Kantipur Rastriya Bipatti Sahayog Kosh gave Rs 8.2 million to Minister for Home Affairs Bamdev Gautam for flood victims in the far-western region of the country.
Chairman and Managing Director of Kantipur Publications, Kailash Sirohiya handed over a cheque bearing the amount at a function held at the Home Ministry on Wednesday.

Victims of the Koshi floods clashed with the police at Haripur in Sunsari district on Monday.
Some four police officers and two displaced have been injured in the clash. The injured include police personnel Navin Kumar Ghimire, Dorje Tamang, Durga Khadka, Mukunda Gurung and displaced Mahendra Nath Pathak.

Floods and landslides triggered by incessant rainfall since Friday continue to claim lives in various mid and farwestern districts of the country. Thousands have been displaced while hundreds are still awaiting rescue in their waterlogged villages.
In Kanchanpur district alone, the death toll has reached 15, with seven more reported deaths, most of them children.

Not even a week after Maoist minister Matrika Yadav retook a huge swathe of land and house belonging to several locals of Siraha, discarding Home Minister Bamdev Gautam's directives to vacate it on September 15, local Maoists here in Bara district captured seven bigha land belonging to former king Gyanendra's elder sister Shanti Singh at Simara-2, Sunday.

At least 12 people died in landslide in different districts in past few days.
Seven people were killed in landslide in Doti and Dhangadi districts following an incessant rainfall for last three days.

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) on Friday released an additional $800,000 in relief funds for recent flood victims in Sunsari and Saptari districts.

The government has proposed to earmark around Rs 6 billion for the Ministry

Students at Bheri Technical Institute (BTI) in Nepalgunj have successfully developed and test-drove on Wednesday a vehicle named 'Niful' that runs on solar power and batteries.

Minister for Foreign Affairs Upendra Yadav Friday said that India should take the whole responsibility of devastation caused by the Koshi River inundation and its aftermath.
Talking to journalists at Biratnagar airport today, Minister Yadav, who went to Sunsari district to observe the flood-hit areas, said that disaster occurred due India

- The government on Thursday declared seven VDCs of the Sunsari district affected by the Saptakoshi deluge