Nepal Highlights

Police have arrested one Sunil Kumar Sadaya from Dharampur of Saptari on charges of murdering his own wife, Tuesday. Police have said, thirty-years-old Sadaya murdered his own wife Rajodevi Sadaya, 25, by charging an axe on her neck and arms, while she was sleeping Tuesday morning. He was arrested Tuesday afternoon, almost 12 hours after the incident, from a ground some 1 km away from his home. Police have recovered the blood-stained axe from the incident site. It is not known yet, why Sadaya murdered his own wife. However, police have established Sadaya couple used to fight over various issues in the past too. Neighbours have claimed, Sadaya was drunk at the time of the incident and he killed his wife due to a fight that started with the wife asking her husband not to drink. Sadaya couple have a nine-year old daughter.

Two gangs, one from Pokhara and the other in Damauli, have fought with each other over a tender deal in Damauli, this afternoon. Police have arrested some 12 persons from both the gangs. Police fired several rounds tear gas canisters and two rounds of bullet in the air to control the gangsters. Over 50 students of nearby Satya Devi High School have been affected due to the tear gas. Some of them have been admitted to hospital. Youths from Pokhara and Damauli had clashed over a tender of Irrigation Department worth Rs 45 million. Getting tenders by threat and using gangsters is common place in Nepal, particularly in government offices. Such incidents have also taken place in the past. Few months ago, there was a shoot out inside the capital's Tri-Chandra College among students over a tender deal on constructing a building in the college.

One person has died when he was buried under a mud-pile in Manamaiju VDC of Kathmandu, Tuesday afternoon.