Landslide obstructs Kaligandaki corridor
A landslide occurred at Dablyang in Baglung Municipality-10 has disrupted vehicular movement in the Kaligandaki corridor since last night.
The landslide has washed away a section of the road in Dablyang after a heavy rain.
Assistant Sub-Inspector of Nepal Police Ganga Ram BK said that vehicular movement to the southern part of the Baglung district headquarters were obstructed after the road disruption.
Likewise, the vehicles left for the long routes are also off the road.
Three years left to limit warming to 1.5C, leading scientists warn
The Earth could be doomed to breach the symbolic 1.5C warming limit in as little as three years at current levels of carbon dioxide emissions, BBC reported.
That's the stark warning from more than 60 of the world's leading climate scientists in the most up-to-date assessment of the state of global warming.
Nearly 200 countries agreed to try to limit global temperature rises to 1.5C above levels of the late 1800s in a landmark agreement in 2015, with the aim of avoiding some of the worst impacts of climate change.
But countries have continued to burn record amounts of coal, oil and gas and chop down carbon-rich forests - leaving that international goal in peril, according to BBC.
JC summons judges over Alam acquittal
The two judges—Khusi Prasad Tharu and Arjun Maharjan—who acquitted former Nepali Congress lawmaker Mohammad Aftab Alam in a murder case have been summoned by the Judicial Council.
In a meeting held on Thursday, the council decided to relieve them of their current responsibilities and bring them under review.
The Council had formed a one-member investigation committee comprising Supreme Court justice Binod Sharma.
Alam had been accused of orchestrating a deadly bomb-making operation at his residence in Rajpur Farhadawa, Rautahat, on the eve of the first Constituent Assembly elections in 2008.
At the time, he was a candidate and allegedly aimed to use the explosives to capture booths. However, the bomb exploded prematurely, injuring many.
The injured were reportedly burned alive by being thrown into a brick kiln furnace to destroy evidence. The Rautahat district court later convicted Alam and sentenced him to life imprisonment.
However, on May 28, a division bench of the Janakpur high court’s Birgunj bench, led by Judges Tharu and Maharjan, overturned that verdict and acquitted him of all charges.
Court upholds press freedom
The Patan high court has issued an interim order instructing the government not to arrest journalist Dil Bhushan Pathak. The court had previously issued a short-term interim order, which has now been extended following a hearing from both parties. This means that the police cannot arrest Pathak until the final verdict is delivered in the case he has filed.
In another development, the Kathmandu district court has overturned an earlier order that had directed the removal of a news article from Bizmandu.com and Nepal Khabar. The decision came from a bench led by Judge Shyambihari Maurya, which rejected a petition for a restraining order filed by Santosh Narayan Shrestha, chairperson of the Securities Board of Nepal. With the petition dismissed, a previous order issued by Judge Pitambar Sharma requiring the removal of the news article has also been automatically annulled.
