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A youth from Kalagaon in Dogdakedar rural municipality-8 has been found murdered. Basudev Joshi (37) was found murdered near his house at 8:00 pm on Saturday, Inspector Yogesh Khatri, spokesperson at the District Police Office, Baitadi said. He was reportedly killed by using a sharp weapon. An investigation has been launched into the incident, police said.  

A member of the royal family of Qatar, Sheikha Asma Al Thani has successfully climbed mountain Annapurna I. She reached the summit of the 8,091 meters high Annapurna I at 4:00 pm on Saturday. Director of Elite Expedition, David Sherpa, shared that Thani climbed Annapurna with the help of a team of Sherpas led by mountaineer Nirmal Purja (Nims). "Thani has become the first Qatari woman to climb Annapurna, the tenth highest peak in the world", he said. The Annapurna I mountain is located in Annapurna rural municipality-4 of Myagdi. Princess Al Thani had previously climbed Mount Everest, Dhaulagiri, Kanchanjunga, Lhotse, Manaslu and K2. A doctor by profession, Thani arrived in Myagdi on March 6 for the expedition to climb Annapurna I. The climbing of the current year's spring season started on Saturday morning in the Annapurna I. This year, 45 people have taken permission to climb Annapurna. Mt Annapurna is the tenth highest mountain in the world. Maurice Hergoz from France had climbed Annapurna for the first time in 1950.  

Nepal reported 106 new Covid-19 cases on Thursday. According to the Ministry of Health and Population, 541 swab samples were tested in the RT-PCR method, of which 64 returned positive. Likewise, 947 people underwent antigen tests, of which 42 were tested positive. The Ministry said that no one died of the virus in the last 24 hours. The Ministry said that 74 infected people recovered from the disease. As of today, there are 435 active cases in the country.

Search and rescue efforts are going on for those who have gone missing in an avalanche on the foot of Mt Everest on April 12. Three Sherpa guides had gone missing after an avalanche buried them in a crevasse. The air and land search and rescue operations have continued in coordination with the local administration, the Mount Sagarmatha Pollution Control Committee (SPCC), the Himalayan Rescue Association, the Imagine Nepal Trek and Expedition and the Expedition Operators Association Nepal, according to a statement issued by the Department of Tourism. "It increasingly becomes difficult to search and rescue those buried in an avalanche. We are yet to get additional details about their whereabouts. The department is searching for them in coordination with the stakeholders," said the Department Director General Hom Prasad Luitel. The three identified as Dachhiri Sherpa, Pemba Tenjing Sherpa and Lakpa Rita Sherpa who were ferrying materials to construct and clear the route leading to the summit of the world's tallest peak were caught in the avalanche at Dam of Icefall area between the base camp and camp 1, it has been said. Three of them from Khumbu Pasang Lhamu Rural Municipality-5 were deployed from the Imagine Nepal Trek and Expedition Pvt Ltd. With the onset of spring season, the construction and clearance of the climbing route leading to Mount Everest is ongoing, said the Department. The construction of the trail up to the camp 2 has been over, said the SPCC. The Imagine Nepal Trek and Expedition has undertaken rope fixing at the upper part of camp 2. So far, the total 197 climbers of 20 groups (31 women and 166 men) have taken permission to scale Mount Everest in this spring season, according to the Department.