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Locals have no bound of happiness as the Jayanagar-Kurtha Rail service has operated finally. 

Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba and his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi jointly inaugurated the railway service from New Delhi on Saturday. 

The rail that left at 8.30 am on Sunday had arrived at Janakpur station at around 10.15 am the same day. 

The rail that reached Janakpur from Jayanagar through Kurtha on the first day since its opening was packed with passengers on both ordinary and AC seats, shared Director-General of Nepal Railway Company, Niranjan Jha. 

He further said the railway service is smooth and regular on its scheduled time. The timetable has been set in a way that the rail comes and goes twice a day, he added.

As per the timetable, the rail leaves from Jayanagar at 8.30 am and 3.00 pm while another rail leaves from Kurtha at 10.30 am and 5.15 pm. 

The dwellers of Dhanusha who had long been awaiting railway service now are elated with the smooth operation of rail. 

Sanjaya Jha, a local youth, expressed his confidence that the area in and around Janakpuir would transform within a few years with the smooth operation of railway service. 

He said the area would witness a huge inflow of religious tourists and local production would get market which he believed would change the landscape of the area. RSS

Nepal reported 33 new Covid-19 cases on Monday.

According to the Ministry of Health and Population, 2, 942 swab samples were tested in the RT-PCR method, of which 32 returned positive. Likewise, 2, 117 people underwent antigen tests, of which one was tested positive.

The Ministry said that no one died of virus in the last 24 hours. The Ministry said that 89 infected people recovered from the disease.

As of today, there are 842 active cases in the country.

Three children died following a cooking gas cylinder explosion at Lama Tole in Maneshwora of Bahrabise Municipality-8, Sindhupalchowk on Sunday.

Locals said that the incident took place at the house of Min Bahadur Tamang at around 7 pm yesterday.

The deceased have been identified as Min Bahadur's son Ishak Tamang (10), his brother Kumar Tamang's six-year-old son Sargam Tamang and neighbour Padam Tamang's two-year-old daughter Dibya Tamang.

Ward Chairman Suraj Tamang said that they died in a fire triggered by the cooking gas cylinder explosion.

Min Bahadur, however, sustained injuries in the incident.

He has been taken to a hospital for treatment.

A person died and two other sustained injuries when motorbike they were riding on met with an accident at Tankisinabari in Budhiganga Rural Municipality-2 of Morang district.

The deceased has been identified as bike (Ko 17 Pa 7672) rider Anish Karki (22) of Khanar, Itahari Sub-Metropolitan City-12, Sunsari.

DSP Deepak Shrestha, spokesperson at the District Police Office, said that the incident occurred at around 9:30 pm yesterday.

Critically injured in the incident, Karki breathed his last during the course of treatment at the Budhiganga Rural Municipality-based Birat Teaching Hoapital at around 10 pm, police said.

Suman Rajbansi (21) of Jahada Rural Municipality and Ronish Dahal (18) of Biratnagar, who were injured in the incident, are receiving treatment at the Birat Teaching Hospital.

Police said that they are looking into the case.