DHANKUTA, Dec 3: An attempt has been made to kill Devendra Guragain, the ward chairman of Pakhribas Municipality 6 of Dhankuta, by locking him inside his house and setting it on fire. On Sunday night, the house was set on fire while he was sleeping and was locked up from outside.

DHANKUTA, Nov 23: Three members of the same family were found dead in Dhankuta. Chief Dhankuta District Officer Punya Bikram Paudel told Republica that three members of the same family were found dead in Dhankuta Municipality-1, Nigol.

DHANKUTA, Nov 28: An earthquake was recorded with its epicenter at Mulghat of Dhankuta this morning.

DHARAN, Oct 20: Six people have been killed and six others injured when a landslide buried their house at Gadhire, Chaubise Rural Municipality-1 in Dhankuta on Tuesday night.

DHANKUTA, July 16: Prohibitory order in Dhankuta has been extended till July 25.

According to the chief of the District Health Office, Tulsi Prasad Guragai, as many as 84 people tested positive for COVID-19 in tests conducted on Tuesday at Dhankuta Hospital. Among the infected, 50 are males while 34 are females.

DHANKUTA, BIRATNAGAR, Oct 11: Three more COVID-19 related deaths were recorded in Province 1 on Sunday.

DHANKUTA, Dec 16: Two persons died on the spot when a three-wheeler and a tractor-trailer collided at Chhathar Jorpati Rural Municipality-2 in Dhankuta on Sunday.

DHANKUTA, Nov 13: The Province 1 government is preparing to construct a teaching hospital in Dhankuta.

DHANKUTA, June 29: Three grade 10 students in Dhankuta district sustained injuries when their science teacher subjected them to physical torture.

DHANKUTA, Dec 24: With an aim to attracting national and international tourists, view towers are being constructed in parts of Dhankuta. The towers have been constructed in places including Chaubise Rural Municipality, Sangurigadhi Rural Municipality, Dhankuta Municipality and Sahidbhumi Rural Municipality. Likewise, towers are under construction at several other places in the districts.

DHANKUTA, Nov 29: Sansarimai Puja Simsar Conservation Council has begun boating service in a bid to attract tourists in the new ponds built recently in Pakhribas Municipality-4 of Dhankuta district.

DHANKUTA, Oct 8: Tulsi Bahadur Shrestha of Mathillo Kopche in Dhankuta-5 successfully painted two of his houses orange within two months. As everyone in his locality decided to paint their houses orange, Shrestha made up his mind to do the same. He spent Rs 100,000 for that.

DHANKUTA, Sept 19: Participants have said Nepali people will remain happy and wealthy only when the Constitution is fully implemented.

Dhankuta Municipality is introducing a package of paragliding and rafting to promote adventure tourism in the district. The paragliding route starts from Chuliban that lies in Ward 9 of Dhankuta Municipality and ends on the bank of Tamor River. After landing, the participants can go for a five-kilometer-long rafting on the river.

DHANKUTA, April 2: Different multi-year projects running for years in Dhankuta district have faced hardships in the recent times for lack of budget. Stakeholders have complained that the situation emerged after the the Ministry of Peace and Reconstruction did not release the budget as expected.

DHANKUTA, March 26: Fires in 13 different community forests in Dhankuta have caused damage of around Rs 20 million in the district, the Dhankuta chapter of Federation of Community Forestry Users’ Nepal (FECOFUN) said.

DHANKUTA, March 13: Two employees of Department of Roads (DoR), Ministry of Physical Infrastructure and Transport, died when a truck en route to Dhankuta from Dharan carrying excavator parts met with an accident today at Ghante of Sangurigadhi Rural Municipality-9 along the Koshi Highway. Four people have been injured in the accident.

DHANKUTA, Jan 22: The local administration has lifted the prohibitory order in the district temporarily from Monday. The decision will come to effect from 3 pm Monday till 7 pm Tuesday.

