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A clash broke out between loan shark victims and police in Shantibatika on Monday. The clash broke out after the loan shark victims, who had been staging a sit-in inside Shantibatika, tried to head towards Bhadrakali this afternoon. Some loan shark victims and police personnel were injured in the clash. Police said that they have arrested some of the demonstrators from the scene. It has been learnt that the police baton charged the loan shark victims and also lobbed tear gas shells to take the situation under control. A large number of security personnel has been deployed in and around Shantibatika.  

A team of Nepal Army, which has joined a mountain cleanup campaign, has scaled the Annapurna I. The team led by Captain Suman Pandey reached atop the tenth highest mountain (8,091 meters) in the world at 8:55 am today, according to the Directorate of Public Relations and Information, Nepal Army. The mountaineering team, who conquered the mountain, included Lance Corporal Man Singh Chaudhary, army men Nabaraj Rana and Gyanendra Dangi and five Sherpa guides led by Tshering Jangbu Sherpa. A mountain cleanup campaign on an annual basis is underway under the leadership of the Nepal Army. It aims to conserve the biodiversity and ecology; it has been said. As part of the campaign, a cleanup drive is going on in mountains including Mount Everest, Lhotse, Baruntse and Annapurna. Meanwhile, a 13-member team led by Lieutenant Colonel Kishor Adhikari, who set out to tidy up Mount Everest and Lhotse, has reached the Second Base Camp, it has been said. Similarly, a team that has set out to clean up Baruntse is reaching the Base Camp. This year, it aims to collect around 35 tons of garbage from Mount Everest, Lhotse, Annapurna and Baruntse.

A 42-year-old man died of Bharatpur-10 on Saturday due to complications from Covid-19 in Chitwan. According to Durga Chapagain, Chief at the Chitwan Health Office, he was under medical treatment for pneumonia and was found infected with COVID-19 on April 13. There are 10 active cases of COVID-19 in the district at present.  

Air pollution has swelled throughout the country due to the wildfires taking place at various places since some days. The Department of Environment said atmospheric pollution has increased across the country including in the Kathmandu Valley due to the bush fires, leading to unhealthy air in Nepal for the past few days. According to the Department, the air pollution measurement stations in the Kathmandu Valley have indicated the polluted air even at present. It is said Kathmandu is in the second position among the world's polluted cities. Kathmandu's air quality index (AQI) measured at 9.30 am today showed that the federal capital is in second place among the world's polluted cities in terms of AQI. People with health vulnerabilities are at risk when the AQI is more than 50 and it is hazardous to all people when it is more than 100. Kathmandu's AQI is 192 at present. Chiang Mai city in Thailand is said to be in the first position in the list of pollution index. Its AQI is 222. Similarly, India's Delhi is in third place, Dhaka of Bangladesh in fourth place, Kolkata of India in fifth place in terms of the highest AQI. Air with measurement of AQI from 51 to 100 is considered normal while the air with AQI above this is considered unhealthy. AQI above 300 is highly hazardous, it is said.