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Annapurna Media Network (AMN) and Confederation of Nepalese Industries (CNI) signed a Memorandum of Understanding for the implementation of the ‘Unity for Sustainability’ campaign on Wednesday.

AMN, a leading media house in Nepal, launched a two-year ‘Unity for Sustainability’ campaign which aims to collaborate with concerned stakeholders on climate change issues on November 24.

AMN Chief Executive Officer Sanat Neupane and CNI Director General Yadav Poudyal signed the MoU at the latter’s office in Thapathali today.

The main objective of signing the MoU was to reduce the impact of climate change in Nepal, advise people to use alternative energy for cooking, encourage the use of green energy in industries and to protect biodiversity.

Nepal has planned to achieve ‘no net’ carbon emissions by 2045.

The two organizations have also decided to join hands together to run a program on climate change.

On the occasion, CNI Director General Poudyal said that climate change is a sensitive and broad issue.

With the signing of agreement, the foundation has been established between the two organizations for a long-term partnership, he said.

AMN Chief Executive Officer Neupane underscored the need to raise awareness about the climate change in Nepal as it is an important issue not only for a person or an organization but for the whole world.

CNI Director Sabin Mishra and Chiranjibi Neupane and Subha Khanal Thapa from the AMN were present in the programme.

Rescuers from the United States Coast Guard are searching the waters off Florida’s Atlantic coast for 39 people reported missing for several days after a boat believed to be used for human smuggling capsized, Al Jezeera reported.

A good Samaritan alerted the Coast Guard early on Tuesday after rescuing a man clinging to the mostly submerged hull of the boat after it hit bad weather about 72km (45 miles) east of the town of Fort Pierce, the maritime security agency reported on Twitter.

The survivor told authorities that he had left the Bahamas’ Bimini islands with 39 other people on Saturday night, and that they had not been wearing lifejackets, the Coast Guard added.

Cutter vessels and aircraft have been deployed to search an area stretching from Bimini to Fort Pierce to find the missing.

The Coast Guard said it was treating the incident as a case of suspected human smuggling.

The nationality of those on board is not yet known.

Migrants have long used the islands of the Bahamas as a stepping stone to reach the United States, with the Bimini Islands only about 80km (50 miles) east of Miami, Florida.

Smugglers typically try to take advantage of breaks in the weather to make the crossing, but the vessels are often dangerously overloaded and prone to capsizing. There have been thousands of deaths over the years.

The latest accident follows another ill-fated crossing last week when the authorities rescued 32 people whose boat capsized west of Bimini, Coast Guard spokesperson, Petty Officer Jose Hernandez told the Reuters news agency.

Most of those attempting the crossing come from Haiti and Cuba.

At least 557 Cuban migrants in all have been picked up at sea by the Coast Guard since October, according to the agency.

Crossings by Haitians have also grown more frequent as the Caribbean island nation deals with economic and political crises, as well as gang-related kidnappings.

The Coast Guard said it had intercepted at least 159 Haitian nationals over the past year.

Nepal recorded 8,454 new Covid-19 cases and five deaths on Wednesday.

According to the Ministry of Health and Population, 13,549 swab samples were tested in the RT-PCR method, of which 5,571 returned positive. Likewise, 6,810 people underwent antigen tests, of which 2,883 tested positive.

The Ministry said that 4,433 infected people recovered from the disease in the last 24 hours.

As of today, there are 90,067 active cases in the country.

Miss Nepal World 2020 Namrata Shrestha has entered the ‘Top 40’ of Miss World 2021. The final of the pageant has been rescheduled for 16 March 2022 in Puerto Rico after being put off in December 2021 due to the Covid-19 risk.

Shrestha had also entered the Top 10 of the ‘beauty with a purpose’ round back in December. This time too, she entered the Top 20 as one of the ‘15 fast track winners’. Writes Shrestha in her Instagram, “As we have been told from Day 1, “We all are winners” WE ARE!!! To my sisters chosen to advance further in the pageant yesterday, a big congratulations, I can’t wait to reunite with you all in Puerto Rico this March!”

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The Nepal Stock Exchange (NEPSE) index plunged by 38.42 points to close at 2,776.65 points on Wednesday.

Similarly, the sensitive index fell 6.60 points to reach 518.34 points.

A total of 9,358,700 units of shares of 233 companies were traded for Rs 4.31billion.

In today’s market, all sub-indices saw red with Life Insurance leading the way with a decline 277.65 points followed by Non-Life Insurance with 142.54 points.

At the end of the day, total market capitalisation stood at Rs 3.92 trillion.

Meanwhile, Wean Nepal Laghubitta Bittiya Sanstha Limited was the top gainer for today, with its price surging by 10.00 percent. Pokhara Finance Limited was the top loser as its price fell by 5.59 percent.

Nepal Bankers’ Association, the umbrella organisation of the commercial banks, has said that crypto, virtual currency and network marketing business and transactions are illegal in Nepal.

Issuing a notice on Wednesday, the Association urged the people not to involve in the transactions related to virtual currency and networking as these are illegal in Nepal.

It warned of action as per the existing laws against any individual or institution found involved in such activities.

Nepal Rastra Bank (NRB), the country’s Central Bank, on January 29, had also warned of action against those found involved in virtual currency and networking transactions. It is said transactions of cryptocurrency and illegal networking transactions such as Networking Hyper Fund, Jocial, Crowd1, SolMax Global etc are found taking place in Nepal in recent days.

The Department of Revenue Investigation on Tuesday filed a case against four people including three members of the same family for their involvement in these illegal transactions. It has claimed more than Rs 370 million from them. RSS

Nepal’s population has reached 29.1million as per the preliminary results of the National Census 2021.

A report made public today by the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) under the National Planning Commission shows that the population is less by around 800 thousand than the projected population of 30 million. It is stated that this data might be slightly changed in the final results.

The population of Nepal as per the 2011 National Census was 26 million 940 thousand 504.

As compared to the previous census, Bhaktapur has the highest population growth rate while Ramechhap district has the most declining rate of population.

The first phase of fieldwork of the 2021 Census was carried out from September 15 to October 4 and the second phase of fieldwork was done from November 11 to 17, 2021.

Province-wise, Madhes Province has the largest population while Karnali Province has the least.

NPC Vice Chairman Dr Bishwonath Poudel expressed all those involved in making the National Census 2021 successful and the preliminary results show that Nepal is the heartbeat of over 29.1 million Nepali.

CBS Director-General Nebin Lal Shrestha said they conducted the population census of Lipulek, Kalapani and Limpiyadhura, the territories included in the new administrative map of Nepal, as well and the detailed information was awaited.

To a journalist’s question, Director-General Shrestha said it is found that discrimination between son and daughter is decreasing and the population might not have increased as projected also because the trend of producing children in preference of son has minimized.

The preliminary results of the first population census conducted after the promulgation of the Constitution of Nepal, 2015 has been made public. RSS