KHOTANG, Aug 31: Three people have been seriously injured in Aiselukharka Rural Municipality-3 of Khotang due to a lightning strike on Friday.

KHOTANG, Feb 21: A cultural museum has been established at Jalapa of Diktel Rupakot Majhuwagadhi Municipality-12 in Khotang district in order to preserve the traditional household items used by the ancestors of the residents here.

KHOTANG, Nov 13: Property worth Rs 2.5 million plus was gutted to cinder in a fire that broke out in the house of Bhim Bahadur Kawatal at Dhitung of Halesi Tuwachung Municipality-8 in the district on Sunday.

KHOTANG, Oct 21: The Barahapokhari Rural Municipality in Khotang district has exported goats worth Rs 17.5 million to Kathmandu in this festive season.

KHOTANG, Aug 13: Women and Dalit people's representatives in the district have complained that they face a larger exclusion in the course of the drafting of plans and budget allocations at the local level.

KHOTANG, Aug 5: Over 700 cattle have died so far from lumpy skin disease in Khotang district.

KHOTANG, May 17: Khotang, a hilly district in the Koshi Province, has geared up preparation to administer a booster dose of COVID-19.

UDAYAPUR, Dec 20: Property worth 50 million rupees has been gutted in a fire that broke out in Bakshila Bazaar of Kepilasagadhi Rural Municipality-4, Khotang.

KHOTANG, Nov 18: Election materials and security personnel have arrived at all voting stations in Khotang district for the elections to the House of Representatives (HoR) and provincial assembly scheduled to take place on November 20.

KHOTANG, August 17: The District Hospital Khotang is receiving an increasing number of viral fever infected patients in recent days.

KHOTANG, August 2: Two school buildings, one police post and 475 houses suffered damages when a magnitude six earthquake hit Khotang on Sunday.

KATHMANDU, July  31: The Khotang earthquake that  rattled parts of Nepal has left a few houses destroyed. According to Pavitra Prakash Shah, Assistant Chief District Officer of District Administration Office Khotang, a house was destroyed in Sakela Rural Municipality in Khotang.

KHOTANG, March 21: Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba is scheduled to visit Khotang today.

KHOTANG, Dec 18: Nirmala Acharya 'Sunakhari', 21, and Yashoda Rijal, 20, of Nerpa in Rupakot Majhuwagadhi municipality, Sulochana Acharya, 19, of Diktel in the same municipality and Rejina Damai of Aiselukharka rural municipality have started the campaign on December 5.

KHOTANG, September 6: The CPN-UML District Committee members in Khotang district are making efforts to minimize the number of elected people’s representatives of the party to join the newly-formed party, CPN (Unified Socialist) led by Madhav Kumar Nepal.

KHOTANG, August 17: Due to heavy rain, the ambulance service in Khotang has been severely affected. Dozens of roads, which are operational in winter, have been blocked because of heavy rain. This has resulted in a great deal of difficulty for the ambulances to run smoothly.

KHOTANG, August 6: Police have arrested an individual for illegally possessing a homemade gun in his house in Aiselukharka Rural Municipality-3 on Wednesday. The house owner has been identified to be 54-year-old Nim Sangay Tamang.

KHOTANG, July 12: As many as 1,654 infected people in Khotang district have recovered from COVID-19. The total number of infected cases in the region were 2,081 till Sunday, out of which 1,654 have recovered.

KHOTANG, June 25: Eight local levels including two municipalities in Khotang district on Thursday unveiled their policy and programs for the fiscal year 2021/022. Barahapokhari and Kepilasgadhi rural municipalities are yet to unveil their policy and programs.

“The health workers are very occupied in treating the infected patients. Earlier, I used to carry my baby with me while treating others but have decided to keep my child at home due to fear of virus transmission,” Sharma said. “It is mandatory for a child to breastfeed for two years. However, I had to stop feeding milk to my child before that time period due to the pandemic,” Sharma added.

On May 19, three infected patients of the same family from Aiselukharka Rural Municipality-3 were airlifted to Kathmandu by helicopter after paying Rs 320,000 for the flight

KHOTANG, May 24: A Gurkha soldier serving with the British army has donated oxygen cylinders to Jalapa Community Hospital of Diktel Rupakot Majhuwagadi Municipality in Khotang.

KHOTANG, May 22: The Khotang Chamber of Commerce and Industry has distributed face masks and sanitizers to the police personnel deployed in the frontlines of the mid-hilly highway in the district.

KHOTANG, March 15:  Two people have died after falling off trees in two separate incidents in Khotang.

Khotang, Sept 17: The District Administration Office in Khotang has requested public vehicle operators to run theirvehicles with one passenger in a row. The decision passed by the Council of Ministers on Wednesday has allowed the vehicles to resume public vehicle service that had been halted to contain the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, in order to prevent and control the transmission of the virus, the DAO has requested the vehicle operators to resume the service with less than 50 percent of the seat capacity.

