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Police have arrested a person with foreign currencies from the Tribhuvan International Airport on Wednesday.

Anish Thapa (24) of Tulsipur, Tilottama Municipality-9, Rupandehi was rounded up with USD 41, 400, Saudi riyal 119, 500, Omani riyal 1, 357 and Bahrain dinar 308 from the TIA last night.

Thapa was apprehended during a regular security check while he was about to board a flight of Himalayan Airlines to Dubai from Kathmandu.

Police said that Thapa had wrapped the foreign currencies with the plastic inside the luggage and hidden them between the noodles.

During the investigation and interrogation, police came to know that Dipesh Rana (38) of Tilottama Municipality-9, Rupandehi among others had given the currencies to Thapa.

Later, police nabbed Rana and three others while they were staying in a vehicle Bagmati Province-01-027 Cha 6266 from the parking area of Tribhuvan International Airport.

They have been taken to the Metropolitan Police Circle, Gaushala for investigation.

The District Police Range, Kathmandu has arrested 1,995 convicts in different dates.

In the fiscal year 2079/80 BS, the Kathmandu Police arrested 1,995 absconding individuals who were sentenced imprisonment and punishment for being involved in different criminal activities.

Spokesperson of the District Police Range, Kathmandu, SP Sitaram Rijal said that the police arrested absconding 1,995 convicts and handed them over to the courts for the execution of judicial decisions.

The court had slapped those arrested with imprisonment of up to 176 years, seven months and 30 days. Nepal Police claimed jail sentence along with over Rs 128.79 million from them, spokesperson Rijal added.

Likewise, as many as 23,590 individuals who have been on the run after being convicted of crime by the courts in different dates are yet to be arrested, the Kathmandu Police informed.

The Revenue Investigation Department has arrested six persons so far in connection with around 100 kg gold seizure case.

The suspects have been identified as Ram Kumar Bhujel (53) of Swoyambhu, Kathmandu, Dilip Bhujel (21) of Melung Rural Municipality-3 and currently residing in Sankhu, Harka Raj Rai (49) of Arun Rural Municipality-4, Jhapa and presently living in Budhanilkantha, Indian national Thapthen Tsering (53), customs agent Rajendra Rai and a taxi driver, Revenue Investigation Department spokesperson Nawaraj Adhikari said.

He said that they are yet to weigh all the gold.

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“Acting on a tip off, we conducted a special operation and recovered 80 to 100 kg gold,” Department Director General Nawaraj Dhungana said, adding, “This may be the largest amount of gold recovered in Nepal so far.”

Police said that the gold, passed undetected through the Customs Office of the Tribhuvan International Airport, arrived in Kathmandu on Tuesday's Cathay Pacific flight.

The gold was brought in Kathmandu by concealing in the brake shoes of motorbikes and scooters.

A total of 159 cattle died due to lumpy skin disease in Rasuwa district.

The lumpy skin disease has been broken out in all five rural municipalities of the district. Among them, Gosainkunda Rural Municipality has seen the biggest loss of cattle.

As of now, lumpy skin disease killed 22 yaks and 41 cows of local species in six wards of Gosainkunda, said Livestock Technical Chief at Syafrubesi in the rural municipality, Suresh Badal.

“Efforts are underway to contain the outbreak of the infectious viral disease. Livestock technician' teams are being mobilized at wards”, he informed.

As many as 800 cattle have been infected with lumpy skin disease in Gosainkunda alone. Badal stressed the need to keep the infected cattle in isolation.

The disease has broken out due to the practice of keeping cattle free in open grazing land in highland areas, he said.

Lumpy skin has also caused a loss to the farmers of Naukunda, Kalika and Uttargaya Rural Municipalities of the district.

Technicians of the concerned rural municipalities in the district informed that as many as 1,500 infected cattle are being treated in other local level areas in the district, except Chhodingmo.

According to Kalika Rural Municipality livestock section chief, Buddhinath Neupane, a technical team has been deployed in the rural municipalities in the southern belt of Rasuwa for disease control.

As the infection has mostly affected oxen used for plough, it has direct bearing on the farmers in paddy plantation.

Information Officer at Veterinary Hospital and Livestock Expert Centre, Nuwakot, Dr Bablu Tharu, a total of 13,000 cows, oxen and yaks were infected with lumpy skin disease in Nuwakot and Rasuwa as of July 16.

"A report has come about the deaths of yaks in the Rasuwa highland due to lumpy skin disease", he said, adding, "Our team is heading to the highland to take stock of the situation there".

Dr Tharu further said that medicines have been sent to the lumpy skin infected areas for immediate relief. As many as 411 livestock died of the contagious disease in Nuwakot, he informed.