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The Birgunj Metropolitan City has collected Rs 360 million in revenue in the first 10 months of the current fiscal year under 26 different headings. Birgunj is the only Metropolitan City in Madhesh Province. Chief of Revenue Section at the Metropolitan City Manoj Kumar Karn said that Rs 140 million was collected from the property tax, Rs 50 million from house rent tax and Rs 22 million from business registration fees among others. Likewise, Rs 27 million was collected from government property tax and Rs 20 million from other service fees. The revenue under the heading of housing registration is not likely to reach Rs 200 million this year though the fees under the same heading collected Rs 470 million last year, Karn added.  

A person died and 35 others were injured when two passenger buses collided with each other at Phalakapur in Lamahi Municipality-3 of Dang district along the East-West Highway on Friday. The deceased has been identified as Shova Pariyar (43) of Ramtigadhi Rural Municipality-7, Rolpa. Her body has been kept at the Lamahi Hospital for postmortem. DSP Rajan Gautam of the District Police Office, Dang said that the bus (Na 5 Kha 4898) heading towards west from east collided head-on with another bus (Ju 2 Kha 758) at around 6 am today. Among the injured, 13 are said to be in critical condition. They are undergoing treatment at various hospitals. Police said that they are looking into the incident.

Police on Thursday arrested Bhutanese refugee leader Teknath Rijal in connection with the fake Bhutanese refugee scam. He was dragged into the case after those arrested in the scam mentioned his name during the statement they gave to the investigators, SSP Dan Bahadur Karki of the District Police Range, Kathmandu said. Police said that Rijal has been taken to the court to extend the remand.

Police on Thursday arrested Nepal Haj Committee Chairman Shumsher Miya in connection with the fake Bhutanese refugee scam. Miya was apprehended from the premises of Singha Durbar this afternoon. He has been taken to the District Police Range, Kathmandu. It has been revealed that Miya used to give the government vehicles of Haj Committee to the people involved in the fake Bhutanese refugee scam. With this, the number of people detained in the fake Bhutanese refugee case has reached 15. So far, police have arrested 15 individuals including former home minister Bal Krishna Khand, his personal secretary Narendra KC, the then home secretary Tek Narayan Pandey, Indrajit Rai, security advisor of former home minister Ram Bahadur Thapa, and CPN-UML secretary Top Bahadur Rayamajhi for their alleged involvement in the fake Bhutanese refugee scam. Police are investigating the case.