UDAYAPUR, May 25: A young man who was absconding after being convicted of banking offenses, has been arrested by the police.

UDAYAPUR, May 14: The District Police Office, Udayapur, has arrested three persons on the charge of swindling people out of over Rs 2.2 million, telling them that they had won a lottery and they were required to pay a certain amount in advance for taxation.

UDAYAPUR May 11: A huge fire broke out on Thursday morning in the district’s Udayapur Municipality-7 with numerous homes being destroyed as a result. The police quoted the locals as saying that the fire started in the morning at Hodebas in Udayapur Municipality-7 and so far more than half a dozen houses and sheds have been destroyed.

UDAYAPUR, March 4: Lack of rainfall this winter has worried farmers growing maize in the hilly areas of Udayapur.

UDAYAPUR, Dec 19: One person was killed and five others were injured in a jeep accident in Udayapur on Monday morning.

Fire destroys house is in Udayapur

December 13, 2022 07:46 am

Udayapur, Dec 13: A fire that broke out on Monday afternoon destroyed a house in Udayapur. According to the preliminary investigation of the police, the fire was caused by an electrical short circuit.

UDAYAPUR, Nov 25: Rajan Kirati (Basu) of the CPN (Maoist Center) has won the provincial assembly election from Udaipur-1 (A). According to the final results of the counting which ended at 10:25 in the morning, Kirati, a candidate of the ruling alliance, started his journey as a member of the Provincial Assembly by getting 15,092 votes.

UDAYAPUR, Sept 2: Three people of the same family were brutally murdered on Friday afternoon in Mainamaini Godhatar of Udayapur Belka municipality-7.

KATHMANDU, August 3 : Saptakoshi River flood has entered the settlement from zero point located in Belka Municipality- 8 of Udayapur.

KATHMANDU, August 3: The swollen Saptakoshi River has breached the embankments and inundated the settlement in zero point located in Belka Municipality-8 of Udayapur.

Man drowns in river

August 2, 2022 14:00 pm

UDAYAPUR, August 2: A person has drowned in a river in Udayapur.  The deceased has been identified as Bauwa Chapagai, 50, from Triyuga Municipality- 7, Tilbari. He died on the spot.

UDAYAPUR, July 2: Hundreds of houses and shops in Gaighat Bazar area in Udaypur district were inundated due to the flood triggered by incessant rainfall since Friday night.

Four killed in truck accident

May 30, 2022 12:20 pm

UDAYAPUR, May 30: Four people, including a driver, were killed in a truck accident on Siddhicharan Highway in Udayapur district on Monday morning.

Lightning strike kills woman

May 22, 2022 16:17 pm

UDAYAPUR, May 22:  A lightning strike killed a woman on Sunday morning in Udayapur. 45 years old Bhakta Kumari Budhathoki of Katari Municipality-11 Gothdanda, died after she was struck by lightning when it was raining with strong winds in the morning.

UDAYAPUR, May 14: A youth was killed in police action on Friday at Kalika Secondary School polling station in Katari Municipality-10, Udayapur. The deceased has been identified as Bir Bahadur Katuwal, 18, according to Ward Committee member of Maoist Center Arjun Magar.

Kabita's 'murderers' made public

April 7, 2022 10:08 am

UDAYAPUR, April 7: The District Police Office, Udayapur, has made public those allegedly involved in the murder of Kabita Sunuwar, 15, of Belka municipality-3, Buddhachowk on Wednesday. Kabita's dead body was found near the local Jasoda rivulet on Tuesday morning.

UDAYAPUR, March 30: Over 200,000 voters have been registered in Udayapur for the local level elections scheduled for May 18. Likewise, a total of 98 polling centers and 258 polling booths have been allocated for the upcoming election in the district, according to the election office of the district.

24 kg of unclaimed marijuana found

December 14, 2021 15:45 pm

UDAYAPUR, Dec 14: A team of Katari Area Police Office, Udayapur which was on patrol on Monday, found 24 kg of unclaimed marijuana in a bag on the banks of Baijnath and Tawa River.

Elderly woman dies after motorcycle-hit

November 21, 2021 16:54 pm

UDAYAPUR, Nov 21: An elderly pedestrian died after being hit by a motorcycle in Udayapur on Saturday evening at Jahada of Belka Municipality-5. The deceased has been identified as 70-year-old local resident, Ichcha Kumari Rai.

Man electrocuted in Udayapur

November 1, 2021 11:15 am

UDAYAPUR, Nov 1: Dambar Bahadur Magar, 41, of Rautamai Rural Municipality-8 in Udayapur was electrocuted on Sunday.

UDAYAPUR, Oct 2: A man named Mukesh BK, 30, has been arrested on the charge of raping a 59-year-old woman in a jungle of Dwarkhola in Chaudandigadhi Municipality-5 at around 6PM on Thursday.

UDAYAPUR, August 17: Police have claimed that 27-year-old Uchitlal Sada and 23-year-old Bisey Sada of Surunga Municipality-1 of the neighboring Saptari district were responsible for the murder.

