Agitated protestors allege that the NEA has issued only industrial electric metres instead of normal or agricultural metres to the fish farmers, due to which fish farmers are forced to pay high electric bills.

The victim has been taken to Kathmandu for further treatment, police say.

People have been deprived of essential services, teachers of salaries and beneficiaries of social security allowances.

A 45-year-old survey department employee died after the department’s vehicle crashed into a tractor late on Monday.

With the deal, family agrees to receive the body of the man killed on Friday.

On Sunday, police lobbed dozen teargas shells and fire into the air to contain the situation.

The local administration reimposed a curfew in the market area after protests escalated again on Sunday.

Barahathawa Municipality’s decision to upgrade and hand over a 15-bed municipal hospital to the province triggered the violent protest on Friday.

The order has been enforced from 8am today [Saturday] till 8am on Sunday.

Local residents were protesting a municipal plan to hand over a health post to provincial authorities. Protesters claim the man died from police bullet.

They demand a minimum of Rs750 per quintal for this season’s harvest and release of last year’s subsidy pay.

They demand Rs750 per quintal minimum for this season’s harvest and release of subsidy amount.

The government has promised to pay sugarcane growers a cash subsidy of Rs70 per quintal.

District administration issues 72-hour prohibitory order banning assemblies.

People from two communities had clashed after a Krishnajanmashtami ritual on Friday.