DAMAK, Nov 9: Police on Tuesday morning impounded four trucks with 50 bulls which were being taken to Jhapa from Morang. A joint team of Nepal Police and the Armed Police Force had arrested the drivers and taken the trucks under control at 4 am. According to the security forces, the bulls were being taken to India.

DAMAK, Nov 3: A shift from regular electricity to solar power has come as a relief for residents of Gauradaha in Jhapa district. Locals who had to pay a minimum of Rs 130 per month on electricity bills now have to pay Rs 105 only, thanks to the installation of a solar-powered water pump in their locality. Of the paid amount, Rs 5 will be used for the payment of the community water tap.

DAMAK, Nov 3: An electric wire fence, which was set up without permission from the local administration to prevent elephants from entering human settlements, claimed the lives of two individuals in Buddha Shanti Rural Munipality-4 of Jhapa on Saturday.

KATHMANDU, Oct 19: Ambassador of Japan to Nepal, Masamichi Saigo, on Friday handed over agricultural facilities at two Bhutanese camps and their neighboring communities in Jhapa.

DAMAK, Sept 18: Dengue virus which entered Nepal for the first time in 2004 through an infected foreigner has now affected more than 5,000 people across the country.

DAMAK, Sept 16: As many as half a dozen bridges are being built to connect Damak to other districts as well as other parts of Jhapa district.

JHAPA, Sept 14: Nepal Communist Party (NCP) chair and former Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal has said people's faith and trust on the Communist movement is further deepening and a Communist government will lead the country for the next 50 years.

DAMAK, Sept 14: Prime Minister Khadga Prasad Oli has been able to invite Chinese government’s investments in some mega projects for his home district Jhapa.

JHAPA, Aug 31: A woman was killed and at least 18 were injured in a road accident on Saturday after a bus hit a scooter at Jamunkhadi of Kankai municipality-1 in Jhapa.

BHADRAPUR, Aug 23: Three 'cloth banks' have been set up in Jhapa district with an objective of providing clothes free of cost to the families of poor financial background.

JHAPA, August 12: The  Jhapa Police have arrested 17 cadres of the banned group led by Netra Bikram Chand from various areas of the district.

JHAPA, Aug 9: The number of men seeking the help of a court to end their married life has increased in Jhapa with the Nepal Civil Code- 2074 BS coming into force from August 17, 2018.

BANIYANI, July 13: Various settlements in Jhapa district have been inundated with the floods caused by the torrential rain occurred for three days.

DAMAK, July 6: Police has arrested five persons from Kankai bridge on the charge of planting a pressure cooker bomb.

DAMAK, June 30: A 14-year-old boy died of dengue in Jhapa on Sunday. The deceased has been identified as Rijan Rai.

BHADRAPUR, June 21: The number of youths mobilized from 14 local levels for various activities under the Prime Minister Employment Programme has reached 2,753 in the district this year.

PANCHTHAR, June 2: Police have arrested Padma Tamang, the mastermind of murdering a 15-years old teenage girl, from Damak, Jhapa.  A special team of the police arrested Tamang while working in a hotel in Damak.

TAPLEJUNG, May 1: A seventeen-year-old boy in Taplejung has been detained by a hospital after he was unable to pay the expenses of his treatment.

JHAPA, April 26: Two persons died in separate incidents in Jhapa in the past 24 hours. Umesh Hingmang, 40, of Nagi-6, Panchthar and currently living at Kankai municipality-1 was severely injured after a government vehicle hit his bicycle at Durgapur of Kankai-1 along the East-West Highway.

JHAPA, April 20: A night knockout football tournament is commencing at the Bhadrapur municipality-based Mechi Stadium in Jhapa from today.

KATHMANDU, March 31: Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli is leading for Jhapa and Morang today, to attend various programs to be held in the two districts.

URLABARI, March 23: Two people were killed and eight others injured in a road accident occurred this morning at Kanepokhari rural municipality-7 in Morang along the East-West Highway.

KATHMANDU, March 20: Five young entrepreneurs, age ranging from 18 to 24 years old, have started developing a cricket training center in Damak of Jhapa.

BHADRAPUR, March 15: The District Monitoring Committee Jhapa has said that encroachment on the district-based rivers is taking place in connivance among local representatives.

BHADRAPUR, March 15: The District Monitoring Committee Jhapa has said that encroachment on the district-based rivers is taking place in connivance among local representatives.

DAMAK, March 12: Departmental team Tribhuvan Army Club has clinched its third Jhapa Gold cup title defeating home team Jhapa XI in the final match played at Doma Lal Rajbanshi Stadium in Birtamode on Monday.

DAMAK, March 9: Home team Jhapa XI has inched closer to the championship defeating Three Star Club in a semifinal match to seal a spot in the final of the ongoing Jhapa Gold Cup in Damak, Jhapa on Friday. This is Jhapa’s fourth straight final in as many years of tournament. However, they are yet to win one.

