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A Nepal Airlines Corporation (NAC) plane made a successful test flight in Resunga Airport at 7:39 am today. NAC's plane (9N-ABT) departed from Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA), Kathmandu, landed at Resunga Airport in Simichaur of Resunga Municipality-10 in Gulmi. The NAC made a test flight today for commercial flights as per the agreement between the NAC and municipality. Spokesperson of the Nepal Airlines Operators Association Yograj Kandel said that plans are afoot for the commercial flights after today's successful test flight. He said that the NAC will begin commercial flight after carrying out needed assessment from a technical team. According to Kandel, the travel fare and the number of passengers in a flight would be determined after the study. "However, the plane fare could be around Rs 6,000 per person for the Resunga-Kathmandu flight," he added. Captain Manish Bista of NAC said that regular flights would be conducted after submitting today's flight report to the Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal (CAAN) within a week. Construction of the airport was completed some months ago after 16 years of its commencement. Constructed with the investment of Rs 330 million, the airport's runway is 520 meters long and 20 meters wide. Located at an elevation of 1,526 meters above the sea level, the airport is spread over 156 ropani of land. After the successful test flight, Mayor of Resunga Municipality Khildhowj Panthi expressed his happiness stating that the dream of folks here to travel to Kathmandu by plane is being materialized soon.  

With the impacts of the westerly wind in the country, there is probability of partial to general rainfall in the hilly belt of Koshi, Gandaki, Karnali and Sudurpaschim Provinces. The Weather Forecasting Division said that weather will be mainly fair in other parts of the country. Isolated brief rain or thundershowers is possible at a few places of the hilly regions of Gandaki Province, Karnali Province and Sudurpashchim Province and at one or two places of hilly regions of the rest of the provinces, the Division said. Tonight, there will be partly cloudy in the hilly areas and mainly fair to partly cloudy in Tarai areas. Isolated brief rain or thundershowers is possible at one or two places of hilly regions of Koshi Province and Gandaki Province tonight.

Three earthquakes hit Bajura district on Thursday and Friday. According to National Earthquake Monitoring and Research Centre, Lainchaur, three quakes took place with their epicenter in Dahakot of Bajura district. According to the Centre, the first quake with 4.9 Richter scale in magnitude occurred at 11:58 pm and second with 5.9 in the Richter scale at 1:30 am on Friday. Likewise, the third quake with 3.9 in the Richter scale jolted the district at 1:51 am. The details of the damages caused due to the quakes have not been received yet. Earlier, a quake had occurred with its epicenter at Jugada area of the district on April 17. The western belt of the country has been frequently witnessing earthquakes in recent days.

Nepal reported 111 new Covid-19 cases and one death on Thursday. With this, the number of people who lost their lives to coronavirus has reached 12, 029. According to the Ministry of Health and Population, 2, 517 swab samples were tested in the last 24 hours, of which 111 tested positive. The Ministry said that 60 infected people recovered from the disease. As of today, there are 378 active cases in the country.