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Qatar’s Ambassador to Nepal Yusuf bin Muhammad Al-Hail paid a courtesy call on Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal on Thursday.

During the meeting held at the official residence of the Prime Minister at Baluwatar today, they discussed the issues of bilateral interest and welfare, according to the Prime Minister's Secretariat. 

Similarly, matters related to bilateral relations and mutual interest were also discussed on the occasion.

Police have arrested a person with foreign currencies from the Tribhuvan International Airport on Wednesday.

Anish Thapa (24) of Tulsipur, Tilottama Municipality-9, Rupandehi was rounded up with USD 41, 400, Saudi riyal 119, 500, Omani riyal 1, 357 and Bahrain dinar 308 from the TIA last night.

Thapa was apprehended during a regular security check while he was about to board a flight of Himalayan Airlines to Dubai from Kathmandu.

Police said that Thapa had wrapped the foreign currencies with the plastic inside the luggage and hidden them between the noodles.

During the investigation and interrogation, police came to know that Dipesh Rana (38) of Tilottama Municipality-9, Rupandehi among others had given the currencies to Thapa.

Later, police nabbed Rana and three others while they were staying in a vehicle Bagmati Province-01-027 Cha 6266 from the parking area of Tribhuvan International Airport.

They have been taken to the Metropolitan Police Circle, Gaushala for investigation.

The price of gold has increased by Rs 500 per tola in the domestic market on Thursday to reach an all-time high of Rs 113,600 per tola.

According to the Federation of Nepal Gold and Silver Dealers’ Association, the precious yellow metal was traded at Rs 113, 100 per tola on Wednesday.

Meanwhile, tejabi gold is being traded at Rs 113, 050 per tola.

Similarly, the price of silver has increased by Rs 15 and is being traded at Rs 1,495 per tola today.

The Revenue Investigation Department has arrested six persons so far in connection with around 100 kg gold seizure case.

The suspects have been identified as Ram Kumar Bhujel (53) of Swoyambhu, Kathmandu, Dilip Bhujel (21) of Melung Rural Municipality-3 and currently residing in Sankhu, Harka Raj Rai (49) of Arun Rural Municipality-4, Jhapa and presently living in Budhanilkantha, Indian national Thapthen Tsering (53), customs agent Rajendra Rai and a taxi driver, Revenue Investigation Department spokesperson Nawaraj Adhikari said.

He said that they are yet to weigh all the gold.

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“Acting on a tip off, we conducted a special operation and recovered 80 to 100 kg gold,” Department Director General Nawaraj Dhungana said, adding, “This may be the largest amount of gold recovered in Nepal so far.”

Police said that the gold, passed undetected through the Customs Office of the Tribhuvan International Airport, arrived in Kathmandu on Tuesday's Cathay Pacific flight.

The gold was brought in Kathmandu by concealing in the brake shoes of motorbikes and scooters.

A total of 159 cattle died due to lumpy skin disease in Rasuwa district.

The lumpy skin disease has been broken out in all five rural municipalities of the district. Among them, Gosainkunda Rural Municipality has seen the biggest loss of cattle.

As of now, lumpy skin disease killed 22 yaks and 41 cows of local species in six wards of Gosainkunda, said Livestock Technical Chief at Syafrubesi in the rural municipality, Suresh Badal.

“Efforts are underway to contain the outbreak of the infectious viral disease. Livestock technician' teams are being mobilized at wards”, he informed.

As many as 800 cattle have been infected with lumpy skin disease in Gosainkunda alone. Badal stressed the need to keep the infected cattle in isolation.

The disease has broken out due to the practice of keeping cattle free in open grazing land in highland areas, he said.

Lumpy skin has also caused a loss to the farmers of Naukunda, Kalika and Uttargaya Rural Municipalities of the district.

Technicians of the concerned rural municipalities in the district informed that as many as 1,500 infected cattle are being treated in other local level areas in the district, except Chhodingmo.

According to Kalika Rural Municipality livestock section chief, Buddhinath Neupane, a technical team has been deployed in the rural municipalities in the southern belt of Rasuwa for disease control.

As the infection has mostly affected oxen used for plough, it has direct bearing on the farmers in paddy plantation.

