Bamboo pole holding speaker hits high-voltage line during storm, causing casualties, police say.

Heavy rain triggers floods and landslides, disrupting transport.

The injured receiving treatment in Dharan.

Entrepreneur Basnet was actively engaged in social sector as well.

After local complaints, district administration finds Chaudandigadhi Municipality had been awarded the mining contract by bypassing law and rules. An investigation is underway.

The bus travelling to Bhojpur from Dharan crashed on Monday.

The passenger bus en route to Bhojpur veers off road and falls 50 metres down.

Police say traffickers increasingly using emergency vehicles for smuggling.

On May Day, locals reflect on the birthplace of the country’s first organised workers’ protest.

Four Bhutanese refugee youths who were flown to Thimphu have arrived in Nepal and returned to their old refugee camps in Jhapa.

Police launch investigation; search underway for suspects.

A four-member team led by a senior engineer will study the incident in which four people were killed after a moving jeep touched an electric wire.

The 16-year-old boy’s condition has worsened in lack of treatment. Activists call for government help.

The 59-year-old was serving sentence in a murder case.

Two others were injured. The victims were headed for Pathibhara shrine in Taplejung. Nepal Electricity Authority accused of negligence.

Prasai fled after the March 28 Tinkune protest that left two dead and over 100 injured.

People in several districts in eastern Nepal have been barred from cultivating, selling or developing their land since 2020.

Streams and springs in many villages have dried up in recent years. Experts attribute the problem to unregulated development activities.

They reiterated that third-country resettlement is not a long-term solution for Bhutanese refugees and emphasised that the only viable resolution is their dignified repatriation.

Blazes in community and private forests put settlements at risk.