A study shows close to 3,000 people die of snakebites every year in the Tarai alone, many even before reaching the hospital.

After recording statements from the accused, arguments from the lawyers on both sides start on Sunday.

Another girl, the victim’s sister, who also drowned while swimming at a local fish pond, is undergoing treatment at Bhairawaha Medical College.

While the rising tiger numbers in Chitwan and Parsa national parks are significant from a conservation standpoint, growing incidence of human-animal conflict in the buffer zones have threatened lives and livelihoods.

विषयगत शिक्षकको माग गर्दै विगु गाउँपालिका–३ शारदा माध्यमिक विद्यालयका विद्यार्थीहरू आन्दोलमा उत्रिएका छन् । उनीहरुले सोमबार कक्षा बहिस्कार गरेर नाराबाजी गर्दै चर्को घाममा विद्यालयमा विरोध प्रर्दशन गरे ।

प्रमुख प्रतिपक्षी नेकपा (एमाले)ले राष्ट्रपति संसद्‌भन्दा माथि नहुने बताएको छ । एमालेका सचिव तथा सांसद योगेश भट्टराईले प्रतिनिधिसभाको सोमबारको बैठकमा राष्ट्रपति संसद्को अंग भएको र संसद्‌भन्दा माथि नभएको बताएका हुन् ।