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Agricultural expert Madan Rai has been arrested on the charge of sexually abusing children on Friday. A team deployed from the District Police Office, Khotang nabbed Rai, also the operator of the Shubhadra Madan Foundation, after he was accused of sexually abusing children studying at the foundation. Police said that Rai (75) was apprehended from the foundation at around 12 pm today. According to the students, Rai used to touch their sensitive parts and ask them for sexual intercourse, the Setopati reported. They said that Rai even used to ask them to touch his private parts. Police said that they are investigating the case.    

A labourer has died after a tractor fell off the road at Machheti village in Lungri Rural Municipality-5, Rolpa on Thursday.

Khemraj Roka (13) died and seven others were injured after a tractor (Ra 1 Ta 3881) met with an accident last night, Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) of Rolpa district Shyam Saru Magar said.

Police said that the tractor was heading towards Kilachaur area by taking the labourers for their night stay after their work for the road construction at Domai of Lungri Rural Municipality. The injured ones are receiving treatment at a primary health post at Sulichaur in the district, according to the police.

Two rhinos were found dead in the Chitwan National Park (CNP) in two days.

Eight houses were reduced to ashes when a fire broke out at Hodebas in Udayapurgadhi-7 of Udayapur district on Thursday. SP Gyanendra Prasad Phuyal of the District Police Office, Udayapur said that the fire broke out due to an electric short circuit. He said that police personnel and locals backed by three fire engines of Triyuga Municipality, Chaudandi Municipality and Rautamai Rural Municipality are trying to extinguish the fire.