The contractor company says road infrastructures have been damaged due to heavy rainfall during the monsoon.

The Nepal Veterinary Association and animal rights activists filed the complaint at the Khotang District Police Office on Tuesday.

A video has gone viral that shows two men pummeling a dog to death, while a tractor carries scores of canines--some dead and others semi-conscious.

District chief Bishnu Hari Upadhayay tells journalists ‘to not report on unnecessary matters’ when he was asked about the delay in road repair.

Prices of daily essential commodities have started to drop after a bridge connecting Khotang and Okhaldhunga opened last week.

A bridge connecting Khotang and Okhaldhunga came into operation on Friday, after eight years in limbo.

Four sources of water have dried up in Majhuwagadhi of Khotang district after a dozen illegally operated stone mines used rock breakers nearby to extract natural resources such as boulders.

A number of government agencies have joined forces to host Tourism Festival 2017 in Rupakot, Khotang in a bid to promote tourism in the district. The celebration starts on Friday coinciding with New Year’s Day of Bikram Sambat.

Timber smugglers, in collusion with community forest representatives, are cutting down Khayar trees (Acacia catechu) at Durchhim VDC in Khotang and exporting them outisid the district, according to villagers.

Khotang locals have adopted commercial rainbow trout fish farming as one of their major professions.

Locals in Mahuregadhi of Khotang district continued their protest against the Local Level Restructuring Commission (LLRC)’s proposal on the fourth consecutive day on Tuesday.

At least 24 people were killed and 31 injured when a Kathmandu-bound bus veered off the road and fell around 500 meters at Mahadevsthan-1, Khotang, on Tuesday.

Five houses were destroyed as a massive fire broke out in Diktel, the district headquarters of Khotang, on Thursday afternoon.

Villagers at Phedi VDC in Khotang district have been working towards conservation of red pandas

Nepali Congress (NC) leader Sher Bahadur Deuba has said that the constitution will be drafted despite the reluctance of the UCPN (Maoist) to participate in the process.