The chief ministers sought the confidence of the provincial assemblies as per the constitutional provision.

The better-than-expected monsoon is expected to increase paddy production by 10 to 15 percent in 14 districts of Province 1 this year.

Lawmakers and entrepreneurs underlined the need to focus on economic and development related agendas to ensure prosperity at the grass-roots level. They expressed their views during an interaction organised by the Kantipur Media Group on Thursday.

The minimum wage of domestic labourers has been increased 38 percent to Rs13,450 per month. The raise will come into effect from the start of the new fiscal year.

A district-level inter-school drama festival is currently ongoing at the Biratnagar-based Aarohan Gurukul Theatre. The fest features plays by student-artists from 90 schools in the district.

Police have arrested Hindu leader Acharya Shree Niwas from the Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu for trying to incite communal violence by staging an attack on himself to make it appear like an attempted religious assassination.

Flood displaced people living at Jamuwa in Biratnagar metropolis, Morang, are facing hardship due to cold weather.

Sugarcane growers have finally received payment for their crops from Eastern Sugar Mills which had delayed paying them for a year. The farmers said the sugar factory owed them Rs310 million in total.

Sanghiya Samajbadi Forum Chairman Upendra Yadav has remarked that it would be a grave crime to postpone the elections to federal parliament and provincial assemblies.

The flood-damaged bridge at Mirjungghat, India is set to resume operation from Saturday after Indian authorities completed repair works. The bridge had seriously affected Nepal-India trade via Biratnagar border point.

Nepal and India has agreed to use the Bhimnagar-Bhantabari small customs checkpoint in the eastern region as an alternative to the Biratnagar-Jogbani customs to keep trade movement between two countries operating smoothly.

An Armed Police Force (APF) constable died after a bus hit a bike he was riding on in Sambhunath Municipality-6 of Saptari district along the East-West Highway on Thursday.

Panna Lal Tharu of Barju Rural Municipality sold the sugarcane produced in his field to a sugar mill more than two months ago but he has yet to get full payment from the sale. He had sold 700 kg of sugarcane produced in five biggas of land to Eastern Sugar Mill.

Construction of cross-border broad gauge railway line from Katahari in the eastern Nepali district of Morang and Bathnaha in the Indian state of Bihar has come to a halt after landowners, who were not happy with compensation extended by the government, moved the Supreme Court.

People of Jayanagar area in Pathari Shanishchare Municipality-5, Morang, are in constant fear of their homes getting flooded because of delay in completion of repair works of an embankment along the Bakraha river.