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Six persons, who had returned to Nepal from neighboring India and third world countries, were found infected with malaria. District Health Office, Jhapa Chief Ramesh Barakoti said that two persons each from Mechinagar Municipality and Kachankawal Rural Municipality and one each from Buddhashanti Rural Municipality and Damak Municipality of Jhapa district were found infected with malaria. A 30-year-old man of Jaypur, Buddhshanti-2, who had returned from Uganda a few days ago, was diagnosed with malaria. He was found infected with malaria while carrying out a test at the Birtacity Hospital in Birtamod on April 20. He had left Nepal for Uganda on February 13, 2022 and returned home on April 5, 2023. Barakoti said that five persons, who had returned from Sudan, New Delhi, Telibhitta Bihar, Kisangunj Bihar and Mumbai, were also found infected with malaria. They are the residents of Mechinagar, Kachankawan and Damak. According to the World Health Organization, Malaria is caused by Plasmodium parasites. Infected female Anopheles called ‘malaria vectors’ carry these deadly parasites.

The Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal has barred Flydubai Nepal chief and station manager from entering Tribhuvan International Airport for spreading false information about the Flydubai flight. On Monday, the Boeing 737-800 aircraft with 167 passengers on board flying to Dubai from Kathmandu was preparing to come back to Kathmandu for forced landing after it witnessed a technical glitch in one of the engines. The plane headed towards its destination after holding in the Nepali sky for a few minutes. The aircraft landed safely at the Dubai International Airport on Monday night itself. The authority, however, concluded that the Flydubai Nepal chief had given false information to the headquarters. Though they had informed the headquarters that the flight experienced a bird strike during take off, the basis for the same was not found, Gyanendra Bhul, Assistant Spokesperson at the CAAN said. He said that a two-member committee has been formed to investigate the incident. The committee comprising an engineer and a pilot will prepare a detailed report about the incident. Bhul said that the FlyDubai aircraft has been grounded in Dubai. “The plane has been grounded in Dubai. The aircraft will be grounded until the investigation concludes,” he said. The CAAN has taken the incident seriously and an investigation will be launched to find out the truth, he said.

Two explosions have rocked a counterterrorism facility in northwest Pakistan, killing at least 12 people and injuring more than 50 others, police said, Aljazeera reported.

Sharifullah Khan, a police official in Kabal, told Al Jazeera that at least 12 people died in the blasts on Monday at the Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province’s Swat Valley while more than 50 were reported injured. He added that he doesn’t believe the blasts were caused by “terrorism”. The “explosions occurred after explosive material in the CTD building’s basement caught fire”, he said. The building complex also houses the Kabal district police station and headquarters of a reserve police force, but the main damage was done at the counterterrorism department building.

Provincial police chief Akhtar Hayat said there was an old ammunition store in the office, and police were probing whether that caused the explosions or if it was an attack, according to Aljazeera.

Two attacks on large police bases have been linked to the Pakistani Taliban, known as Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) since the start of the year.

Most of those killed on Monday were police counterterrorism officers, Hayat said, adding that a woman and her child who were passing by the building were also killed. Bilal Faizi, spokesman for Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s provincial rescue service, said the search for more wounded was still in its initial stages. The regional hospital administration said it received several wounded people, some of them in critical condition.

The Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) Office has given a 15-day deadline to the concerned bodies to remove electric, telephone and internet wires placed haphazardly along the streets. Issuing a press statement today, the local government said unorganized cables have their implications on the beauty of the town, causing obstructions in public movement and creating a risk for a fire. If the order was not implemented on time, the local government said it would remove them on its own. The KMC said that it is sensitive towards the possible risks from the unorganized cables and have already sat for talks with providers of electricity, telephone, internet and cable services at different times with the call to remove devices, but the problem remains as it is.