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A female elephant has been found dead at the Adarsha Community Forest in Charchabari of Buddhashanti Rural Municipality-3, Jhapa. The local residents informed the police after they saw the elephant dead this morning. Tirtha Timsina, a local resident, said that Nepal Police, Armed Police Force and Division Forest Office officials have reached the site. No electric fence was fixed on the site where the elephant was found dead. The reason behind the death has not been ascertained yet. So far, two elephants died in Jhapa in this fiscal year while five persons died from the elephant attacks, according to the Division Forest Office.

A Nepali migrant worker died in Portimao city of Portugal on Friday. The deceased has been identified as Ganeshman Sarangkoti (33) of Chandranagar in Khajura Rural Municipality-1, Banke. Sarangkoti, who went to bed after returning home from work on Thursday night, was found dead while asleep the next morning, said Rabin Adhikari, President of Non-Resident Nepali Association of Portugal. He arrived in Portugal after working in Dubai and Malta. His body has been kept in the hospital mortuary in Portimao. At the request of the family, necessary preparations are being made to send his body to Nepal, said NRNA Portugal Chair Adhikari. A fund-raising campaign has been started to collect funds to send the body to Nepal.

Former British Gurkha soldier Hari Bahadur Budha Magar, who lost both legs above knee during a war in Afghanistan in 2010, scaled Mt Everest on Friday. The Public Relations Committee said that Magar stood atop the world’s highest peak yesterday. With this, he also set a world record by becoming the world's first double above-the-knee amputee to scale the 8,848.86-metre peak. He climbed Everest with the help of artificial legs. So far, two climbers with below-knee amputations have reached the summit of Everest. But Budha Magar is the first person who successfully scaled the world’s highest peak despite losing both legs above the knee. According to Public Relations Officer Him Bista, a team of magar stood atop the world’s tallest peak at 3 pm. Magar, who joined the British Army in 1999, was born in Mirul, Rolpa in 1979.  

An earthquake has occurred in East Rukum on Sunday. According to the National Seismology and Research Center Lainchaur, Kathmandu, an earthquake measuring 4.1 in the Richter scale with its epicenter around Hukam Gaon in East Rukum took place at 2:59 am today. Earlier, an earthquake of the same magnitude had occurred on May 4 with its epicenter in Bajura district.