Lamichhane, the chairman of Rastriya Swatantra Party, now in opposition who rose to power through the last general election was arrested as he stepped out from the party office in Kathmandu. The police, before formally arresting him on the charges had handed him over the arrest warrant issue
The devastating series of floods, landslides and inundations has pushed the death toll to 112 in Nepal so far in the last 24 hours, as per data received from the Armed Police Force (APF) and the Nepal Police on Sunday.
Nepal Police on Saturday recovered at least 14 bodies from two vehicles buried by a landslide along the Prithvi Highway in the Dhading district of Nepal.
A Nepal police official said that the passenger bus with an Uttar Pradesh number plate that plunged into a river in Nepal's Tanahun district on Friday had originated from Gorakhpur and was carrying tourists from India
Five people died, including four Chinese nationals, after a helicopter crashed in Shivapuri National Park in Nuwakot, Nepal, on Wednesday, reported The Kathamndu Post, citing a Nepal Police spokesperson.
Search teams and rescue personnel from the Nepal Army, Armed Police Force and the Nepal Police started their search in the Trishuli River alongside the Mugling- Narayangadh road section from Saturday morning.
Members of the Nepal Student Union (NSU) on Friday afternoon chanted slogans demanding the formation of a parliamentary committee to investigate cooperative fraud amounting to millions in which Lamichhane is allegedly involved.
Dozens of pro-monarchy protestors were injured when they broke into a restricted zone, tearing down the barricades, prompting police to use batons, tear gas and water cannons.
Nepal Police on Friday apprehended Dipesh Pun, son of former Vice President Nanda Bahadur Pun, in connection to the case involving gold smuggling
from China.
Rajendra Mahato, a Madhesh-based leader and former minister who launched the "National Liberation Movement" along with his followers scuffled with security forces near the administrative center, demanding the end of the restriction order.
At a press conference on Thursday, the Kathmandu Police Range, which led the rescue operation, presented those charged with holding Indian nationals hostage and falsely promising to facilitate their journey to the US.