RAJBIRAJ, March 16: Property worth Rs 3 million turned into ashes when Krishna Ladies and Gents Tailors caught fire in Saptari district this morning. The outlet  is located at Rupani Road in Rajbiraj.

KATHMANDU, July 28: A young man was found dead, and another was discovered seriously injured in Mansapur, Tilathi Koiladi Rural Municipality-7 of Saptari.

Minor gang-raped in Saptari

July 18, 2023 14:29 pm

LAHAN, July 18: A 17-year-old girl from Kanchanpur Municipality-12 Dharampur, Saptari district of Madhesh Province, was gang-raped last Friday.

RAJBIRAJ, June 2: The normal life in Saptari has been badly affected due to excessive heat in the recent days.

Young man found dead in Saptari

May 14, 2023 13:20 pm

JANAKPUR May 14: The dead body of a young man has been found in Saptari.

SAPTARI, April 10: A man was injured while his daughter was killed in a motorcycle accident at Kalyanpur Bazar of Khadak municipality-7 in Saptari last night.

A polygamist in Saptari sent to jail

March 16, 2023 12:58 pm

JANAKPUR, March 16: A person who performed polygamy in Saptari has been jailed.

Man found dead in Saptari

November 29, 2022 14:13 pm

LAHAN, Nov 29: A man has been found dead in Kanchanrup Municipality-1 Bairaba of Saptari. The body of 50-year-old Pappu Raut, who had been missing since Monday night, was found on Tuesday in a state of strangulation.

SAPTARI, Nov 26: Nepali Congress (NC) Candidate Tejulal Chaudhary has won the election to the member of the House of Representatives (HoR) from the Saptari electoral constituency-4.

RAJBIRAJ, Nov 22: Mahesh Prasad Yadav of the Janamat Party has won the membership of the provincial assembly from Constituency No 2(b) of Saptari. Yadav won by a margin of 6302 votes.

KATHMANDU, Nov 22: CK Raut of Janamat Party is still leading in Saptari Constituency No. 2. Raut has secured 12,225 votes.

KATHMANDU, Nov 21: CK Raut of Janamat Party is still leading in Saptari Constituency No. 2. So far 1,979 votes have been counted and Raut has secured 1,020 votes.

KATHMANDU, Nov 21: The counting of votes is underway in Saptari Constituency No. 2.

SAPTARI, Nov 18: Security in Saptari has been beefed up in view of the elections to the members of House of Representatives and Province Assembly slated for November 20.

RAJBIRAJ, Sept 7: Central Chairperson of the Loktantrik Samajwadi Party (LSP), Mahantha Thakur has been recommended as a candidate of the party for the House of Representatives elections from Saptari constituency-4 under the first-past-the-post category.

SAPTARI, July 7: The Saptari District Court has slapped a three-month imprisonment on a school teacher for his involvement in sexually abusing his female student. He was also fined Rs 10,000 and Rs 20,000 in compensation to the victim for the offense.

SAPTARI, May 19: A woman has been elected the mayor for the first time in Saptari district. Geeta Chaudhary of the Nepali Congress has been elected the mayor of the Surunga Municipality by securing 7,292 votes in the local level election held on May 13.

SAPTARI, May 14: Voting process that was suspended at two polling centers at Janata Secondary School polling station, Hariraha of Dakeshwori Municipality-2 in Saptari district following disputes would take place on Sunday.

SAPTARI, May 13: Voting at two polling booths has been suspended at the Janata Secondary School voting station, Hariraha of Dakeshwori Municipality-2 in Saptari district today.

KATHMANDU, Oct 2: A team of the Armed Police Force (APF), Saptari,  has rescued an Indian national from Saptari district.

Six drown in Saptari in five days

September 26, 2021 15:00 pm

SAPTARI, Sept 26: As many as six people drowned in ponds in Saptari district in the past five days. The construction of ponds rampantly and leaving them open is often blamed for the death of people.

Two siblings killed by snake bite

September 22, 2021 16:40 pm

RAJBIRAJ, Sept 22: A sister and her brother were pronounced dead after a poisonous snake bit the two siblings last night at Khadak Municipality-2 in Saptari district.

RAJBIRAJ, Sept 10: Two persons were killed in separate incidents that occurred in Saptari district last night.

LAHAN, July 21: The incessant rain in Saptari district has caused floods in Jeeta River. The swollen river has seriously affected the Tilathi Koiladi Rural Municipality, waterlogging over 300 houses.

LAHAN, March 27: A doctor has been arrested on the charge of sexually harassing a woman at Chinnamasta Hospital in Rajbiraj of Saptari district.

LAHAN, Dec 14: A woman died and four other people sustained injuries in a clash between two groups that erupted while some people were fishing in a public pond at Bode Barsain Municipality in Saptari district on Sunday night.

