Published On: August 17, 2019 07:37 AM NPT By: Arjun Oli
NEPALGUNJ, Aug 17: With a federal minister evincing interest in the management of stray cattle in Nepalgunj city and allocating a budget for the purpose and the local government facing criticism from animal rights groups for failing to manage these strays, the issue has come to figure in city politics.
Published On: August 15, 2019 03:30 AM NPT By: Arjun Oli
NEPALGUNJ, Aug 15: Stray cattle have become a significant source of worry for the locals of Nepalgunj these days.
Published On: August 8, 2019 07:00 PM NPT By: Arjun Oli
NEPALGUNJ, Aug 8: Women from Madhesi and the Muslim communities have protested in Nepalgunj on Thursday demanding to marry off their daughters at the age of 16.
Published On: August 8, 2019 04:00 AM NPT By: Arjun Oli
NEPALGUNJ, Aug 8: With every drop of rainfall, Tara Devi Nepali of Fattepur, Dhallaiya holds her breath as if any disaster might occur in the area anytime.
Published On: July 30, 2019 04:45 AM NPT By: Arjun Oli
NEPALGUNJ, July 30: Bhandu Rai has been selling vegetables at Rani Talau vegetable market of Nepalgunj for years now.
Published On: July 29, 2019 04:30 AM NPT By: Arjun Oli
NEPALGUNJ, July 29: Exporters of medicinal herbs in Nepalgunj are facing problem because of 'impractical' rules imposed by the government agencies of Nepal and the mandatory transit permit provision brought by the Uttar Pradesh government of India.
Published On: July 23, 2019 07:28 AM NPT By: Arjun Oli
NEPALGUNJ, July 23: The Sikta Irrigation Project, one of the national pride projects, couldn’t spend even one fourth of the allocated budget for the fiscal year 2075/76 BS.
Published On: July 15, 2019 02:30 AM NPT By: Arjun Oli
NEPALGUNJ, July 15: The recently blacktopped road section of Nepalgunj- Khajura has started peeling off within a month of construction.
Published On: July 10, 2019 07:51 AM NPT By: Arjun Oli
NEPALGUNJ, July 10: Several wards of the Nepalgunj Sub-metropolitan City have been inundated because of its dysfunctional sewerage system and heavy rainfall in the recent days.
Published On: July 6, 2019 07:18 AM NPT By: Arjun Oli
NEPALGUNJ, July 6: A pharmacy in Nepalgunj has been found selling expired medicines to patients.
Published On: June 26, 2019 08:55 AM NPT By: Arjun Oli
NEPALGUNJ, June 26: Nepalgunj Sub-metropolitan City has unveiled a total annual budget of Rs 2.28 billion for the Fiscal Year 2019/20, with Rs 1.21 billion in current expenditure and Rs 1.04 billion in capital expenditure.
Published On: June 24, 2019 10:41 AM NPT By: Arjun Oli
NEPALGUNJ, June 24: Torrential rainfall on Sunday inundated various parts of Nepalgunj Metropolitan City. The heavy downpour resulted in waterlogged streets at Gharbaritole, Dhambojhi, Surkhetroad, Belaspur, New Road, Ganeshpur, Bankegaun, Koreanpur, Bhrikutinagar, Sadarline among other places as the accumulated water could not get an outlet to flow.
Published On: June 24, 2019 08:05 AM NPT By: Arjun Oli
NEPALGUNJ, June 24: Over a hundred houses were inundated while a dozen houses were completely damaged in the bordering villages of Narainapur Rural Municipality of Banke district on Sunday as a causeway being built by India along the Nepal-India border obstructed the natural flow of rainwaters.
Published On: June 23, 2019 07:15 PM NPT By: Arjun Oli
BANKE, June 23: The ‘dam road’ constructed by India has blocked the water flow and inundated the most of the villages of the Narainapur Rural Municipality of the district.
Published On: May 22, 2019 09:40 AM NPT By: Arjun Oli
NEPALGUNJ, May 22: A large number of contractors who have been extracting resources from various rivers in Raptisonari Rural Municipality have not paid the tax for the same to the government.
Published On: May 19, 2019 06:05 AM NPT By: Arjun Oli
NEPALGUNJ, May 19: Breaching all the rules, then director of the Sikta Irrigation Project Ramesh Basnet hastily awarded the contract for the construction of the eastern canal . On July 24, 2017, the construction company Kumar Kalika JV signed the contract for building the 53 kilometer canal with a budget of Rs. 3.6 billion.
Published On: April 29, 2019 07:46 AM NPT By: Arjun Oli
NEPALGUNJ, April 29: The Banke District Court has sent 18 land revenue officials of Banke and Bardiya districts to judicial custody. They had been arrested on the charge of transferring the ownership of huge chunks of land belonging to the Sikta Irrigation Project to private ownership through forgery.
Published On: April 17, 2019 07:00 AM NPT By: Arjun Oli
NEPALGUNJ, April 17: A recent investigation carried out by Nepal Police has revealed that land mafia were involved in transferring government land worth millions of rupees into private property in collusion with officials of the Land Revenue Office (LRO).
Published On: April 13, 2019 02:25 AM NPT By: Arjun Oli
NEPALGUNJ, April 13: Property worth Rs 50 million was gutted in a fire that broke out at Om Ply and Furniture Industry in Nepalgunj-13 on Friday.
Published On: April 12, 2019 07:27 AM NPT By: Arjun Oli
NEPALGUNJ, April 12: Sikta Irrigation Project: A group of land brokers in collusion with land revenue officials are found to have illegally transferred the ownership of public land worth millions of rupees to the names of private individuals.