KATHMANDU, Sept 22: Police have arrested five people with drugs from different parts of the country.

KATHMANDU, Sept 11: Nepali national cricket team captain Sandeep Lamichhane, who is accused of raping a minor, will be arrested as soon as he arrives in Nepal.

KATHMANDU, Aug 3: A senior government official currently serving at the Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation (MoCTCA) has been arrested  red-handed along with Rs 2.2 million in cash received as bribe from service seekers.

SURKHET, July 29: The police have arrested five people for their involvement in illegal currency transactions.

BARDIYA, July 28: Police arrested two Indian nationals from near the District Police Office along with two pistols on Wednesday afternoon.

SURKHET, July 25: A person has been arrested with kinetic stones, in Surkhet, Birendranagar.

BIRGUNJ, July 25: Three boys including a minor have been arrested by police on the charge of raping and murdering a four years old girl.

DHADING, July 19: Police have arrested two people, who allegedly collected money from businessmen in Ganga Jamuna Rural Municipality in the northern part of Dhading claiming themselves to be employees of the Inland Revenue Office.

JANAKPUR, July 18: A team of the Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) has raided Sahidnagar Municipality Office, Dhanusha. The CIAA team from Bardibas is checking the municipality files.

KATHMANDU, July 5: The District Court, Sankhuwasabha, has sentenced four persons to life imprisonment for the murder of six members of the same family in the district.

BAITADI , June 29- Two people, including a ward chairman, have been arrested for raping a 28 years old woman from Baitadi on March 21. The alleged perpetrators are ward chairman of Mainali Municipality-1 of the district Sharad Singh Negi and Keshav Singh Negi.

KATHMANDU, June 15: The Department of Revenue Investigation (DRI) has registered 113 cases against 281 persons on the charge of tax fraud and foreign exchange irregularities recorded in the last eight months of the current fiscal year 2021/22.

DANG, June 14: Lumbini Province’s State Minister for Health, Bimala Wali has been brought to the District Police Office (DPO) for further investigation.

KATHMANDU, May 21: Metropolitan Police Crime Division (MPCD), Kathmandu on Saturday arrested Manoj Pandey, who faces allegation of raping a teenager some eight years ago.

KHANDBARI, March 13: Police have arrested seven persons, including the ward chairman and an employee of Land Revenue Office, in connection with a land fraud case in Bhotkhola village of Sankhuwasabha district. The team including the ward chairman of Bhotkhola rural municipality-4 Kinsang Bhote has been charged of illegally transferring the ownership of 27 ropani of land of local Dal Bahadur Tamang.

KATHMANDU, March 8: Two murder-accused persons were arrested from Qatar and Bahrain through Interpol.

BHAKTAPUR, March 7: Shyam Gubhaju, who attacked his wife with acid, has been arrested. Gubhaju, 65, of Dadhikot Chitrapur in Suryabinayak Municipality-4 of Bhaktapur attacked his wife with acid and also physically assaulted her.

MORANG, Jan 17: Police have arrested a Nepali Congress leader from Budhiganga in Morang district on charges of attempting to rape a girl.

DHANGADHI, Jan 9: It has been revealed that the incident of rape of a 77-year-old woman in Ghodaghodi Municipality-4 of Kailali was settled through a financial transaction. The rape was kept a secret with an understanding of providing Rs 300,000 to the victim in the presence of the people’s representatives and the villagers.

KATHMANDU, Sept 29: Police have arrested four YouTubers, accusing them of tarnishing the integrity of some women by making videos on them.

KATHMANDU, July 21: The Metropolitan Crime Division of Nepal Police has arrested four people on the charge of selling banned energy drinks containing caffeine.

KATHMANDU, June 25: A group of protesting engineers contracted by Nepal Reconstruction Authority (NRA) was detained for holding protests around a restricted area on Friday.

HETAUDA, June 17: The police have nabbed three persons in possession of over 143 kilogrammes of marijuana from Hetauda Sub Metropolitan City-11, along the East West Highway.

Effigy of PM Oli, DPM Mahato burned

CHITWAN , May 23: A man on the run since being sentenced to jail after being found guilty of rhino poaching has been arrested. Sagar Praja, known as Birendra Singh, a resident of Kalika Municipality in Chitwan, was arrested by the Chitwan National Park authorities.

KATHMANDU, May 23: Three cadres of Nepali Congress (NC) were arrested in front of the President’s Office at Sital Niwas, while protesting against the dissolution of the House of Representatives (HoR) on Sunday.

