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The World Day for Safety and Health at Work is being observed throughout the globe including in Nepal today. 

The theme of the World Day for Safety and Health at Work 2025 is – 'Revolutionizing health and safety: the role of AI and digitalization at work.' 

This Day has been marked at the call of the International Labour Organization (ILO) since 2003 to emphasize the prevention of accidents and diseases in the workplace. This campaign is a part of the ILO's international strategy to ensure occupational safety and health. 

One of the main pillars of the Global Strategy is advocacy and the World Day for Safety and Health at Work is a significant tool to raise awareness of how to make work safe and healthy and of the need to raise the political profile of occupational safety and health, the ILO said.

April 28  is also the International Commemoration Day for Dead and Injured Workers organized worldwide by the trade union movement since 1996.

Occupational Safety and Health Day is used as an important tool to spread awareness about how to ensure workplace safety and health and to bring political priority to this topic.

This year's theme is relevant as in today's digital age, artificial intelligence (AI) and digital tools are changing the very definition of health and safety in the workplace. Robots are being used which are carrying out hazardous tasks such as heavy work, handling poisonous materials, and working in extreme temperatures.

Digital devices and sensors have the ability to detect threats, which has significantly improved security. However, it is important to adopt proper regulation and protective measures.

The Westerly and local wind coupled with the moisture-laden wind entering from the Bay of Bengal have their influence in the weather system of the country at present, the Meteorological Forecasting Division of the Department of Hydrology and Meteorology said. 

The weather will be partly to generally cloudy throughout the country with the possibility of light to moderate precipitation accompanied by thunder and lightning at some places of Koshi, Madhes, Bagmati and Gandaki Provinces and some places of the hilly region of Lumbini and Karnali Provinces and at a few places in the rest of the country today.

Light rain and snowfall are likely to occur at some places of the mountainous region of Koshi, Bagmati, Gandaki and Karnali Provinces. According to the Division, there is a possibility of heavy rainfall at one or two places in Koshi Province.

Similarly, the weather will be partly to generally cloudy throughout the country tonight. Light to moderate rain with thunder and lightning is likely to occur at a few places of Koshi, Madhes, Bagmati and Gandaki Provinces and at one or two places of the hilly regions of the rest of the provinces.

Light rain and snowfall are likely to occur at a few places of the mountainous regions of Koshi, Bagmati and Gandaki Provinces and heavy rainfall at one or two places of Koshi Province tonight.

Three persons died and two others were injured in a jeep accident at Siddheshwar, Rainadevi Chhahara Rural Municipality-1 in Palpa district last night.

The jeep (Lu 1 Ja 2377) was heading towards Thulapokhara from Asare of Siddheshwar when the accident occurred, said Sunil Malla, Deputy Superintendent of Police at the District Police Office, Palpa. 

Following the incident, five of the injured were rushed to the United Mission Hospital in Tansen and doctors declared three of them as dead, police said.

The deceased have been identified as 36-year-old Dipendra Budha, 31-year-old Chet Narayan BK, and 23-year-old Janak Regami of Siddheshwar, Rainadevi Chhahara-1.

The injured jeep driver, Ranjan Reshmi (27) and another injured Saroj Budha 23) are undergoing treatment at the hospital.

According to the police, the jeep fell some 200 meters down the road. Further investigation into the incident is underway, police said. 

Four hundred and two people from 53 countries have taken permits as of April 27 to climb Mt Everest, the world's tallest peak, in this spring climbing season this year, the Department of Tourism said. Seventy-four among them are women.

Department Director Liladhar Awasthi said that 41 expeditions have taken permission. 

In the same season last year, a total of 414 people, including 75 women and 339 men from 41 mountaineering expeditions, had taken permission to climb Mt Everest.

Royalty of Rs 684 million has been collected from the permits issued for climbing various mountain peaks this year.

The Department stated that the royalty amount is expected to increase further as climbers continue to arrive.

The Department has set up a field office at the Everest Base Camp to ensure safe, orderly mountain climbing and to regulate the mountaineering activities in the Mt Everest. It is stated that during the 72 years of climbing Mt Everest, many new records have been set as a growing number of mountaineers jostle to stand tall on the top of the Everest.

Even though climbing Mt Everest is fraught with risk and challenging, an increasing number of climbers are still aspiring for ascending the tallest mountain on Earth.

One of them is Solukhumbu's Tashi Gyaljen Sherpa who has set out to climb Mt Everest four times in 20 days this season with the aim of setting a new record.

So far, more than 8,000 domestic and foreign climbers have reached atop the highest peak in the history of Everest climbing and the trend of setting new record continues.