Hanspur Municipality has failed to disburse the budget for textbooks, scholarships and midday meals due to a shortage of staff, says Mayor Mandal.

Singhaniya, who was the chairman of Janakpur Today Communications Group, was shot dead at Shiva Chowk in Janakpur on March 1, 2010

Dhanusha police arrested a 22-year-old man in connection with the rape and murder of 11-year-old Reshma (Dutiya) Rasaili at Mithila Municipality-3 in the district on Wednesday night.

Officials successfully completed the test run of Janakpur-Jayanagar broad-gauge railway on Wednesday.

People living along the Nepal-India border in Dhanusha have complained that the Indian border security force, Shasastra Seema Bal (SSB), is obstructing them from tilling their own land.

A woman has been arrested from Laxmipur in Siraha district after police found that she had bought a stolen child.

The three-day Maithali Drama Fest-2073 has kicked off at the premises of Janakpur Chamber of Commerce in Janakpur on Monday.

Police have arrested one Manak Lama for his alleged involvement in the 2010 murder of Janakpur-based media entrepreneur Arun Singhaniya.

The District Police Office (DPO) on Sunday filed a case against suspended lawmaker Sanjaya Kumar Sah and 11 others at the Dhanusha District Court in connection with the murder of media entrepreneur Arun Singhaniya.

Suspended lawmaker Sanjaya Kumar Sah, who masterminded the Janakpur bomb incident, has also been linked to the murder of media entrepreneur Arun Singhaniya.

An unidentified gang on Friday night shot dead a Nepali Congress (NC) local leader at Balabakhar-4 in Dhanusha district on Friday night.

Nepali Congress (NC) Dhanusha District Committee has warned of retaliation against the Samyukta Loktantrik Madhesi Morcha (SLMM) unless the latter stops its ‘attack’ on the NC leaders and activists.

The Samyukta Loktantrik Madhesi Morcha supporters on Monday barged into the compound of Nepali Congress leader Bimalendra Nidhi’s house at Mills Area and torched two motorcycles parked inside.

Violent clash erupted between the Samyukta Loktantrik Madhesi Morcha (SLMM) activists and the security personnel in Janakpur on Sunday after the protesters hurled Molotov cocktail targeting the house of Nepali Congress (NC) lawmaker Leela Koirala.

Public bus service that was obstructed for around six months due to Tarai protest resumed in Janakpur on Wednesday morning.