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Ambika Chalaune, Mayor of Panchadewal Binayak Municipality, Achham, has been apprehended for her alleged involvement in the murder of Kishor Binod Shahi of the same municipality.

Shahi was found on a cliff near the village at around 10 am on June 4.

The family filed a complaint against 13 persons including the mayor alleging that he had been murdered.

Five persons, whose names were included in the complaint, have already been arrested.

The District Police Office, Achham said that the investigation into the incident has reached the final stage.

Police said that they will submit the report to the court after completing the investigation in a few days.

Youths have staged a demonstration outside the Passport Department to protest the government's dilly-dallying in distributing the passports.

They staged the demonstration to pile pressure on the government.

They demanded that the government distribute the passports in an easy way.

Police have arrested seven persons for allegedly trying to rob a tourist in Nimkha Rural Municipality, Humla.

It has been learnt they they tried to rob a German national.

The tourist was heading Hilsa from Nara Lake in Namkha Rural Municipality-5 when the road construction workers tried to rob him.

Inspector Deepak Malla said that they nabbed the workers based on the complaint filed by the German national.

The detainees have been identified as Himal Sunar, Kamal Thapa, Chabilal Basnet, Madhav Thapa, Ganesh Sunar, Khem Sunar and Bijay Bista.

Nepal on Sunday received 2,299,200 million doses of paediatric Pfizer vaccine against Covid-19 from the COVAX facility.

The vaccine will be administered to the children of 5-11 years of age group who received the first dose a few days ago, the Ministry of Health and Population said.

The Ministry has planned to administer the vaccine to the children from July 18-25.

The vaccine should be stored at a temperature of minus 70 degree Celsius.

Earlier, Nepal had received 2.2 million doses of vaccine from the facility.