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Byas Municipality of Tanahun has written to the local public transport committees to ensure that all passenger vehicles have a dustbin to collect garbage from passengers. A correspondence has been made with instructions for the management of mandatory dustbin in vehicles that provide public transport service within the municipality area, said Chief Administrative Officer Gangalal Subedi. The transport committees have also been asked to inform the passengers not to throw garbage outside of the vehicle. Anyone found littering against the said provision will be fined Rs 3,000 for the first offense and Rs 7,000 for the second offense. The municipality has written to Prithviraj Marg Transport Committee, Local Transport Pvt. Ltd., Byasabhumi Transport Pvt. Ltd., Taxi Entrepreneurs Committee and Auto Rickshaw Traders Committee. In addition, the municipality has appealed to all concerned not to carry out business in the streets and intersections and slaughter animals for meat only in designated places. The Byas Municipality is currently disposing garbage around Buddhasingh Highway in ward 13. It is looking for a permanent place to set up a landfill site for disposal of waste collected from the municipality.  

Three persons died when a jeep met with an accident at Gabiram in Shubhakalika Rural Municipality-6 of Kalikot on Saturday. The deceased have been identified as the jeep driver Harak Bishwakarma (30) of Shubhakalika-2, Ram Bahadur Shahi (31) of Shubhakalika-8 and Gopal Salamimar (25) of Naumule-3 of Dailekh, Jaishwar Rimal, Chief at the District Police Office Kalikot, said. The jeep (Lu 1 Cha 8498) was heading towards Shubhakalika from Chowki Bazaar when the incident occurred last night. The cause of the incident is yet to be ascertained. Police said that they are looking into the case.    

The Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) on Friday arrested a lab technician of the National Public Health Laboratory, Teku, Kathmandu for taking bribe. A team deployed from the CIAA, Tangal apprehended Lekhanath Bhattarai with Rs 50, 000 bribe money from Sankhamul this morning. He is accused of taking a bribe of Rs 50, 000 from a service seeker to facilitate the lab registration process. Further investigation into the case is underway, the CIAA said.  

The Meteorological Forecasting Division (MFD) under the Department of Hydrology and Meteorology has asked people to exercise caution in view of the possibility of a heat wave in Tarai belt of the country for next four days. Temperature of the country is soaring above 40 degree Celsius in most parts of Tarai, according to the Division. Temperature will continue as it will take some days for monsoon to arrive this year, said the Division officials. The MFD has urged people to remain indoors as far as possible during the excessive heat, stay in cool places and wear protected clothes while walking out to avoid a severe heat wave. Similarly, one has to take enough amounts of liquid to get hydrated. Heat wave-related illness symptoms include exhaustion, weakness, thirst, headache, dizziness, vomiting and muscle pain.