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Teaching and learning activities have been affected after the landslide triggered by incessant rainfall buried school buildings in Parbat.

The landslide buried two buildings of Thapathana Secondary School at Falebas Municipality-2. The landslide that came from around 50 meters above the school buried the buildings.

School headmaster Bishnu Prasad Sharma informed that though the landslide buried three rooms, teaching and learning activities were being conducted in the other eight rooms of the school.

The landslide had caused damage to the building on July 1 also. The landslide occurred in the same place after August 7, 2023 triggered further damage.

The landslide has gradually buried the threshold of the school. "There is no situation to keep students in all eight rooms", he said.

Teaching and learning activities are being conducted from primary level to grade eight. As many as 240 students are studying in the school now.

"There is every likelihood that the landslide may occur anytime and cause damage to the school", Sharma added. "We are compelled to keep the students of grades two and three together in one place".

Santosh Rijal, the school teacher, said the breakdown of the edge of the newly-constructed Naudanda-Karkineta-Falebas-Jaimuni road has caused damage to two-three rooms of the school.

Thapathana is the school having the highest number of students in Falebas Municipality.

The grade improvement exam of class 12 is set to take place on September 22-23.

The exam is to be held for the students who obtained examination results as non-grading.

Chairperson of National Examinations Board, Dr Mahashram Sharma informed that the grade improvement exam is going to be conducted only for the students obtaining non-grade in the grade 12 examinations.

In the previous years, there was an arrangement that the students were eligible to participate in grade improvement exams the same year if having non-grade in up to two subjects and in case of non-grade in more than two subjects the 12th grader had to attend exams of all subjects next year.

He said the arrangement has been changed from this year onward in which the student with non-grade in the subjects can appear in the exam of the same subjects only.

Chairperson Sharma informed that a total of 123,396 students can participate in the grade improvement examinations according to the results of this year.

Among them, 79,584 students were with non-grade in only one subject.

As per the letter grading directive, non-grading refers to the attainment of below 35 percent score in any subject.

The students with non-grading will not be considered eligible for higher education or upper classes without participating in the grade improvement exam.  

An Air India flight that was about to fly to New Delhi suffered a technical problem on Tuesday.

The Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal said that the aircraft that was about to take off from the TIA suffered a technical problem this afternoon.

TIA spokesperson Subash Jha said that the problem was seen in the brakes of the aircraft.

“A tractor pulled the aircraft from the runway and brought it to the parking area,” he said.

Domestic and international flights have been affected after the Air India flight suffered a technical problem on the runway.

The aircrafts were forced to remain on hold in the sky.

Three Chinese nationals have been arrested in connection with the recent gold smuggling case on Tuesday.

A team of the Central Investigation Bureau nabbed the trio while they were about to board a flight to China from the Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA).

The team had also recovered Rs 3.1 million in cash from their possession.

According to a CIB source, three Chinese nationals were apprehended in connection with the gold smuggling case earlier also.

But they were released later due to lack of evidence.

So far, police have detained 23 persons including Indian, Chinese and Nepali nationals in connection with the gold smuggling case.

The Department of Revenue Investigation on June 18 had seized around one quintal gold that had passed the airport customs undetected.