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Cases of dengue and scrub typhus are on the rise in Khotang district, according to the District Health Office (DHO), Khotang. 

Altogether 12 dengue cases and 14 scrub typhus cases were detected in the district in the month of Shrawan alone. 

According to Jivan Prasad Chaulagain, Chief of the DHO, two patients infected with each- of dengue and scrub typhus- were referred to Kathmandu for further treatment. The health condition of the infected ones is gradually improving, he said.

The district having 10 local levels is witnessing an increasing number of mosquito-borne infection and bacterial infection in the recent days with six men and six women infected with dengue and nine men and five women down with scrub typhus. 

While some patients returned home upon recovery, some are still undergoing treatment in the District Hospital, said Dr Rupesh Sangraula, Chief of the District Hospital in Khotang. 

According to him, cases of dengue and scrub typhus are common in the monsoon season. He, however, expressed concern that the Hospital lacks facilities to treat severe cases. 

There is also a surge of patients with ailments other than dengue and scrub typhus in the District Hospital, informed Dr Sangraula, adding that around 150-200 patients visit the Hospital on a daily basis.

“We are facing problems in rendering services to the patients in lack of necessary equipment and adequate beds," added Sangraula. 

In view of rising cases of dengue and scrub typhus in the district, an all-party meeting convened in Diktel on Sunday decided to launch a 'Larvae Search and Destroy' campaign in all 10 local levels. As a preventive measure, the infection-bearing mosquito larvae will be searched and perished.

The Narayangadh-Muglin road section, which was opened for traffic after clearing the landslide debris earlier today, has been blocked again following a landslide. 

The road section near Tuinkhola in Ichchhakamana Rural Municipality-5 of Chitwan was obstructed due to the landslide at around 9:30 am, police mentioned.

Earlier, the road was cleared for traffic from 8 am by clearing the road obstructions caused due to the landslide. 

According to Rabindra Khanal, the Information Officer of the District Police Office, Chitwan, the road section was blocked again after the landslide occurred in the same place.

DSP Khanal shared that works are underway to remove the landslide debris. 

Vehicles including their passengers have remained stranded there at present.

At least four people were killed and many others were injured due to flooding caused by a cloudburst in a remote village in Jammu and Kashmir's Kathua district, officials said on Sunday, NDTV reported.

The cloudburst struck a village in Janglote during the intervening night of Saturday and Sunday.

Union Minister Jitendra Singh, who is a member of Parliament from Jammu and Kashmir's Udhampur, said a railway track, the National Highway-44 and a police station were also damaged in the cloudburst, according to NDTV.

A man and his wife were electrocuted at Pipara in Kanchanrup Municipality-5 of Saptari on Sunday. 

The deceased have been identified as Badri Sardar (50) and his wife Bimala Devi (45), said Madhav Prasad Kafle, Deputy Superintendent of Police of the Area Police Office, Kanchanpur.

Mahendra Sardar of Pipara, Kanchanrup-5, had installed a live electric wire to protect the paddy crop from elephants. The Sardar couple died after falling on the same exposed wire. 

They were going to their farmland about 150 meters east of their house, when the incident took place early this morning, according to the police.