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The classification of garbage has come into effect from today in Kathmandu as directed by the Kathmandu Metropolitan City in a bid to make waste management in the city more effective.

The metropolis a month ago issued a notice asking residents of Kathmandu to classify wastes produced from their home and market into biodegradable and non-biodegradable. For this cause, the KMC Mayor Balendra Sah reached the doorsteps of local people to make them aware.

This has been launched from all 32 wards of the city. The KMC has fixed the day for picking wastes from the city. Biodegradable waste is collected on Sunday and Wednesday and non-biodegradable garbage on Tuesday and Friday. The arrangements in the landfill site will be made accordingly, said the metropolis.

Those flouting the directive by the KMC to segregate waste are fined Rs 500 each.

The KMC has also urged KMC residents to use biodegradable waste as fertiliser.

Chandragiri Municipality has pledged to further support and collaborate with Kathmandu Metropolitan City on the issue of solid waste management.

In this connection, the chiefs of two larger municipalities of the Kathmandu Valley held mutual dialogue for the first time. It may be noted that KMC has announced its initiative to collect biodegradable and non-biodegradable waste under its solid waste management bid from July 17.KMC sources shared that it would collect biodegradable waste on Sunday and Wednesday and non-biodegradable waste on Monday and Friday under its campaign for 'Segregating waste at source'. In a bid to take the public into confidence for the campaign, KMC has continued its doorstep visit programme.

At a meeting held between Chandragiri Mayor Ghanashyam Giri and KMC Mayor Balendra Shah at Chandragiri Municipality today, matters related to collaboration in various other areas, including waste management, were discussed.

"As waste management is a shared problem, Chandragiri Municipality is ever committed to supporting and collaborating with KMC in its policy and initiative for the same. We have adopted a policy of managing the waste generated within the municipal territory," Mayor Giri said.

Informing that the municipality has been incentivising the private sector to transform perishable waste into compost fertiliser, he stressed the need of integrated policy and collaboration among municipalities in Kathmandu valley to deal with the waste management issue.

Two motorable bridges over the Karnali river have been constructed to link Karnali and Sudurpaschim provinces, benefiting thousands of people from both the provinces.

Development of the two bridges has ensured better services to the locals besides promotion of trade and business in the provinces.

The bridges constructed would link Panchapuri Municipality and Chaukune Rural Municipality in Surkhet district and Mohanyal Rural Municipality-7 in Kailali district.

With the construction of this bridge, people have started their journey along the Kuyine-Chisapani road section.

Chairman of Panchapuri Municipality-11 in Surkhet Hari Prasad Dhakal said the bridges have facilitated the journey of residents from Dailekh, Achham, Kalikot, Humla and Jumla districts.

The 550 metres long bridge over the Karnali river connecting Mohanyal Rural Municipality-7 and Chaukune Rural Municipality-10 has eight spans and was constructed at the investment of Rs 620 million.

The next bridge is being constructed at Kuyineghat links Mohanyal Rural Municipality-7 in Kailali and Panchapuri Municipality-11 in Surkhet. Construction works of this bridge are at the final stage and the bridge would be brought into operation within some days, it is said. The estimated cost of the bridge is Rs 320 million.

Both the bridges are constructed under the Bridge Project of the Department of Roads of the Government of Nepal.

Federal Council Chair of Janata Samajbadi  Party (JSP) Baburam Bhattarai has condemned the action taken against him and other leaders and demanded the cancellation of the said decision.

After JSP Chair Upendra Yadav decided to take action against nine leaders of the party including Bhattarai, he issued a statement on Friday night and appealed to everyone to join in the reorganization of the new party. Chair Yadav has clarified that they have been punished for action against the party's rules, regulations and procedures.

JSP leader Mohammad Istiaq Rai said the meeting of the party is called by the party chair and it is up to the other leaders to take part or not in the meeting.

