The smugglers had reached the core area of the national park in search of wildlife during the lockdown period.

The driver has been arrested on charges of hiding the passengers in the truck and ferrying them to Birgunj amidst the nationwide lockdown.

Birgunj prison is preparing to release elderly inmates to stem coronavirus risk.

The Agriculture Knowledge Centre could not purchase farm inputs for lack of working procedure, officials said.

More than 2,000 e-rickshaws are operating in the city without registration on a daily basis.

Jagarnathpur residents say bats are the pride of their community.

Faced with a resource crunch, Birgunj’s Thakur Ram Multiple Campus, founded in 1952, has been struggling to keep its legacy of academic excellence alive.

Smugglers have been using Parsa as a transit to smuggle drugs produced in Makwanpur and Dhading to India.

The park covers an area of 637.39 sq km and is spread across Parsa, Bara and Makwanpur districts.

There are about a dozen streams and 15 ponds inside the park. But most of them dry up during the dry season, between September to April.

Soybean and palm oil shipments in the first five months of the fiscal year were worth Rs8.58 billion.

The District Police Office has been formulating a phase-wise programme to give continuity to the campaign.

Hotel entrepreneurs and campaigners lament that the major tourist hubs in the district are left in the shadows.

Teaching/learning activities in Nepal Rastriya Basic School get halted when bereaved families and villagers perform funeral rites in the village crematorium.

Officials at the rural municipal office said there’s a lack of teachers and infrastructure in almost all schools in the municipality.