Around 200 Indian nationals attacked the security personnel and attempted to snatch away weapons after the Armed Police Force personnel stopped two Indian women from entering Nepal.

A boat capsized by hitting the pillar of the under-construction bridge and killed five people two years ago but the under-construction bridge has not been completed yet.

Vehicular movement was halted for sometime on Friday morning due to the inundation.

Health workers hardly visit those centres and the infected people in the isolation wards are not getting any medical attention, they say.

While some people have resorted to protests, others have clashed with police demanding that their test results be made available at the earliest.

On Saturday, those at quarantine facilities in Rajpur Municipality came out of the facilities demanding their test results.

Eleven people, including former lawmaker Mohammad Aftab Alam, have been accused of incinerating people injured in an explosion in Rautahat on the eve of the first Constituent Assembly elections.

Security personnel fired 12 warning shots to contain the situation.

The locals, unaware of the raid, encircled the security team thinking there was a robbery, and the police had to fire warning shots a dozen times to disperse the crowd.

The long-standing dispute over compensation has been resolved; project work disrupted for months to resume soon.

Work on the 975-km cross-country track began in 2019 and is slated to be completed in 2022.

Local administration has instructed the quarantine discharged people to return to the facility to undergo rapid tests.

Poachers have become active in several forests of Rautahat in the last few weeks, according to the Division Forest Office.

Of the three ambulances, two are privately owned and one belongs to the Nepal Red Cross Society in Hirapur.

In Rautahat’s Chandrapur, political parties and senior government officials are exerting pressure on local representatives to provide food relief to their friends and families.