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The government has allocated Rs 55 billion to the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development.

Finance Minister Janardan Sharma has given Rs 15 billion more to agriculture than the ceiling set by the National Planning Commission.

The Commission had set a ceiling of Rs 40 billion in agriculture.

The government had allocated Rs 36 billion in the current fiscal year.

Minister Sharma allocated Rs 55 billion to the Agriculture Ministry to become self-reliant in agriculture this year.

The government on Sunday endorsed the budget for the next fiscal year 2022/ 23.

Finance Minister Janardan Sharma’s Secretariat said that a Cabinet meeting held this afternoon endorsed the budget to be presented in the Parliament.

Minister Sharma is presenting a budget of around Rs 17 trillion in the Parliament at 4 pm today.

The budget mentions issues such as increasing the salaries of the employees and social security allowances.

A Nepal Army helicopter deployed to search for the missing Tara Air's Twin Otter aircraft landed in Thasang of Mustang.

It will take around six hours to reach the area where an unusual sound was heard from Thasang.

Though the plane contacted the tower of the Civil Aviation Office in Jomsom at 10: 12 am, it went out of contact since then.

The aircraft had taken off for Jomsom from Pokhara at 9: 55 am.

There were 22 persons including two German nationals, four Indian and 13 Nepali nationals apart from crew members on board the aircraft.

Pilot Prabhakar Ghimire, co-pilot Utsav Pokharel and airhostess Kishmi Thapa were in the plane.

According to the Nepal Civil Aviation Authority, the search operation has been affected due to bad weather.

The District Administration Office, Mustang said that Nepal Army, Armed Police Force and Nepal Police personnel and locals have been deployed to search for the missing plane.

A team of Nepal Army and Nepal Police has been sent from the land route to search for the missing Tara Air aircraft due to bad weather.

The Nepal Civil Aviation Authority said that the security personnel have been deployed from the land route to search for the aircraft which went out of contact from Ghorepani of Mustang on Sunday morning.

The plane had taken off for Jomsom from Pokhara at 9: 55 am.

There were 22 persons including three crew members on board the aircraft.

According to the Civil Aviation Office, Pokhara, there were two German nationals, four Indians and 13 Nepali nationals in the aircraft.

A chopper of Fishtail Air deployed to search the missing Tara Air's Twin Otter aircraft returned to Jomsom owing to bad weather.

The Ministry of Home Affairs said that the aircraft was seen diverted to Mount Dhaulagiri from Lete and it went out of contact since then.

“A helicopter of Fishtail Air had gone to the area to search for the missing aircraft. But it returned to Jomsom due to adverse weather,” an official at the Civil Aviation Authority said.

The plane had taken off from for Jomsom from Pokhara at 9: 55 am today.

Home Minister Bal Krishna Khand has directed the concerned authorities to expedite the search operation.

There were 22 persons including three crew members on board the aircraft.

Meanwhile, a Nepal Army helicopter has just left for Lete, Mustang to search for the aircraft.

A Tara Air aircraft which had taken off for Mustang from Pokhara has gone out of contact.

The plane with call sign 9N-AET had taken off for Jomson from Pokhara at 9: 55 am.

An official at the Civil Aviation Authority, Pokhara said there were two German nationals, four Indians and 13 Nepali nationals in the aircraft.

There were 22 persons on board including three crew members.

Two persons died in a motorbike accident at Bhaunee in Belbari Municipality-10 of Morang district on Saturday.

The deceased have been identified as bike rider Rajesh Dhimal (25) and pillion rider Anil Chaudhary (24) of Sundarharaicha Municipality 11, Morang.

Police said that the incident occurred when the two-wheeler (Ko 10 Pa 3599) heading towards west from east hit either a parked truck or a tractor last night.

Police said that they have impounded both the vehicles and arrested their drivers for investigation.

Critically injured in the incident, the duo were taken to the Birat Nursing Home and Biratnagar Hospital in Biratnagar.

Chaudhary breathed his last during the course of treatment at around 9: 30 pm yesterday while Dhimal died at around 6 am on Sunday.

Police said that they are looking into the case.

A man was found dead in a field at Maheshwor in Katahari Rural Municipality-1 of Morang district.

According to the DSP Deepak Shrestha of the District Police Office, Morang, the deceased has been identified as Tulasi Shrestha (50) of Katahari-2.

He said that the body may have been dumped in the field near the roadside after the murder.

DSP Shrestha said that the body was found with a deep cut on the forehead.

Police said that he had been staying with his brother Chitra Kumar after he got divorced with his wife.

Chitra Kumar has a chicken farm Katahari-1. Tulasi was found leaving the house on Saturday night.

Police suspected that he had left the house to go to his brother’s farm. But, when locals started searching for him, he was found dead in the field.

Later, locals informed the police after they found the body.

A team led by DSP Rajan Karki has started the investigation.

A trained dog has also been mobilised for the investigation.

DSP Shrestha said that preparations are underway to send the body to the Koshi Hospital in Biratnagar for postmortem.