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Four people have lost their lives to diarrhea in Narainapur.  Likewise, other seven have fallen ill due to diarrhea that broke out at Gegli Village in Narainapur Rural Municipality-3 of Banke district.

The deceased have been identified as 25-year-old Rusa Pasi, his one-and-a-half-year-old daughter Nandini Pasi, 60-year-old Shanti Pasi and 10-year-old Yusuf Ali of Gegal, said Narainapur-3 ward chair Ajay Mishra.

Chief of the Health Section at Narainapur Rural Municipality, Nagendra Kumar Saha informed that diarrhea has been broken out at Gegli, a village bordering India.

"A team of health workers has reached the village and is providing treatment to the patients," he said. Coordination has also been made with the Health Office, Banke to control diarrhea, according to health workers.

The health workers said that the diarrheal outbreak might have been caused by impure drinking water.

Kushe Aunshi, a Hindu religious festival, is being observed across the country on Monday by bringing kush, a holy grass used in the performance of various religious rituals, into their homes.

There is a religious belief that keeping kush cut by the priests and anointed with sacred verses or mantras in the house brings wellbeing to the household.

The Hindu community regards kush, Tulashi (basil plant), peepal and shaligram (ammonite stone) as the symbols of Lord Bishnu.

The day is also celebrated as Father's Day or Gorkarna Aunsi.

People across the country celebrate this day by showing respect and reverence to fathers. On this day, children feed their fathers delicious food items including sweets and show respect to them.

Those who have lost their fathers take an early bath and visit nearby temples to perform shraddha (annual death rituals) in honor of the departed souls. Children also take blessings from their living fathers.

Meanwhile, people have thronged the Gokarneshwor Temple in the capital and other various Hindu temples across the country since this morning to perform the shraddha in memory of their late fathers.

The Food Technology and Quality Control (FTQC) Office, Hetauda has sued 44 business firms and individuals in Fiscal Year 2023/24 for various trade-related offences including selling substandard and date-expired food.

Cases have been filed against seven business firms and traders in Makawanpur, 24 in Kathmandu, five in Chitwan and eight in Dhulikhel based on varied offences established through lab tests of the samples collected by the Office and various division offices last fiscal year. Cases have been filed against them under the Food Purity and Quality Act.

Accordingly, cases have been filed at the District Court concerned against 32 business firms and at the District Administration Office concerned against 12 individuals for selling contaminated and date-expired food items, said Kashinath Ghimire, Chief of the FTQC Office Hetauda.

Ghimire said that the Office tested and analyzed 2,738 samples last fiscal year.

Molasses worth Rs 150 million have been exported to Bangladesh in Fiscal Year 2023/24 via the Kakadbhitta transit point in Koshi Province.

Subash Pandeya, Chief of Nepal Transit and Warehousing Company Limited, Kakadbhitta Branch Office, said 9741.65 metric tons of molasses was exported to Bangladesh last fiscal year. He said 3,555.6 metric tons of molasses worth Rs 53.19 million has been exported via Kakadbhitta transit until August 30 of the current fiscal year 2024/25 beginning July 16.

Trader and clearing agent Nabin Dahal said that the export of molasses to Bangladesh has increased in the wake of India imposing a 50 percent tax on the export of molasses from there. He said the export of molasses to Bangladesh from Nepal is likely to surge in future with India imposing higher tax on its export.

Pandeya, the Chief of Nepal Transit and Warehousing Company Limited, Kakadbhitta Branch Office, said that trade is carried out with Bangladesh from the Nepal's eastern transit point Kakadbhitta through Fulbari in West Bengal, India and Banglabandh, the northern transit  point of Bangladesh.