Two days after the death of Free Madhes activist Ram Manohar Yadav in police custody, his family has demanded investigation into the incident suspecting torture as the cause.

Two people were swept by floods in Jethinala River at Baijyanath Rural Municipality of Banke district on Sunday.

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.