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Traffic police collected Rs 1.88 million in revenue in the past 24 hours from 2,223 riders for traffic rules violations. 

According to the Kathmandu Valley Traffic Police Office, penalty measures were taken against 94 individuals for drunk driving, 150 for engaging in illegal ride-sharing, 177 for disregarding traffic signals and 118 for crossing speed limits. 

Additionally, 61 individuals were penalized for failing to adhere to lane discipline, 154 for honking in restricted areas, 98 for parking in road zones, 120 for driving on one-way streets, and 1,251 for violating various other traffic regulations.

The World Day Against Child Labour is being celebrated today across the country by holding different programmes by the agencies and stakeholders. 

Every year on June 12, the World Day Against Child Labour brings together governments, employers’ and workers’ organizations, businesses, civil society, communities and individuals to strengthen action to end child labour, according to the UN. 

"The 2026 World Day comes at a decisive moment, following the Sixth Global Conference on the Elimination of Child Labour in Marrakech, which reaffirmed the need to accelerate progress and turn commitments into concrete results," it said.

The UN stated that the 6th Global Conference on the Elimination of Child Labour reaffirmed the urgent need to accelerate action and translate commitments into concrete results. 

"The Marrakech Global Framework for Action against Child Labour provides a concrete roadmap and indicators for tackling child labour through integrated responses that address root causes and protect every child’s rights."

The theme of this year's Day is “Red card to child labour: Fair play for children, decent work for adults”.

This campaign calls for stronger action on quality education, social protection, decent work, stronger laws and enforcement, and other measures that address the root causes of child labour, according to the International Labour Organization (ILO). 

It is said that 138 million children remain in child labour worldwide, including nearly 54 million in hazardous work.

The government has started preparations to reduce the dengue infection rate by 60 percent in the next five years.

The Ministry of Health and Food Safety has prepared a multi-sectoral plan for dengue prevention and control, which states that in the next five years, all federal, provincial, and local government bodies will be involved in dengue control and prevention to achieve the target.

The government's goal is to reduce the mortality from dengue to less than 0.01 percent.

The ministry has said that in addition, special efforts will be made under the plan to reduce the severe consequences of dengue. To achieve the goal, the government will use all mechanisms to monitor the spread of the disease.

It will strengthen the 'early warning system' to alert people in high-risk areas before dengue-carrying mosquitoes start breeding in those areas. 

The government also aims to make the 'integrated vector surveillance system' effective and sustainable to activate responses as soon as the entry of dengue-carrying mosquitoes is detected.

Apart from this, the government aims to make communication on this matter effective to reduce the risk of disease. 

The government also plans to run a 'Clean Friday' program, doing extra cleaning every week to destroy mosquito breeding under the scheme.

With global temperatures rising, dengue, which was previously seen only in the Tarai a few years ago, was reported last year in all 77 districts of the country. 

This year too, so far, dengue has been found in 915 people across 68 districts, with one person having died.

To prevent the disease from spreading, the government has formed a national 'Dengue Task Force' led by the Director of the Epidemiology and Disease Control Division.

The Nepal Medical Council has sealed Maria Hospital (Maria Health Centre) at Baluwatar, Kathmandu.

The health facility was sealed after a team of the NMC in the course of monitoring found the hospital running illegally, said Officiating Registrar of the NMC, Dr Dipendra Pandey.

The Council has already written to the District Administration Office and District Police Range, Kathmandu to take legal action against the hospital operators, he added. 

The Council also suspended the temporary registration of three Chinese doctors involved in medical practice at the hospital without meeting clinical criteria for the time being. 

Dr Pandey mentioned that the Nepali doctors whose names have been displayed in the hospital's board have been asked to submit written clarification within three days for violating professional ethics and regulations.