DAMAK, March 8: Menuka Kafle, the chairperson of Kamal Rural Municipality of Jhapa district, is the only woman chief in entire Province 1. It has now been one-and-a-half years since she has been serving in the capacity of the chairperson of a rural municipality.

DAMAK, March 7: Three Star Club has advanced into the semifinals of the ongoing Magmag fourth Jhapa Gold Cup football tournament defeating the departmental team Nepal Police Club 3-0 in the tie-breaker in Jhapa on Wednesday.

DAMAK, March 4: Departmental team Armed Police Force (APF) has advanced into the quarterfinals of the ongoing fourth Magmag Jhapa Gold Cup football tournament with a 1-0 win over Morang XI Football Club in Jhapa on Sunday.

DAMAK, March 3: Host Jhapa XI has advanced into the quarterfinals of the ongoing fourth Magmag Jhapa Gold Cup with a 2-0 win over Pokhara’s Sahara Club in Jhapa on Saturday.

JHAPA, Feb 4: In an apparent move to consolidate his voter base, Prime Minister KP Oli has launched seven big projects worth billions of rupees in his constituency, Jhapa-5.

BHADRAPUR, Jan 31: Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli has arrived in his home district, Jhapa, today. Prime Minister Oli is scheduled to inaugurate the Child Festival at Damak to be organised from today.

DAMAK, Jan 20: Dissatisfied with the rate of compensation fixed by the local authorities, most locals have refused the compensation being provided for the land acquired for the Chinese-funded Nepal China Friendly Industrial Park in Damak, Jhapa district.

JHAPA, Dec 20: A leader of Nepal Communist Party (NCP) has gone missing from Jhapa district since Wednesday morning. Police have initiated a search for NCP leader Dipak Bhandari after he went out of contact from his residence in Mechinagar-10.

DAMAK, Dec 15: Of late, there has been a marked rise in murder, kidnapping and robbery among other crimes along the Nepal-India border in Jhapa district. Taking advantage of the open border, criminals find it convenient to cross over to India after committing crime in Nepal.

DAMAK, Dec 10: An electrocardiogram (ECG) machine at a health post of Gauradaha Municipality in Jhapa is left unused in the absence of technicians to operate it. This machine was provided by the municipality for examining heart patients.

DAMAK, Dec 7: The land acquisition process of the much-hyped Damak Clean Industrial Estate to be constructed with the financial assistance of the Chinese government in Jhapa has kicked off. The industrial estate has already started the process to distribute compensation for 411 bighas (one bigha is equal to o.4 acre) of land.

DAMAK, Dec 3: Every morning, elected representatives of Kamal Rural Municipality and Damak Municipality of Jhapa gather in Damak Chowk. After discussing about current issues and development works, they enter their study rooms. They belong to various age groups starting from 30 to 70 years. These days, they have been learning computer courses together.

DAMAK, Nov 29: On Sunday, a fire in Shivasatakshi Municipality of Jhapa killed four members of the same family. The municipality did not have its own fire engine and the locals had to wait for two hours for a fire engine from another local unit to arrive at the scene. Locals are wondering if the family could have been saved if their municipality had its own fire engine.

JHAPA, Oct. 25: Issuing a 12-point declaration against crime control, all 15 local governments in Jhapa district have promised to regulate alcohol sale and distribution in the district from January 15, 2019.

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JHAPA, Oct 11: Police have arrested two persons with explosive materials, weapons, and drugs from Kakadvitta in Jhapa.

DAMAK, Oct 11: Youths of Jhapa have taken initiative to build a children's shelter in Damak to safeguard the rights of disabled and orphaned children. Nine youths contributed funds to build 'Hamro Baal Ashram' in Damak-2.

JHAPA, Oct 9: The local levels in Jhapa have initiated campaign for the prevention and control of dengue.

DAMAK, Oct 9: Tea laborers have been protesting for the last 12 days in Jhapa demanding implementation of minimum wage fixed by the government. Picking tea leaves has been halted. The government is yet to address concerns of those tea laborers to address their problems though a government panel has reached to the industries and has also taken stock of the matter and also discussed on the matters of tea laborers.

BHADRAPUR, Sept 6:  A wild elephant was found dead this morning at a paddy farm in Mechinagar Municipality-9 in Jhapa district.

BHADRAPUR, Aug 27: A person was killed and other four were severely injured in a jeep accident that took place on Monday morning at Jhiljhile of Jhapa along the East-West Highway.

JHAPA, Aug 22: Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli today laid a foundation stone of an Ayurvedic Hospital at Kamal rural municipality-7 in Jhapa.

BHADRAPUR, Aug 22: Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli has arrived in his home district, Jhapa, today.