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Rainfall is likely to continue in most parts of the country until Tuesday due to active monsoon system, Department of Hydrology and Meteorology shared.

There is a chance of light to moderate rain with thunder and lightning in many parts of the country till next Tuesday, said Meteorologist at Department of Hydrology and Meteorology Heera Bhattarai.

According to Bhattarai, there is possibility of heavy rain in one or two places of Province 1, Bagmati, Gandaki and Lumbini. Monsoon is likely to become more active in the east for the next three days.

At present, there is partial to moderate rain in few places of Province 1 with light to moderate rain with thunder/lightning in Bagmati, Gandaki and Lumbini provinces.

During the night, it will be normal to full cloudy in the mountainous areas of the country, partial to normal cloudy in the rest of the country.

Furthermore, there will be light to moderate rain with thunder and lightning in few places of the hilly areas of the country and heavy rain in one or two places of Madhes province.

Police have taken action against 16 school bus drivers for violating the traffic rules.

Among them, five were found driving the school bus under the influence of alcohol.

Senior Superintendent of Police Rajendra Prasad Bhatta of the Kathmandu Valley Traffic Police Office, Ramshahpath, said that they have taken action against all of them for violating the traffic rules against the School Bus Guideline 2074.

He said that the checking campaign which started on July 8 will be continued.

Two persons died and seven others sustained injuries in separate road accidents in Mugu district on Sunday.

Police said that two persons lost their lives when a tractor and jeep met with an accident.

According to police, Ganesh Lawad (25) of Chhayanath Rara Municipallity-13 died when the tractor (Lu 4 Cha 6762) heading towards Karnali from Ruga Village of Chayanath Rural Municipality-13 fell some 25 meters down the road at around 9 am today.

Five persons including the tractor driver were injured in the incident.

DSP Subash Hamal of the District Police Office said that they are undergoing treatment at the District Hospital.

Similarly, Deepak Tiruwa (25) of Chhayanath Rara Municipality-2 died on the spot when the jeep (Lu 1 Ja 3754) en route to Mugu from Jumla met with an accident at Bulbule in Kanaka Sundari Rural Municipality-1 of Jumla.

The jeep driver and one another were injured in the accident.

They have been sent to the Karnali Academy of Health Sciences in Jumla for treatment.

Chinese rocket debris has crashed to Earth over the Indian and Pacific oceans, US and Chinese officials say, BBC reported.

China's space agency said most remains of the Long March 5 burnt in the atmosphere, identifying the Sulu Sea in the Pacific as the re-entry location. 

Earlier, space experts had said the probability of the rocket landing in a populated area was extremely low.

The uncontrolled return of rocket's core stage has raised questions about responsibility for space junk.

There have previously been calls by Nasa for the Chinese space agency to design rockets to disintegrate into smaller pieces upon re-entry, as is the international norm.

In a tweet, the US Space Command said the Long March 5 "re-entered over the Indian Ocean at approx 10:45 am MDT [16:45 GMT] on 7/30".

It referred its readers to the Chinese authorities for more details.

Meanwhile, China's space agency gave re-entry co-ordinates as 119 degrees East longitude and 9.1 degrees North latitude. This corresponds to an area in the Sulu Sea - east of the Philippine island of Palawan in the north Pacific.

Recent rockets heading to China's unfinished space station, known as Tiangong, have lacked the capability for a controlled re-entry, according to BBC.

The latest launch was last Sunday, when the Long March 5 rocket carried a lab module to the Tiangong station. The Chinese government said on Wednesday that the rocket's re-entry would pose little risk to anyone on the ground because it would most likely land in the sea. 

However, there was the possibility for pieces of the rocket to come down over a populated area, as they did in May 2020 when properties in Ivory Coast were damaged.

Before crashing, the empty rocket body was in an elliptical orbit around Earth where it was being dragged toward an uncontrolled re-entry.

Designing objects to disintegrate upon atmospheric re-entry is becoming a priority for satellite operators. It's done partly by using materials which have low-melting point temperatures, such as aluminium. 

In the case of rockets, this can be expensive, as historically the materials used for housing fuel, such as titanium, require very high temperatures to burn up. The sheer size of such objects is also an issue, especially in the case of the Long March 5, weighing over 25 tonnes. 

The same Long March 5 configuration has launched twice before, once in May 2020 and again in May 2021, carrying different elements of the Tiangong station. 

On both occasions debris from the rocket's "core stage" were dumped back on Earth, in Ivory Coast and the Indian Ocean. These followed a prototype that crashed into the Pacific Ocean back in 2018, BBC reported.

None of these incidents caused injury but did garner criticism from a range of space agencies. On Tuesday, Chinese state-run newspaper Global Times accused Western media of a US-led smear campaign against the Long March 5. 

This latest launch carried the second of three modules to China's space station. The Wentian lab module at 17.9m in length will be the first of two labs to join the station. China began constructing the space station in April 2021 with the launch of the Tianhe module, the main living quarters. 

China hopes Tiangong will be complete by the end of 2022, according to BBC.