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A Chinese military delegation arrived in Kathmandu on Wednesday.

A team led by Major General Yue Ande, the Tibet Military Commander of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, landed at Tribhuvan International Airport this morning.

An eight-member military team led by Major General Yue arrived in Nepal on an official visit.

Brigadier General Sunil Shrestha and Major General Sagar Bahadur Thapa welcomed them at the airport.

The high-ranking Chinese military team is scheduled to meet Chief of Army Staff Prabhu Ram Sharma among others, Nepal Army Information Officer and Brigadier General Krishna Prasad Bhandari said.

Issues like border security, military relationship between the two countries will be discussed during the meeting.

The price of gold has dropped by Rs 100 per tola in the domestic market on Wednesday.

According to the Federation of Nepal Gold and Silver Dealers’ Association, the yellow metal is being traded at Rs 111, 200 per tola today. It was traded at Rs 111, 300 per tola on Tuesday.

Meanwhile, tejabi gold is being traded at Rs 110, 650 per tola. It was traded at Rs 110, 750.

Similarly, the silver is being traded at Rs 1,375 per tola today.  

Teaching and learning activities have been affected after the landslide triggered by incessant rainfall buried school buildings in Parbat.

The landslide buried two buildings of Thapathana Secondary School at Falebas Municipality-2. The landslide that came from around 50 meters above the school buried the buildings.

School headmaster Bishnu Prasad Sharma informed that though the landslide buried three rooms, teaching and learning activities were being conducted in the other eight rooms of the school.

The landslide had caused damage to the building on July 1 also. The landslide occurred in the same place after August 7, 2023 triggered further damage.

The landslide has gradually buried the threshold of the school. "There is no situation to keep students in all eight rooms", he said.

Teaching and learning activities are being conducted from primary level to grade eight. As many as 240 students are studying in the school now.

"There is every likelihood that the landslide may occur anytime and cause damage to the school", Sharma added. "We are compelled to keep the students of grades two and three together in one place".

Santosh Rijal, the school teacher, said the breakdown of the edge of the newly-constructed Naudanda-Karkineta-Falebas-Jaimuni road has caused damage to two-three rooms of the school.

Thapathana is the school having the highest number of students in Falebas Municipality.

The Cabinet has been expanded in Koshi Province on Wednesday.

Chief Minister Uddhav Thapa appointed a senior member of the Province Assembly Gayananda Mandal as the state minister.

Mandal has got the responsibility of the Minister of State for Industries, Agriculture and Cooperatives.

Chief Minister Thapa in the presence of Province Chief Parshuram Khapung administered the oath of office and secrecy to Mandal amidst a program this morning.

Currently, Koshi Province has no Speaker.

The post of Speaker has been lying vacant after Speaker Baburam Gautam participated in the government after resigning from this post.

Gautam is looking after the Economic Affairs and Planning Ministry. He was elected as the Province Assembly member from the CPN (Maoist Center).

The process of choosing a news Speaker has not been taken ahead.

The grade improvement exam of class 12 is set to take place on September 22-23.

The exam is to be held for the students who obtained examination results as non-grading.

Chairperson of National Examinations Board, Dr Mahashram Sharma informed that the grade improvement exam is going to be conducted only for the students obtaining non-grade in the grade 12 examinations.

In the previous years, there was an arrangement that the students were eligible to participate in grade improvement exams the same year if having non-grade in up to two subjects and in case of non-grade in more than two subjects the 12th grader had to attend exams of all subjects next year.

He said the arrangement has been changed from this year onward in which the student with non-grade in the subjects can appear in the exam of the same subjects only.

Chairperson Sharma informed that a total of 123,396 students can participate in the grade improvement examinations according to the results of this year.

Among them, 79,584 students were with non-grade in only one subject.

As per the letter grading directive, non-grading refers to the attainment of below 35 percent score in any subject.

The students with non-grading will not be considered eligible for higher education or upper classes without participating in the grade improvement exam.  

An Air India flight that was about to fly to New Delhi suffered a technical problem on Tuesday.

The Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal said that the aircraft that was about to take off from the TIA suffered a technical problem this afternoon.

TIA spokesperson Subash Jha said that the problem was seen in the brakes of the aircraft.

“A tractor pulled the aircraft from the runway and brought it to the parking area,” he said.

Domestic and international flights have been affected after the Air India flight suffered a technical problem on the runway.

The aircrafts were forced to remain on hold in the sky.

Nepali Congress President Sher Bahadur Deuba and CPN (Unified Socialist) Chairman Madhav Nepal held a meeting on Tuesday.

According to a source, they held a serious discussion for almost two hours.

Leader Nepal had reached Dhumbarahi to meet Congress President Deuba after the Supreme Court issued a directive in the name of government to also bring decision makers in the Lalita Niwas land grab case under investigation.

Congress Vice-President Purna Bahadur Khadka and Chief Whip Ramesh Lekhak were also present in the meeting.

Chairman Nepal also expressed his dissatisfaction over the working style of the government with Deuba.

Saying that the Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal-led government has been targeting the leaders of the coalition, a source said that Nepal expressed his displeasure with Congress President Deuba.

He accused the CPN (Maoist Center) of operating the government unilaterally.

Former prime minister Nepal said that lawmaker Sunil Sharma was arrested just for asking the resignation of Home Minister Narayan Kaji Shrestha and the government to arrest Congress leader Bal Krishna Khand in the Bhutanese refugee case.

He said that the investigation into the Gaur massacre and others are serious issues.

Nepal demanded that a serious discussion should be held among the ruling coalition partners on the issue.

The meeting ruling coalition held on Monday evening was also focused on the same issue.

A source said that Prime Minister Dahal had also called Attorney General Dinmani Pokharel to the meeting to take suggestions regarding the order of the Supreme  Court.

The Janata Samajbadi Party had expressed its dissatisfaction in the meeting.

After the party strongly criticized the government, Prime Minister Dahal, who is also the Chairman of the CPN (Maoist Center) had expressed his commitment not to proceed with the investigation into the Gaur massacre.

A meeting of the National Assembly has been postponed till August 22.

According to the Federal Parliament Secretariat, the meeting called for August 16 was postponed due to a special reason.

Spokesperson of the Federal Parliament Secretariat, Ekram Giri, informed about the postponement of the NA meeting.

Issuing a notice, the Secretariat said that the next meeting has been scheduled for 1:01 pm on August 22.