BAITADI : A Nepali national has been arrested on the charge of stealing 1.5 million Indian rupees in India.
Police arrested Niraj Bahadur Chand, 32, on the charge of stealing money from house of one Rajesh Gupta in Rajasthan.
DSP Netramani Giri said he was arrested from his house following a communication from Nepali Embassy in India, adding Chand has already confessed the crime.
PARSA: Police have arrested a man with 24 kg drugs on Saturday.
A team deployed from District Police Office, Parsa nabbed an Indian national with drugs during a routine check. The arrested has been identified as Sahanbad Abdul.
SURKHET: The Karnali State government has unveiled a bill to ensure food assistance to the targeted to poor households residing in the region.
The Ministry of Land Management, Agriculture and Cooperatives formulated the bill to ensure that people in the region get access to quality food. The bill also aims to protect and promote local products.
The food assistance would be managed by issuing identity cards, it is said. The bill has also given priority to local food production.With the passage of the bill, the State government and local levels will supply food grains via fair price shops or public food depot centre.
BANKE: Two people were killed in a road accident at Kohalpur-3, Madanchowk of the district along the East-West Highway on Friday night, police said.
Area Police Office, Kohalpur said the deceased are identified as Usha Chaudhary, 32, of Thakurdwara-8 of Bardiya and Lok Bahadur Shahi, 30, of Baijyanath Rural Municipality-1, Chisapani of Banke.
Police Inspector Min Bahadur BC informed the deceased were travelling on separate scooters while the mishap happened last night. Police said scooters Bhe 5 Pa 1420 and Bhe 8 Pa 2165 collided with each other. Following the collision, the scooters were hit by a speeding jeep Ba 15 Cha 2096.
The injured passed away while receiving treatment at the Kohalpur-based Teaching Hospital. The jeep driver Roshan Oli has been apprehended, police said.
KATHMANDU: The Meteorological Forecasting Division has predicted brief rainfall with thunderstorm in most parts of the country including Kathmandu Valley. The office stated that rainfall is likely due to low-pressure system that has been developed due to westerly wind.
Meteorologist Manju Basi said the wind entered the country Nepal on Friday and will have its impact on eastern and central regions for the next one or two days.
Though there is no possibility of heavy rainfall now, most of the places are likely to see light to moderate rains.
KATHMANDU: Astrologer Astro Raj has won the ‘Man of the Year Award’ for the second time.
Astro Raj won the award during the 19th Asian Heritage Protection Conference organized in Tashkent Uzbekistan. He has thanked all for the support.
Renowned astrologer Astro Raj has touched the lives of thousands of people; from politicians to artistes, from journalists and doctors to businessmen, among others and is active in the sector for the last two decades.
He, who also appears on Sagarmatha Television on a daily basis since 2015, has been contributing daily horoscope for Khabarhub. He has made a lot of predictions, which include the successful prediction of the win of Donald Trump in the 2016 US Presidential elections based on his horoscope.
Astrologer Raj, a PhD from India in Astrology, has received several prestigious awards, including Best Astrologer of Asia in Singapore in 2018, Man of the Year in Indonesia in 2017, and several other awards. He has been a mentor for many institutions, and a public speaker.
KATHMANDU: Unity among political parties is a must to strengthen nationalism in the country, former Prime Minister Lokendra Bahadur Chand has stressed.
Speaking at a program in the Capital City on Friday, he opined for reinstating Nepal as Hindu State and monarchy with democracy.
Similarly, Rastriya Prajatantrik Party (Unified) Chair Dr Prakash Chandra Lohani also stressed on unity among the political parties for the prosperity and robust nationality in the country.
Another Chair of the party Pashupati Shamsher Rana also seconded the views of Chand and Rana.
GALKOT: Three army personnel were injured after they were hit by a dry landslide at Kathekhola rural municipality-8 in the district on Friday. They were reached there to clear obstruction of road following a landslide.
The army persons belonging to Arjun Band Battalion were injured in the landslide. They were Pahal Man Shrestha, Santosh Karki and another one whose identity is yet to be ascertained, said Battalion Commander Bhuwan Raj Devkota. Now the injured are airlifted to Kathmandu Army Hospital, Chhahuni.
HETAUDA: Over 50,000 chicken infected with bird flu has been culled in Makwanpur district. District Administration Office informed that some 9,015 eggs and 1,463 kilograms of poultry feed were also destroyed.
Following reports of bird flu outbreak in the district, a joint team from District Administration Office, police and vets carried out inspection and culled chickens, eggs and poultry feed.
The team identified 28 farming affected by the virus of the total 48 inspected.
MORANG: The Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) arrested an officer of sub-division forest office, Latijhoda of Morang, along with a bribe amount of Rs 35 thousand.
Salaudhin Ansari, forest officer at Latijhoda, was caught red-handed while taking a bribe of Rs 35 thousand from a service seeker.
A team of Itahari-based CIAA officials caught Salaudhin Ansari red-handed.