JALESHWOR, Dec 29: Nepal Police personnel have destroyed around 40,000 cannabis plants cultivated illegally at Baheda village of Yekdara Rural Municipality-5 in Mahottari district.

KAPILVASTU, Nov 14: Illegally imported prohibited firecrackers into Nepal were seized and safely destroyed.

KATHMANDU, June 14: A total of 6,268 sets of weapons that were seized, received, recovered or found stray over various periods of time and places were destroyed in accordance with the law.

KATHMANDU, Oct 18: A herd of wild elephants has damaged the paddy crop of farmers in Shuklaphanta Municipality-2 last night.

Rain destroys paddy crop

October 18, 2021 13:45 pm

GALESHWOR, Oct 18: Farmers are worried after the rain damaged their paddy crop.

Cannabis destroyed

August 22, 2021 15:31 pm

JUMLA: August 22: Security personnel have destroyed cannabis grown in an area around Khalanga, the district headquarters of Jumla. A joint team of Nepal Police, Armed Police Force and Nepal Army destroyed the marijuana that grew naturally there.

BEIRUT/DUBAI, Aug 5: Lebanon’s main grain silo at Beirut port was destroyed in a blast, leaving the nation with less than a month’s reserves of the grain but enough flour to avoid a crisis, the economy minister said on Wednesday.

BAJURA, May 12: The District Police Office, Bajura has confiscated and destroyed 14 thousand 660 litres of illegal home-brewed liquor in seven months in the district.

KATHMANDU, Dec 24:  Police on Monday destroyed home-made 20, 875 liters of hooch at Manamaiju in Tarkeshwar municipality-9 of the district.

NUWAKOT, Nov 25: The students of an earthquake-ravaged school in Nuwakot have been braving the unforgiving cold of winter, the scorching heat of summer and the torrential rainfall of monsoon.

SINDHULI, Nov 17: Police have destroyed marijuana over worth Rs 80 million in the district.

CHITWAN, June 25: The Area Police Office, Khairahani, Chitwan has destroyed a big catche of contraband marijuana.

RAUTAHAT, May 29:As the monsoon is just around the corner, the embankment damaged by the ravaging flood originated from Lal Bakaiya River last August is finally being reconstructed. The flood had destroyed the structures in both sides of the river.

CHITWAN, April 2: An Indian vegetable truck container smuggling 10 tons of banned chicken meat and fish alongside vegetables was confiscated on Sunday midnight. The vehicle, 70 B T 1776 was confiscated at Ramnagar, Chitwan.

KATHMANDU, Mar 11: On Friday, Nepalese vehemently expressed their anger in a video that had surfaced their news feed on the International Women’s Day. The video: a 18 year girl, accused of being a witch was beaten for hours by Ram Bahadur Chaudhary who claimed to be a ‘baba’. The girl, Radha Chaudhary from Ghodaghodi municipality, Kailali was taken to the district hospital.

KANCHANPUR, Feb 23: Wild elephants straying from the Shuklaphanta National Park are wrecking havoc in the adjacent villages, said the locals.

KHOTANG, Feb 21:  Property worth Rs 1.2 million was destroyed in the fire that started while refilling a sawmill with fuel at Rawabensi Rural Municipality in the district.

CHITWAN, Feb 1: The earthquake of April 2015 had killed one and injured many in Guchhiwang village. None of the houses survived the disaster. Though some of them were partially damaged, most of the houses were fully damaged.

KHOTANG, Jan 29: A family has been rendered homeless after a fire gutted their house at Rawabensi Rural Municipality-6 of the district.

KHOTANG, Jan 4: A massive fire in Halesi Bazar in Khotang district gutted four houses and partially destroyed three more on Tuesday evening.

NUWAKOT, Jan 2: The relief goods including food grain and other food stuff brought here to be distributed to the earthquake survivors have been destroyed as they have become useless.

TEHRATHUM, Dec 15: Property worth Rs 500,000 was destroyed as fire reduced two houses to cinder at Hile of Chuhandanda in

ILAM, Nov 29: Property worth over Rs 10 million was destroyed by fire that broke out at a dairy at Harkate of Suryodaya Municipality-6 this morning.

ITAHARI, SUNSARI,Oct 20: A candle industry on Friday caught fire at Itahari Sub Metropolitan City in Sunsari, destroying property worth more than Rs 1.5 million.

KATHMANDU, Oct 8: Property worth Rs 1.2 million has been destroyed after a plastic factory caught fire in Balaju Industrial Area on Sunday evening.

