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1,454kg marijuana recovered during operation in Inaruwa

Police have arrested a man and seized 1,454.87kg of marijuana in Inaruwa Municipality-10 of Sunsari district.

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Dharan Sports Forum to honour athletes, push professional sports

The Dharan Sports Forum is set to organise the third edition of the Dharan Sports Award on October 29, with a focus on recognising athletes and promoting the professional development of sports in the city.

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Two child rape cases reported in Bara within 24 hours, two held

Police have arrested a 14-year-old boy and a 75-year-old man in connection with separate alleged rape cases involving two five-year-old girls in Jitpur-Simara Sub-Metropolitan City within a 24-hour period.

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Japan provides $1m emergency grant for flood-hit communities

The Government of Japan has provided a $1 million emergency grant through the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) to support communities affected by the recent flash floods in Nepal.

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NCRC, MITGF plan long-term support for children affected by Bhotekoshi flood

The National Child Rights Council (NCRC) and MIT Group Foundation (MITGF) Co have agreed to establish a long-term support programme for children who lost one or both parents in the 2026 Bhotekoshi floods.

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11 more bodies recovered from Upper Trishuli-1 tunnel

A joint search and rescue team has recovered 11 more bodies from the Audit-3 tunnel of the Upper Trishuli-1 Hydropower Project in Rasuwa, where people went missing following the Bhotekoshi flash flood.

PM Balendra shah. Photo: PMO Nepal

PM Shah to address UN General Debate on September 24

Prime Minister Balendra Shah will leave for New York on September 22 to lead Nepal’s delegation to the high-level week of the 81st session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA).

In this photo taken with a smartphone, rescuers carry a survivor from a passenger ferry overturned in bad weather in the Java Sea on a stretcher upon arrival at a port in Banjarmasin, South Kalimantan, Indonesia, Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2026. Photo: AP

Indonesian divers recover 3 bodies from capsized ferry as salvage operation begins

Rescue teams in Indonesia on Friday recovered three bodies from a capsized ferry while preparing to salvage the wreckage of the accident Sunday, bringing the confirmed death toll to nine with 126 people still missing, officials said.

File - A worker fumigates a resident area to prevent the spread of the dengue fever and other mosquito-borne diseases in Kathmandu, Nepal September 06, 2019. Photo: Reuters

Baglung records Nepal's highest dengue caseload, scrub typhus surge

Nepal’s monsoon-season surge in mosquito- and mite-borne disease has hit Baglung hardest, where a record dengue caseload is now running alongside a scrub typhus outbreak that has grown more than 56-fold within a year.

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