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A three-day holiday has been declared in community and institutional schools in Nepalgunj due to the increasing cold.

The schools will be closed from today till January 24, said Gorkha Bahadur Thapa, Head of the Nepalgunj Sub-Metropolitan City's Education, Youth and Sports Division.

He said this holiday has been given due to the excessive cold condition and it would be adjusted from the monsoon holidays.

It is difficult to run classes in schools due to the cold wave.

According to him, parents had also been informally requesting the schools and the local government for giving holiday in view of the excessive cold weather. 

In order to draw the attention of the international community toward the adverse impact of climate change in the Himalayas, Nepal has decided to organize Sagarmatha Sambaad, a global dialogue, on May 16-18 in Kathmandu.

Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli made this announcement at a special function organized in Singhadurbar in the presence of Minister for Foreign Affairs Arzu Rana Deuba and other high-level government officials. According to officials, the government plans to organize Sagarmatha Sambaad every two years to highlight key issues facing the country.

The theme for this year’s dialogue is ‘Climate Change, Mountains and the Future of Humanity’ and PM Oli has requested the international community to take part in the dialogue. Nepal plans to invite high-level government officials, representatives from multilateral organizations and other climate stakeholders for the dialogue.

Over the years, Nepal has tried to draw the attention of the international community toward the adverse impact of climate change on her Himalayas and beyond, with little success. 

Nepal’s snow-capped mountains have shed a considerable mass of ice due to global warming, adversely impacting biodiversity, local communities, livelihoods and accentuating risks of water supply disruptions. The dialogue was initially planned in 2019 when KP Oli was in power, only to be postponed at the 11th hour due to the covid-19 pandemic. Successive governments after 2019 did not take any initiative to organize such a dialogue.

This dialogue, if it materializes, will be the first global dialogue with Nepal as the host at a time when countries across the world are organizing their own dialogues to raise their agendas in the global arena. 

According to government officials, it is a multi-stakeholder dialogue forum committed to deliberating on the most prominent issues of global, regional and national significance. The dialogue is named after the world's tallest mountain Sagarmatha (Mt Everest), which is a symbol of friendship and is meant to promote the notions of common good and collective well-being of humanity, which relies heavily on freshwater sources like Sagarmatha and other Himalayas for survival.  

As many as 14,000 adolescent girl students in Tanahun district will be vaccinated against cervical cancer.

A total of 14,278 girl students studying in all 10 local schools of the district will be vaccinated against HPV.

Chief of the District Health Office, Shankar Babu Adhikari informed that the HPV vaccination campaign will be conducted on February 4-12.

In the first phase, the campaign will be conducted in Byas Municipality, Bhanu Municipality, Devghat, Bandipur and Abukhaireni Rural Municipalities from February 4-7, while in the second phase, the vaccination campaign will be conducted in Shuklagandaki Municipality, Bhimad Municipality, Myagde, Rishing and Ghiring Rural Municipalities during February 9-12.

A total of 14,278 girl students including 14,078 school-going from grade 6 to 10 and 200 non-school going students will be vaccinated, Adhikari informed. 

The Department of Hydrology and Meteorology said presently the country has witnessed partial impact of westerly low-pressure system.

The weather is partly cloudy in the hilly regions of Karnali and Sudurpaschim Provinces and fair in the rest of the country.

Also, there is fog in many parts of the Tarai.

According to the Meteorological Forecasting Division, the weather will be partly to generally cloudy in the hilly regions of Gandaki, Karnali and Sudurpaschim Provinces and fair in the rest of the country this afternoon.

There is a possibility of light snowfall at one or two places of the high hilly and mountainous region of Karnali and Sudurpaschim provinces.

Similarly, the weather will be partly to generally cloudy in the hilly regions of Gandaki, Karnali and Sudurpaschim provinces tonight.

Light snowfall is likely to occur at a few places of the high hilly and mountainous regions of Karnali and Sudurpaschim provinces and at one or two places of the high hilly and mountainous regions of Gandaki province.

In the next 24 hours, there is a possibility of light snowfall at some places of the high hilly and mountainous regions of Karnali and Sudurpaschim Provinces and one or two places of the high hilly and mountainous region of Gandaki Province.