UDAYAPUR, August 16: The District Police Office (DPO), Udayapur, is preparing to hold a press conference later today to publicize the details of those arrested on charge of the involvement in the muder of Chaudhary.

UDAYAPUR, August 15: Various organizations and local governments of Udayapur are staging protests to pressurize the local authorities to find the culprits behind the murder of 17-year-old Krisala Chaudhary, who was found dead 11 days ago.

UDAYAPUR, August 11: A week ago, police recovered the dead body of 17-year-old Krisla Chaudhary who had been missing since July 28. The body was found half buried near the banks of the Ratmatey River on August 3.

UDAYAPUR, August 9: Police have arrested two Indian nationals from Triyuga Municipality-6 on charge of their involvement in smuggling mobile phones and other materials.

UDAYAPUR, July 18: The Siwai bridge which was completed after almost 12 years of construction went out of commission two weeks ago after getting severely damaged by the flood in the Triyuga River in Chaudandigadi Municipality-5 in Udayapur district. Also, two additional pillars and three slabs of the bridge which connects Siwai and Belhi were washed away by the flood following incessant rainfall since Saturday morning.

UDAYAPUR, June 7: As many as 13 people including four women have been infected with the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) in the past 24 hours in Udayapur district. With this, the numbers of infection in the district have reached 1,131 out of which 508 are women, while 623 are men.

UDAYAPUR, April 25: A four-year old boy drowned in the local Tawa river here in Udayapur on Saturday.

UDAYAPUR, March 18: The District Court, Udayapur, has sent a 56-year-old man to jail for raping his eight-year-old granddaughter. The District Court on Wednesday gave life imprisonment to the rape convict.

UDAYAPUR, Dec 23: District Court, Udayapur has slapped life imprisonment to a man, 45, convicted of raping his own daughter on Tuesday.

UDAYAPUR, Dec 4: An unidentified group has detonated powerful bombs at limestone mine of Saurya Cement in Katari Municipality-8 in Udayapur district on Thursday night.

UDAYAPUR, Nov 27: Police on Thursday arrested two people involved in detonating a bomb at the office of Tapli Rural Municipality of Udayapur district five days ago.

UDAYAPUR, Nov 22: A powerful explosion took place at Tapli Rural Municipality office in Udayapur district on Sunday morning.

KATHMANDU, Oct 18:  As many as five individuals have been killed while three others have sustained severe injuries in a road accident in Udayapur district on Saturday night.

Rape accused arrestd in Udayapur

September 28, 2020 21:36 pm

UDAYAPUR, Sept 28: Police on Monday arrested a teenager from Udayapur on rape charges. Tek Bahadur Bhujel, 19, from Katari Municipality-5 was apprehended after the family of the victim filed a case against him, according to Area Police Office, Katari. The girl was raped by the accused after forcibly entering her room at 1PM on Sunday.

UDAYAPUR, June 4: Four COVID-19 patients who have been undergoing treatment at the Biratnagar-based Koshi Hospital have recovered on Thursday.

UDAYAPUR, May 10: One more patient from Udayapur district was diagnosed with the coronavirus late Saturday evening.

BIRATNAGAR, May 8: Eight more COVID-19 patients have recovered from the disease.

KATHMANDU, April 23: Two more patients have tested positive for COVID-19 on Thursday, according to the Ministry of Health and Population.

UDAYAPUR, Feb 18: Construction of province-level bus terminal at Gaighat of Udayapur is going on in a war footing.

UDAYAPUR, Jan 18: Ward member of Jantedhunga rural municipality in the district died when an auto-rickshaw met with an accident on Friday evening.

UDAYAPUR, Dec 19: Diarrhea outbreak at Shahikhola-16 in Udayapur district has affected dozens of people for the past two days.

UDAYAPUR, Dec 19: The death toll has climbed to four in the jeep accident in Udayapur. Of them, three died on the spot while one breathed his last while undergoing treatment at Katari Hospital at around 11 am on Thursday.

3 die in Udayapur jeep accident

December 19, 2019 12:36 pm

UDAYAPUR, Dec 19: Three passengers have died when a Bolero jeep met with an accident at Udayapurgadhi-3, Jaruwa in the western belt of the district at around 9:30 am on Thursday.

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.

Police destroy marijuana in Udayapur

November 15, 2019 09:09 am

UDAYAPUR, Nov 15: District Police Office, Udayapur, said it destroyed around 115,000 marijuana plants in Udayapur district over the past few days.

UDAYAPUR, Nov 6: Police on Tuesday said that two elected representatives from Udayapur — Provincial Assembly Member Sanja Danuwar and Devi Kumari Chaudhary, Deputy Mayor of Triyuga Municipality — who were injured in a road accident, are safe.

KATARI, Aug 27: At a time when elected representatives are competing with each other to utilize as much state facilities as possible, deputy mayor of Katari Municipality in Udayapur district has announced not to use the car provided by the local government.

ITAHARI, July 27: Samir Rishidev, a local of Itahari Municipality-11 in Sunsari district, died on his way to health center after he was bit by a venomous snake. The snake bit the 11-year-old Rishidev while he was sleeping in his bed.