Dhankuta, Jan 21:  As the talks between the Chief District Officer (CDO) and the struggle committee formed to demand provincial capital in Dhankuta ended inconclusively, the curfew imposed by the administration and indefinite strike called by the struggle committee is still ongoing.

DHANKUTA, Jan 20: Following its inconclusive discussion with residents of Dhankuta, and political parties, the local administration office has continued with its prohibitory order on Saturday. The local administration has decided that as long as the protest form doesn’t change, the district will reel under prohibitory order, Prem Prakash Upreti, chief district officer said.

DHANKUTA, Jan 19: Following yesterday’s curfew, local administration issued a prohibitory order and stepped up its efforts to avoid unforeseen incidents by adding security personnel in the district.

DHANKUTA, Jan 18: The local administration has imposed indefinite curfew in the district from this morning.

DHANKUTA, Jan 14: Farmers in Dhankuta have been worried after not getting suitable market price for their ginger as it is considered as an attractive cash crop.

KATHMANDU, Jan 6: Provincial Capital Establishing Committee, Dhankuta on Saturday staged a sit-in in the capital to pile pressure on Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba to declare Dhankuta as the center of Province 1.

KATHMANDU, Jan 1:  A sit-in has been organized near the official residence of the Prime Minister at Baluwatar Monday, demanding Dhankuta be made as the capital of Province No 1.

DHANKUTA, Dec 18: Government and private schools affiliated with PABSON and N-PABSON have been closed to express solidarity for the protesters who are demanding Dhankuta as provincial capital. “We’ve reduced a day of winter vacation to support the cause,” Nanda Neupane, treasurer of PABSON from Province 1 said.

DHANKUTA, Dec 9:  CPN-UML candidate for Dhankuta Rajendra Kumar Rai has secured victory in Federal Parliament.

DHANKUTA, Dec 2: Comparatively a developed district in the eastern hill and the headquarters of the eastern development region, Dhankuta is once again at the helm of political agenda of the district leaders to establish it as the provincial capital of Province No. 1.

DHANKUTA, Nov 24: A pedestrian, Tej Bahadur Karki, sustained injuries after a bomb exploded at Fungsuwa riverside.

KATHMANDU, Oct 26: An all-party delegation from Dhankuta district on Thursday met with Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba at the latter’s official residence in Baluwatar and handed over a memorandum demanding that Dhankuta be declared as the capital of Province 1.

DHANKUTA, July 8: CPN (UML) Chairperson KP Sharma Oli has said the possibility has increased to make Dhankuta the headquarters of Province-1.

DHANKUTA, July 2: Dhankuta district has turned into a red fort for the CPN-UML as the party has won the elections in all the seven local units of the district. UML candidates won the elections for the posts of both mayor and deputy mayor of Dhankuta Municipality along with 42 ward chairpersons. With this victory, UML has an overwhelming majority in the district coordination committee as well.

DHANKUTA, June 11: Major political parties like the Nepali Congress (NC), CPN-UML, CPN (Maoist Center) and Rastriya Prajatanta Party (RPP) have finalize their candidates for all seven local units for the second phase of local polls slated for June 28.

DHANKUTA, May 11: One man died of electric shock on Thursday at Mulghat situated in Ward-9 of Dhankuta Municipality, Dhankuta.

DHANKUTA, April 15: Two people were killed after being struck by lightning in the district on Saturday.

DHANKUTA, Jan 16: Three people were killed and seven others injured in a jeep accident in Phaksiv VDC of the district on Sunday night.

DHANKUTA, Oct 29: Two persons were killed and six others injured when a pickup truck skidded off the road and plunged around 70 meters down the road at Simledanda of Chhintang-8 in the district on Friday night.

DHANKUTA, July 28: Seven people including former Minister of State for Finance Hariraj Khewa were killed when a passenger bus (Ba 2 Kha 7366) skidded off the road in Sindhuwa on Thursday.