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With increased power output, the Nepal Electricity Authority has begun exporting surplus power to India.

The current peak demand for electricity in the country is 1,643 megawatt. Peak demand describes the periods when the electricity use reaches the highest and the demand normally remains high in morning and evening hours and the demand goes down during day and night hours.

When there is oversupply, the electricity goes to waste and to deal with the situation Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) has started selling surplus power to India.

According to NEA executive director Kulman Ghising, two hydropower projects based in Nuwakot have been supplying 39 megawatt of electricity to India since Wednesday midnight. The projects had supplied power to India last year too.

Currently, water level in Nepal's rivers has significantly increased and it was due to timely rains.

As the NEA said, the projects supplying the surplus production to India are 24 MW Trishuli Hydropower and the 15 MW Devighat Project.

The total power production in Nepal at the time is 2,300 MW and some projects are likely to come into operation by the end of the current fiscal year.

According to NEA Spokesperson, in the competitive energy exchange market of India, Nepal exports and imports electricity on the basis of blocks that are fixed every 15 minutes. The price of each block also varies being based on the demand.

Now demand for electricity is excessively high in India following a significant temperature rise there and the ceiling price of the purchase and sale of electricity is IRs 12 (Rs 19.20) per unit.

Tara Air has halted its Pokhara-Jomsom-Pokhara flights for a week.

Tara Air halted the flights after the 9N-AET Canadian-made DHC-6-300 Twin Otter plane crashed at Sanosware in Mustang district on Monday, killing 22 persons including three crew members. Senior pilot Prabhakar Ghimire was one of the crew members who was killed in the incident.

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Issuing a statement on Thursday, Tara Air spokesperson said that the regular flights have been halted from June 2 to 10 due to special reasons.

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The bodies of 22 persons, who died in a plane crash in northern part of Nepal, have been handed over to their relatives after conducting postmortem at the Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital (TUTH) on Thursday.

The bodies were airlifted to Kathmandu on Sunday and Monday.

The Twin Otter aircraft of Tara Air, which took off from Pokhara to  Jomsom at 9: 55 am on Sunday, lost contact with the air traffic control office at 10: 10 am.

The plane was found crashed at Sanosware in Mustang district of Nepal on Monday.

There were 22 people including two German nationals, four Indians and 13 Nepali nationals on board the ill-fated aircraft when the incident occurred. No one survived the incident.

According to the Civil Aviation Office, Pokhara, the deceased have been identified as Indian nationals Vaibhavi Bandekar, Ashok Kumar Tripathy, Dhanush Tripathy and Ritika Tripathy, Nepali nationals Indra Bahadur Gole, Purushottam Gole, Raj Kumar Gole, Basanta Lama, Ganesh Narayan Shrestha, Rabina Shrestha, Rashmi Shrestha, Rojina Shrestha, Prakash Sunuwar, Makar Bahadur Tamang, Ram Maya Tamang, Suku Maya Tamang and Tulusa Devi Tamang and German nationals Meike Grit Graf and Uwe Willner.

Following the incident, the government formed a five-member commission under the headship of senior Aeronautical Engineer Ratish Chandra Lal Suman to investigate the crash.

Captain Dipu Jwarchan, Senior Maintenance Engineer Upendra Lal Shrestha, Senior Meteorologist Mani Ratna Shakya and Joint Secretary at the Ministry Buddhi Sagar Lamichhane are the other members of the commission.

Tension ran high in Dhomboji Chok (Birendra Chok) in Nepalgunj on Thursday after the police administration intervened in an attempt to install the half-figure statue of late King Birendra.

Police fired a few shells of tear gas and bullets in the air to take the situation under control.

The statue of King Birendra was pulled down during the second people’s movement in 2006.

Later, the national flag was installed in the place by removing the statue of King Birendra.

Independent activists and Rastriya Prajatantra Party cadres and loyalists removed the national flag and installed the statue of King Birendra today.

Police have already removed the statue of King Birendra from that place.