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The Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) has urged the metropolis denizens not to burn plastic waste in open places.

The metropolitan city has urged the people not to burn waste indiscriminately as the smoke from burning plastic waste is harmful to human health.

Sarita Rai, Head of the KMC's Environment Management Department, said the polluted air is harmful mostly to children, senior citizens, and people suffering from respiratory and heart issues.

He urged the people of the metropolis to dispose of all kinds of waste in the KMC vehicles coming to collect garbage.

Department Chief Rai also urged the industries to comply with the 'Pollution Control Standards- 2081 BS'.

The National Examination Board has decided to hold the Grade 12 exams.

Amid growing uncertainty over whether the Grade 12 exams will be held on time owing to the teachers' protest, a meeting of the National Examination Board held this morning has decided to hold the Grade 12 exams as scheduled.  

But the agitating teachers have been saying that they would not participate in the Grade 12 exams.

The Nepal Teachers Federation had also appealed to the principals, teachers and staffers to not take part in the Grade 12 exams.

Board Chairman Mahashram Sharma informed that the meeting has decided to request all the concerned sides to help in conducting the exams.

He said that the meeting has also decided to urge the teachers to present themselves responsibly as exams are a sensitive issue.

“We are in a discussion. We will urge the teachers to present themselves responsibly as the exams are a sensitive issue. The Grade 12 exams will be held on time,” Sharma said.

The government is preparing to conduct the Grade 12 exams from April 24 by deploying civil servants even if the teachers do not participate in the exams.

The exams of 550, 000 students will be uncertain if the exams are affected by the protests of teachers.

The protests have even delayed the results of Secondary Education Examination (SEE) and affected the new admission process.

Alphabet's Google needs strong measures imposed on it to prevent it from using its artificial intelligence products to extend its dominance in online search, a U.S. Department of Justice attorney said as a trial in the historic antitrust case began on Monday, Reuters reported.

The outcome of the case could fundamentally reshape the internet by unseating Google as the go-to portal for information online.

The Justice Department is seeking an order that would require Google to sell its Chrome browser and take other measures to end what a judge found was its monopoly in online search. Prosecutors have compared the lawsuit to past cases that resulted in the break up of AT&T and Standard Oil, according to Reuters.

Instagram is beginning to test the use of artificial intelligence to determine if kids are lying about their ages on the app, parent company Meta Platforms said on Monday, Associated Press reported.

Meta has been using AI to determine people’s ages for some time, the company said, but photo and video-sharing app will now “proactively” look for teen accounts it suspects belong to teenagers even if they entered an inaccurate birthdate when they signed up. 

If it is determined that a user is misrepresenting their age, the account will automatically become a teen account, which has more restrictions than an adult account. Teen accounts are private by default. Private messages are restricted so teens can only receive them from people they follow or are already connected to. “Sensitive content,” such as videos of people fighting or those promoting cosmetic procedures, will be limited, Meta said, according to Associated Press.

Teens will also get notifications if they are on Instagram for more than 60 minutes and a “sleep mode” will be enabled that turns off notifications and sends auto-replies to direct messages from 10 p.m. until 7 a.m.