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A government monitoring team raided an industry in Birgunj and confiscated expired cosmetic products.

The team carried out the raid at the Adarshanagar-based Nepal Harbal Industries Pvt.Ltd and confiscated expired cosmetic products worth around Rs 6.3 million.

A joint monitoring team deployed from the District Administration Office and Department of Commerce and Supply Management reached the Herbal Industries and destroyed the expired products.

A team under the command of Binay Shreewastav confiscated the products worth Rs 6, 362, 135 and destroyed them.

Earlier, the local administration had received information that the Herbal Industries operated by  Bishwo Karan Jain had been selling expired products in the market.

At least 22 people, including 10 police personnel and two journalists, were injured on Saturday when suspended BJD MLA Prasant Jagdev's vehicle allegedly ploughed through a crowd at Banapur in Khurda district, about 100 km from here, police said, NDTV reported.

Jagdev, the MLA from Chilika, was also critically injured as he was roughed up by a mob after the vehicle mowed down a section of the crowd which had gathered outside the Banapur BDO's office when the election for the block chairperson was underway, the police said.

A case has been registered against him at Banapur town police station under different sections of IPC including those dealing with attempt to murder, obstructing officers from discharging their duties and causing grievous injury to people, central range inspector general Narasingha Bhol, who rushed to the accident site said.

Jagdev is now in police custody and will be arrested after his discharge from hospital, he said. The MLA was first treated at a local hospital and later transferred to AIIMS, Bhubaneswar, Khurda district superintendent of police Alekh Chandra Pahi said, according to NDTV.

Two persons, the Banapur police station inspector-in-charge RR Sahu and a local woman were seriously injured in the incident and they too were rushed to AIIMS, Bhubaneswar, for treatment, officials said. The journalists who were injured were present at the spot.

The IG said that a DSP rank officer will probe the alleged reckless driving by the MLA.

"When the Banapur police station inspector in-charge attempted to stop the MLA, he was also hit by the lawmaker's vehicle," Bhol said.

Saturday's incident was not the first involving the MLA. He was suspended from the ruling party last year for attacking a dalit leader of the opposition BJP. He was also accused of assaulting BJP workers at Manmunda in 2016, attacking Bolgarh tehsildar in 2018 and a staff of Chilika Development Authority in 2020, NDTV reported.

Though he was suspended from BJD in September 2021, Mr Jagdev was often seen in the party's state headquarters during different programmes, the BJP alleged.

The BJD washed its hands off the Chilika MLA and dubbed his action as "gruesome." Party spokesperson Sasmit Patra said, "The Biju Janata Dal strongly condemns this barbaric act by Chilika MLA Prashant Jagdev at Banpur today. Violence has no place in democracy and such an act is shocking and unfortunate."

BJD, he said, would like the police and administration to take the "strongest action" against the accused as per law, according to NDTV.

Police on Saturday arrested two persons in possession of six grams of brown sugar from Arjundhara and Mechinagar Municipalities of Jhapa district.

The arrestees have been identified as Kumar Rajbanshi (45) of Mechinagar-12 and Res Bahadur Sarki (36) of Bhangbari in Arjundhara-4, according to the District Police Office, Jhapa.

A police team deployed from Area Police Office, Kankarvitta and Drug Control Bureau arrested Rajbanshi on Saturday along with four grams of brown sugar from near Mechi Bridge and Sarki was arrested by the Khudunabari Temporary Police Post on the same day along with two grams of brown sugar. 

Meanwhile, in Jaleswar, police have arrested a man with 5.5 kg of marijuana in Gaushala Municipality of Mahottari District. 

Police identified the arrestee as Harendra Sah (35) of Gaushala-5, said Prakash Bista, Deputy Superintendent of Police, District Police Office, Mahottari. RSS 

The Government of South Korea will remove the seven-day quarantine restrictions for the overseas arrivals, who have completed their COVID-19 vaccination. This will apply from March 21. 

South Korea is one of the labour destination countries for Nepali migrant workers. The restriction removal is believed to ease the entry or the return of Nepali migrant workers to the country. 

South Korea has been receiving migrant workers from various 16 countries including Nepal, Pakistan, Thailand, Vietnam, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Myanmar under the EPS programme. 

Lack of spaces and high fees for isolation has hit migrant workers waiting for their return or entry to the country, it has been said. RSS