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The weather has remained partly to generally cloudy throughout the country while light rain is currently taking place at one or two places of the Koshi Province, the Department of Hydrology and Meteorology said.

At present, there is an influence of westerly wind, local wind as well as a low-pressure system formed around Bihar, India.

According to the Department, the weather will be partly cloudy throughout the country this afternoon. Light rain with thunder and lightning is likely to occur at some places of the hilly regions, including Koshi, Madhes, Bagmati, Gandaki and Lumbini Provinces.

Light rain accompanied by thunder and lightning is likely to occur at some places of the Tarai region. There is a possibility of light snowfall in some places of the high hilly and mountainous areas of the country.

It will be partly to generally cloudy throughout the country tonight. Light to moderate rain accompanied by thunder, lightning and gusty winds is likely to occur at a few places of Koshi, Madhes, Bagmati and Gandaki Provinces and at one or two places of the rest of the country.

Light snowfall is likely to occur at one or two places of the high hilly and mountainous regions of Koshi, Bagmati and Gandaki provinces.

According to the Meteorological Forecasting Division, light rain accompanied by thunder and lightning is likely to occur at a few places of the hilly region of the country, including Koshi, Madhes, Bagmati, Gandaki and Lumbini Provinces and at one or two places of the rest of the Tarai during the next 24 hours.

There is a possibility of light snowfall in some places of the high hilly and mountainous regions of the country, the Department said, urging the people to remain alert of possible impact on daily life including agriculture, health, tourism, mountaineering, road and air transport in the region.

Construction of bridges along the Narayangadh-Muglin road section has gained pace in a way to bring them into operation by mid-November.

Out of a total of 15 bridges in this section, 11 are in operation and four are under construction.

Engineer of the Western Section of Nagdhunga-Muglin Road Project (Narayangadh-Muglin), Krishna Acharya shared that other bridges have already come into operation except Khahare, Namche, Kalikhola and Tuin Khola bridges near Muglin Bazaar.

Works are underway to bring the two bridges into operation by mid-July, he informed. It will take much time since a high wall has to be raised to construct an access road for the bridge constructed over the Khahare rivulet.

Engineer Acharya said works on the Tuin Khola bridge will be completed by mid-November. There are altogether 19 bridges on the road section. The bridges have been constructed with the loan assistance of the World Bank.

The bridge construction has been delayed due to the need to cut the wall nearby Tuin rivulet and distribute compensation to the affected in Khahare.

Landslides used to cause recurring trouble along the section in the rainy season, but now improvements on the status of the roads and bridges have made it a bit easier.

Police have arrested two persons for swindling people by promising them lucrative jobs in the UK and Canada.

A team of the Kathmandu Valley Crime Investigation Office nabbed Wakil Bahadur Ale (34) of Gorkha and Dharmendra Shrestha (34) of Tanahun for swindling job aspirants of Rs 4.5 million.

Police informed that Ale had swindled the victims out of Rs 3.6 million by promising them lucrative jobs in Canada. He had collected Rs 1.7 million per person.

Before collecting the money, Ale had told the victims that they would have the monthly basic salary of Rs 180, 000.

Police apprehended Ale from Gorkha based on the complaints filed by six people.

Similarly, Shrestha was held for swindling Rs 950, 000 from two people with false assurances of sending them to the UK.

SP Rabindra Regmi said that Shrestha was arrested from Gongabu, Kathmandu.

A windstorm blew away the roof of a school building in Dailekh.

The windstorm, coupled with hailstones and rains, blew away the roof of the three—room building of Janakanlyan Higher Secondary School at Smartkort in Dhungeshwor Rural Municipality-2, Dailekh.

According to school principal Khagendra Bahadur Shahi, the windstorm blew away the roof of the three-room building.

He said that the teaching and learning activities in the school have been affected after the incident.

“The students of grade four and five were being taught in the same classroom damaged by the windstorm. One room was brought into use under the mid-day program,” he said.

Principal Shahi said that there is a shortage of classrooms in the school.

He said that the benches, desks, and other educational materials kept inside the room were damaged after a raging windstorm blew away the roof made up of galvanized zinc sheets of the school building.

The roofs of almost all the buildings of the school established in 1961 are old and made up of corrugated zinc sheets.

“Seven other buildings of the school are 25 to 30 years old. All these buildings have the roofs with galvanized zinc sheets,” Principal Shahi said, adding, “We always have to live in constant fear thinking that the strong wind would blow away the roofs of the school buildings.”

“The buildings having roofs with old corrugated zinc sheets are very unsafe for the children,” he further said.

The school has 10 buildings. Among them, only two are concrete.

None of the authorities have given interest in reconstructing the buildings, Principal Shahi said. There are around 600 students up to class 12.

The school is considered as one the best schools in the district in educational quality although it has weak physical infrastructure.