leader of the inmates leading to the clash.

Birgunj and its vicinity reel as most settlements report drying up of hand pumps, borewells in past two months.

Factories along Parsa-Bara corridor release untreated wastewater into the river.

The state has discriminated against the children of those who acquired citizenship by birth, say civil society leaders.

Seven years after their revolt, many survivors struggle to meet basic needs.