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A woman died of dengue infection in Chitwan. The 40-year-old woman from Rapti Municipality-7 lost her life to dengue infection. According to the district health office, she was diagnosed with dengue in the course of her test at Maulakalika Polyclinic. She died while undergoing treatment at Chitwan Medical College, said Information Officer at the office, Ram KC. Earlier, a man aged around 27 of Ratnanagar Municipality-1 breathed his last due to dengue infection on October 19. As many as 743 people have been so far confirmed with dengue infection in the district. Among the infected, 459 are from Chitwan, 175 are from other districts and 109 unidentified. The office said that dengue infection was confirmed among 743 while carrying out tests on 4,449 people.

Jet boat service has come into operation from Chataraghat to Kopche in Barahachhetra Municipality-1 of Sunsari. Proprietor of Barahachhetra Marin and Resort Jet Boat Nabin Poudel said that three long-distance and four short-distance jet boats have come into operation in the Saptakoshi River during winter. Barahachhetra Marin and Resort, Saptakoshi Tourism and Water Transportation, Nepal River Transport Pvt Ltd, Barahachhetra Water Transport and Tourism Service Pvt Ltd ventured the jet boat service in the Saptakoshi. He further said that the boat service has been made available to the public so as to ease travel and transport during the winter festive time. Poudel said that the jet boats are being operated from Barahachhetra Temple along the Saptakoshi banks. As informed, individual fare for five-kilometer boating from Barahachhetra to Kopche has been determined Rs 600. With the operation of the jet boat, it would be easier for the people to travel to the southern belt of Bhojpur and Simple, Akhuwatar, Triveni and Sangma of Dhankuta, Poudel said. A jet boat has a carrying capacity of 50 persons.  

Shankharapur Municipality located in the north-east of the federal capital, Kathmandu, has come up with a program to provide free health and education. At a program organized to unveil 100-day achievements of the elected people's representatives, Shankharapur Mayor Ramesh Napit said a process was already taken ahead to keep municipal area waste-free, neat and clean "We are effortful to achieve prosperity through tourism and agriculture and ease the livelihood of the municipal residents by building development infrastructures", he shared. As per our commitment in the earlier local election, we have engaged our efforts to make the education and health sector cost free, he noted. With the assistance of the German government, a process was put forward for the construction of a hospital at ward-7, Kathanchowk, it was shared. Likewise, the municipality has taken ahead a process to procure ambulances with the financial assistance of development partners. On the occasion, municipality's spokesperson Radhakrishna Shrestha informed that groundwork for free health and education was done for the people. Among other achievements obtained in the reporting period were free ambulance service for pregnant women and senior citizens, arrangement of seven free health services after signing bilateral agreement with Sankhu-based Sushma Koirala Memorial Hospital and 30-60 percent concession in 11 health services, Shrestha added.

Gaddachauki, a transit point along the Nepal-India border in Kanchanpur, lately reports a large arrival of Nepalis from India for the Dashain festival. Over 10,000 people entered Nepal via the Gaddachauki points since a past week. According to the District Police Office, Kanchanpur, over 1, 000 Nepalis are returning home each day from India for the Dashain. Office Chief Shyam Singh Chaudhary said with transit becoming overcrowded by the India-returnees, security has been beefed-up. Trained dogs have been mobilized along the border area to prevent any untoward incidents and for the security of travelers. Ram Bahadur Bhandari of Lamki Chuha who returned home from Himanchal Pradesh said he has been there for over a decade and makes his way to home each Dashain. As he said, his visit to his home is just for the festival and will be back to working stations after the Tihar.  Delhi, Mumbai, Maharashtra, Punjab, Bangalore, Shimla, Himachal and Haridwar are among those preferred labor destinations of people from the far-eastern Nepal. The District Police Office, Kanchanpur said it is concerned about the risk of various infectious diseases with the large entry of people from India and tests for corona, dengue and malaria and the vaccinations for COVID-19 are available along the border point.