Amid a lack of manpower, resources and challenging terrain, many of these fires will subside only after ravaging all, or with rainfall, say stakeholders.

With ‘breakthrough’ in the Phungling-Gola-Tiptala section, the east is connected to both India and China by road.

Tibetan officials say they are still awaiting Beijing’s permission to reopen the border, which was shut in January 2020 to tame the Covid pandemic.

The farmers also aim to profit from selling sheep and goats, which are in high demand for Dashain feasts.

Congress leaders and cadres take to the streets accusing the police of misbehaving with provincial assembly member Khagen Singh Hangam.

The only two eye treatment centres in the district are seeing dozens of patients with the infection daily.

Relocation of the families in the disaster-prone areas is of major concern, say local unit officials.

The Federation of Large Cardamom Entrepreneurs say the output this year may drop 40 percent-on year, mainly due to drought and pest infection.

As many as 27 people are still missing in separate incidents of floods and landslides in Sankhuwasabha, Panchthar and Taplejung.

Father and his son die in a landslide that occurred at Mehele village early Monday.

Rain-fed rivers have damaged power projects, swept away bridges and roads in Sankhuwasabha, Panchthar, Taplejung.

Long-route vehicles stranded as flooded river washes away two bridges.

A motorable bridge, a suspension bridge and a house along with some animal sheds were swept away by the flooded Kabeli River in two rural municipalities.

The man had gone missing on his way to Pathibhara temple.

Two persons died in lightning incidents in the past three weeks, according to the District Police Office, Taplejung.