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Kathmandu Metropolitan City Mayor Balen Shah has given continuity to his drive to demolish illegal structures. Shah along with his team reached the Department of Passport in Tripureshwor on Friday. The KMC had issued a 35-day notice to demolish the illegal structures. The Metropolitan City swung into action after its notice was ignored by the people. Earlier on Thursday, the KMC demolished the basement of the Alfa Beta Complex in New Baneshwor. A team led by Mayor Shah demolished the structure saying that it was built against the rule. The Alfa Beta had been operating a pharmacy in the basement. Shah with his team reached the Alfa Beta Complex after the owner ignored the 35-day notice of the KMC. When the team reached the Complex, managing director of Alfa Beta Dwiraj Sharma asked the Mayor Shah to present his building’s blueprint.

Weather across the country is expected to remain partly to generally cloudy throughout the week. Issuing a bulletin, the Department of Hydrology and Meteorology said there is a possibility of light to moderate rainfall at many places of the country in the beginning and mid-week. Similarly, there is a chance of light rainfall at a few places in the country at the end of the week. Heavy rainfall accompanied by thunderstorm and lightning has been predicted at one or two places of hilly areas of province 1, Bagmati, Gandaki, Lumbini and Karnali provinces in the beginning and mid-week. Weather across the nation will remain partly to generally cloudy with the chance of light to moderate rainfall with thunderstorm and lightning at few places of province 1, Gandaki and Lumbini provinces and at one or two places of the remaining provinces today. As per the latest details of Meteorological Forecasting Division, today's minimum temperature of Kathmandu Valley is recorded at 20.9 degree Celsius and maximum temperature at 31.2 degree Celsius.

Police have arrested three persons of the Presidential Immigration Pvt. Ltd for defrauding millions of rupees of people with fake assurances of sending them to the United States with green cards from Nepal. After the Annapurna Post, sister publication of the Annapurna Express, published the news regarding the issue on Thursday, a team of police carried out a raid at the office of the company in Gairidhara and apprehended them. The suspects have been identified as consultancy operator Prabin Rai (35) and deputy director duo Omkar Gupta (46) and Sanjay Tamang (34). Rai, a permanent resident of Silichong Rural Municipality-2, Sankhuwasabha, has been living at Saraswatinagar, Kathmandu while Gupta of Parasi Bazaar, Ramgram Municipality-3, Nawalparasi has been residing at Gothatar and Tamang of Karphok, Suryadoya Municipality-11, Ilam has been living at Basundhara. Krishna Koirala, spokesperson at the Crime Investigation Bureau, said that they will be charged under the Education Act, 2028 and fraud case. He said that police have taken some documents of the consultancy. Though the company has been registered, it has been found that the consultancy has not taken permission from the Educational Counseling Branch of the Ministry of Education. Gupta had said that the consultancy had so far collected around Rs 130 million from around 50 people at the rate of 2.5 million each. Further investigation into the incident is underway, police said.