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The Nepal Stock Exchange (NEPSE) gained 1.55 points to close at 2,544.94 points on Monday.

Similarly, the sensitive index plunged by 2.41 points to close at 492.53 points.

Meanwhile, a total 5,315,292 unit shares of 230 companies were traded for Rs 2. 60 billion.

Meanwhile, Buddha Bhumi Nepal Hydropower Company Limited was the top gainer today, with its price surging by 5. 89 percent. Panchthar Power Company Limited was the top loser as its price fell by 6. 90 percent.

China’s friendship with Russia is “rock solid” and the prospects for cooperation are very broad, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Monday, Reuters reported.

Cooperation between the two countries brings benefits and well-being to the two peoples, he told his annual news conference on the sidelines of China’s annual meeting of parliament, according to Reuters.

Bird flu has been detected in the Bhaktapur district. Three poultry farms at Suryabinayak Municipality-10 in the district recorded the bird flu.

Paila Agricultural Farm, Shikhar Poultry Farm and Ajima Poultry Farm suffered the avian flu.

The Animal Disease Investigation Laboratory, Tripureshwor confirmed the bird flu in the Bhaktapur farms. The Laboratory further said sub-type F5F1 virus of HP1 was detected in the chicken.

With the detection of the bird flu, the security committee meeting held at the district administration officials decided to destroy the poultries and poultry products.

Assistant Chief District Officer and Information Officer Madhav Prasad Sharma informed that the meeting decided to destroy the fowls, eggs, waste, and feed inside the demarcated area– Ajima Brick Factory en route to the Araniko Highway, roadway near Shikhar Poultry Farm in the north, the northern border of the Araniko Highway in the south, and the way en route to Panityanki in the north.

The Information Officer also said the vigilance would be upped on the transport of chicken and poultry products in the Kathmandu Valley including Bhaktapur with the cooperation of local levels, Livestock Service Experts Center, Lalitpur, and Livestock Service Department. RSS

CPN (Maoist Centre) has added 97 central members.

A Central Committee meeting held on Monday endorsed the names of 97 persons added by party Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal.

Chairman Dahal submitted the names of 55 persons from the open category and 42 from the proportional category.

With the addition, the Maoist Central Committee has 343 members.

Earlier, the 8th general convention held in December had selected 246 central members.

Central member Raju Khadka said that the Central Committee has also resolved the issue of Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC).

The Central Committee has decided to discuss the $500 million grant compact after the local level elections.

Five persons of a single family were found dead at Nallu in Konjyosom of Lalitpur on Monday.

Police said that four persons were found dead in the house and one died during the course of treatment.

Kaili Syangden (55), Ashish Syangden (9), Sushma Syangden (23) and Ashma Syangden (7) were found dead in the house. 

Police said that two-day-old baby died in the course of treatment.

Police said that they are looking into the case.

Lawmakers have demanded removal of office bearers of the Medical Education Commission.

During a meeting of the Education and Health Committee of the Parliament, the lawmakers have demanded action against the office bearers of the Commission for not addressing the demands of the students.

Prof Dr Shree Krishna Giri of the Commission said that the Nobel Medical College has been threatening the students.

"The college has been threatening the students that it would take action against them if they did not stay in the hostel," Giri said, adding, "Later, representatives of the college, commission and Ministry of Education held a meeting and agreed to resolve this issue by Wednesday."

Hari Lamsal, Secretary at the Education Ministry, said that action would be taken if the college did it address the demands of students.

A man attacked his wife with acid in Bhaktapur on Sunday.

According to the District Police Office, Bhaktapur, Shyam Gubhaju attacked Puja Gubhaju (60) of Dadhikot, Suryabinayak-4 with the acid.

Police said that they have arrested Shyam for investigation.

Puja, who sustained injuries in the incident, has been sent to the Kirtipur Hospital for treatment, police said.

The official global death toll from COVID-19 is on the verge of eclipsing 6 million — underscoring that the pandemic, now entering its third year, is far from over, Associated Press reported.

The milestone is the latest tragic reminder of the unrelenting nature of the pandemic even as people are shedding masks, travel is resuming and businesses are reopening around the globe. The death toll, compiled by Johns Hopkins University, stood at 5,997,994 as of Sunday afternoon.

Remote Pacific islands, whose isolation had protected them for more than two years, are just now grappling with their first outbreaks and deaths, fueled by the highly contagious omicron variant.

Hong Kong, which is seeing deaths soar, is testing its entire population of 7.5 million three times this month as it clings to mainland China’s “zero-COVID” strategy.

As death rates remain high in Poland, Hungary, Romania and other Eastern European countries, the region has seen more than 1 million refugees arrive from war-torn Ukraine, a country with poor vaccination coverage and high rates of cases and deaths, according to the Associated Press.

And despite its wealth and vaccine availability, the United States is nearing 1 million reported deaths on its own.

Death rates worldwide are still highest among people unvaccinated against the virus, said Tikki Pang, a visiting professor at the National University of Singapore’s medical school and co-Chair of the Asia Pacific Immunization Coalition.

“This is a disease of the unvaccinated — look what is happening in Hong Kong right now, the health system is being overwhelmed,” said Pang, the former director of research policy and cooperation with the World Health Organization. “The large majority of the deaths and the severe cases are in the unvaccinated, vulnerable segment of the population.”

It took the world seven months to record its first million deaths from the virus after the pandemic began in early 2020. Four months later another million people had died, and 1 million have died every three months since, until the death toll hit 5 million at the end of October. Now it has reached 6 million — more than the populations of Berlin and Brussels combined, or the entire state of Maryland, Associated Press reported.

But despite the enormity of the figure, the world undoubtedly hit its 6 millionth death some time ago. Poor record-keeping and testing in many parts of the world has led to an undercount in coronavirus deaths, in addition to excess deaths related to the pandemic but not from actual COVID-19 infections, like people who died from preventable causes but could not receive treatment because hospitals were full.

Edouard Mathieu, head of data for the Our World in Data portal, said that — when countries’ excess mortality figures are studied — as many as nearly four times the reported death toll have likely died because of the pandemic, according to the Associated Press.