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Eight houses were reduced to ashes when a fire broke out at Hodebas in Udayapurgadhi-7 of Udayapur district on Thursday. SP Gyanendra Prasad Phuyal of the District Police Office, Udayapur said that the fire broke out due to an electric short circuit. He said that police personnel and locals backed by three fire engines of Triyuga Municipality, Chaudandi Municipality and Rautamai Rural Municipality are trying to extinguish the fire.  

A 4.3 magnitude earthquake hit Bajura district at 5:15 am on Thursday. The National Earthquake Monitoring and Research Centre, Lainchaur, Kathmandu said that the epicenter of the quake was Bichhya in Bajura district. Earlier, a 4.1 magnitude earthquake had jolted Bajura district on May 6. The mountainous and hilly areas of Nepal are considered to be prone to earthquakes.

As many as 3,600 kilograms of solid waste has been collected from Myagdi-based Annapurna First Mountain. As part of the Clean Mountain Campaign spearheaded by the Nepal Army, the waste was taken out from Mount Annapurna and its base camp. The 8,071-meter-high Mount Annapurna lies in Annapurna Rural Municipality-4, Narchyang of Myagdi. Chief Administrative Officer of Annapurna Rural Municipality, Amrit Subedi said that the NA's mountain cleaning team had started cleaning up Mount Annapurna on last April 10 and returned on May 9. A team comprising 10 NA personnel and 13 from Peak Promotion Travel Agency had collected the waste from the mountain and the base camp for 48 days. NA Major Gajendra Deuba had led the clean-up campaign. The team with Captain Bhim Bahadur Bhujel had reached atop the 8,091-meter-high Annapurna peak and collected garbage there. The waste collected include 1,200-kg biodegradable and 2,400-kg non-biodegradable, the team said. The biodegradable waste has been managed at Bhusaket in the presence of the representatives of Annapurna Youth Club in Narchyang. The non-biodegradable waste was taken to Dana of Myagdi via a helicopter belonging to the Prabhu Air. The waste airlifted to Dana from the Annapurna Base Camp was then sent to Kathmandu-based NA headquarters in a truck, said Indra Siingh Sherchan, a local of Dana. The 2,400-kg wastes including plastic, tin, iron and lead were sent to Kathmandu. Clean-up was done in the Annapurna Mountain and its base camp after 72 years since mountaineering was permitted, said Chairperson of Village Conservation Area Management Committee, Narchyang, Tej Gurung. "The waste was increasingly piling up in the mountain and base camp with the rise in the number of mountaineers and trekkers', he said, adding, 'The NA team cleaned up the Annapurna Mountain for the first time'. Pokhara metropolis had provided Rs 1.5 million to the NA for the Clean Mountain Campaign. The NA has conducted 'Clean Mountain Campaign-2023' in Mount Annapurna, Sagarmatha, Lhotse and Barunche peaks. The 8,000-merter high Dhawalagiri and Manaslu mountains located in Gandaki Province were cleaned earlier. The NA has placed the campaign realizing the waste dumped in the mountain caused environmental imbalance and imparted a wrong message. The NA that started the campaign in 2019 had extracted 7,157 kilograms biodegradable waste from the Mount Everest, Lhotse, Manaslu and Kanchanjunga peaks last year.  

Three persons, who sustained critical injuries while trying to put out the fire that broke at Bhumikasthan Municipality in Arghakhanchi, lost their lives. The deceased have been identified as Pitambar Belbase (72), Padam Belbase (55) and Ghanashyam Belbase (52) of Bhumikasthan-2. Pitambar died on the way to the hospital in Rampur, Palpa while Padam lost his life nearby Narayangarh in Chitwan. Likewise, Ghanashyam died while being treated in Kirtipur, Kathmandu, said Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) of the District Police Office, Mukunda Rijal. At least five people were injured while trying to douse the fire that broke out at the home of Padam Belbase in Bhumikasthan-2 on Tuesday afternoon. Asmita Belbase (26) and Madhav Belbase (35) were injured in the fire incident. Madhav's condition is critical, police said. After primary treatment at the District Hospital in Sandhikharka, the injured were referred to the Mission Hospital Palpa for further treatment. They were then referred to Kathmandu after their treatment was not possible in Palpa. Meanwhile, eight houses and sheds of Muslim settlement at Sandhikharka Municipality-4, Wangla were turned into ashes in another fire incident. The fire has left four buffaloes dead. Over 800 chickens were killed when the fire broke out in the farm, the district police office shared. The inferno has destroyed the houses and sheds of Khaire Miya, Rajim Miya, Kala Miya, Samsu Miya, Jamaladdin Miya, Safi Miya and Samsar Miya of Muslim community. The fire was taken under control with the help of Nepal Police and Armed Police personnel Force and local people.