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TikTok is profiting from sexual livestreams performed by teens as young as 15, according to BBC.

We spoke to three women in Kenya who said they began this activity as teenagers. They told us they used TikTok to openly advertise and negotiate payment for more explicit content that would be sent via other messaging platfor.ms, BBC reporting says

TikTok bans solicitation but the company knows it takes place, moderators have told the BBC. TikTok takes a cut of about 70% from all livestream transactions, we have previously found.

TikTok told the BBC it has "zero tolerance for exploitation".

Livestreams from Kenya are popular on TikTok - each night over the course of a week, we found up to a dozen in which women performers danced suggestively, watched by hundreds of people around the world, according to the report.

The Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation has allocated Rs 10 million for the Tarigaun Airport in Tulsipur, Dang.

Tulsipur Sub-Metropolitan City's Deputy Mayor Syani Chaudhary said the Ministry has written to the Ministry of Finance to ensure an additional budget of Rs 990 million.

Established in 2011 BS, the airport is unable to land even large aircraft.

At present, the airport is 750 meters long. If it can be increased to 1,500 meters, a 72-seater aircraft can land.

Now only 19-seater aircraft can land at the airport.

Chaudhary said that preparations have been made to initiate the work. saying the small aircrafts have not been able to reap benefits.

Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli had visited the airport a few days ago.

The participants, shareholders and employees of the Citizen Investment Trust (CIT) are entitled to get 10 percent discount in the 'Paying Clinic, Silver, Golden and Platinum Corporate Cardiac Package' of Shahid Gangalal National Heart Center.

The agreement was signed by Executive Director Parbat Kumar Karki on behalf of the CIT and Executive Director Dr Rabi Malla on behalf of the Center on Sunday.

With the agreement in place, members, participants, shareholders and employees of the CIT will now get the discount.

For the discount, it has been made mandatory to submit the CIT identity card or participant identity card.

The rhino census, which is conducted every five years, has become uncertain due to lack of budget.

This year, there has been a shortage of budget for conducting rhino count as it has been done depending on funding from donors.

The Department of National Parks and Wildlife Conservation has been conducting rhino census in collaboration with various agencies working with the park.

Department's ecologist and information officer Haribhadra Acharya said that an agreement had been reached with USAID's 'Jal Jungle project' for the purchase of the necessary equipment for conducting the rhino census, but the census has become uncertain now that the project is suspended.

The project had already started the process of procuring materials by issuing a tender notice. The project was to bear the expenses of GPS equipment, laptops, large cooking utensils, tents and other materials required during the census inside the park.

"The project was supposed to provide materials worth Rs 5 million. It is estimated that around Rs 15 million would be required to complete the census," he said.

Preparations were made to conduct the census in partnership with the World Wildlife Fund Nepal, ZSL Nepal, National Trust for Nature Conservation and other organizations.

According to him, the rhino census has to be done by mid-April. Preparations were made to conduct the census from March 18 to April 7 and release the results by the second week of April.

"The census can't be beyond mid-April. The preparations for it take at least 10 days,” he explained.

Acharya, the Department's Information Officer, said that the department's census program would be affected as the project of the donor agency was suspended in the last hour.

Director General of the Department, Dr Ram Chandra Kandel, said that the suspension of the donor support has affected the counting during the final preparations.

He added that the rhino census could be conducted if the budget is received after discussing the matter with the ministry or else, they will be forced to suspend it.

The tiger census will have to be carried out next year and he said that it would be easier to conduct the tiger census next year if rhino count could be done this year as it would not be possible to conduct both censuses at the same time.

Although the rhinos are being monitored, the census has to be done to find out their exact number and condition. The last rhino census was conducted in 2021.

The census will make it easy to determine the number of rhinos inhabiting a particular area and to manage it.

The endangered one-horned rhino is found in Chitwan, Parsa, Bardiya and Shukla Phanta national parks. The Chitwan National Park has the highest number of rhinos at 694 as per the 2021 census. The number of rhinos in Nepal has reached 752.