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Seven persons including three Nepalis died in an avalanche at Chomgo in East Sikkim of India. According to a statement issued by the Sikkim government, the avalanche hit the Gangtok Natula JNM road at 11:10 am on Tuesday. The deceased Nepalis have been identified as Shiva Prasad Lamichhane and Ashika Dhakal (22) of Chitwan and Muna Sah (29) of Rupandehi. Similarly, Shaurav Raya Chaudhary (29), Pritam Matte (38) of West Bengal, Bal Singh (32) and six-year-old Rebika Singh also died in the incident, SP Tenzing Loden Lepcha of Sikkim said. All of them were tourists. Likewise, three Nepalis were injured in the incident. The injured have been identified as Gita Sapkota (40), Jyoti Gurung (38) and Ramesh Khanal (43). They are undergoing treatment at the Gangtok-based STNM Hospital.    

Dr Bijay Raj Neupane has been appointed the Chair of the Board of Directors at the BP Koirala Memorial Cancer Hospital in Chitwan. A meeting of the Council of Ministers decided to appoint him to the post. Prior to this, he was the deputy director of the Hospital. Newly appointed Chair Neupane said he is committed to ensuring quality service and promoting the Hospital as a research hub for cancer across the country.  

Around 100, 000 tourists visited Nepal in March this year. According to the Nepal Tourism Board (NTB), 99, 426 visitors entered Nepal in the month.  Of them, 33, 454 were from the SAARC nations, 15, 643 from other Asian nations, 23, 265 from Europe and 3,958 arrived from the countries of the Oceania region. Similarly, the country welcomed 1,707 from Canada, 557 from the United States of America and 10,375 from the Middle-East. The highest number of tourists had arrived from India and they make-up 25,911 and this figure was 15,013 in the corresponding period in 2022. Similarly, the tourist arrivals from the US in March were almost double in the corresponding period last year. In 2022, 4,896 tourists from the US had visited Nepal.   The high tourist flows were from India, the US, the UK, Germany and Sri Lanka. The data shows that Nepal's tourism industry is on the path of recovery following COVID-19 pandemic.

Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal has wished a bright future for the students sitting for secondary education examination (SEE) from today. "I wish a bright future to all the students taking their SEE examinations from today," the PM has stated. Writing on his Facebook wall this morning, the PM has appealed to all concerned sides to make the SEE examinations systematic, decent, peaceful and fearless, and play roles from their respective positions. A total of 484,227 students are taking their exams though 516,591 students studying in Grade 9 filled up their registration form for the SEE. It is said that 2,037 examination centers have been designated for SEE. These include 2,036 exam centers in 77 districts and one in Japan where 14 students are sitting for the SEE exam. According to SEE Examinations Controller Bishnu Narayan Shrestha Shrestha, the students in Japan are taking their SEE from an academic institution in Tokyo which teaches Nepali curriculum with the approval from the government of Japan. The highest number of examinees are in Bagmati Province (106,959) and the lowest in Karnali Province (41,329). Around 15,000 students will be taking the exams in the technical stream. Similarly, 2,982 students from 65 schools are running courses in Sanskrit and 50 blind students are appearing in the SEE this year. Students from 11,829 schools, including 7,200 communities and 4,564 institutional ones are sitting in the SEE. Seventy-eight thousand human resources have been mobilized at the examination centers throughout the country. It is said that the Province Examination Operation and Management Committee formed under the leadership of Province Secretary in every province would operate, manage and monitor the examinations in the provinces remaining under the scope of National Examination Board's directives. The District Examination Coordination Committee formed comprising Chief District Officer, chiefs of security bodies in every district have completed all necessary tasks including designating invigilators in examination centers, imparting orientation to stakeholders.