Since June last year, pocket lighters, gas-fuelled, non-refillable or refillable cigarette lighters costing below IRs20 have been banned by India.

Protesters set out for the federal capital on foot from Kakadvitta and Gaddachauki.

Party general secretaries Gagan Thapa, Bishwa Prakash Sharma, and other leaders including Krishna Sitaula were present at the inaugural event.

A 44-year-old man suffered a severed right leg while a 15-year-old girl sustained hearing impairments in the accident.

The international service will facilitate Nepali students studying in Bangladesh and Bangladeshis visiting Nepal.

A 60-year-old man, out on his morning walk, was killed by the elephant on Wednesday morning.

Most cases of caste discrimination and untouchability rarely go to the police. Such cases are usually settled in the village at the behest of local leaders.

Many have purchased plots and constructed houses with the money they earned from making stools.

Indian tea estates are going through a lean period as the tea bushes there have reached the end of their life cycles, traders say.

Although Nepali-speakers are not targets of the fighting tribes, Romani Kumar Paudel was killed in crossfire this week.

Refugees living in Jhapa and Morang districts of eastern Nepal lament those in power are trying to profit from their miseries.

On Wednesday night, a herd of elephants entered Bahundangi in Jhapa from Kerabari in Naxalbari, India. The locals rescued the calf and handed it over to the Kolabari forest office of India.

Use of electricity and explosives to catch fish in Sankhuwasabha has led to a decline of fish stocks.

The ethnic Nepalis in Sikkim raised strong objections after the Supreme Court of India termed them “people of foreign origin” during a hearing on January 13 this year.

They had made a bid to enter Nepal by presenting fake identity cards.