Protesters warned of demonstrating for one hour every day if their demands are not addressed.

Nearly 5,000 litres of milk is being wasted on a daily basis after Janakpur Milk Distribution Project in Dhanusha stopped buying milk from local farmers. The project stopped buying milk from mid-July and has affected the livelihood of hundreds of people in the district.

Sugarcane famers of Mahottari district have intensified their protest against Everest Sugar Mill demanding payment for their crop. The protest was held after the mill failed to release the payment of around Rs1.78 billion to sugarcane farmers, who had supplied the crop this year.

Mahottari district has been in sombre mood since early Saturday morning after a dead body of a local youth was found at Matihani-8. The deceased has been identified as Ramesh Thakur of Matihani-7.

Normal life has been greatly affected in Mahottari district for the past few days due to an excessive cold weather.

The Nepali Congress (NC) on Sunday withdrew the candidacy of Bajranga Nepali in Mahottari-3 in Province 2 to support Mahantha Thakur, coordinator of the Rastriya Janata Party-Nepal (RJP-N).

CPN-UML senior leader Madhav Kumar Nepal has remarked the issue of constitution amendment is the interest of few leaders and not of Madhesi people.

Sanghiya Samajwadi Forum Nepal Chairman Upendra Yadav has remarked that the agitating Madhes-based parties will not accept the constitution unless it is amended to address the grievances of Madhesi community.

The cadres of agitating Samyukta Loktantrik Madhesi Morcha (SLMM) have shut markets in Mahottari district on Thursday to protest against the death of an Indian national during a protest in Birgunj on November 2.

India has beefed up security at Nepal-India border point in Bhittamod of Mahottari district on Tuesday.

A resurgence of the monsoon after a long drought has brought smiles to the faces of farmers in most parts of the eastern Tarai. The extended dry spell during the key paddy transplantation period has affected most paddy fields in the region. Weathermen have forecast more rain for the next two days. They have also issued a heavy rain warning for some districts in the Eastern and Central regions.

More than 80 percent of the paddy fields in Mahottari district remain to be planted even with the rainy month of July coming to a close, the District Agriculture Development Office said

A 12-year-old girl who was abducted from Punjab in India almost a year ago has been rescued from a house in Kanchanban-5 in the district.

People of Musarhar settlement at Bathnaha-6 in the district have been left in the lurch after the Indian Seema Surakshya Bal (SSB) razed the houses and structures in the village

Hasmuna Khatun of Parsadewad-7, who was divorced over the phone and left in lurch, has got reprieve after her husband Mohammed Mustakim, realising his mistake