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An arrest warrant has been issued against the owner of a construction company in connection to the death of a rhino.

The Chitwan National Park has issued the warrant against Sahadev Khadka, the owner of Sagun JV.

Raju Ghimire has been assigned as an investigation officer to probe the matter, said the information officer at the Park, Ganesh Prasad Tiwari.

A rhino was found dead in a roadside ditch in Chitwan last Sunday.

The Park accused the company of not abiding by the acts and rules to be followed while undertaking construction projects in wildlife corridors which led to the death of the rhino. RSS

The Immigration Office of the Tribhuvan International Airport has barred its staffers from using their mobile phones while on duty at the airport.

The Department of Immigration and the Immigration Office of the Tribhuvan International Office said so by issuing a notice on Friday.

The staffers deputed at the arrival and departure hall have been directed to use landline or official mobile phones during the office hours.

Senior immigration officers will monitor whether the staffers have been following the directive or not.

The staffers can use their mobile phones only by taking permission of the immigration officers in case of emergency, the notice read.

All the employees have to keep their mobile phones in the locker.

Nepal logged 6,827 new Covid-19 cases and 10 deaths on Friday.

According to the Ministry of Health and Population, 13,791 swab samples were tested in the RT-PCR method, of which 4,807 returned positive. Likewise, 6,078 people underwent antigen tests, of which 2,020 tested positive.

With this, the country's active caseload reached 1,068,932. Similarly, death toll climbed to 11,697.

According to the Ministry, 5,435 infected people recovered from the disease.

There are 89,941 active cases in the country. Among them, 88,084 are in home isolation, 1,857 are in institutionalized isolation.

As many as 256 are in intensive care units and 45 on ventilators.

Meanwhile, the Kathmandu Valley recorded 2,940 new cases.

Of them, Kathmandu reported 2,153 cases and Lalitpur and Bhaktapur recorded 519 and 268 cases respectively.

Tropical Storm Ana has killed at least 86 people across southern and eastern Africa, with recovery operations still ongoing as another storm threatened more severe weather.

Storm Ana passed over Madagascar on Jan. 22, adding to days of already intense rainfall. The country declared a state of disaster on Thursday night, reporting a rise in the death toll from Ana to 48, with people killed by landslides and collapsing buildings or washed away.

Ana then made landfall in Mozambique on Jan. 24, where 18 have been reported dead, before moving inland to Malawi, where it triggered massive power cuts. Malawi's death toll rose to 20 on Thursday.

Across all three nations, Ana has affected hundreds of thousands of people and lead to widespread flooding and destruction, according to the United Nations.

"This latest storm...is a blunt reminder that the climate crisis is very much a reality," said Maria Luisa Fornara, UNICEF Representative in Mozambique.

The region has been repeatedly struck by severe storms and cyclones in recent years, destroying homes, infrastructure and crops and displacing large numbers of people.

In some cases, communities still recovering are hit again, compounding the impacts. Experts say storms are becoming stronger and more frequent as waters warm due to climate change, with rising sea levels also making low-lying coastal areas vulnerable.

Another storm, dubbed Batsirai, is now travelling towards Africa's east coast.

Meteo France on Friday described Batsirai as a small system that presented no immediate threat to a group of islands to the east of Madagascar, including the French territory of Reunion, because it was still days away.

However, it said the evolution of Batsirai's intensity and trajectory remained uncertain. Mozambique's National Institute of Meteorology warned Batsirai still had the potential to evolve into a severe tropical storm.