Madan Thakur

Tension flared in Birgunj on Tuesday after the death of a 28-year-old prisoner, with family members claiming he died due to denial of prison authority to provide him timely medical treatment.

According to the District Police Office, Sarlahi, 17-year-old Sachin Sah of Agarwa, Kawilasi Municipality-8, died after being hit by a tipper (Na 2 Kha 501) that was en route to Lalbandi from Jabdi.  

Shree Narayan Singh Rajput, who lost his son in the Rajpur bomb blast in Rautahat, has taken his fight for justice to the highest body of Nepal's judicial system in Kathmandu.

The bench, led by Judge Jiwan Kumar Bhandari, ordered that Thapa be released on bail of Rs 5 million. He is accused of violating the Forest Act by illegally extracting stones, gravel, and sand.

The acquittal of former minister and Nepali Congress leader Mohammad Aftab Alam by the Janakpur High Court's bench in Birgunj has sparked mixed reactions across Rautahat.

Sarlahi police revealed that a girlfriend lured her boyfriend and had him murdered. The girlfriend, who had been in a long-term relationship with the victim, conspired with her husband and relatives to kill him, the police said.

A collision between a passenger bus and a magic van in Lalbandi, Sarlahi, killed one person and injured nine others on Monday afternoon.

Currently, five illegal mobile crushers are active along the western bank of the Bagmati River in Manpur village, under Basbaria Municipality-2.

Activists have accused Hemant Prasad Sah, the chief divisional forest officer of Rautahat, of facilitating the illegal felling of trees across more than five bighas of forest land over the past month.

A serious incident of blame game among government and private hospitals while handling a medical emergency case has come to light after a young man died during treatment in Gaur, Rautahat.