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At least nine loan shark victims were injured in a clash with police at Shantibatika on Monday. They are receiving treatment at the Trauma Center. Information Officer at the Trauma Center Arjun Prasad Bhetuwal said that they are undergoing treatment at the Emergency Ward of Trauma Center. According to him, most of the injured have sustained injuries on their head and various parts of the body. The injured have been identified as Kul Bahadur Thapa, Akbar Miya of Nawalparasi, Lok Narayan Subedi of Ilam, Krishna Nanda Mahato of Sarlahi, Pradeep Nepal of Okhaldhunga, Til Ram Chaudhary of Nawalparasi, Sitaram Tamang of Balaju, Yam Kumari Tadel of Rukum and Devi Devisa. It has been learnt that police have taken 25 loan shark victims under control. Some police personnel were also injured in the clash. 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. Police baton charged the loan shark victims and also lobbed tear gas shells to take the situation under control.

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.