The accident occurred after a motorcycle and a jeep collided head-on on the East-West Highway.

Nepali traders suspect geopolitics after the Indian government recently ordered its customs to sample every single batch of Nepali tea destined for India.

As over 12,000 trees are being chopped along the Kakarbhitta-Laukahi section of the East-West Highway, animal habitats are being destroyed.

Somnath Portel accuses Dambar Giri, an ex-vice-chair of Haldibari Rural Municipality, of verbally abusing him with caste-related derogatory words.

Request Province Head Khapung to appoint UML provincial assembly leader Hikmat Karki chief minister.

Excavations reveal remnants of a 2,000-year-old palace and a fort belonging to a Kushan ruler, archaeologist says.

Since June last year, pocket lighters, gas-fuelled, non-refillable or refillable cigarette lighters costing below IRs20 have been banned by India.

Protesters set out for the federal capital on foot from Kakadvitta and Gaddachauki.

Party general secretaries Gagan Thapa, Bishwa Prakash Sharma, and other leaders including Krishna Sitaula were present at the inaugural event.

A 44-year-old man suffered a severed right leg while a 15-year-old girl sustained hearing impairments in the accident.

The international service will facilitate Nepali students studying in Bangladesh and Bangladeshis visiting Nepal.

A 60-year-old man, out on his morning walk, was killed by the elephant on Wednesday morning.

Most cases of caste discrimination and untouchability rarely go to the police. Such cases are usually settled in the village at the behest of local leaders.

Many have purchased plots and constructed houses with the money they earned from making stools.

Indian tea estates are going through a lean period as the tea bushes there have reached the end of their life cycles, traders say.