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A person died after being struck by a lightning in Makwanpur on Monday. The deceased has been identified as Aitasingh Bhlon (55) of Bakaiya Rural Municipality-11. DSP Tek Bahadur Karki, who is also the spokesperson of the District Police Office, Makwanpur, said that incident occurred while he was staying in the home yesterday evening.  

Dengue has claimed a life in Ratnanagar of Chitwan. The identity of the deceased, who appeared to be in his mid-20’s, is yet to be established. He died while undergoing treatment at Old Medical College in Bharatpur. Hospital's physician Dr Alok Pradhan said that the man, who was diagnosed with dengue, died in the course of the treatment. He had been residing in Kathmandu for higher study. He was admitted to the hospital after a high fever. Dengue infection has been so far confirmed among 429 people from 2,877 sample tests in the district.  

Light rain with thunder and lightning is likely to take place in some areas of the country with partial to general changes in the weather system, the Weather Forecast Division said. Partial to general changes are likely to occur across the country in the afternoon on Tuesday, it is informed. Some places of the province-1, Bagmati province, Gandaki province, Lumbini province and Sudurpaschim province and limited areas of other remaining provinces are likely to receive light to moderate rainfall. Heavy rainfall is predicted in one-two places of Sudurpaschim and Lumbini provinces. The same weather system will prevail in the night today. The Kathmandu Valley has witnessed partial changes in weather conditions since early this morning. Kathmandu would see a maximum temperature of 30 Degree Celsius and minimum 19 Degree Celsius today.  

A powerful, 7.6 magnitude earthquake has struck western Mexico, killing at least one person and causing panic in the country’s capital on the anniversary of two previous quakes, Aljazeera reported. The earthquake hit shortly after 1pm local time (16:00 GMT) on Monday and was centred in the border area between the states of Michoacan and Colima at a depth of about 15km (9 miles), according to the US Geological Survey (USGS). The Mexican government said one person was killed in the Pacific port of Manzanillo when a department store roof collapsed on them, while regional officials reported damage to several hospitals in Michoacan. One person was injured by falling glass at one of the hospitals, they said. Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum said there were no immediate reports of damage in the capital after the earthquake, which rumbled through Mexico on the same day that major quakes battered the country in 1985 and 2017. “It’s this date, there’s something about the 19th,” said Ernesto Lanzetta, a business owner in the Cuauhtemoc borough of the city. “The 19th is a day to be feared.” The earthquake on September 19, 2017, killed more than 350 people, while the other on the same date in 1985 killed thousands. “It seems like a curse,” Isa Montes, a 34-year-old graphic designer, said of the quake’s timing as helicopters flew overhead, surveying the city. Al Jazeera’s John Holman, reporting from Mexico City, said many in Mexico viewed the timing of Monday’s quake as “really bizarre”. “It’s happened exactly on the anniversary – the 19th of September – as two other major earthquakes in Mexico,” Holman said. “Those last two earthquakes really wreaked havoc, especially here in the capital.” Many Mexicans reacted to the latest quake by posting an array of memes online venting their amazement. There was one of a bird reading a book titled “how to skip from September 18 to September 20,” while another, mimicking an announcement by the Mexican government, invites outsiders to “Visit Mexico” and “on every September 19, come live the experience of a real temblor”. The National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), one of the country’s most prestigious seats of higher learning, said there was no scientific explanation for three major quakes on the same day and attributed it to pure coincidence, according to Aljazeera.