Arrest warrant issued against construction company owner over death of rhino
An arrest warrant has been issued against the owner of a construction company in connection to the death of a rhino.
The Chitwan National Park has issued the warrant against Sahadev Khadka, the owner of Sagun JV.
Raju Ghimire has been assigned as an investigation officer to probe the matter, said the information officer at the Park, Ganesh Prasad Tiwari.
A rhino was found dead in a roadside ditch in Chitwan last Sunday.
The Park accused the company of not abiding by the acts and rules to be followed while undertaking construction projects in wildlife corridors which led to the death of the rhino. RSS
Immigration staffers barred from using mobile phones while on duty at airport
The Immigration Office of the Tribhuvan International Airport has barred its staffers from using their mobile phones while on duty at the airport.
The Department of Immigration and the Immigration Office of the Tribhuvan International Office said so by issuing a notice on Friday.
The staffers deputed at the arrival and departure hall have been directed to use landline or official mobile phones during the office hours.
Senior immigration officers will monitor whether the staffers have been following the directive or not.
The staffers can use their mobile phones only by taking permission of the immigration officers in case of emergency, the notice read.
All the employees have to keep their mobile phones in the locker.
Nepal records 6,827 new Covid-19 cases, 10 deaths on Friday
Nepal logged 6,827 new Covid-19 cases and 10 deaths on Friday.
According to the Ministry of Health and Population, 13,791 swab samples were tested in the RT-PCR method, of which 4,807 returned positive. Likewise, 6,078 people underwent antigen tests, of which 2,020 tested positive.
With this, the country's active caseload reached 1,068,932. Similarly, death toll climbed to 11,697.
According to the Ministry, 5,435 infected people recovered from the disease.
There are 89,941 active cases in the country. Among them, 88,084 are in home isolation, 1,857 are in institutionalized isolation.
As many as 256 are in intensive care units and 45 on ventilators.
Meanwhile, the Kathmandu Valley recorded 2,940 new cases.
Of them, Kathmandu reported 2,153 cases and Lalitpur and Bhaktapur recorded 519 and 268 cases respectively.
Death toll from Storm Ana rises to 86 as another storm brews to Africa's east
Tropical Storm Ana has killed at least 86 people across southern and eastern Africa, with recovery operations still ongoing as another storm threatened more severe weather.
Storm Ana passed over Madagascar on Jan. 22, adding to days of already intense rainfall. The country declared a state of disaster on Thursday night, reporting a rise in the death toll from Ana to 48, with people killed by landslides and collapsing buildings or washed away.
Ana then made landfall in Mozambique on Jan. 24, where 18 have been reported dead, before moving inland to Malawi, where it triggered massive power cuts. Malawi's death toll rose to 20 on Thursday.
Across all three nations, Ana has affected hundreds of thousands of people and lead to widespread flooding and destruction, according to the United Nations.
"This latest storm...is a blunt reminder that the climate crisis is very much a reality," said Maria Luisa Fornara, UNICEF Representative in Mozambique.
The region has been repeatedly struck by severe storms and cyclones in recent years, destroying homes, infrastructure and crops and displacing large numbers of people.
In some cases, communities still recovering are hit again, compounding the impacts. Experts say storms are becoming stronger and more frequent as waters warm due to climate change, with rising sea levels also making low-lying coastal areas vulnerable.
Another storm, dubbed Batsirai, is now travelling towards Africa's east coast.
Meteo France on Friday described Batsirai as a small system that presented no immediate threat to a group of islands to the east of Madagascar, including the French territory of Reunion, because it was still days away.
However, it said the evolution of Batsirai's intensity and trajectory remained uncertain. Mozambique's National Institute of Meteorology warned Batsirai still had the potential to evolve into a severe tropical storm.
Gyan Chandra Acharya appointed as Nepal’s Ambassador to the UK
President Bidya Devi Bhandari on Friday appointed Gyan Chandra Acharya as Nepal’s Ambassador to the United Kingdom.
