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The 79th United Nations General Assembly begins in New York tomorrow.

The UNGA is taking place this year from 10th to 30th September under the theme 'Leaving no one behind: acting together for the advancement of peace, sustainable development and human dignity for present and future generations'.

Although the General Assembly starts tomorrow, the high-level general discussion will be held from September 24. According to the UNGA agenda, the discussion will be held until September 28 and will conclude on September 30.

As per agenda shared, the head of the Nepali delegation, Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli, will address the General Assembly on September 26.

Heads of state and government of the world will participate in the General Assembly in various stages of discussion focusing on the complex situation of the war that has emerged globally and its impact on the world, post-COVID inflation and poverty, climate change and the sustainable development goals.

According to the New York-based Nepali Mission, Nepal will also give high priority to participation in high-level political forums and discussions with its development partners in the sideline meetings.

Nepal has also given high priority to work according to its commitment to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.

As a result, Nepal will inform the global community about its achievements in the SDGss so far in the 'Summit of the Future 2024', which is taking place in New York from September 22 to 23.

A total of 1,065 people have been infected with dengue in Koshi Province in the past two years.

During this period, two people died in Jhapa due to dengue infection. Bimala Dahal Paudel (42) of Haldibari-3 and eight-year-old Alok Jung Basnet of Birtamod-4 have died of dengue in Jhapa, according to Birendra Das, dengue focal person of the health office.

The number of people infected with dengue has reached 128 people in Jhapa in the past two months.

Koshi, Morang tops the list of infected with 532 followed by Jhapa, Dhankuta and Sunsari at 81, 80 and 70 respectively.

According to Surakchya Khatri, Focal Person of Health Directorate, Dhankuta, 69 in Udayapur, 68 in Bhojpur, 67 in Sankhuwasabha, 29 in Okhaldhunga, 21 in Panchthar, six in Solukhumbu, five in Ilam, four in Khotang and two in Terhathum have been infected with dengue.

In Jhapa district, 22 people have been infected with dengue in Damak, seven in Haldibari and five in Bhadrapur.

The construction of the Chilime-Trishuli 220 kV transmission line has reached the final phase of completion.

This transmission line is considered as important in feeding the electricity generated from the under-construction and to be constructed hydroelectricity projects being developed along the Trishuli river corridor and its tributaries to the national grid.

Final phase works are in progress for the construction of the 28 kilometers transmission line from Chilime Hub Substation at Thambuchet of Aama Chhodingmo Rural Municipality in Rasuwa to the Trishuli Three B Hub Substation at Pahirebensi of Kispang Rural Municipality in Nuwakot district.

Works are progressing to complete the construction and bring the transmission line into operation before the Dashain festival.

The construction of the 220/132/33 kV Chilime Hub and Trishuli Three B Hub substations under the Chilime-Trishuli 220 kV Transmission Line Project has been completed. Seventy-five of the 76 towers of the transmission line have been constructed and works on installing the remaining tower have reached the final stage.

Installation of power cable remains only in the five kilometers of the total 28 kilometers transmission line. Two hundred workers are employed for installing the tower and the power cables.

A high-level team of Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA), including Executive Director Kulman Ghising and Deputy Executive Director of the Transmission Directorate, Dirghayu Kumar Shrestha, carried out a field-level monitoring of the construction on Saturday.

The high-level team has fixed the deadline for the construction well before the Dashain festival (October 12, 2024).

The NEA high-level team held discussions with the Project management, consultant and the contractor company and urged them not to allow any delay in the construction works, expedite the construction by adding workers and to carry out works by preparing a timetable for accomplishing the remaining works within the deadline.

The team also inspected the site where works are in progress for installing the last remaining tower and the power cables.

The electricity produced from the 110 MW Rasuwagadhi and 42.5 MW Sanjen hydroelectricity projects developed at the initiatives of Chilime Hydroelectricity Company, a subsidiary company of NEA, would be fed to this transmission line.

Construction of both projects is over and they are in the phase of production.

The NEA is under pressure to complete the transmission line construction at the earliest due to this reason as well.

A couple went missing after a landslide buried their house at Dhuma in Barekot Rural Municipality-6, Jajarkot on Sunday.

Prem Kumari, a ward member of the rural municipality, and her husband Man Bahadur Chalune were buried in the landslide at around 2 am today.

Their 11-year-old daughter was rescued in an injured condition.

She has been taken to a local hospital in Limsa.

Police with the help of locals are searching for the missing couple, it has been learnt.