The accident occurred after the vehicle, travelling to Mulghat from Bhedetar, collided with the two-wheeler on the Dharan-Dhankuta section of the highway on Tuesday evening.

The accident occurred after a minivan and a motorcycle collided on the Dharan-Dhankuta section of the Koshi Highway on Tuesday evening.

Amid a lack of manpower, resources and challenging terrain, many of these fires will subside only after ravaging all, or with rainfall, say stakeholders.

Police detained a 35-year-old man of Dhanpuri Rural Municipality-3 in Saptari district in connection with the incident.

Security personnel and local residents managed to bring the fire under control after a while following the incident.

A tipper hit a bus at first and then a jeep causing fatalities, police said quoting eyewitnesses.

The ambulance, registered under Haldibari Sewa Samaj, a charity, in Jhapa, was on its way to Biratnagar from Sangurigadhi of Dhankuta.

With ‘breakthrough’ in the Phungling-Gola-Tiptala section, the east is connected to both India and China by road.

Tibetan officials say they are still awaiting Beijing’s permission to reopen the border, which was shut in January 2020 to tame the Covid pandemic.

According to Police Inspector Benu Karki, Jibananda Mehata of ward 3 of Gaghi Rural Municipality in Sunsari district and his two aides were held on quackery charges.

A 22-year-old youth from Bihar held with Rs18.2 million counterfeit notes.

The services, except emergency, had remained closed for a month due to the strike.

The locals set fire the truck on fire following the accident, which obstructed the Koshi highway temporarily, said officials.

The Supreme Court had convicted the man of raping a 15-year-old in 2010. He had been on the run since.

After nearly four months of his election, Karki inducted six new members in his Cabinet.

The Province 1 Renaming Joint Struggle Committee agrees to adopt peaceful protests to raise their demands.

People volunteer labour for free to repair and maintain decade-old water pipelines to ensure an uninterrupted supply.

Diktel Rupakot Majhuwagadhi Municipality has allocated Rs1 million budget for the ‘agriculture ambulance’ programme in the current fiscal year of 2023-24.

A special team appointed by the province police on January 4 conducted searches and investigations on the basis of missing vehicle reports.

The body of the woman, who had been missing along with her 25-day-old baby since Sunday, was recovered from the banks of the Tamor river on Monday.