Traders, drivers and customs workers remain unaccounted for six days after the flood swept through the Rasuwa border area, while officials struggle to determine how many cargo containers and how much merchandise were lost.

Large boulders struck warehouses, offices, staff quarters and parked vehicles at Nepal’s key trade gateway with China, while continuing rockfalls left the area unsafe.

Parties have become suspicious after the RSP convention floated proposals ranging from restructuring provinces to scrapping provincial assemblies.

The Ministry of Federal Affairs says 726 local governments met the deadline, while disputes, coordination issues and administrative delays affected the remaining units.

Experts argue that the budget reflects a centralised approach, as the federal government retains most responsibilities instead of strengthening fiscal federalism.

Proposed law restructures provincial services, introduces performance-based evaluation, bans trade unions and political activity, and formalises federal administrative coordination.

Nepal’s new minister for federal affairs and general administration, Rawal, faces a daunting task: restoring public trust in a bureaucracy widely viewed as inefficient, politicised, and out of touch with citizens’ needs.

On Tuesday night, government and local residents reached an agreement to include resumption of Social Upliftment Programme and relief for 2021 flood victims, among others.

Koshi Province suffered the heaviest damage of rural municipalities, with offices of eight rural municipalities destroyed.

Stranded after flood destroyed Rasuwa’s friendship bridge, Nepalis to return under Chinese escort via alternate route.

Gold was concealed in a ‘false bottom’ adjoining the driver’s seat of an apple-laden container truck from Kerung.

Four arrested with smuggled gold concealed in body.

Despite legal provisions allowing vape imports with customs duties, smuggling has persisted.

The Revenue Investigation Office in Pathlaiya filed smuggling case under the Patan High Court's Hetauda Bench.

Traders are now facing losses amounting to millions of rupees as these products, particularly fruits with short shelf lives, deteriorate rapidly.