Federal Council Chair Bhattarai has also appealed to all the central members who have been working continuously for the transformation of the party to reorganize the party. "We strongly condemn this action and dismiss the action. In this situation, there is no option before us to reorganize the party", the statement said.

Separate meetings of the party were held under the leadership of Yadav and Bhattarai. Yadav took a decision to relieve Bhattarai and leaders close to this fact from all responsibilities while Bhattarai took a decision to reorganize the party.

High alert has been adopted in the coastal areas along the Mahakali river in Kanchanpur district after the sluice gates of the dam of Dhauliganga hydropower project at Tapoban, Dharchula of Uttarakhand Province in India have been opened.

The sluice gates are opened for the silt flushing process. Deputy Superintendent of Police at the District Police Office, Kanchanpur, Chakra Bahadur Shah, said locals of the Mahakali river coastal area have been urged to adopt precautions as there is a possibility of increase in water level in the

Mahakali river as the sluice gates of the dam are opened.

NHPC Limited of India informed that the sluice gates are open from 5:00 am to 8:00 pm today.

Normal life in Mahottari district has been affected due to scorching heat since there was no rain for the past two weeks. The maximum temperature in the district is recorded as high as 38 degrees Celsius in recent days.

With the rise in temperature, the number of patients in the district has gone up, the health workers shared.

Dr Pradip Kumar Sah of Jaleshwor Provincial Hospital said the number of patients visiting the hospital has increased on daily basis after the excessive heat.

Dr Kishor Adhikari of Bardibas Hospital said the number of patients visiting the hospitals for the treatment of fever and typhoid has increased lately.

Meanwhile, the incidents of snakebite have also increased in Mahottari due to scorching heat. This week, two persons died of snakebite on their ways to the hospitals for further treatment after being referred from the Gauridanda Snakebite Treatment Centre at Bardibas Municipality-3.

The Government of India has provided disaster relief material to the Government of Nepal on Friday.

Ambassador of India to Nepal Naveen Srivastava handed over consignments of flood and disaster-relief material to Minister for Home Affairs Bal Krishna Khand during a ceremony held at the Ministry of Home Affairs in Singhadurbar today.

The relief material includes 3000 tents and ten motor inflatable boats.

During the ceremony, Home Minister Khand thanked the Indian government for the relief material.

Saying that Nepal and India enjoy people to people relations besides the government to government relations, Minister Khand said Nepal was always ready to further expand such relations between the two countries.

On the occasion, he appreciated ongoing disaster relief-related cooperation between Nepal and India and hoped for continued support from the Indian government in the future as well.

Likewise, Ambassador Srivastava expressed that this timely supply of relief material is optimally utilized by concerned agencies to ensure its maximum benefit by timely distribution and efficient utilization, according to a press release issued from the Embassy of India in Kathmandu.

CPN (Maoist Centre) Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal has stressed on forging unity among the communist forces believing in scientific approach. 

Addressing a policy dialogue on science and technology organized by Bikalpa Foundation here today, he said there is no alternative to unity among the honest communists with scientific mindset. 

The Maoist Centre Chair said: "I had forged Communist unity last time taking a big risk and making sacrifices with the thinking that it is the communists who have a scientific bend of mind in Nepal compared to others and it would work well to bring them all together. Still now, sincere communists having scientific thinking should be one and this mission of ours would be continued."  

He opined that policy reforms could be made in the science and technology sector to move ahead on the journey of development and prosperity only if those having scientific thinking move forward united. 

Stating that scientific discoveries have been taking place in the science and technology sector as per the need of the general public, former Prime Minister Dahal underscored the need of utilizing science and technology for increasing people's productivity and production power in the present digital age. 

According to him, science should be used consciously for increasing new production and the production capability and for bringing about social transformation in a scientific way. 

Leader Dahal reiterated that the Nepali society needed a new type of discourse with scientific thinking and the communist forces needed to once again stand at one place for leading it and for waging a movement. 

He opined that this discussion should be moved ahead as a campaign in a more systematic and planned way among the political forces committed to the scientific approach, development and prosperity.