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The Sankhuwasabha District Court has slapped imprisonment to those involved in murdering six members of a family at Khola Gaun in Umling of Madi Municipality-1, Sankhuwasabha.

A single bench of Justice Shanti Prasad Acharya on Monday announced the verdict of life imprisonment against four of the five persons for their involvement in the murder of six persons, registrar Keshav Prasad Gautam said.

He said that one of them was underage and minor.

The case was filed against Rana Bahadur Karki (49), his sons Lok Bahadur Karki (28) and Naresh Karki (17) and Khadak Bahadur Karki (47) and his son Hasta Bahadur Karki (28).

Among them, Rana Bahadur, Lok Bahadur, Khadak Bahadur and Hasta Bahadur have been sentenced to life imprisonment.

According to the verdict, Naresh has to spend 16 years and eight months in prison.

Tej Bahadur Karki (55)), his mother Parbati Karki, wife Kamala, daughter-in-law Ranjana Karki (32), grandson Bipin (8) and grand daughter Goma (5) were brutally murdered on September 6, 2021.

Two more persons were tested positive for cholera in Kathmandu Valley.

With the confirmation of the two new cases, the number of people infected with the highly contagious fatal disease has reached 19.

According to Dr Chumanlal Das, Director at the  Epidemiology and Disease Control Division, cholera has been confirmed in two children of Kageshwori Manohara Municipality.

He said that the children have already returned home after receiving primary treatment at a local hospital.

Earlier on Friday, one case each was reported in Kirtipur, Kageshwori Manohara and Teku of Kathmandu.

Dr Das said that almost all of them contracted cholera by drinking contaminated water.

Cash-strapped Sri Lanka on Sunday extended school closures for one week because there isn’t enough fuel for teachers and parents to get children to classrooms, and the energy minister appealed to the country’s expatriates to send money home through banks to finance new oil purchases, Associated Press reported.

A huge foreign debt has left the Indian Ocean island with none of the suppliers willing to sell fuel on credit. The available stocks, sufficient for only several days, will be provided for essential services, including health and port workers, public transport and food distribution, officials said.

”Finding money is a challenge. It’s a huge challenge,” Power and Energy Minister Kanchana Wijesekera told reporters.

He said the government has ordered new fuel stocks and the first ship with 40,000 metric tons of diesel is expected to arrive on Friday while the first ship carrying gasoline would come on July 22.

Several other fuel shipments are in the pipeline. But he said authorities are struggling to find $587 million to pay for the fuel. Wijesekera said that Sri Lanka owed about $800 million to seven fuel suppliers, according to Associated Press.

Last month, schools were closed nationwide for a day due to fuel shortages and had remained closed for the last two weeks in urban areas. Schools will remain shut until Friday.

Authorities also announced countrywide power cuts of up to three hours a day from Monday because they can’t supply enough fuel to power generating stations. Sweeping power cuts have been a blight on Sri Lanka’s economy for months, along with severe shortages of essentials including cooking gas, medicine and food imports.

Wijesekera said the main problem is the lack of dollars and appealed to some 2 million Sri Lankans working abroad to send their foreign exchange earnings home through banks instead of informal channels.

He said workers’ remittances, which usually stood at $600 million per month, had declined to $318 million in June.

According to the Central Bank, the remittances — the nation’s main foreign exchange earner — dropped from $2.8 billion in the first six months of 2021 to $1.3 billion in the same period this year for a decline of 53%.

The drop came after the government last year ordered the mandatory conversion of foreign currency. It said that black-market premiums have led people to hoard foreign currency, Associated Press reported.

Sri Lanka’s has been getting most of its fuel needs from neighboring India, which provided it with a credit line. The government said it was also negotiating with suppliers in Russia and Malaysia.

Sri Lanka has suspended repayment of about $7 billion in foreign loans due this year out of $25 billion to be repaid by 2026. The country’s total foreign debt is $51 billion.

Nepal Oil Corporation (NOC), the state-owned monopoly, yanked up the prices of petroleum products on Monday.

The NOC has decided to increase Rs 2 per litre in petrol, Rs 9 per litre in diesel and kerosene.

According to the new revised rate, the petrol will cost Rs181 per litre while diesel and kerosene will cost Rs 172 per litre.

The NOC, however, did not increase the price of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG).

At least nine persons died when a commuter bus met with an accident near Lubhughat in Khandadevi Rural Municipality-1, Ramechhap district on Tuesday.

