The government has initiated the process to construct the access road to connect Nepalgunj city with the construction site of the dry port being developed at the customs point.

Animals inside the Banke National Park (BNP) have been affected as their drinking ponds have started to dry up. There are 27 artificial ponds inside the sanctuary, and nearly half of them are going dry, said chief conservation officer Dil Bahadur Pun.

Yellow lentils imported from China and Singapore are being smuggled into India, a recent seizure of 20 tonnes of the pulses from near the southern border by a Federal Police Unit showed.

Five Nepal women, aged 17 to 24, have been rescued from an Agra-based brothel in India.

Elderly persons in Nepalgunj say they are facing difficulty collecting their social security allowance because of travelling hassles and a long wait at banks. They have appealed to their local governments to make an arrangement where they could collect their allowance from their village.

Family members of a Nepali migrant worker in Saudi Arabia have requested the government to rescue him from his employer, who has reportedly denied him salary for the past nine months and barring him from leaving the country.