Published On: September 24, 2017 01:45 AM NPT By: Mithilesh Yadav
LAHAN, Sept 24: The country's oldest political party, the Nepali Congress (NC) which had dominated the 2013 second Constitution Assembly elections in Siraha district, had perhaps never expected an embarrassing defeat in the same district in the local elections.
Published On: September 20, 2017 09:10 AM NPT By: Mithilesh Yadav
LAHAN, Sept 20: With the Madhes based parties disgruntled over the lack of constitution amendment, local level election in some areas of Madhes faced delays. After intense discussions, election in Province 2 was finally agreed to be held on 18 September in the third phase.
Published On: September 16, 2017 07:09 AM NPT By: Mithilesh Yadav
LAHAN, Sept 16: Lahan Municipality of Saptari district has many voters who are not affiliated with any political party. Therefore, various political parties have reached the helm of power in this local unit since the 1991 elections instead of just one party being dominant.
Published On: September 16, 2017 01:41 AM NPT By: Mithilesh Yadav
LAHAN, Sept 15: Lahan Municipality of Saptari district has many voters who are not affiliated with any political party. Therefore, various political parties have reached the helm of power in this local unit since the 1991 elections instead of just one party being dominant.
Published On: September 7, 2017 03:00 AM NPT By: Mithilesh Yadav
LAHAN, September 7: Not many candidates get chance to get elected thrice to the reputed post of mayor. Lagan Lal Chaudhary of Lahan-1, who was twice appointed as mayor during the Panchayat regime, made it to the same post again during the multi-party democratic system post 1990. With a hope of claiming the same post once again, Chaudhary has filed for his candidacy in the upcoming third phase of elections too.
Published On: September 5, 2017 03:00 AM NPT By: Mithilesh Yadav
With the election just around the corner, political parties in Madhes are in fierce competition to throw away grand feasts. Considered as the best tactics to woo voters, political parties are organizing feasts everywhere.
Published On: September 2, 2017 07:29 AM NPT By: Mithilesh Yadav
SAPTARI, Sept 1: Dhiwaga village in Saptari would be popularly called a ‘food zone’ due to its abundant production of food grains. Over the years, the small village with around 1,000 households was gradually shrinking. Floods every monsoon and the changing course of the nearby Belan river was taking its toll on the land. This impacted the production of rice, maize and wheat in Dhiwaga. According to the locals, all their land have now turned into a desert.
Published On: August 28, 2017 03:03 AM NPT By: Mithilesh Yadav
KANCHANPUR, August 28: Dr Govinda KC who is currently in Spatari, providing treatment to the flood victims, has said that he will continue his fight against the medical mafia by giving continuity to his hunger strike.
Published On: August 22, 2017 03:49 AM NPT By: Mithilesh Yadav
LAHAN, Aug 21: An environment expert and engineer has urged for Chure conservation in view of the devastating flood in the tarai region every monsoon. Unless illegal extraction in the Chure range comes to an end, flood and landslides in the plains and the hills cannot be averted, they warned.
Published On: August 9, 2017 03:12 PM NPT By: Mithilesh Yadav
LAHAN, August 9: Smuggling has been taking place blatantly in cahoots with the custom staffers and security personnel from Indian borders. The smugglers bring goods to Nepal through the Nepal-India bordering checkpoints in broad daylight.
Published On: August 2, 2017 07:01 AM NPT By: Mithilesh Yadav
LAHAN, Aug 1: Baldev Ram, who led carcass boycott campaigns in Madhes besides other numerous social struggles at the behest of the squatters and landless people, breathed his last at the BP Koirala Health Science Academy on Thursday. He was 74.
Published On: July 28, 2017 02:15 AM NPT By: Mithilesh Yadav
LAHAN, July 27: The tendency of government agencies and local units leaving the development budget unused till the 11th month of the fiscal year and spending it all in the final month has been found in targeted programs including women empowerment programs.
Published On: July 26, 2017 05:25 PM NPT By: Mithilesh Yadav
LAHAN, July 26: Assistant inspector of Co-operative Division Office, Lahan Subash Gadtaula has been taken into custody by Eastern Regional Department of Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) Itahari in charge of receiving bribe from a customer on Wednesday.
Published On: July 20, 2017 04:15 AM NPT By: Mithilesh Yadav
SIRAHA, July 19: Poor road construction and blacktopping are rampant across the country. The blacktopped layer giving in within few days is a common scene in towns and villages. Concerned authorities do not seem to care or do anything to stop the contractors from delivering such poor roads. However, in a rare incident, locals of Golbazar of Siraha district have brought an ongoing road blacktopping to a halt citing its poor construction quality.
Published On: July 10, 2017 12:20 AM NPT By: Mithilesh Yadav
SAPTARI, July 10: During Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba Friday's visit to flood hit areas in Saptari district, former Minister for Irrigation, Umesh Yadav complained to him of massive embezzlement in the construction of embankment and demanded investigation into it. In response, the PM pledged to form a parliamentary committee to look into the matter.
Published On: June 27, 2017 05:55 PM NPT By: Mithilesh Yadav
LAHAN, June 27: A man has killed his wife with a sharp weapon in Bhagawan Rural Municipality in the Siraha district on Tuesday.
Published On: June 15, 2017 06:47 PM NPT By: Mithilesh Yadav
LAHAN, June 15: Rastriya Janata Party Nepal (RJPN) has said that the government’s decision to conduct local level polls on September 18 in Province 2 is unacceptable to the party.
Published On: June 12, 2017 05:00 AM NPT By: Mithilesh Yadav
BARIYARPATTI (SIRAHA), June 11: Ramautar Yadav, an aspirant for the post of chairperson of Ward No.1of Bariyarpatti Rural Municipality, is yet to be picked by any party to contest the upcoming election. But he claims that he will win the polls easily, if he gets the chance.
Published On: June 1, 2017 12:50 AM NPT By: Mithilesh Yadav
SIRAHA, June 1: Sixty-three years old Gauri Saday of Sakhuwanankarkatti Rural Municipality is compelled to live a miserable life in her old age. Gauri, who can't even move from one place to another without a stick has no one to look after her. She has visited the rural municipality office many times seeking government allowance, but she always returns home empty-handed. “You are not going to get the allowance until you build a toilet in your house,” the officials of the rural municipality always tell her.
Published On: May 31, 2017 04:11 PM NPT By: Mithilesh Yadav
LAHAN, May 31: As the government rescheduled the second phase of the local level elections on June 28, the agitating Rastriya Janta Party Nepal (RJPN) has suspended all programs of protest.