A six-year-old girl has been raped by her neigbour at Thoklung-2 in Tehrathum.

After repeated failed attempts to cut down illiteracy rate, the District Education Office (DEO) in Panchthar has come up with an innovative idea to eradicate mass illiteracy in the district.

Police said an organised group in the guise of political outfit was involved in a series of criminal activities in the district of late.

People in 30 remote VDCs in the district still use yaks and mules to transport goods as the villages are not yet connected to roadways.

In the face of increasing risks of attack from wild animals, locals of Lelep VDC have been doing their best to conserve the forests and wildlife.

Sherpa families living for centuries at Khambachhen village located 4,115 metres above sea level in Lelep-9, Taplejung, but lack land ownership certificates have been troubled

Local authorities in the district have remained mute spectators though a contractor working to blacktop a six km section of the Mid-Hill highway and another section of Phidim-Taplejun road.