Five people killed and scores displaced. Dozens of houses are at risk. Police struggle to reach remote areas for rescue and relief amid continued rainfall.

Disaster poses serious threat to residents of Sirijangha Rural Municipality-6, Yamphudin, among other villages.

The tempo skidded off the road and fell 200 metres down causing the fatalities.

Fofana Fode struck twice and captain Pasang Sherpa scored the another goal for the winners.

Dawa Sherpa, a yak farmer at Olangchun Gola in Faktalung Rural Municipality-7 of Taplejung district, had to bear a loss worth Rs170,000 when two of his yaks died this grazing season

Transport entrepreneurs have unilaterally hiked the cargo fare by up to 50 percent on the Birtamode-Taplejung route in the eastern region. This is expected to hit the wallets’ of common people as the cost of basic items will skyrocket ahead of the Dashain festival.

In a clash of Jhapa clubs, Red Star Club edged New Star 2-1 in the final to clinch the Pathivara Gold Cup football tournament title on Saturday.

Jhapa defeated neighbouring team Ilam 2-1 in the Pathivara Gold Cup football tournament in Phungling on Sunday.

Eleven-month-old twin girls were found abandoned in a septic tank at Pathibhara, Yangwarak Rural Municipality-2, Taplejung district on Wednesday. The twins’ mother, 20-year-old Kamala Bishwokarma, has been at large since Saturday. Both the girls couldn’t make it alive, police said.

Manish Hellok is now back out in the open after a 27-month stint in jail; and he did not return empty handed.