According to a statement issued by the Office of the President, President Bhandari made the appointment on the recommendation of the Council of Ministers as per Article 282 of Nepal’s Constitution.
NC forms 37-member Central Executive Committee
Nepali Congress has formed a 37-member Central Executive Committee on Friday.
A virtual meeting of the Central Committee held this afternoon formed the committee.
Though there is a provision to have 46 members in the committee, the party has nominated 35 members for now.
The names of the members are as follows:
- President Sher Bahadur Deuba
- Senior leader Ram Chandra Paudel - senior leader
- Vice-President Purna Bahadur Khadka
- Vice-President Dhanraj Gurung
- General Secretary Gagan Thapa
- General Secretary Bishwo Prakash Sharma
- Assistant General Secretary Pharmullah Mansoor
- Assistant General Secretary Bhismaraj Angdambe
- Assistant General Secretary Uma Kanta
- Assistant General Secretary Mahendra Raya Yadav
- Assistant General Secretary Mahalaxmi Upadhyay Dina
- Assistant General Secretary Kishor Singh Rathore
- Assistant General Secretary Badri Pandey
- Assistant General Secretary Jeevan Pariyar
- Gopal Man Shrestha
- Prakash Man Singh
- Bimalendra Nidhi
- Bijay Kumar Ghachhadhar
- Krishna Prasad Sitaula
- Dr Shashanka Koirala
- Chitra Lekha Yadav
- Dr Ram Sharan Yadav
- Arjun Narsingh KC
- Dr Prakash Sharam Mahat
- Sunil Bahadur Thapa
- Dr Shekhar Koirala
- Bal Bahadur kc
- Bal Krishna Khand
- Gyanendra Bahadur Karki
- Uma Regmi
- Ramesh Rijal
- Dr Narayan Khadka
- Jip Tshering Lama
- NP Saud
- Jeevan Bahadur Shahi
- Sujata Koirala
- Ananda Prasad Dhungana
Light rainfall and snowfall forecast in few parts of country today
Light rainfall and snowfall have been predicted in a few parts of the country today due to the influence of the westerly low-pressure system.
The weather will remain partly to generally cloudy in the majority of the places across the country, said the Department of Hydrology and Meteorology.
Due to the influence of the westerly low-pressure system, the weather will remain partly to generally cloudy in Province No 1, Bagmati Province and Gandaki Province while light rainfall is likely in a couple of places in hilly areas.
Few places in high hilly areas could witness light snowfall, the Department informed.
Currently, the hilly region has cloudy conditions while few parts of the Terai region have remained foggy and misty. The weather will likely remain partly cloudy in hilly areas by tonight while remaining places will have clear weather.
Similarly, Province No 1, Bagmati Province and Gandaki Province’s hilly places will be partly cloudy on Saturday while weather is likely to be clear in other parts of the country on that day, the Department shared.
The Department recorded 4.0 degrees Celsius to be the minimum temperature of Kathmandu Valley while 14.0 is the highest today.
Jumla district recorded the minimum temperature at -5.0 degrees Celsius while Dipayal in Doti district had the maximum temperature at 19.8 degrees Celsius. RSS
Citizens Bank customer gets roughed up
A customer was beaten up at the Citizens Bank outlet in Gaushala, Mahottari. On January 25, Sanjay Mahato of Gaushala Municipality-12 had gone to the bank to open an account for his nephew. There, he was manhandled by bank security guards.
Eyewitness Raj Kumar Mahato says, “There was no crowd at the bank, and yet the staff were not working. When he [Sanjay Mahato] inquired about the delay, the guards in attendance started shoving him.”
Sanjay says he had visited the bank for the same purpose many times. He thought of inquiring only when he felt he would be turned back empty-handed that day as well.
Ram Chandra Singh Kushwaha, a security guard at the bank, clarified that the dispute ensued when Mahato entered a ‘no entry’ zone. “The officers asked me to remove him from bank premises. Mahato refused to go, resulting in a scuffle,” he adds.
According to the Police Office of Gaushala, the dispute was a minor one and was quickly resolved in a mutual agreement.
