Kankai Municipality has built 14 houses without road connectivity, power and water supply.

Chandra Kala Lamgade, who has represented Nepal in two South Asian Games and an Asian Championship, is seven months pregnant and was allegedly attacked for standing up against discrimination.

Ginger, tea and cardamom growers are forced to sell their produce for whatever prices they can get due to obstacles in exporting agro products to India.

The clash occurred between the locals of Kamatoli and police on Wednesday.

One body was recovered from an under-construction pond in Kamaldhap Tourism and Wetland Construction Site on Wednesday while two were recovered on Thursday, said police.

Although it’s illegal to construct electric fences in the fields, the locals in northern and southern belts have been doing that to ward off wild elephants, according to the Division Forest Office in Jhapa.

Although the schools are running online classes, most students cannot participate without an internet connection.

Over twenty trucks carrying Nepali tea and large cardamom have been stranded over the bridge of the Mechi River for the past five days.

The local government has not stepped in to help distraught farmers who face financial ruin.

Five days after the accident, Abhinash Subedi was admitted to Manmohan Hospital on Wednesday. Mechinagar Municipality will bear the cost of his treatment

Mechinagar municipality has asked the tea estate administration to provide food supplies to the workers; the tea estate itself hasn’t said anything about it yet.

The drive will not only help timely identification but will also help in the effective mobilisation of health workers, authorities say.

Around 100 Indian nationals stranded on the Nepali side of the border were also allowed to go to India, said police.

In Panitanki border crossing in Kakarbhitta, Jhapa, at least 100 Nepalis including 14 students who have returned from Mumbai, India on Tuesday morning are waiting to be allowed in.

Most of the returnees claimed of having no information about the restriction imposed on crossing into Nepal since most of them had travelled a long distance to reach various border points.