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.

Returnees are reluctant to stay in quarantine, say local authorities.

The compensation amount for land having irrigation facility has been fixed at Rs500,000 per kattha.

Sundar Prasad Sharma, under-secretary at the Department of Forest and Soil Conservation, said that the country since 2005 has been losing some 200,000 hectares of forest area annually.

On your visit to the district, start with Nunthar and other lesser-known destinations.

Officials say despite annual enrolment campaign and mid-day meal programme, children from the Musahar community are not regular to school.

The factory owes Rs 250 million to sugarcane farmers in outstanding payments for their crops.

Government has not released funds to repair the embankments damaged in last year’s monsoon, officials say.

Survey has been halted due to the agitation of local residents.