Police rescued a seven-year-old abducted boy, a resident of the state of Bihar, India, from Damak on Tuesday.

The Bhutanese refugees, who have been languishing in Beldangi Camp, Jhapa for the past 26 years, have urged the human rights bodies to take initiative for their repatriation.

The Postal Highway Directorate will extend the deadline for the completion of Kankai bridge in Jhapa for the last time, said Bijay Kumar Mahato, chief of the project office.

Who or what ignited the fire that killed four people in Laljhoda, Shivasatakshi Municipality-7 in Jhapa remains a mystery, five days after the incident.

Tea factories set up by a group of small scale tea farmers have finally come to fruition. They established the factories in a bid to counter the low prices offered by big factories.

Four people from the same family were charred to death when a house caught fire at Laljhoda settlement in Shivasatakshi Municipality-7, Jhapa, on Sunday night. Police said Laxman Khanal, 34, his wife Radhika, 29, their four-year-old daughter Chandra and five-month-old son Tikaram died in the inferno. The two-storey wooden house was burnt to a cinder in the incident.