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Police have nabbed three persons in possession of counterfeit notes worth Rs 500,000 from Nepalgunj in Banke district on Tuesday. Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Ram Prasad Gharti said that the arrestees have been identified as Mohan Kumai (33) of Kolapur Municipality-11, Dipak BC (37) of Turmakhand Rural Municipality-3 in Achham district and Mohan Rana (30) of Bangand Kupinde Municipality-5 in Salyan district. A special team of Nepal Police also arrested three persons with a total of 569 fake notes in denomination of Rs 1,000 from New Road area of Nepalgunj.  

The Transport Workers’ Association has withdrawn its protest programs following an agreement with the government on Tuesday. The meeting between the agitating transport workers and government representatives was held in Singha Durbar this morning. Nepal Transport Independent Workers’ Organization said that they decided to withdraw the protest programs after the government vowed to address their demands. The government called the transport workers for the meeting after they took to the streets putting forth 10-point demands. Issuing a statement on Monday, the three transport workers’ association—Nepal Transport Independent Workers’ Organization, All Nepal Transport Workers’ Union and Nepal Transport Workers’ Union—had announced that they would halt public transport services indefinitely in the Kathmandu Valley from today if the government did not heed to their demands. Earlier on Monday, transport workers and police personnel clashed in the Balaju area. The situation took an ugly turn after the transport workers set a police van on fire.              

Nepal received 345,600 doses of Pfizer-BioNTech’s bivalent Covid-19 vaccine on Monday. Dr Sarvesh Sharma, Director at the Department of Health Services of the Management Division, said that Nepal received 345, 600 doses of Covid-19 vaccine in the first phase from the COVAX facility today. “Nepal was supposed to receive 1.5 million doses of Pfizer-BioNTech’s bivalent Covid-19 vaccine. But, the COVAX Facility sent 345, 600 doses of Covid-19 vaccine in the first phase. Nepal will receive remaining doses of Covid-19 vaccine in a few days,” he said. Dr Sharma said that the vaccines will be stored in Teku Hospital. This vaccine is considered to be effective against sub-variants of Omicron.

A light earthquake hit Taplejung district on Monday. The National Earthquake Monitoring and Research Centre said that it recorded a tremor of local magnitude 4.8 at 4:30 am with its epicenter at Olangchungola in Faktanglung Rural Municipality-7 of the district. The tremor was felt in Taplejung and its adjoining districts. Faktanglung-7 ward chair Chheten Lama said that no damage has been reported so far in Olangchungola due to the earthquake. It may be noted that the 5.4 magnitude earthquake had struck the district with its epicenter at Olangchungola on February 9, 2021.