KHOTANG, July 8: As a record number of children and youths are unable to attend schools due to lockdown measures enforced by the government to contain possible spread of coronavirus (COVID-19), some schools in Khotang district in the eastern part of the country have decided to try a different model of teaching.

KHOTANG, Feb 23: The local government of Halesi, Khotang has taken initiatives to develop a rock garden on Kakani Mountain of Halesi, where small rocks are seen spread over like mushrooms. According to Halesi Tuwachung Municipality, a detailed project report is being prepared for the same.

KHOTANG, Dec 15: A temporary bailey bridge has been constructed over the Sunkoshi River in Phoksingtar, along the border between Khotang and Udayapur districts. The bridge connects Khotahang Rural Municipality of Khotang and Ratomai Rural Municipality of Udaypur.

KHOTANG, Dec 8: An eye clinic has been established at Janasewa Community Hospital at Majuwa Gadhi Municipality-12 in Khotang district. Aiming at solving the eye-related problems of the locals, Tilganga Institute of Ophthalmology, District Community Eye Center (DCEC), Solukhumbu, ward office, Jansewa Samaj Nepal, and Janasewa Community Hospital established the 'Janasewa Rural Eye Clinic'.

KHOTANG, Dec 5: A committee formed to investigate financial irregularities in Barahapokhari Rural Municipality of Khotang district has found four wards of the local unit distributing social security allowances in the name of deceased senior citizens and widows.

KHOTANG, Nov 25: Khotang district has completed reconstruction of 81 percent of quake-hit private houses.

KATHMANDU, Nov 16: After exceeding the construction deadline by six months, even pillars for the bridge at Phoksingtar, connecting Khotang and Udaypur districts, have not been built.

KHOTANG, Oct 31: Altogether 12,186 families in Khotang have subscribed to the health insurance scheme initiated by the government in January, 2018. The insurance scheme covers 26,047 individuals in the district.

KHOTANG, Oct 14: A couple from Khotang, a rural hilly district in eastern region of Nepal, has ventured into promoting locally produced goods by opening a handicraft store in the district.

KHOTANG, Aug 24: Khotang Police has continued with its campaign to destroy illegal cannabis planted at commercial farms in the district.

KHOTANG, Aug 19: Police have arrested chairperson of ward no 5 of Kepilasgadhi Rural Municipality in Khotang Khagendra Rai and three others on Monday on the charge of thrashing a local youth.

KHOTANG, July 27: Two activists representing district branch in Khotang of Nepal Federation of Indigenous Nationalities (NEFIN) have lodged a complaint at Khotang district branch of National Human Rights Commission under Province-1 against Chief District Officer(CDO) and District Police Office seeking a legal action against them for their alleged indirect involvement in the physical torture they were subjected to recently.

KHOTANG, July 18: Four ward chiefs of Halesi Tuwachung Municipality in Khotang have boycotted the municipal assembly meeting expressing their disappointment toward the ceiling of budget set for the wards.

KHOTANG, July 15: Various parts of Khotang and Okhaldhunga districts have been experiencing power cut for the past four days.

KHOTANG, July 14: Various parts of Khotang and Okhaldhunga districts have been experiencing power cut for the past three days.

KHOTANG, July 13: Family members have not been able to bring the dead body of a police constable to his hometown Halesi Tuwachung Khotang, who was killed during an exchange of fire with outlawed NCP cadres on Wednesday in Bhojpur.

KHOTANG, July 8: A prisoner has been found dead on Sunday evening in the toilet of Khotang District Prison.

KHOTANG, July 5: A temporary police station has been established in the Rawabesi rural municipality in Khotang district to ensure the protection of various governmental and non-governmental offices.

KHOTANG, July 1: Maize plants are drying up in most of the wards of Halesi Tuwachung Municipality due to delayed monsoon.

KHOTANG, June 27: Khotang's five local units have failed to present their annual budgets and programs within the date set by the government, citing different reasons.

KHOTANG, June 18: A new birthing center has been established in Diprung, a remote village in Khotang district. With the health facilities already in operation, pregnant women in the village and around now do not have to travel long distances for delivery.

KHOTANG, June 11: Ninety per cent works with the first phase of the construction of view tower at Rupakot of Khotang district have been completed. A 30-feet tall view tower is being constructed at Rupakot, which lies around 2,600 feet high from sea level.

KHOTANG, June 6: With the onset of monsoon, government authorities have removed a temporary Bailey bridge over the Sunkoshi River in Foksingtar of Khotang district due to the rising level of water.

KHOTANG, May 22: Abortion by unregistered health workers is increasing in Khotang. The District Hospital, Khotang on Tuesday held an interaction on safe abortion where the issue of this illegal practice carried out by unregistered health posts was also discussed.

KHOTANG, April 23: Ramnidhi Acharya, a farmer of Yamkha in Diprung Chuichumma Rural Municipality, is making handsome money by producing saplings of different fruits and spices in his nursery. Staying within the country, he has set an example for other locals who keep saying that there is no opportunity in village.