Five days after the accident, Abhinash Subedi was admitted to Manmohan Hospital on Wednesday. Mechinagar Municipality will bear the cost of his treatment

Mechinagar municipality has asked the tea estate administration to provide food supplies to the workers; the tea estate itself hasn’t said anything about it yet.

The drive will not only help timely identification but will also help in the effective mobilisation of health workers, authorities say.

Around 100 Indian nationals stranded on the Nepali side of the border were also allowed to go to India, said police.

In Panitanki border crossing in Kakarbhitta, Jhapa, at least 100 Nepalis including 14 students who have returned from Mumbai, India on Tuesday morning are waiting to be allowed in.

Most of the returnees claimed of having no information about the restriction imposed on crossing into Nepal since most of them had travelled a long distance to reach various border points.

The Ukrainian nationals were found suffering from high fever and showed common cold symptoms.

The proposed 50-kilometre pipeline will extend from the Charali depot to Siliguri in West Bengal.

In the past one and a half months, 24 students at Pashupati Secondary have been afflicted with the condition.

Stone smugglers from Mechinagar in Jhapa have been extracting stones from the Chure region for a long time now, say locals.

Despite restrictions from traveling to the Gulf countries, desperate Nepali women are falling into traps of trafficking agents who are exploiting new routes to take them out of the country.

The villagers of Kalijhoda and Naya Basti in Jhapa have been weaving the traditional stool for the past 35 years, but it is still just enough to fulfil their basic needs.

One of the most diverse destinations in Nepal in terms of people it houses to the food it offers.

Saidpur in Bangladesh is a 20-minute hop by plane from the two border cities.

Though stipulated by law, injured drivers and the kin of the deceased rarely receive any financial assistance from their employers or the government.