Five people from two families died when a four-storey building caught fire on Friday morning.

Four women travelling from Ghorahi to Nepalgunj died when their car was hit by a flood at Sisnelkhola in Dang last night. The driver has sustained injuries and is currently receiving treatment at a hospital, said police.

Local residents say they want the leaders to work on improving the education and health sectors rather than engaging in publicity stunts.

Star-studded APF registered a nine-wicket win over Sudurpaschim Province in the first semi-final while Province 1 crushed Lumbini Province by 10 wickets.

The winners among them would have secured berths for the last four as both of them were tied on two points each before the last match.

Lumbini edged Province 2 by nine wickets while the departmental giants thrashed Karnali Province by 204 runs.

Officials are working to bring fresh produce directly from the farmers' fields to consumers.

Dang, the gateway to hilly districts such as Rolpa, Rukum, Pyuthan and Salyan, has seen a surge in the number of migrants trying to go home.

Conflict-era victims who attended an interaction programme held in Tulsipur last Wednesday say justice delayed is justice denied.

Commentators say the statistics show the public school teachers’ loss of faith in their own profession.

The arrests were based on a tip-off that the group was planning ‘something big’ for the upcoming by-elections.

The state funds schooling and accommodation of war-orphaned children until the twelfth grade only.

Police on Tuesday arrested three district leaders of the Netra Bikram Chand-led Communist Party of Nepal from Tulsipur in Dang district.

A man convicted of gang-raping a girl at Bijouri in Dang district has been arrested after 10 years.

Police fired a dozen rounds of tear gas shells in Ghorahi, Dang, on Monday after situation became tense due to demonstrations by locals over the death of local Meghraj Pun in a road accident.