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Kathmandu Metropolitan City Mayor Balen Shah today directed the owners of the Shankhamul Burger House at New Baneshwor and Alfa Beta House to immediately vacate the underground areas of the buildings. After inspecting these areas, Mayor Shah urged the owners to use the underground areas constructed for parking for the same purpose. A medical lab has been operated in the parking area of Alfa House while Burger House of Shankhamul is running at the basement parking. Chief of Kathmandu Municipal Police Raju Pandey said that Mayor Shah asked both of them to remove infrastructures constructed at the parking area immediately. Similarly, the team comprising Mayor Shah and Municipal Police Chief Pandey has now reached Gaushala in order to acquire information about the building where Muktinath Development Bank is located. The KMC had issued a 35-day notice to remove illegally constructed structures. The KMC said it has been compelled to go for action after the notice was ignored.

Weather would remain partly to generally cloudy across the country with chances of light to moderate rainfall accompanied by thunderstorms and lightning at a few places today. According to the Department of Hydrology and Meteorology, there is a possibility of light to moderate rainfall with thunderstorms and lightning at one or two places of Sudurpaschim and Madhes provinces and at a few places of the remaining provinces. Partly to generally cloudy weather is predicted in the hilly region and partly cloudy to generally fair in the rest of the regions of the country tonight. Likewise, light to moderate rain with thunderstorms and lightning has been forecast at few places of Province 1, Bagmati and Gandaki provinces and at one or two places of the remaining provinces tonight. Weather on Friday The weather will remain partly to generally cloudy throughout the country with chances of light to moderate rain along with thunder and lightning at some places of Province no 1, Bagmati province and Gandaki province, and at a few places of the rest of the provinces on Friday. The weather update shared by the Meteorological Forecasting Division states that the minimum temperature in Kathmandu Valley was 20.5 degrees Celsius and the maximum 31.0 degrees Celsius over the last 24 hours. Similarly, the lowest temperature of 16.1 degrees Celsius was recorded in Jumla and the highest 36.0 degrees Celsius in Dipayal throughout the country in the last 24 hours.

As many as 289 complaints were lodged at the District Administration Office Siraha against loan sharks. The government had called for the victims to register complaints against loan sharks within the deadline of August 21. It may be noted that the government had formed a taskforce to check and take action against the loan sharks. Chief District Officer of Siraha Lalbabu Kawari said as many as 289 complaints have been registered against loan sharks in the district.

The Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) has announced to continue demolishing structures constructed illegally and by encroaching upon public land. "It would continue as a campaign. The structures unlawfully built in all 32 wards of KMC would not be left", said Sunil Lamsal, a member of KMC Mayor Balen Shah secretariat. He further informed that the structures constructed without obtaining official approval and built not in line with the authorized map would be removed. "KMC would first request the concerned individuals to show documents regarding construction of the structure and further legal process would be adopted if something wrong was evidenced while screening the documents", he shared. As part of the campaign, KMC had pulled down the illegally-constructed and unauthorized structures in and around Kathmandu Mall in Sundhara on Wednesday. On the same day, Mayor Shah reached Durbar Marga and directed the removal of unauthorized structures. Earlier, the street-based shops being operated at New Baneswor areas that were constructed for vehicle parking were also evacuated. Lamsal added, "Monopoly of any side would not be entertained anymore as in the past". The drive to demolish unauthorized structures began Wednesday when the concerned sides ignored the 35-day public notice issued earlier by the metropolitan city. KMC expressed its confidence that the move would help manage vehicle parking and traffic issue in the metropolis in coming days. The KMC has come up with the tough measure when there was a wrong trend of constructing big malls and collecting higher rental charges from vendors in the areas set aside for parking. "The demolition of some structure is just a symbolic move. If the owners remain obdurate to comply with the law, we would be compelled to pull down several structures in future", Lamsal added. The KMC has clarified that the drive was initiated when the concerned sides remained reluctant to come to discuss on the issue even after 35 days of the public notice, Mayor Shah shared via social media. "Do not construct unlawful structures. Please demolish the structures complying with the KMC notice if they were already built. Also do not rent in such structures", Mayor Shah added. Mayor Shah said they would do their best efforts to get rented sides compensated from the owners while demolishing the unauthorized structures. Likewise, KMC wrote a letter to the Babarmahal-based Kathmandu District Court to send details of its approved map. The metropolis has also warned the court to initiate legal process if structures were found constructed without approving map. KMC sources shared currently there are 35 buildings in Kathmandu that have been receiving tax exemption on condition of managing basement and underground parking.