JANAKI (BANKE), Jan 13: The death in the bus accident that occurred in Bhaluwang in Dang has reached 12.

KATHMANDU, Jan 13: At least five people were killed and several others injured after a passenger bus skidded off the bridge and plunged into Rapti River in Bhaluwang, Dang on Friday night.

Two girls drown in Rapti river

December 4, 2022 11:45 am

KATHMANDU, Dec 4: Two girls died after drowning in Rapti River.

BANKE, Oct 6: The Rapti River has crossed the danger mark following incessant rainfall since Tuesday night. At Kusum, the water level in the swollen river has crossed the 6.32 meters mark. The river is considered reaching the danger mark when the water level reaches 5.40 meters.

NEPALGUNJ, Sept 17: The water level in Rapti river at Kusum, Banke, has crossed six meters due to incessant rainfall. It is considered dangerous when the water level in the river reaches above 5 meters and 40 centimeters.

NEPALGUNJ, June 9: The bodies of two persons who had gone missing in the Rapti River have been found. The bodies of 18-year-old Tribal Shahi and 18-year-old Lekraj Chhantyal of Simkot Rural Municipality-8, Humla, who had been living in Dhambohji- 1 of Nepalgunj were found this morning.

NEPALGUNJ, April 1: Rafting, an adventurous water sport, has been started in the Rapti River from Rapti Sonari Rural Municipality Ward 1 of Banke Kusum Bariya to Agaiya since Friday.

KATHMANDU, August 27: A man died and two were injured in a truck accident at Bhimphedi in Makwanpur district on Friday morning.

DANG, June 16: Four people of Deukhuri stranded on the island of Rapti river have been rescued.

CHITWAN, Nov 7: In view of the upcoming Visit Nepal Year 2020, the government is all set to complete the construction of an “umbrella street” alongside Rapti River in Patihani of Chitwan within this December. The under-construction street offers a spectacular sunset view. According the local authorities, 70 percent of the project has been completed and the rest will be done before the Visit Nepal Year 2020 begins.

CHITWAN, June 19: Crocodile eggs collected from the local Rapti and Narayani rivers have hatched producing 151 hatchlings.

NEPALGUNJ, March 31: A woman in Nepalgunj fainted on Thursday evening after falling into a water-filled pit dug by a contractor near the Rapti River in Nepalgunj.

CHITWAN, March 12: At least seven gharials in the Rapti River of Chitwan National Park (CNP) area have been found dead in this current fiscal year. Some of them were found entangled in fishing nets, which could have potentially killed them.

Flood-swept rhinos brought back to Nepal

December 17, 2018 10:38 am

CHITWAN, Dec 17: The world’s rare wildlife, one-horned rhino, has been brought back to its home on a boat.

KANCHANAPUR, Aug 26: Chhal Bahadur Budha of Raptisonari -2 planted paddy and corn in his fields last month. Almost every day he would visit the fields to see the growth of the plants. Seeing their growth, he would smile thinking that he would be harvest a good yield that would last for at least six months.