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Cricket Association of Nepal (CAN) has decided to provide monthly remuneration of Rs 100, 000 each to male players listed in grade 'A'. 

A meeting of the CAN Board held on February 24-26 took a decision to this effect.

National cricket team captain Rohit Kumar Paudel, Sompal Kami, Dipendra Singh Airee, Asif Sheikh and Kushal Bhurtel are listed as 'A' grade cricketers.

Similarly, Rs 70,000 per month have been announced each for 'B' grade players, including Kushal Malla, Gulshan Jha, Bhim Sarki, Lalit Narayan Rajbanshi and Abhinash Bohora.

As per the Board meeting, Binod Bhandari, Arjun Saud, Sundeep Jora and Pratish GC who belong to 'C' grade are to get the monthly remuneration of Rs 55,000 each.

The 'D' grade players, including Pawan Sarraf, Sagar Dhakal, Anil Shah, Bibek Kumar Yadav, Akash Chand, Basir Ahamad and Surya Tamang are to be paid Rs 35,000 each. 

The CAN has announced monthly Rs 25,000 each to those players who fall under a list of emerging group which includes Dipesh Kandel, Rupesh Singh, Rijan Dhakal, Bipin Khatri, Dev Khanal, Arjun Gharti and Hemant Dhami.

The monthly remuneration for women cricketers of grade 'A' has been fixed Rs 50,000 per month each. The list of 'A' grade women cricketers includes Indu Barma, Rubina Chhetri and Sita Rana Magar.

The 'B' grade women cricketers are to be paid Rs 35,000 per month and presently, Kabita Kunwar represents this category.

Puja Mahato and Ashmina Karmacharya who fall under the category of grade 'C' are to get Rs 30,000 per month and Apsari Begam, Kabita KC, Sangita Rai, Kajol Shrestha and Bindu Rawal representing grade 'D' are eligible to get Rs 25,000 each. 

Similarly, the group of emerging women players comprising Soni Pakhrin, Khusi Dangol, Jyotsnika Marasini,  Kanchan Shrestha, Shristi Jaisi, Samjhana Khadka and Sana Prabin are to get Rs 20,000 each per month. 

A total of 156,762 children in Lalitpur district are targeted to receive vaccines against measles-rubella under the nationwide Measles-Rubella (MR) Vaccination Campaign that kicked off last Sunday.

According to Parthamani Neupane, Immunization Officer at the District Health Office, Lalitpur, initially children in six local government units of the district will be administered vaccines against highly contagious and airborne diseases from 622 vaccination centers.

The campaign, however, will be launched in Konjyosom and Mahakal Rural Municipalities in the district from February 27, shared Neupane.

He informed that 159 health workers and 822 volunteers will be mobilized to make the campaign a success.

The campaign will be launched within all 29 wards of the LMC till March 6.

Over 92,000 children in LMC to be vaccinated

Meanwhile, the Lalitpur Metropolitan City (LMC) has a total of 92,300 children to receive vaccines against measles-rubella.

Around 58.88 percent of the total number of the children within the district have been registered for the vaccine.

Sarita Maharjan, Chief of Public Health Section at LMC, shared that 212 vaccine centers have been set up within the metropolis to vaccinate children from 9 months to 15 years.

The government of Nepal had set a target to reduce measles-rubella cases to zero by 2023. Failing to meet the target within the primary deadline, the government has extended the timeline up to 2026, said Immunization Officer Neupane.

Former Vice-President Nanda Bahadur Pun's advisor Geewan Gurung has been arrested in connection with the 14 kg gold smuggling case.

A team of the Central Investigation Bureau (CIB) nabbed Gurung, Chairperson of Platinum College in Dillibazaar, Kalikasthan of Kathmandu, today.

CIB Spokesperson and Superintendent of Police (SP) Hobindra Bogati informed that Gurung, a permanent resident of Fulbari-2, Parbat, was arrested from Samakhusi.

In the course of the investigation, he was found to be the architect of the smuggling of 14-kg gold from Dubai.

"Gurung was at large after an arrest warrant was issued against him in connection with the smuggling of 14 kg gold from Dubai", SP Bogati said.

Police have apprehended him today, he said, adding preparations are on to hand him to the Customs Office.

The Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) has stopped collecting waste from four hospitals with effect from Sunday.

The waste collection of Shaheed Memorial Hospital and Nepal National Hospital in Kalanki and Dirghayu Guru Hospital and Om Hospital in Chabahil has been stopped, said KMC landfill site in-charge engineer Sarkardeep Shrestha.

The decision was taken after a monitoring by the KMC of the waste management system of the health facilities was found not complying with the prevailing law. Accordingly, the hospitals have been instructed to present to the Environmental Management Department of the KMC a plan for decontamination of infected waste, documents related to the commitment made for waste management during the registration and operation of the hospital, and the details of the organizations that have collaborated for waste management.

"Decontamination of infected waste is the producer's responsibility. Furthermore, infrastructure and mechanisms should be established for the proper waste management in a hospital," engineer Shrestha said.

The KMC has been regularly monitoring hospital waste and giving necessary instructions for the past two weeks to make waste management more effective.

The Local Government Operation Act, 2074 BS (2017) has authorized the local government to determine and regulate sanitary waste collection, reuse, processing, disposal and about its service fees. In addition, the local government has also been given the right to penalize health institutions that do not manage the medical waste as provided in the prevailing law.