SAPTARI, Sept 16: An adolescent rape victim in Saptari district committed suicide on Tuesday after failing to get justice. The victim has been identified as a 17-year old girl from Dakneswori Municipality-7 in the district.

Woman succumbs to COVID-19 in Saptari

August 30, 2020 11:06 am

LAHAN, Aug 30: An elderly woman died of the novel coronavirus disease on Saturday night.

SAPTARI, Aug 18: Saptari district has extended the prohibitory order for 15 more days to discourage the activities involving people's gathering in order to contain the increasing cases of coronavirus infection. The local authority would however organize awareness programmes to reduce the virus spread.

LAHAN, July 24: Gajendra Narayan Singh Sagarmatha Hospital in Rajbiraj, Saptari, has been sealed off after a patient who is undergoing treatment at the emergency ward tested positive for the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) on Friday.

KATHMANDU, May 11: The number of total confirmed COVID-19 cases in Nepal has reached 121 as one more patient was diagnosed with this deadly disease on Monday afternoon.

KATHMANDU, Feb 18: Four people were killed in separate road accidents took place in Bara and Saptari districts.

RAJBIRAJ, Jan 24: Water is hardly seen in Khado River except during the monsoon. During rainy days, it swells and floods wreak havoc in the nearby villages time and again. The river flows through several parts of Saptari district in Nepal, and it also touches villages of Bihar, India. It is the responsibility of the authorities of both the countries to free people of the fears of floods and ensure their safety. Locals say, ‘nobody’ is however concerned over their plights.

Man arrested on rape charge

January 23, 2020 13:42 pm

SAPTARI, Jan 23: Area Police Office Kalyanpur here has arrested one person on the charge of raping a four-year-old girl.

Ward chair dies in a motorbike accident

January 21, 2020 12:54 pm

RAJBIRAJ, Jan 21: Chairperson of Agnisair Krishna Sabaran Rural Municipality-1, Saptari died in a motorbike accident last night. Ward chair Sushil Kumar Chaudhary,38, lost his life in the fatal accident, confirmed the Area Police Office, Kanchanpur.

Two dead in accident

December 25, 2019 16:03 pm

Two people were killed in an accident occurred when a Scorpio jeep knocked down a motorcycle at Birendra Bazar of Saptari along the East-West Highway today

Tarai cold wave hits Dalits hard

December 24, 2019 08:33 am

SAPTARI, Dec 24: Dipping temperature and cold wave have affected normal life in the tarai districts. Several schools have declared holiday while flow of patients at hospitals has remarkably increased. According to the district education office, over 102 schools have been shut down due to excessive cold.

RAJBIRAJ, Oct 30: Police have arrested a father and a son on the charge of their involvement in the death of Ajay Mukhiya of Piparatole of Kanchanrup municipality-5.

Two die in road accident

October 10, 2019 17:31 pm

SAPTARI, Oct 10: Two persons died and two others were injured in a road mishap at Bisanpur chowk of Khadka municipality-8 of Saptari district today.

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September 21, 2019 18:40 pm

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RAJBIRAJ, Sept 20: On Thursday, the eve of the Constitution Day, Nawal Kishor Sah, the social development minister of Province 2, led an anti-constitution march in the district of Saptari where leaders and cadres from his party, Rastriya Janata Party Nepal (RJPN), displayed black flags to mark the day as a “black day”.

RAJBIRAJ, Aug 3: Farmers are worried after the floods of July 13 and July 24, which inundated more than 3,000 hectares of arable land in the district.

Lightning kills two in Saptari

July 23, 2019 15:05 pm

SAPTARI, July 23: Two people were killed after they were struck by a lightning coupled with thundershower in Saptari this morning.

SAPTARI, June 21: The collection of garbage at Rajbiraj municipality has been resumed after three days with the discussion and agreement between the workers and administration.

KATHMANDU, June 10: Vivek Sah, who owns a sweet shop in Barmajiya, Saptari, has taken part in the National Cottage and Small Industrial Expo for the first time. His family has been selling peda, a popular sweet made out of milk, branded as 'Bajeko Peda', for more than five decades.

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RAJBIRAJ, April 27: Three people died in separate road accidents that took place in Saptari along the East-West Highway today. One person died and eight others were injured when a passenger bus overturned after hitting a truck at Ward no. 9 of Kanchanrup municipality.

Oldest man dies at 131

April 13, 2019 14:10 pm

RAJBIRAJ, April 13: The senior-most citizen Raghu Baharkher, who was 131 years old, died on Friday. The resident of Tirahut rural municipality-1 in Saptari district, Baharkher spent his life involving in livestock farming, according to a local Mukesh Yadav.

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Saptari sees spate of gruesome killings

February 27, 2019 08:35 am

RAJBIRAJ, Feb 27: A series of murders and violent attacks continues in Saptari despite claims of tightened security by officialdom. The district has seen five murders in the past five months.