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Nepal Oil Corporation (NOC) has hiked the prices of petroleum products yet again on Tuesday. 

Earlier, the state-owned monopoly had increased the prices of petroleum products on January 19.

The NOC has decided to increase Rs 3 per litre in petrol, diesel and kerosene.

According to the new revised rate, the petrol will cost Rs 142 per litre and diesel and kerosene will cost Rs 125 per litre.

The NOC has also decided to hike the price of aviation fuel for domestic airlines by Rs 10. Now, the aviation fuel for domestic airlines will cost Rs 116 per litre. 

Similarly, the NOC has decided increase the aviation fuel for international carriers by $100 per kilo liter.

Now, aviation fuel for foreign companies will $1095 per kilo litre.

Nepal logged 5, 583 new Covid-19 cases and nine deaths on Tuesday. 

With this, the country's active caseload mounted to 1,088,251. Similarly, the death toll has climbed to 11,752. 

According to the Ministry of Health and Population, 10,776 swab samples were tested in the RT-PCR method, of which 3,657 returned positive. Likewise, 6,898 people underwent antigen tests, of which 1,926 tested positive.

The Ministry said that 8,267 infected people recovered from the disease in the last 24 hours.

As of today, there are 74,532 active cases in the country. 

The Ministry said that 871,165 infected people have recovered from the disease so far.

The Ministry said that 73,178 people are staying in home isolation while 1, 475 are in institutionalized isolation.

Meanwhile, the Kathmandu Valley reported 1, 907 new cases today.

According to the Ministry, 1,404 cases are reported in Kathmandu, 304 in Lalitpur and 195 in Bhaktapur.

The government of Israel provided over half million syringes to Nepal to support immunization efforts.

The consignment of 5,63,000 syringes arrived via air freight on Tuesday.

Ambassador of Israel to Nepal Hanan Goder, handed over the syringes to the representatives of the Ministry of Health and Population of Nepal.

 “This is part of the international struggle against the pandemic. Israel is proud to cooperate with the Nepali efforts in this struggle,” Ambassador Goder said.

The Embassy of Israel is happy to share humanitarian aid with the people of Nepal as an act of solidarity between our two nations. We believe that this gesture would contribute to meeting 2022 Vaccination targets and bringing the pandemic under control, read a statement issued today.

Youth Association Nepal, youth wing of the main opposition CPN-UML, on Tuesday filed a case at the Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) against Health Minister Birodh Khatiwada. 

Issuing a statement, the YAN has demanded action against Minister Khatiwada among others for embezzling Rs2.4 billion from the state coffers by squandering 2.4 million doses of Covid-19 vaccine. 

“The YAN demanded stringent action against Minister Khatiwada among others for embezzling Rs 2.4 billion from the state coffers,” the statement read.