Information Officer at Veterinary Hospital and Livestock Expert Centre, Nuwakot, Dr Bablu Tharu, a total of 13,000 cows, oxen and yaks were infected with lumpy skin disease in Nuwakot and Rasuwa as of July 16.

"A report has come about the deaths of yaks in the Rasuwa highland due to lumpy skin disease", he said, adding, "Our team is heading to the highland to take stock of the situation there".

Dr Tharu further said that medicines have been sent to the lumpy skin infected areas for immediate relief. As many as 411 livestock died of the contagious disease in Nuwakot, he informed.

The Revenue Investigation Department recovered around one quintal gold from Singamangal on Wednesday.

“Acting on a tip off, we conducted a special operation and recovered 80 to 100 kg gold,” Department Director General Nawaraj Dhungana said, adding, “This may be the largest amount of gold recovered in Nepal so far.”

Police said that the gold, passed undetected through the Customs Office of the Tribhuvan International Airport, arrived in Kathmandu on Tuesday's Cathay Pacific flight.

The gold was brought in Kathmandu by concealing in the brake shoes of motorbikes and scooters.

The officials of the Revenue Investigation Department have arrested three persons on the charge of smuggling the gold.

The arrestees have been identified as owner of Ready Trade Dipip Bhujel, the importer of the gold, customs agent Rajendra Rai and the taxi driver.

The identity of the taxi driver has not been ascertained yet.

It has been said that the team of Revenue Investigation Department arrested the trio while they were taking the gold out of the airport area in a taxi (Sun Ba 2 Cha 2324).

Nepal Police spokesperson Kuber Kadayat confirmed that a huge cache of gold was recovered from Sinamangal on Wednesday.

“This is the first time that such a large amount of gold has been recovered. Investigation into the incident is underway. The value of the gold is around Rs one billion,” he said.

A group of business tycoons may be involved in smuggling the gold, Kadayat said.

The gold that had passed from the Customs Office at 2 pm was recovered after three hours.

The police suspect that this group may have smuggled a large amount of yellow metal earlier also.

During the preliminary investigation, it was found that 160 pieces of gold were brought in Kathmandu.

The TIA Customs Office said that it has no knowledge about the issue.

The seized gold has been sent to the Revenue Investigation Department in Hariharbhawan for weighing.

The gold will be taken to the Taksar Department of the Nepal Rastra Bank to identify the purity of the gold.

Some of the staffers of the Customs Department are also under investigation.

Nepse surges by 11. 17 points on Wednesday.

The Nepal Stock Exchange (NEPSE) gained 11.17 points to close at 2,165.24 points on Wednesday.

Similarly, the sensitive index surged by 3.32 points to close at 410. 46 points.

A total of 8,674,109-unit shares of 260 companies were traded for Rs 3. 34 billion.

Meanwhile, BPW Laghubitta Bittiya Sanstha Limited was the top gainer today, with its price surging by 10. 00 percent. Likewise, NIBL Samriddhi Fund -2 was the top loser as its price fell by 9.64 percent.

At the end of the day, total market capitalization stood at Rs 3. 18 trillion.

The local residents of Kakani Rural Municipality in Nuwakot and Dhunibesi Municipality of Dhading have decided not to allow the disposal of garbage collected from the Kathmandu Valley (Kathmandu, Lalitpur and Bhaktapur districts) in the Bancharedanda landfill site until the agreement reached previously is fully implemented.

The dumping of garbage from Kathmandu has been halted from July 17 citing the non-implementation of an agreement reached last year between the Kathmandu Metropolitan City and the locals.

The protest in the form of halting waste disposal would continue until the locals' demands are met, said the Kakani Rural Municipality chair Suman Tamang.

However, the KMC has a different take on the matter. The local people should facilitate in acquiring 3,000 ropanis of land in the area to construct a dumping site as the KMC cannot do it all by itself, said the KMC infrastructure advisor Sunil Lamsal.

Having been dumped in Sisdol for the past 15 years, the waste from the Valley has been disposed of in Bancharedanda from 23 August, 2022.

Following a halt in dumping the waste in Bancharedanda by the local people, a writ petition was filed in the court.

The Supreme Court on Monday issued an interim verdict, directing the local level not to implement their decision of charging fees to the garbage-carrying tipper truck and preventing them from disposing of garbage if they refused to make the payments in fees.

But the locals have halted the disposal of the waste in defiance to the verdict issued by the court.