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The influence of westerly wind is likely to cause partial to general changes in the mountainous belt and bring light snowfall in the hilly areas of the Province-1 and Sudurpaschim Province. Likewise, partial changes would occur in the mountainous belt of other provinces owing to the effects in the country's weather systems, said the Department of Hydrology and Meteorology. The Department further informed that light snowfall was likely to take place in the hilly region of the province-1 in the coming 24 hours. Some parts of Terai would see foggy weather conditions which may also affect the normal lives. The Department has urged one and all to remain cautious of the complications brought out by the changes in weather conditions. According to the recent updates, today Kathmandu Valley would have a minimum 3.8 degree Celsius and maximum 18.5 degree Celsius.  

The Health Ministry of Uzbekistan on Tuesday said 18 children, with acute respiratory disease, have died from taking excessive doses of a cough syrup, Doc-1 Max, manufactured by Marion Biotech, an Indian firm, The Hindu reported. The children consumed “excessive amounts” of the cough syrup, which contained ethylene glycol, a substance that ought not to be present in cough syrup. This comes days after a parliamentary panel in The Gambia found “unacceptable levels” of diethylene glycol and ethylene glycol in cough syrups made by Haryana-based Maiden Pharma. Here, the cough syrups were linked to instance of acute kidney injury that is believed to be responsible for the deaths of at least 63 children. India’s health ministry officials said they were “aware” of the report from Uzbekistan but declined comment. “To date, 18 out of 21 children with acute respiratory disease have died as a result of taking Doc-1 Max syrup... It was found that deceased children took 2.5-5 ml of the drug at home for 2-7 days, 3-4 times a day, which exceeds the standard dose of the drug for children. All children were given the drug without a doctor’s prescription. Since the main component of the drug is paracetamol, Doc-1 Max syrup was incorrectly used as an anti-cold remedy on the recommendation of the pharmacy sellers and this was the reason for the deterioration of the condition of the patients… preliminary laboratory studies have shown that this series of Doc-1 Max syrup contains ethylene glycol. This substance is toxic and about 1-2 ml/kg of a 95% concentrated solution can cause serious changes in the patient’s health, such as vomiting, fainting, convulsions, cardiovascular problems and acute kidney failure.” “Tablets and syrups of the drug Doc-1 Max are withdrawn from sale in all pharmacies of the country in a prescribed manner,” reads the translation of the statement from Uzbekistan’s Health Ministry, according to The Hindu. Following the World Health Organisation’s (WHO’s) warning on October 5, linking four syrups to the deaths in The Gambia, Maiden Pharma’s export licence has been suspended. However, India has said that the WHO has drawn a “premature link” between the deaths of the children and the India-made cough syrups.

Kathmandu: ‘Sujero’, a poetry collection, written by poet Ramchandra Dahal, has been released.  This book, according to Dahal, is a collection of poems composed of a mixture of emotions and experiences of different periods of time and the meaning of ‘Sujero’ is also the same. Dahal said, “Sujero means a bag that contains pieces of clothes used to stitch in torn clothes. Apart from mixed pieces of clothes of different colors, the bag also contains needles, thread, and scissors. The mixed fabric of that bag and my poems in this book resemble the same meaning.” The book was published by Samriddhi Anusandhan Tatha Prakasan and was edited by Shiva Sharma and Dhurba Dulal and features artwork by Chhabin Dahal. Dahal has also written a couple of other books like ‘Thori’ and ‘Handighopte’. ‘Ananta Yatra’, the novel of Madhav Bidari, and ‘Jwalamukhi’, the liberator collection of Jigyasu Poudel, were jointly launched along with the ‘Sujero’ from the same stage.

The Home Ministry has directed the incumbent and former government officials and security personnel, who have kept the private security personnel and assistants against the rules, to return them to the concerned security agencies within 48 hours. The Ministry made such a decision a day after Rastriya Swatantra Party Chairman Rabi Lamichhane became the Home Minister. Issuing a statement on Tuesday, the Home Ministry called all the security personnel deployed for private security. The statement issued by Ministry spokesperson Phanindra Mani Pokharel asked the current and former government officials to keep the security personnel as per the Security Management Procedure 2077.