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Thames International College is organizing Thames Assemblage 2022 is bringing together the three annual flagship events Nepal Social Work Symposium, Thames Business Gabfest, and Art Carnival.

The Assemblage will be held at Taragaon Museum on July 7 and 8, 2022, and will gather leading experts, practitioners, intellectuals, and students to deliberate upon various issues and ideas through interdisciplinary lenses, as relevant to the dynamic environment we live in. It will also bring together students in a celebration of their artistic expressions.

Academics, public intellectuals, civil society leaders, politicians, civil servants, non-profit professionals, activists, social workers, media personalities, entrepreneurs, business thinkers, strategists, technologists, economists, writers, poets, artists, and educators are invited as guest speakers.

This year, Thames is making an effort to invite speakers and address topics we feel would resonate with young, aspiring students. Students as young as high school students can participate in the symposium as the audience.  Former Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai will speak on: Nepal after 10 years: social and economic perspectives. Editor-in-Chief of Kantipur Daily Sudheer Sharma will speak on Geopolitics and Nepal.

Police on Thursday raided a company operated by Chinese nationals on the damside of Pokhara on suspicion of carrying out illegal activities.

Police raided the company this afternoon and took three Chinese nationals under control on suspicion of carrying out illegal activities.

They had been defrauding people with false promises of helping them get jobs through IT companies.

SP Ramesh Thapa of the District Police Office, Kaski said that they have taken the Chinese nationals under control for interrogation.

Police said that they are looking into the case.

Nepal reported 55 new Covid-19 cases on Thursday.

According to the Ministry of Health and Population, 1, 532 swab samples were tested in the RT-PCR method, of which 36 returned positive. Likewise, 1, 166 people underwent antigen tests, of which 19 were tested positive.

The Ministry said that no one died of virus in the last 24 hours. The Ministry said that 17 infected people recovered from the disease.

As of today, there are 280 active cases in the country.

Fifteen persons have taken ill after consuming toxic mushroom in Butwal.

Among them, five are undergoing treatment at the Intensive Care Units and their condition are critical, the Area Police Office, Butwal said.

Rina BK (28) of Nayagaun, Butwal Sub-Metropolitan City-12, Kamala BK (28), Supriya BK (8), Bishnu BK (38), Durga BK (33) and Hum Bahadur BK (50) have fallen sick after consuming mushroom brought from a jungle, the Area Police Office, Butwal said.

Thag Bahadur KC, Chief at the Area Police Office, Butwal, said that Hima Kumari Chantyal (62) and Gauri Maya Sen (62) of Laxminagar, Butwal-4, Dipa Sen (65), Yethartha GC (14), Manju Sen (42), Hari Sen (64) and Prakash Sen (37), Pema Thapa (45) of Shantichok, Belbas, Sushila Roka (43) and Rima BK (28)  have also taken ill.