Submit your Article

Police have arrested an inmate who escaped from the central jail during the Gen-Z Protest on September 9.

Subin Gurung (22) of Siranchowk Rural Municipality-8 in Gorkha district, currently living in Tarakeshwor in Kathmandu, was apprehended from Manamaiju area, Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Shiva Kumar Shrestha said. 

Gurung was charged with smuggling and poaching of wildlife.

Biratnagar is preparing to organize its international ‘Birat Trade Expo-2025’ at Shanti Chowk, Biratnagar Metropolitan City-2. The Morang Industry and Trade Association has intensified preparations for the trade fair.

Preparations are underway to hold the trade fair from Dec 24-Jan 3. The association has given detailed information about the preparations, objectives and potential impact of the expo through a press conference held in Biratnagar on Monday. Association President Anupam Rathi informed that the expo is being organized grandly with the aim of energizing economic activities, promoting domestic products and connecting them with the international market. The expo will have 230 stalls including hangar structures prepared using German technology. Rathi said that more than 80 percent of the stalls have been booked.

Rathi informed that products of Nepal’s domestic, small, medium and large industries, agricultural products, industrial materials, education, health, information technology, tourism and service sector related materials will be exhibited. In addition, products from neighboring countries including India, Bangladesh, Pakistan will also be exhibited. Rathi says that it is expected to expand direct cooperation between producers and consumers.

According to him, the association, which is also a founding member of the Federation of Nepalese Chambers of Commerce and Industry, has a history of continuously contributing to the protection of the rights and interests of industrialists and entrepreneurs, diversification of economic activities and building a self-respecting economy.

Earlier, the association has successfully completed the Koshi Festival-1996, the Eastern Industrial Trade Fair-2000, the Birat Festival-2005 and 2013 the Birat Trade Expo-2018 and 2022 and the Morang Trade Association Expo-2023. The organizers claim that this year’s expo is being organized with the aim of breaking the economic stagnation seen after the GenZ movement and infusing new energy into the market.

Seminars and discussion programs on startups, small and medium enterprises, tourism, information technology, cyber security, tax and accounting systems, and women’s entrepreneurship will be organized throughout the expo.

The organizers believe that this will provide new entrepreneurs with opportunities to start businesses and existing entrepreneurs with new opportunities for expansion. There will be performances by famous national artists to entertain the audience. The fair will have a kids zone, selfie zone, fish and mermaid tunnels, recreational play equipment, and an attractive entrance based on Nepali artwork. The organizers estimate that more than 200,000 visitors will visit the fair directly. The organizers expect a turnover of Rs 250m to 300m from the expo, which is estimated to cost Rs 25m.

After 12 years of the arrival of health equipment, the NICU service has finally come into operation at the Provincial Hospital Bhadrapur. With the start of the NICU service, the poor and needy families who came to the hospital to deliver their babies have also been forced to go to private hospitals.

Before the operation of the four-bed NICU service, the acting medical superintendent of the hospital, Dr Sanjay Kumar Gupta, performed a special prayer on Monday morning. After that, the chairman of the Hospital Operation and Management Committee, Bishwanath Baral, and the mayor of Bhadrapur Municipality, Ganesh Pokharel, jointly inaugurated the NICU service room.

The Ministry of Health and Population had provided health equipment to the hospital in two phases in 2013 with the aim of facilitating the treatment of newborns. However, the NICU service could not be put into operation due to lack of manpower. Acting Medical Superintendent Dr Sanjay Kumar Gupta said that the NICU service was brought into operation after the Ministry of Health of the Koshi Province Government provided manpower.

The NICU requires four pediatricians, nine nursing staff, four office assistants and four security guards. Stating that the NICU room has now been brought into operation near the children’s ward of the old building with the addition of that manpower, Dr Gupta said, “Now complex maternity services are possible and when there was no NICU, such patients had to be referred elsewhere.”

“My first goal after taking charge of the hospital was to resume services from the new building and to the NICU equipment stored in the hospital's warehouse into use and resuming services which has been achieved”, he said.

He added that other services are being gradually added to the hospital in recent times so that they are not deprived of services and do not have to go elsewhere. The monthly cost of operating this service is Rs 9-100,000. Since they are kept on trial for three weeks, the service for patients with social security is free. He said that the service fee will be fixed as per the decision of the management committee.

The Gen Z Joint Group on Monday sent a demand letter to Prime Minister Sushila Karki through the post office in Dilli Bazaar being unable to enter Singha Durbar to submit their list of demands.