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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.  

Nepal reported 51 new Covid-19 cases on Tuesday. According to the Ministry of Health and Population, 669 swab samples were tested in the RT-PCR method, of which 26 returned positive. Likewise, 1, 233 people underwent antigen tests, of which 25 tested positive. The Ministry said that no one died of the virus in the last 24 hours and 26 infected people recovered from the disease. As of today, there are 147 active cases in the country.  

A 37-year-old woman gave birth to conjoined twins at the Koshi Hospital in Biratnagar. The hospital said that Dukhandevi Bhagat Chaudhary of Kalyanpur, Sapatri gave birth to conjoined twins. Doctors consider this incident as strange and rare. Both the children, who are joined from the chest to the abdomen, are girls. The total weight of the twins is 3.4 kg. The health of both the newborns is normal. The hospital said that the external parts like head, mouth, nose, ears, hands and legs are not attached. The woman, who gave birth to the twins, has not been able to tell her address properly. Family members and relatives have also not come in contact with the hospital. Chaudhary said that she already has two daughters. The hospital itself has been providing treatment and medical care to her in the maternity ward under the supervision of doctors. Medical Superintendent of Koshi Hospital Dr Rabinraj Singh said that the economic condition of Chaudhary seems to be very weak. It has already been five days after the surgery, the family members and relatives of Chaudhary have not come in contact with the hospital, he said. Singh said that she was admitted to the hospital at 11 pm on May 4. A team of Dr Madhumita Rabha, Dr Prakarti Acharya and Dr Raj Kumar Yadav among others under the headship of hospital’s senior obstetrician and gynecologist Dr Anju Dev successfully performed a surgery at around 12:30 am on May 5. Dr Dev said that such children usually die if they cannot be separated by surgery within a year.