Home minister and agriculture minister meet parents of murdered three-year-old Garima Chaudhary

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The government and the Nation, Nationality, Religion, Culture and Citizen Protection Campaign led by Durga Prasai have reached a 14-point agreement, following which the campaign has decided to suspend its ongoing protest and sit-in programmes. The agreement was reached after intensive negotiations between representatives of the Prasai-led campaign and the government’s dialogue team. The campaign had entered the Kathmandu Valley and staged a sit-in protest in Pulchowk, Lalitpur, as part of its campaign activities.

22-AUG-2026 08:47 PM

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Minister for Land Management, Cooperatives and Federal Affairs Pratibha Rawal has said resolving land-related problems remains a top priority for the government and called on local governments to provide full support to the process. Speaking at a programme in Dhangadhi Sub-Metropolitan City on Saturday, Rawal said the government was fully prepared to facilitate and coordinate the distribution of land ownership certificates to landless families and informal settlers. She urged Dhangadhi Sub-Metropolitan City to give greater priority to resolving land-related problems alongside its other local development programmes.

22-AUG-2026 03:33 PM

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The maternal family of Pashupati Bam Joshi, who was found dead in a sugarcane field in Kanchanpur’s Belauri Municipality-8, has called for an impartial investigation, alleging that she may have been subjected to prolonged physical and mental abuse by her husband and in-laws. The family has submitted a complaint to the Area Police Office in Belauri, expressing suspicion over the possible involvement of Joshi’s husband, mother-in-law and father-in-law in her death. Bam’s maternal home is in Dhangadhi-5. According to her family, she had travelled from Dhangadhi to her husband’s home in Belauri on August 12, and was found hanging in a sugarcane field about three kilometres from the house at around 2 pm the following day. Her body was subsequently postmortemed and handed over to the family.

22-AUG-2026 02:15 PM