The amount provided by the municipality to run the school is proving to be insufficient.

Three prominent farmers’ groups in Jhapa falsified documents to draw funds from the government’s spring paddy assistance programme.

Around 1,200 families in Wards 1 and 2 of the municipality are dependent on groundwater for their water needs.

The project originally occupied 2,753 hectares of land to the north of the East-West Highway from the Ratuwa river to Kankai river.

The sanctuary has over time become a learning hub for students

Aarubote Secondary School Headmaster Bhawendra Kumar Rai says the students are scared after the incident and have refused to come

Kartik Urawa, a tea estate worker, has four daughters--all school going children. It has been nearly a month since the new academic session began. The private school where the girls have been studying is putting pressure on him to pay the admission dues and other fees. However, Urawa does not have the resources to do so.

District Police Office (DPO) in Jhapa has issued arrest warrants against nine persons, including two elected people’s representatives, for their alleged involvement in recommending an Indian national to acquire Nepali citizenship by descent.

When the government of Bhutan expelled tens of thousands of its Nepali-speaking Lhotshampa population in 1991, branding them as “illegal settlers”, they fled to Nepal in hordes. Purna Bahadur Limbu was among those who crossed into Nepal via India with which Bhutan shared a poorly defined and largely unpatrolled border.

Market monitoring, an exercise that is mandatory to ensure consumer health and safety, has not seen effective implementation in Jhapa district due to a lack of technical knowhow, required resources and manpower.

Defending champions Tribhuvan Army Club (TAC) clinched the fourth Jhapa Gold Cup football tournament title defeating host Jhapa XI 5-3 in a high-scoring thriller here at the Domalal Rajbanshi Ground on Monday.

Tribhuvan Army Club defeated visiting Dauphins Family of Cameroon 1-0 in the semi-final of the fourth Jhapa Gold Cup to set the final date with hosts Jhapa XI on Saturday at the Domalal Stadium in Birtamode on Saturday.

Hosts Jhapa XI made it to the Jhapa Gold Cup football tournament final for the fourth time after a battling win over top-tier outfits Three Star Club on Friday.

Dauphins Family of Cameroon defeated Rupandehi XI 2-0 to enter the semi-finals of Jhapa Gold Cup football tournament at the Domalal Stadium in Birtamode on Thursday.

Goalkeeper Alan Neupane saved two penalties for Three Star as the Lalitpur-based outfits overcame Nepal Police Club (NPC) 3-0 in the tiebreaker to secure a semi-final berth in the Jhapa Gold Cup football tournament at the Domalal Stadium in Birtamode on Wednesday.