Crime
CIAA charges engineer Shrestha for Rs 48.83M illegal wealth
KATHMANDU: Bishnukumar Shrestha, a former engineer at the Department of Water Resources and Irrigation, is the target of a corruption case brought by the Commission for the Investigation of...
Supreme Court affirms Bhatbhateni Rs 226M tax fraud
KATHMANDU: In a definitive ruling on the tax evasion case involving Bhatbhateni Super Market and Departmental Store Pvt. Ltd., the Supreme Court of Nepal has made public the entire text of i...
Nepal Police records 1,253 fugitive arrests in five months
KATHMANDU: Over the past five months, Nepal Police have apprehended 5,846 fugitives from several locations throughout the nation. After being found guilty of a variety of offenses, these ind...
Anil Pokharel arrested in MBBS admission scam
KATHMANDU: Police from Biratnagar arrested Anil Kumar Pokharel, the former personal secretary of Public Accounts Committee Chairperson Rishikesh Pokharel, on Thursday morning. He is accused...
Grandchildren accused of murdering grandfather over Wi-Fi dispute
KATHMANDU: Two people, Khushboo Khatun, 20, and Kabul Devgan, 18, have been taken into custody on suspicion of killing their grandfather, Ramjan Devgan, 80, in the Parsa district. Pokhariya...
25-year-old arrested at TIA for smuggling gold
KATHMANDU: Sanjay Tamang, 25, of Bharatpur Metropolitan City-12, Chitwan, was arrested by police at Tribhuvan International Airport on Monday morning for trying to smuggle gold...
Three arrested for smuggling gold in sanitary pads at TIA
KATHMANDU: In Kathmandu, authorities have discovered a gold smuggling scheme that includes hiding stolen gold in sanitary pads. Three suspects were arrested by the Kathmandu Valley Crime Inv...
Three arrested with 29 kg marijuana in Morang drug bust
KATHMANDU: On Friday, police in Morang arrested three individuals with 29 kilograms of marijuana. The District Police Office identified the suspects as Mohan Rai from Sagurigadhi Rural Munic...
Nepal's cooperative sector faces major fraud scandals
KATHMANDU: The cooperative sector in Nepal is being closely examined as a result of two major fraud cases involving the Suryadarshan Cooperative and Swarnalaxmi Savings and Credit Cooperativ...
Mother, 4 sisters murdered in Lucknow, son arrested
KATHMANDU: After a family argument, a young man named Arshad is accused of killing his mother and four sisters in a hotel room in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh. According to police, Arshad gave the...
CIAA files corruption case against Nagarjun Mayor Basnet
KATHMANDU: Mohan Bahadur Basnet, the mayor of Nagarjun Municipality, is facing charges of corruption and money laundering from the Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIA...
Court to record Rabi Lamichhane’s statement on fraud charges
KATHMANDU: The statement of Rabi Lamichhane, chairperson of th...