The close-knit Santhal community is finally opening up to state mechanisms, after a long history of discrimination.

The district court called the representatives of all 17 local bodies in the district, police administration and the district land revenue office at the meeting and provided them with the list of the convicts at large.

Flagged off from Province 1, the drive will be run throughout the year for long-term effectiveness.

Victims despair as authority to probe foreign employment swindling cases transferred to District Administration Office.

A Dalit rights group has demanded the authorities launch a fair investigation.

The metropolis has to bear Rs1.03 million for uniform allowance and around Rs1.8 million for fuel and telephone allowances annually.

Deputy mayor claims the mayor took a unilateral decision and monopolised the workings of the municipality.

Lawmaker Narayan Bahadur Magar said there was a border dispute over a plot of land that falls in both Udayapurgadhi Rural Municipality and Katari Municipality of Udayapur district.

The local units, however, claim there is no threat on environment and human settlements as the amount ofsand and pebbles extracted from those streams was less than the quantity approved for this year.

Hundreds of Nepal-bound carriers stranded at the border point following dispute between India’s security personnel and customs agents.