The identities of the deceased are yet to be established.

DSP Raj Kumar Thing said that the bus (Ba 3 Kha 8396) belonging to the Araniko Travels was heading towards Kathmandu from Bethan, Ramechhap when the tragedy occurred.

Police are carrying out rescue operations and preparations are being made to take the injured to the Dhulikhel Hospital.

A Central Committee meeting of the CPN (Maoist Centre) has been postponed.

The meeting called for 11 am at Pragya Bhawan in Kamaladi has been postponed till tomorrow, party spokesperson Krishna Bahadur Mahara said.

He said that the meeting will be held at 1 pm tomorrow.

The reason for the postponement has not been disclosed.

Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal presented the agenda and political report in the meeting that started on Sunday.

On Monday, province in-charges floated their opinion on the party's latest situation.

During the meeting held on Monday, leaders suggested Dahal forge an electoral alliance with the CPN-UML saying that the party is getting weak.

Chairman Dahal was scheduled to answer the questions raised in the meeting today.

Macau reported 89 new coronavirus instances on Tuesday, taking the entire to greater than 900 infections since mid-June, as authorities on this planet’s largest playing hub race to comprise its largest outbreak because the pandemic started, Reuters reported.

More than 13,000 individuals are underneath quarantine within the Chinese language particular administrative area, which has successfully shut all the way down to restrict the unfold of coronavirus.

The town’s greater than 600,000 residents are topic to a few citywide COVID-19 checks this week, with individuals additionally required to take fast antigen checks in between.

Whereas the previous Portuguese colony has not launched a full scale lockdown seen in mainland Chinese language cities like Shanghai, most amenities are shut and eating places can solely present takeaway.

Solely Macau’s casinos have been allowed to remain open in a transfer to make sure job safety. The federal government depends on the business for over 80% of its tax income with a lot of the inhabitants employed immediately or not directly by the on line casino resorts.

Whereas casinos are bodily open, there are hardly any gamblers inside and only a few employees working, with many staff requested to remain at dwelling, as per the federal government’s request.

The stringent measures come after Macau has been largely COVID-free since an outbreak in October 2021. It nonetheless has an open border with mainland China, with its economic system firmly hinged to the influx of Chinese language guests, according to BBC.

Macau adheres to China’s “zero-COVID” coverage which goals to eradicate all outbreaks, at nearly any value, working counter to a world development of making an attempt to co-exist with the virus.

Its instances are nonetheless far under day by day infections somewhere else, together with neighbouring Hong Kong the place instances have jumped to greater than 2,000 a day this month.

Nonetheless, Macau solely has one public hospital, whose companies are already stretched each day. Officers have put up a makeshift hospital subsequent to the town’s Las Vegas type Cotai strip to assist address the rise in instances, BBC reported.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered his defence minister to continue the offensive in Ukraine after Russia captured the city of Lysychansk, BBC reported.

Mr Putin was shown on Russian TV calling on forces on other fronts to pursue their aims according to "previously approved plans".

The capture means that all of Luhansk region is now in Russian hands.

Earlier the region's Ukrainian governor said the city was abandoned so Russians would not destroy it from a distance.

Soldiers have now moved to new fortified positions, Serhiy Haidai told the BBC.

Losing the city and ceding control of Luhansk to Russia was painful, he said, but added: "This is just one battle we have lost, but not the war."

He pleaded for more weapons from the West to offset the Russian advantage.

President Volodymyr Zelensky has pledged that Ukrainian forces will return to retake Lysychansk "thanks to the increase in the supply of modern weapons".

Russia has now stepped up its bombardment of cities in the neighbouring Donetsk region, with the areas around Sloviansk and the road between Lysychansk and Bakhmut in particular being targeted, according to Ukrainian forces.

Together the regions of Donetsk and Luhansk form the industrial Donbas area.

Mr Putin was seen telling Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu that troops who took part in the campaign to capture Luhansk should "rest and develop their combat capabilities".

"Other military units, including the East group and the West group, must carry out their tasks according to previously approved plans," he said, expressing the hope that on those fronts they would have similar success to that in Luhansk region, according to BBC.

Just before he launched the invasion of Ukraine on 24 February, Mr Putin recognised all of Luhansk and Donetsk as independent states. Russian proxy forces began an insurgency there in 2014 - the year Russia also annexed the Crimean peninsula.

Just over a week ago, Russian troops captured Severodonetsk - which Russian bombardment has reduced to ruins.