Submit your Article

The Nepal Airlines Corporation (NAC) has started operating flights from the Tarigaun Airport.

NAC Tulsipur Section Chief, Bal Bahadur Sunar informed that the Corporation has been operating flights from the Tarigaun Airport in Tulsipur-12 five days a week based on the demand of passengers.

According to him, flights are being operated on five other days in the week except Wednesday and Saturday.

Due to lack of regular air service at Tarigaun, passengers had to go to Nepalgunj or Bhairahawa.

Also, the runway of the airport is small, so large aircraft have not been able to land. Currently, only a 19-seat aircraft can land at the airport.

The runway of the airport is now 750 meters long. There have been repeated calls to extend the runway.

This airport was built in 2011 BS.

A person died and six others were injured when an ambulance and school van collided with each other at Dumkauli Chowk in Devchuli Municipality-2, Nawalpur on Monday.

The ambulance (Na 4 Cha 1646), carrying a patient, heading towards Narayangarh from Butwal collided head-on with the van (Ba 20 Cha 72) this morning, DSP Madhu Nepal said.

School van driver Kul Prasad Subedi (52) of Devchuli Municipality-1, who was critically injured in the incident, breathed his last during the course of treatment at the Old Medical College, Bharatpur, Chitwan, Nepal informed.

Laxmi Rai (36), Ishu Rai (25) and Sneha Pariyar (25) of Golpark, Butwal Sub-Metropolitan City-3, Rupandehi, who were travelling in the ambulance were injured in the accident.

They have been sent to Chitwan for treatment, police said.

Similarly, two students—Ayusha Gautam (10) and Sokhniya Roka (6)—who were in the school van sustained minor injuries. They have returned home after receiving primary treatment at the local Bhabisya Polyclinic, according to police.

Further investigation into the incident is underway.

Transport entrepreneurs have announced an indefinite transport strike across the country starting today.

Transport operators decided to halt public transport services across the country from today at the call of  Public Transport Protection Struggle Committee.

As a result, normal life across the country including Kathmandu Valley has been affected since this morning.

Police have been mobilised after the transport operators blocked the road at Koteshwor-Jadibuti area.

Transport entrepreneurs enforced vehicular strike demanding that the new regulations on ride-hailing and self-driving rentals introduced by the Gandaki Province Government be repealed.

Saying that the government’s decision will weaken the public transport services, Yogendra Bahadur KC, Secretary at the National Federation of Nepal Transport Entrepreneurs urged the government to roll back its decision at the earliest.

Meanwhile, the Joint People's Movement Committee, which has been protesting demanding the restoration of the monarchy and the Hindu state, has withdrawn its Kathmandu Valley bandh program.

The Department of Hydrology and Meteorology, through its Meteorological Forecasting Division, has stated that the monsoon, which entered Nepal 15 days earlier than the average date, will now remain inactive for the next seven days.

The monsoon that entered from the east of Nepal on Thursday night has spread over most of the Koshi Province , and there is a possibility of reduced rainfall and increased heat as it is likely to remain inactive for about a week, according to the Division.

Meteorologist Hari Prasad Dahal at the Division stated that with the monsoon spreading in the Koshi Province from Monday becoming dormant for a few days, it is predicted that rainfall will decrease.

"Although the average date for the onset of the monsoon in Nepal is June 13, the monsoon has already entered from the eastern region of Nepal on May 29, and it is yet to spread to the remaining areas. It is seen that the monsoon will be inactive for the next week,” he said.

The heavy rainfall that occurred in the eastern region of the country on the day the monsoon arrived has also triggered flooding and landslides, causing damage to infrastructures.

The Department's hydrologist Binod Parajuli informed that more than 200 millimeters of rain occurred in the eastern region on the very day the monsoon arrived. 

He mentioned that due to the increase in water level in the river caused by the rainfall, some areas have been flooded.