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The District Administration Office, Chitwan has directed the education consultancies and institutions facilitating foreign services to close their services within two weeks if they have not received permission for running business. 

Issuing a notice, the education consultancies and foreign employment service centers have been reminded of the rule that they must take permission from the authorized agencies and renew on time for running their services, otherwise such facilities must be closed down. 

Assistant Chief District Officer Chiranjivi Sharma issued the notice, informing that complaints were lodged that such facilities were running regularly as visa processing institutes and even falsely assuring of foreign jobs. 

He further warned of legal action to those ignoring the direction. 

Police have seized illegally imported goods worth Rs 1.15 million in Rupandehi on Sunday. 

DSP Krishna Kumar Chand, Information Officer at the District Police Office, Rupandehi said that the goods that were imported by avoiding customs points were seized during the security checks in different places of the district. 

The wildfire destroyed more than 330 hectares of forest area in Jumla in the last fiscal year. 

Chief of Division Forest Office Bharat Budhthapa said that the wildfires that occurred in 29 sites in the district destroyed 330.28 hectares of forest area in Jumla.

Likewise, wildfires have occurred in six locations in the district, destroying nearly 100 hectares of forest, according to Chief of Division Forest Office Budhthapa.  

Currently, the Office is observing a weeklong program to control fires in partnership with three layers of government and the community.

The Office also organized an interaction program with the forest security coordination committee and stakeholders for effective measures to control forest fires. 

On the occasion, Assistant Chief District Officer of Jumla Min Bahadur Rawal said that the role of the community was crucial in forest conservation.

The highland in Bajura district has received rain coupled with snowfall since last night. 

The upper part of the district has witnessed snowfall for the second time in the past one and a half months.

Snowfall has occurred in the highlands of Badimalika, Budhiganga, Triveni, Budhinanda, Himali, Khaptad Chhededaha, Gaumul, Swamikartik and Jagannath. 

The farmers in the villages have expressed happiness hoping for good agricultural production after the rain and snowfall. 

Chief of Agriculture Knowledge Center Jasiram Sahani said that the production of winter crops could grow after the rain and snowfall.