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The Kathmandu Metropolitan City has directed the Bhrikutimandap-based Kathmandu Fun Park to pay tax dues within 24 hours. Sending a letter on Wednesday, the KMC directed the park to pay the tax within 24 hours. The Metropolitan City said that the fun park was served 24-hour ultimatum to pay the tax along with fine after it ignored the city’s repeated request to pay the amount. The fun park has not been paying business tax, entertainment tax and advertising tax among others to the KMC for the past many years. According to the KMC, the fun park will be sealed if it did not pay the tax within the given timeframe.

Two women died and 12 others were injured when a lightning struck a group of women celebrating Teej festival at Gurau in Ghorahi Sub-Metropolitan City-12 of Dang on Tuesday. The incident occurred when the women were celebrating Teej festival last night, said DSP Rajan Gautam, spokesperson at the District Police Office, Dang, said. Further details about the incident are yet to come.  

Vehicular movement along the Narayangarh-Muglin road section has been obstructed following a landslide at Kerabari in Bharatpur Metropolitan City-29. Two-way traffic has been disrupted due to the landslide, DSP Narahari Adhikari of the District Police Office, Chitwan said. Efforts are being made to clear the mudslide, he said. Officials have been facing difficulties to remove the debris due to torrential rainfall.  

Kanchanpur district has witnessed increasing risk of dengue virus outbreak. According to the District Health Office, four out of 20 tested were diagnosed with dengue in Dodhara-Chadani Municipality last week. Chief at the District Health Jaya Bahadur Mahara said that four India returnees were detected with dengue. "Three men and a woman were diagnosed with dengue", he said, adding, "The dengue-infected men had returned from India while the father and brother of the infected woman were also India returnees". Dodhara-Chadani is the territory of Nepal sharing an open border with India. Chances of dengue transmission are high here due to frequent mobility of the people across the border. Dengue is transmitted through the bites of Aedes Argypti and Aedes albopictus. Despite the rise in the cases, the health facilities here have come across a shortage of testing kits, the office sources said. Medical Superintendent of Mahakali Province Hospital, Dr Arjun Bhatta said the number of patients of Malaria and dengue has increased in the hospital of late. "There is an immoderate rise of patients with viral fever in the hospital", he said.