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The Koshi Tappu Wildlife Reserve has collected Rs 4 million in revenue in the fiscal year 2023/24.

Assistant Conservation Officer of the Wildlife, Binaya Kumar Mishra, said that the revenue was collected from the royalty of jungle safari, eco-tourism, penalty, elephant riding and other titles.

The highest amount of revenue was collected from the tickets sold for the visitors there.

The eastern belt of the Wildlife Reserve has become a key destination for academic excursions.

The Wildlife Reserve charges Rs 750 in fees to the tourists visiting from SAARC member states while visitors from other countries should pay Rs 1,500 to visit the site for 12 hours.

President Ram Chandra Poudel has appointed Lieutenant General Ashok Raj Sigdel as the acting chief of the Nepal Army.

Sigdel has been appointed as the acting chief as the Incumbent Chief of Army Staff Prabhuram Sharma will retire after his three-year term comes to an end on September 9. There is a provision that the Chief of Army Staff goes on leave for one month before retirement.

Lieutenant General Sigdel has been designated as the acting chief, on the recommendation of the Council of Ministers on the basis of seniority, with effect from August 9, according to a statement issued by the spokesperson of the Office of the President, Shailaja Regmi Bhattarai.

A total of 172 people lost their lives to road accidents in the last fiscal year 2023/24 in Sudurpaschim Province.

Among them, 137 were male, 23 were female and 12 children, according to the Nepal Police's Highway Safety and Traffic Management Office, Attariya.

Spokesperson of the Office, DSP Anil Kumar Uprety shared that 536 were injured in the 309 road accidents in the same period. Among the vehicles meeting with the accidents, motorcycle related accidents were the highest at 207 followed by jeep/car at 40, bus at 24, tempo at 17, truck and tanker at 19, tipper at 9, micro bus 7, dozer at 3 and other types of vehicles.

The office has been organizing various awareness programs to sensitize people about traffic rules and road safety, said DSP Uprety, adding that 6,626 awareness programs and campaigns launched last fiscal year had benefitted 389,266.

The Office also took action against 73,479 drivers flaouting traffic rules. Traffic police collected over Rs 48.8 million in revenue from the fine slapped on the erring drivers, informed DSP Uprety.

In the previous fiscal year, 177 people died in 255 road accidents leaving 473 injured, it was shared.

Police have arrested a person for teasing and abusing an air hostess in the aircraft of Shree Airlines heading to Dhangadhi from Kathmandu.

Airport police apprehended Shivaraj Ojha of Godawari Municipality-1, Kailali on Tuesday and handed over to the District Police Office, Kailali.

Police nabbed him soon after he landed at the Dhangadhi airport.