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A money transfer operator has been shot at by unidentified persons in Rautahat on Friday.

Police said that Nitesh Sah, operator of Shiva Money Transfer in Paroha Municipality-9, was shot at today.

Lawmaker Kiran Sah of Rautahat-2 had informed the Parliament meeting about the incident.

He demanded that the assailants be brought to book at the earliest.

Pokhara is to be declared as the tourism capital of the country.

Pokhara would be declared tourism capital on March 17 in presence of Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal.

Secretary at the Ministry of Industry, Tourism, Forest and Environment of Gandaki Province Kuman Singh Gurung shared that the announcement program would be organized by Gandaki Province government and Pokhara Metropolitan City.  

A rally with different cultural processions would be taken out from Basundhara Park before the announcement. 

The announcement program would be organized at the bank of Fewa lake, Barahighat, according to the organiser. 

Pokhara would be officially declared as the tourism capital by unveiling the tourism capital marker, he added.

A main ceremony committee has been formed under coordination of the Mayor of Pokhara Metropolitan City to make the declaration ceremony grand.

Chief secretary of Gandaki Province, all secretaries, chairpersons of Rupa, Madi, Machhapuchchhre, Annapurna Rural Municipalities of Kaski, Phedikhola of Syangja, Suklagandaki of Tanahun, Kushma and Modi Rural Municipality of Parbat, tourism related organizations are in the committee. 

The Janak Education Materials Center Limited is preparing to supply school textbooks across the country before the start of the academic year 2081 BS. 

For this to materialize, the Center is completing the printing of school textbooks by March 28.

The Center then plans to distribute the school textbooks from nine distribution centers of all seven provinces from March 29.

Managing Director of Centre, Anil Kumar Jha, said that the Center has completed printing of 95 percent of the total textbooks from grade 5 to 10. "Printing of remaining textbooks will be completed and we will start distribution from March 28 itself. Entire set of the textbooks of all classes will reach students' hands till the start of the academic year," Jha stated.

Currently, the Center is printing 100,000 pieces of textbooks on a daily basis by running its printing press round the clock.

The Center is to print 17.5 million pieces of the school textbooks for the new academic session.

According to Jha, the Center is committed to completing the printing of the remaining 1.8 million pieces of the school textbooks within two weeks and ensuring timely distribution.

For the distribution bid, first priority will be given to the districts of the mountain region and then to the hilly districts.

There will be no shortage of the school textbooks this year too like that of the previous year, Jha shared.

A powerful pressure cooker bomb exploded at the tower of Nepal Telecom in Dumja of Sunkoshi Rural Municipality-1, Sindhuli on Friday.

According to the District Police Office, Sindhuli, a telecom tower and a house near BP Park in Dumja were damaged in the blast.

DSP Chiranjeevi Dahal, who is also the spokesperson of the District Police Office, Sindhuli, informed that a bomb exploded in Dumja this morning.

Based on the information provided by locals about hearing the sound of the explosion at around 3 am, police reached the incident site and confirmed the explosion of a powerful pressure cooker bomb, he said.

Police said that they have recovered a pamphlet written People Vibration Army and Jan Mukti Sena from the site.