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A 60-year-old woman of Madi municipality-1 in Chitwan district died of Japanese Encephalitis. She died after returning home from the hospital. According to health office chief, Durga Dutta Chapagain, a total of nine cases of Japanese Encephalitis have been confirmed so far in the district. Of them, a woman succumbed to Japanese Encephalitis in the district. The deceased was admitted to Bharatpur Hospital on August 22 after she suffered from headache and fever. Out of 22 tests, nine cases of Japanese Encephalitis have been confirmed in the district. According to the office, four cases of Japanese Encephalitis have been detected in Bharatpur Metropolitan City, two in Madi Municipality and each in Rapti, Ratnanagar and Kalika Municipalities. The infection first was detected in the first week of August and JE cases have reached nine till September 3. This is probably the first time the district is tackling the situation to this level, said office chief, Chapagain. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), Japanese Encephalitis Virus (JEV) is a flavivirus related to dengue, yellow fever and West Nile viruses, and it spreads by mosquitoes.

Air service in Baitadi remained closed for the past six months due to bad weather and a lack of passengers, said the airport authorities. Earlier, the Summit Air had been operating a flight between Dhangadhi-Baitadi-Dhangadhi once a week (Thursdays), but its flight has been closed since March 24, said Krishna Dutta Bhatta, the contact person for the Summit Air. As a result, people have been affected especially at a time when Dashain festival is around the corner. It takes at least eight hours on a public vehicle to reach Dhangadhi from Baitadi. At present, the airline has been operating flights elsewhere at tourist destinations where there is the availability of passengers easily, he said. "The airline conducted flights at Lukla and Jomsom for two or three months. A plan was afoot to operate flights between Dhangadhi-Baitadi-Dhangadhi. But bad weather and a lack of passengers affected it," he said, adding that now, the flight between the routes would resume from the third week of September.  

Sadhguru, a yogi, profound mystic, visionary humanitarian and prominent spiritual leader, held an interaction with business and media leaders, at Dwarikas Hotel in the Capital. During the program, he spoke on a range of topics and answered some questions raised by the invitees. Sadhguru has been strongly propagating the save soil movement he initiated globally to address the soil crisis by bringing together people from around the world to stand up for Soil Health, and supporting leaders of all nations to institute national policies and actions toward increasing the organic content in cultivable Soil. This movement has garnered support from global leaders including Marc Benioff, Jane Goodall, His Holiness the Dalai Lama and institutions such as United Nations - Convention to Combat Desertification, World Economic Forum, World Food Programme, Food & Agriculture Organization of United Nations. "We can be a generation that came back from the brink of a disaster, or we can be that generation that walked into disaster," Sadhguru said. Sadhguru's Save Soil movement now touches over 3.9 billion across the globe. Sadhguru drove 30,000 kms across 27 nations delivering talks and organising awareness programs to concretize policy action for preserving and regenerating soil.

The Kathmandu Metropolitan City has banned consumption of tobacco products in public places within the city. The new policy will come into effect from September 17. The KMC passed the policy to effectively implement the provision to ban the consumption of tobacco products in public places, according to a notice issued by the KMC. The banned tobacco products include cigarettes, cigars, bidis, chewing tobacco and gutkas among others. Those flouting the rule will be booked as per the Tobacco Products (Control and Regulatory) Act, 2068, according to the KMC Director and Information Officer, Basanta Acharya.