Submit your Article

India on Saturday handed over a newly constructed building to Shree Mahendra Secondary School in Achham.

The building was built with the Indian government’s financial assistance of Rs 32. 40 million under ‘Nepal-Inda Development Cooperation’.  

Lalit Bahadur Kunwar, Chief, District Coordination Committee, Achham,  Rajendra Bahadur Kunwar, Mayor, Sanfebagar Municipality and  Shri Suman Shekhar, First Secretary, Embassy of India, Kathmandu jointly handed over the building.

Political representatives, government officials, social workers and teachers of the school, students and their parents were also present on this occasion.

The Government of India’s grant under ‘Nepal-India Development Cooperation’ has been utilised for the construction of the school building comprising class rooms, laboratory, computer room, staff room, administration section, principal’s room, library, accounts section and toilets for boys and girls, reads a statement issued by the Indian Embassy in Kathmandu.

The grant has also been utilised for the procurement of furniture and computers. The project was taken up as a High Impact Community Development   Project (HICDP) and was implemented through DCC Achham.

Shree Mahendra Secondary School was established in the year 1960 as a Secondary School and subsequently upgraded to Higher Secondary school.

Since 2003, Government of India has taken up over 573 HICDPs in Nepal in various sectors and has completed     495 projects. Amongst these, 43 projects are located in Sudurpashchim Province including Shree Mahendra Secondary School in Achham.

In addition to these, the Government of India has gifted 1009 ambulances and 300 school buses to various hospitals, health posts and educational institutions in Nepal. Amongst these,70 ambulances and 27 school buses have been gifted in Sudurpashchim Province. Out of these, 6 ambulances were gifted in Achham.

There is a possibility of light to moderate rain with thunder and lightning at a few places of Koshi, Madesh, Bagmati and Gandaki Provinces and at one or two places in the rest of the country today. 

This is due to the influence of westerly winds and local winds in the western and central parts of the country, while most parts of Koshi Province are under the influence of monsoon winds, according to the Department of Hydrology and Meteorology.

As a result, the weather will remain partly to generally cloudy in the hilly areas of Koshi, Madesh, Bagmati and Gandaki and mainly fair to partly cloudy in the rest of the country.

Tonight, the weather will remain partly to generally cloudy throughout the country. 

Light to moderate rain with thunder and lightning is possible at a few places of Koshi, Madesh, Bagmati and Gandaki Provinces and at one or two places in the rest of the country.

The Diamond Jubilee celebrations of the first ascent of Mt Annapurna have begun.

The celebration event was inaugurated by welcoming a team that trekked from Narchyang in Annapurna Rural Municipality-4 of Myagdi to the base camp of Mt Annapurna at the entry point of the trekking route, Narchyang Valley on Saturday.

Mathias Herzog the son of the first person to reach the summit of 8,091-meter-high Mt Annapurna, Maurice Herzog of France was part of a team of 14 foreigners, tourism entrepreneurs, and journalists who came to participate in the trekking team starting from Sunday. They were welcomed by the Annapurna Rural Municipality-4 Ward Office, Annapurna, Janajagaran Youth Club, and the Creative Mothers' Group.

French artists who came with Mathias Herzog made musical presentations in honour of the first climber. They are also scheduled to perform at the Annapurna Base Camp this evening. Six guests from France, three from Britain, five from India and one from Italy, including the son of the first climber Maurice, Mathias, and grandson Ethan Herzog, have come to participate in the Diamond Jubilee program at the invitation of the government, said Lok Bahadur Pun, Ward Chair of Annapurna Rural Municipality-4.

According to him, around 200 people are participating in the Maurice Herzog trekking team that will reach the Annapurna Base Camp at an altitude of 4,100 meters today via Narchyang valley, Humkhola, Phutphute Jharana, Sandhikharka, Bhusket, Panchkunda Lake.

The Diamond Jubilee will be celebrated by holding various programs until June 5, said Annapurna Rural Municipality Chair Bharat Kumar Pun.

Annapurna is called the eldest mountain because it was the first human step above eight thousand meters. On June 3, 1950, the French team of Maurice Herzog and Louis Lachenal reached the summit of Annapurna.

The Trump administration has ordered federal agencies to stop using race, sex, ethnicity, or national origin data in hiring, as part of efforts to eliminate diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs.

A memo from the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) directed agencies to base choices entirely on merit and job-related criteria, and prohibited the use and broadcast of demographic statistics in recruitment, Reuters reported.

The directive also promoted broader recruiting beyond elite institutions, including as public universities, vocational schools, and religious colleges.