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The tiger census that started on December 18, 2025 has been completed on February 19.

Chitwan National Park Information Officer Avinash Thapa Magar said that 85 cameras were installed in Chitwan and Parsa National Park where 60 were stolen and 25 were found damaged. 

He said that 1,780 cameras were used in Chitwan and Parsa National Parks. According to Thapa Magar, the two national parks were divided into one complex and one complex into three blocks for the tiger census.

This complex was divided into 958 grids for the tiger census. Of the cameras used in those grids, 85 cameras were problematic, Thapa Magar said.

According to him, the work was done by placing cameras in one block for 17 nights.

The two square kilometer area was counted by making a grid.

Earlier, in the tiger census conducted in 2022, data was made public that there were 355 adult tigers in Nepal.

In that census, 128 tigers were found in Chitwan, 125 in Bardiya National Park, 25 in Banke National Park, 41 in Parsa National Park and 36 in Shuklaphanta National Park.

Twenty-two passengers were injured when a bus met with an accident at Bijauna in Manahari Rural Municipality-7, Makwanpur, on Sunday.

According to Pushkar Bogati, Deputy Superintendent of Police and spokesperson of Makwanpur District Police Office, a passenger bus with the registration number Ba 06–001 Kh 0054, heading towards to Chitwan from Birgunj, went out of control and crashed into an electric pole on the left side of the road, injuring 22 passengers traveling in the bus. 

DSP Bogati said that the injured were rescued and sent to Chitwan Hospital for treatment.

The District Administration Office has continued the prohibitory order within Gaur Municipality area. 

The prohibitory order has continued to be effective from 8:30 am today within the eastern Mudbalwa Gate, western Lalbakaiya Dam, north of Bam Canal and south of Gaur Customs Office.

Chief District Officer Dinesh Sagar Bhusal said that the prohibitory order has been continued from 8:30 am on Sunday until further notice. 

The order was issued from 1 am on Saturday to 6:30 am today after a clash between two communities in Savgadha village of Gaur-6 on Saturday morning. 

The prohibitory order had been relaxed from 6:30 am to 8:30 am today.

An earthquake measuring 4.1 on the Richter scale jolted Sankhuwasabha district on Sunday. 

The tremor occurred at 7: 31 am with its epicenter near Ritak in Bhotkhola Rural Municipality of the district, according to the National Earthquake Monitoring and Research Center, Lainchaur.