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Two persons died when a jeep met with an accident in Ilam onThursday.

The deceased have been identified as Ramesh Thapa (55) and Surya Bahadur Thapa (40) of Mechinagar Municipality-4, Jhapa.

According to the Information Officer at the District Police Office Ganga Bahadur Thapa, the ill-fated jeep (Province 1-01-001 Cha 7916) was heading towards Ilam from Jhapa when the tragedy occurred.

He said that the incident took place after the driver lost control of the vehicle and fell some 500 metres down the road at Pahiro in Rong Rural Municipality-4 along the Mechi Highway this morning.

Jeep driver Arjun Koirala (33) of Mechinagar-4 was critically injured in the incident. He has been taken to the B & C Hospital for the treatment.

Police said that they are looking into the case.

Annapurna Media Network (AMN) and Confederation of Nepalese Industries (CNI) signed a Memorandum of Understanding for the implementation of the ‘Unity for Sustainability’ campaign on Wednesday.

AMN, a leading media house in Nepal, launched a two-year ‘Unity for Sustainability’ campaign which aims to collaborate with concerned stakeholders on climate change issues on November 24.

AMN Chief Executive Officer Sanat Neupane and CNI Director General Yadav Poudyal signed the MoU at the latter’s office in Thapathali today.

The main objective of signing the MoU was to reduce the impact of climate change in Nepal, advise people to use alternative energy for cooking, encourage the use of green energy in industries and to protect biodiversity.

Nepal has planned to achieve ‘no net’ carbon emissions by 2045.

The two organizations have also decided to join hands together to run a program on climate change.

On the occasion, CNI Director General Poudyal said that climate change is a sensitive and broad issue.

With the signing of agreement, the foundation has been established between the two organizations for a long-term partnership, he said.

AMN Chief Executive Officer Neupane underscored the need to raise awareness about the climate change in Nepal as it is an important issue not only for a person or an organization but for the whole world.

CNI Director Sabin Mishra and Chiranjibi Neupane and Subha Khanal Thapa from the AMN were present in the programme.

Rescuers from the United States Coast Guard are searching the waters off Florida’s Atlantic coast for 39 people reported missing for several days after a boat believed to be used for human smuggling capsized, Al Jezeera reported.

A good Samaritan alerted the Coast Guard early on Tuesday after rescuing a man clinging to the mostly submerged hull of the boat after it hit bad weather about 72km (45 miles) east of the town of Fort Pierce, the maritime security agency reported on Twitter.

The survivor told authorities that he had left the Bahamas’ Bimini islands with 39 other people on Saturday night, and that they had not been wearing lifejackets, the Coast Guard added.

Cutter vessels and aircraft have been deployed to search an area stretching from Bimini to Fort Pierce to find the missing.

The Coast Guard said it was treating the incident as a case of suspected human smuggling.

The nationality of those on board is not yet known.

Migrants have long used the islands of the Bahamas as a stepping stone to reach the United States, with the Bimini Islands only about 80km (50 miles) east of Miami, Florida.

Smugglers typically try to take advantage of breaks in the weather to make the crossing, but the vessels are often dangerously overloaded and prone to capsizing. There have been thousands of deaths over the years.

The latest accident follows another ill-fated crossing last week when the authorities rescued 32 people whose boat capsized west of Bimini, Coast Guard spokesperson, Petty Officer Jose Hernandez told the Reuters news agency.

Most of those attempting the crossing come from Haiti and Cuba.

At least 557 Cuban migrants in all have been picked up at sea by the Coast Guard since October, according to the agency.

Crossings by Haitians have also grown more frequent as the Caribbean island nation deals with economic and political crises, as well as gang-related kidnappings.

The Coast Guard said it had intercepted at least 159 Haitian nationals over the past year.

Nepal recorded 8,454 new Covid-19 cases and five deaths on Wednesday.

According to the Ministry of Health and Population, 13,549 swab samples were tested in the RT-PCR method, of which 5,571 returned positive. Likewise, 6,810 people underwent antigen tests, of which 2,883 tested positive.

The Ministry said that 4,433 infected people recovered from the disease in the last 24 hours.

As of today, there are 90,067 active cases in the country.