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A powerful pressure cooker bomb exploded at the tower of Nepal Telecom in Dumja of Sunkoshi Rural Municipality-1, Sindhuli on Friday.

According to the District Police Office, Sindhuli, a telecom tower and a house near BP Park in Dumja were damaged in the blast.

DSP Chiranjeevi Dahal, who is also the spokesperson of the District Police Office, Sindhuli, informed that a bomb exploded in Dumja this morning.

Based on the information provided by locals about hearing the sound of the explosion at around 3 am, police reached the incident site and confirmed the explosion of a powerful pressure cooker bomb, he said.

Police said that they have recovered a pamphlet written People Vibration Army and Jan Mukti Sena from the site.

The 25th edition of the Flora Expo began at Bhrikutimandap in Kathmandu from Thursday.

Organized by Floriculture Association of Nepal and Floriculture Development Centre, the Expo will run until March 17.

Chairman of Association Min Bahadur Tamang shared that a total of 73 stalls including 60 commercial ones, three landscaping, eight official and others are kept in the Expo.

The organizers have expected some 50,000 visitors and business transactions of worth Rs 10 million in the Expo.

The Association said that Nepal is now self-reliant on flower production in most of the seasons except for Tihar festival.

With the rise in demand for flowers, flower production and its farming has increased to 43 districts in the country including in Kathmandu, Lalitpur, Bhaktapur, Kaski, Chitwan, Makawanpur, Kavre, Gulmi, Palpa, Dhading, Morang and others.

Nepal produces some 450 species of flowers and the market of this business is of Rs 3 billion plus annually.

Six rhinos are being internally relocated in the Chitwan National Park from today.

The officials are working for the translocation of the rhinos with the increased number of the endangered animal in the western belt of the national park.

Now, the rhinos will be relocated to the eastern belt of the national park.

Chief Conservation Officer of Chitwan National Park Dil Bahadur Purja Pun said the rhinos are being translocated from Friday and 60 workforce including elephants, technical human resources, officials, Nepal Army personnel and other officials have been mobilized to carry out the task.

Information Officer of Chitwan National Park Ganesh Prasad Tiwari said six rhinos are being relocated and the move comes as per the study report prepared by the Department of National Park and Wildlife Conservation.

It is said that the rhinos aged 8-20 will be relocated to the Dibyapuri post of the national park and it could take some two weeks to complete the task. 

With the translocation of rhinos, the intercourse between the rhinos from the east and west belts of the national park could contribute in reproduction of rhinos as well.

Officials said that rhinos causing troubles to the people by entering into the human settlements would be relocated with high priority and the proportion of the male and female rhinos would be taken into consideration.

Death toll in Udayapur jeep accident has reached eight.

Taksar (Bhojpur), March 14: All those eight people killed in a jeep accident at Mainamaini of Belaka-7, Udayapur district, have been identified.

The jeep (Ko 1 Ja 2593) heading towards Dakshin Ghoretar of Bhojpur from Dharan met with an accident at Mainamaini of Belaka-7, Udayapur district at around 10:30 am today.

Police said the jeep fell some 300 meters down the road.

Seven died on the spot while one breathed his last during the course of treatment at the Dharan-based BP Koirala Institute of Health Sciences.

Police suspected that the accident might have occurred on the slope as the jeep was carrying more passengers than its capacity, the District Police Office, Bhojpur said.

The deceased have been identified as jeep driver Man Bahadur Basnet (40) of Itahari-9 in Sunsari, Maya Rai (70) of Parbat,  Chandra Prakash Rai (23) and six-month-old  child Bisang Chamling of Hatuwagadhi Rural Municipality-2, Bhojpur, Raj Kumari Rai (32) of Hatuwagadhi-5, Padam Bahadur Thapa (68), Kamala Adhikari (45) of Hatuwagadhi-9, and Kishan Rai (42) of Hatuwagadhi-5.

Among them, Kishan Rai died in the course of the treatment, Deputy Superintendent of Police, Sudip Raj Pathak said.