Oximeters worth Rs 600 to 700 per unit found being sold at as high as Rs 2,220

KATHMANDU, April 21: Police have busted a group of people active in producing negative PCR reports without collecting swab samples from people.

BIRENDRANAGAR, April 20: The Central Investigation Bureau (CIB) has arrested seven persons, who were practicing medical profession, with fake academic credentials.

KATHMANDU, April 19: Police arrested an individual in possession of gray heroin, a banned drug. A team of police officers from Drug Control Bureau of Kakadvitta and Damak arrested Indian national Siddhik Alam, 26, from Namuna Marg, Damak municipality-6, Jhapa on Sunday evening.

BHAKTAPUR, April 1: Police have arrested five persons on the charge of forcing women into sex work.

KATHMANDU, March 25: Two persons have been arrested for abducting girls, holding them hostage for nine days and raping in the Rukum East. Two persons have been arrested for abducting two 14-year-old and 15-year-old girls from Bhume Rural Municipality of the district and taking them hostage, police said.

KATHMANDU, March 24: Police have arrested three persons on the charge of smuggling hide of red panda from Makalu Barun National Park in Solukhumbu district.

MYANMAR, March 22: Myanmar activists plan fresh protests on Monday including a call for vehicle convoys to drive through intersections honking horns with occupants raising three-finger anti-coup salutes despite reports of security forces killing more people at the weekend.

MYANMAR, March 15: Security forces killed at least 22 anti-coup protesters in the poor, industrial Hlaingthaya suburb of Myanmar’s main city on Sunday after Chinese-financed factories were set ablaze there, an advocacy group said.

MYANMAR, March 14: The acting leader of Myanmar’s parallel civilian government said it will seek to give people the legal right to defend themselves as the death toll in protests against last month’s coup exceeded 80, according to an advocacy group.

KATHMANDU, March 12: Police have arrested a group of four persons with two and a half kilograms of uranium from the capital.

MYANMAR, March 12: Myanmar activists pledged to hold more rallies and strikes on Friday, a day after a rights group said security forces killed 12 protesters and as the lawyer of deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi ridiculed new bribery allegations against her.

ILAM, March 2: Police arrested four people from the district headquarters of Ilam along with the illegal drug. On the basis of information that drugs are being used, a police team arrested four persons along with brown sugar from Ilam Municipality-7, Phulgachhi on Monday.

YANGON, Feb 2: Police in Myanmar’s biggest city fired tear gas Monday at defiant crowds who returned to the streets to protest last month’s coup, despite reports that security forces had killed at least 18 people a day earlier.

MYANMAR, March 1: Here is a timeline of events since Myanmar’s military took power in a coup on Monday, Feb. 1.

YANGON, Feb 28: Police fired tear gas and water cannons and there were reports of gunfire Sunday in Myanmar’s largest city where another anti-coup protest was underway with scores of students and other demonstrators hauled away in police trucks.

MYANMAR, Feb 28: Opponents of military rule in Myanmar planned protests on Sunday a day after the security forces launched their biggest crackdown, arresting hundreds of people and shooting and wounding at least one.

MYANMAR, Feb 24: Myanmar was set for more street protests on Wednesday against military rule as Indonesia sought to build momentum behind a diplomatic push involving other Southeast Asian countries to steer a path out of the crisis.

KATHMANDU, Feb 22: Police have rearrested a secretariat member of the Netra Bikram Chand-led Communist Party of Nepal, Dharmendra Bastola even as the Supreme Court ordered the government to release him unconditionally.

MYANMAR. Feb 21: Opponents of Myanmar’s Feb. 1 military gathered again on Sunday, undeterred by the bloodiest day of their campaign the previous day when police and soldiers opened fire in the second city of Mandalay, killing two.

MANDALAY, Feb 21: Riot police in Myanmar shot dead two anti-coup protesters and injured several others on Saturday, as security forces increased pressure on popular revolt against the military takeover.

KATHMANDU, Feb 20: Home Minister Ram Bahadur Thapa has said that the culprits behind the rape and murder of Nirmala Panta will be booked soon.

MYANMAR, Feb 18: Myanmar’s military junta has issued arrest warrants against six celebrities for encouraging strikes that have paralysed many government offices in protests against this month’s coup, with total arrests since then now nearing 500.

KATHMANDU, Feb 17: Police have arrested a youth allegedly involved in the rape and murder of a teenager Bhagarathi Bhatta in Baitadi district.