Paddy crop destroyed by landslide

September 23, 2017 13:33 pm

JAJARKOT, Sept 23: Paddy cultivated in 25 ropani of land in ward no. 4 of Kushe rural municipality in the district was damaged in a landslide last night.

KHOTANG, Sept 7: A Rupakot-based community radio caught fire apparently due to short circuit on Wednesday.

RAUTAHAT, August 21: Shiva Dayal Sah, 60, of Dohartol panics whenever clouds gather in the sky. He has withstood flood several times in his life. However, the recent one, the one that swept across most the Tarai region last Saturday, was the most devastating, he says. “As soon as there is a black cloud in the sky I feel like fleeing from here. I get very restless,” he said. “I fear if I could save my life again if my house is flooded again,” he added.

KANCHANPUR, July 20: Property worth over 1.8 million rupees was destroyed by a fire at Jhalari, Shuklaphanta Municipality-10 based Aayush Clinic and Subas Pharmacy last night.

CHITWAN, May 21: Wildlife parts and trophies, stored for around 20 years, at Kasara, the headquarters of the Chitwan National Park are going to be destroyed on Monday.

A 20-year-old Venezuelan protester died on Friday after being shot in the head, authorities said, taking fatalities from a month of anti-government unrest to at least 37 as the opposition geared up for more demonstrations.

RAUTAHAT, May 2: Property worth millions of rupees was destroyed after a fire broke out at Everest Distillery Industry in Durga Bhagawati Rural Municipality in the district on Tuesday.

RUKUM, April 20: The District Police Office (DPHO) Rukum has destroyed opium plants cultivated on around 70 bigha of land in total in different parts of the district.

BARA, March 5: Police today destroyed around 14,000 liters of home-made liquor seized from houses of five locals during a raid at Prasauni VDC in Bara.

DADELDHURA, Dec 11: Property worth tens of millions of rupees was destroyed by fire at Gaibandhe bazaar of Parashuram Municipality in Dadeldhura district on Saturday mid-night.

ITAHARI, Dec 7: A fire broke out at a foam factory at Duhabi Bhaluwa Municipality-4 in Sunsari district on Tuesday evening, injuring three laborers and destroying property worth around Rs 200 million.

MYAGDI, Nov 25: A fire that broke out at the house of a local at Darwang-2 in Myagdi district in the wee hours today has gutted properties worth around Rs 1.5 million.

DANG, Nov 15: Property worth around Rs 10.5 million was destroyed after a petrol pump caught fire in Deukhuri on Monday night.

Property worth Rs 3 m destroyed in fire

November 10, 2016 16:05 pm

BARA, Nov 10: Property worth over three million rupees was destroyed by fire at Piprahi VDC-2 in the district last night, said police.

BHAKTAPUR, Oct 31: A fire erupted at the Dattatreya Museum, adjacent to Dattatreya Temple in Bhaktapur Durbar Square in Bhaktapur district, has reduced three artistic wooden windows to ashes.

Firecrackers worth Rs 200,000 destroyed

October 30, 2016 22:06 pm

BIRATNAGAR, Oct 30: Morang police on Sunday destroyed firecrackers worth Rs 200,000.

KHOTANG, Oct 28: Property worth over Rs 1.2 million was reduced to ashes after a house caught fire at Diktel Municipality- 9 in the district.

Confiscated fireworks destroyed

October 23, 2016 14:47 pm

DHANGADI, Oct 23:The police in Kailali today destroyed a huge cache of the fireworks worth Rs one lakh that were confiscated from the Nepal-India border in Kailali while being smuggled into the country.

RAJBIRAJ, Oct 6: Property worth Rs five lakhs was gutted in a fire that broke out at a hardware shop in Kanchanrup-5, Saptari Friday.

PARSA, Sept 10: Property worth Rs. 10 million was destroyed in a fire that broke out all of a sudden this morning at the Triveni Feed Industries at Chatapipar on the Birgunj-Pathalaiya road section.

Bootleg liquor seized and destroyed

July 11, 2016 11:15 am

MUSTANG, July 11: The District Administration Office (DAO), Mustang on Sunday confiscated a large amount of bootleg liquor from a distillery company at Marfa area.

DAMAK (Jhapa), June 21: More than 20 houses reduced to ashes in Jhapa as a fire broke out at Beldangi-2 on Monday night. However, human casualties were not reported.