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Four Chinese nationals have been arrested in possession of around Rs 40 million undeclared money from Nagdhunga of Kathmandu.

Police said that the Chinese nationals were detained with Rs 3.89 million.

SSP Sudeep Giri, Chief at the Metropolitan Police Range, Kathmandu, confirmed the arrest of the Chinese nationals.

He said that they have been sent to the Anti-Money Laundering Department for further investigation.

They were heading towards Kathmandu from Trishuli of Dhanding.

A woman died in a tiger attack in West Chitwan on Tuesday.

The deceased has been identified as Mangali Bote (60) of Bharatpur-23. The big cat attacked her while she had gone to pick asparagus at Ghailaghari Community Forest of Jagatpur this afternoon.

Four persons along with Bote had gone to the forest to pick the asparagus.

The tiger has taken the body towards the jungle, it has been learnt.

DSP Naraharu Adhikari of the District Police Office, Chitwan said that Nepal Police and Nepal Army personnel are searching for the body.

Nepal reported 28 new Covid-19 cases on Tuesday.

According to the Ministry of Health and Population, 2, 120 swab samples were tested in the RT-PCR method, of which seven returned positive. Likewise, 1, 256 people underwent antigen tests, of which 21 were tested positive.

The Ministry said that no one died of virus in the last 24 hours. The Ministry said that nine infected people recovered from the disease.

As of today, there are 107'active cases in the country.

The Nepal Stock Exchange (NEPSE) index plunged by 45.59 points to close at 2,020. 23 points on Tuesday. 

Similarly, the sensitive index fell 11. 25 points to reach 389. 12 points.

A total of 3, 887, 748 units of shares of 234  companies were traded for Rs 1. 31 billion.

Likewise, all sub-indices saw red in today’s market. Non Life Insurance topped the table with 139. 78 points.

At the end of the day, total market civilization stands at Rs 2. 87 trillion.

A 21-year-old student, who had gone to do internship at Nepal House Restaurant in Kathmandu, has been raped.

She along with five other students, who have been studying management in Gate College, had gone to the Nepal House Restaurant on Friday.

According to a preliminary investigation, there was a marriage anniversay party at the restaurant where they were also invited to work as interns.

Restaurant staffer Jeevan KC raped the student while the party was going on. 

A permanent resident of Dolakha, KC, who had been working as a waiter at the restaurant for the past three months, took the student at the smoking zone and raped her at around 10 pm. 

Police said that KC offered a cold drink mixed with alcohol and raped her after she got intoxicated.

Kathmandu Metropolitan Police Range, Kathmandu Chief Sudeep Giri said that a team deployed from the Metropolitan Police Circle, Durbarmarg arrested KC on Friday itself. 

Police said that they are looking into the case.

Note

Earlier, it was mistakenly written that Kshitij Lamichhane had invited the students to celebrate his marriage anniversary

Police have arrested an Indian national in possession of a pistol and bullets from Harinagar Rural Municipality-4 of Sunsari.

SP Sanjay Singh Thapa of the District Police Office, Sunsari said that Om Prakash Pal of Arariya Babuwan Panchayat Ghorna Thana of India was nabbed with a pistol and three rounds of bullets.

He said that Pal was detained while he had come to his relative’s house in Harinagar Rural Municipality-4 of Sunsari.

A police team deployed from the District Police Office, Sunsari arrested Pal acting a tip-off, SP Thapa said.

Further investigation into the incident is underway, police said.

Police have arrested 14 persons for not allowing the garbage carrying vehicles to enter the dumping site in Sisdole, Nuwakot.

Police said that they apprehended the locals of Sisdole for creating obstructions in dumping the garbage.

Locals had been staging demonstrations since this morning saying that they would not allow the garbage of Kathmandu to dump in Sisdole landfill site until their demands are met.

DSP Gautam Mishra of the Metropolitan Police Circle, Balaju said that they have rounded up 14 persons who were trying to create obstructions in dumping the garbage.

Earlier on Tuesday, Kathmandu Metropolitan City Mayor Balen Shah had urged the locals to facilitate dumping the garbage.

An eighteen-year-old girl died when police opened fire at protesters in Orali Bazaar of Madhuban Municipality, Bardiya on Monday.

The deceased has been identified as Nabina Chaudhary of Madhuban Municipality-2.

The incident occurred when a clash broke out between the security personnel and the locals who were staging a demonstration demanding security from the wild animals after Asmita Tharu (41) was critically injured in a tiger attack while she was working at her home.

They had demanded that the tigers should be relocated and electric fences should be installed to prevent wild animals from entering the human settlements.

Inspector Hridayesh Sapkota of the District Police Office, Bardiya said that 12 Nepal Police and seven Armed Police personnel were injured in the clash.

Security personnel fired 20 rounds of tear gas canisters to take the situation under control.

Following the incident, the government formed a five-member committee to investigate the incident.

Meanwhile, speaking at the Parliament meeting on Tuesday, Home Minister Bal Krishna Khand said that the government had not given order to the security personnel to open fire at the protesters in Bardiya.

He said that action will be taken against those involved in the incident.