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The government has promoted five Deputy Inspectors General (DIGs) to the post of Additional Inspector General of the Nepal Police.

A Cabinet meeting held on Monday decided to promote them to the post of AIG on the recommendation of the Promotion Committee of the Home Ministry.

The government has decided to promote DIGs Uttam Raj Subedi, Arun Kumar BC, Dibesh Lohani, Mukunda Raj Acharya and Puja Singh to the post of AIG.

A meeting of the Promotion Committee held on  May 23 had recommended the government to promote them to AIG.

The government has relieved General Manager of the Nepal Airlines Corporation (NAC) Dim Prasad Paudel today.

A Cabinet meeting held on Monday decided to remove Paudel from the top post of the NAC, the Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation said.

Earlier, the Ministry had asked for clarification from Paudel. The government had recalled Paudel to the Ministry saying that he was working against the norms and values of the NAC.

Minister for Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation Prem Ale had recommended the government to sack Paudel saying that he was working against the interest of the Corporation.

The erstwhile KP Sharma Oli-led government had appointed Paudel as the General Manager of the NAC for four years.

A writ petition has been filed at the Supreme Court against the government decision to reintroduce a two-day weekend—on Saturday and Sunday.

Advocates Tej Kumar Lohiya, Ram Bahadur Shahi, Santosh Bhandari, Trilok Chand and Deepak Khanal among others filed the writ petition arguing that the government decided to grant a two-day weekend without thinking about the long term effect.

Saying that the government’s decision to give two days of holiday in a week will have a huge impact on the economic, education and health sector, the advocates have demanded that the government roll back its decision to grant a two-day weekend at the earliest.

Police on Monday arrested seven persons for their alleged involvement in gang-raping a 16-year old girl in Banke.

According to DSP Mukunda Neupane of the District Police Office, Banke, the detainees have been identified as Hem Raj Tharu, Raj Kumar Tharu, Bikrant Tharu, Nirajan Tharu, Prabin Tharu, Bishwonath Tharu and Nirdeshan Tharu.

The incident occurred on Saturday night. 

According to a preliminary investigation, Hem Raj Tharu had invited the girl to celebrate his birthday. They had become friends through Facebook a year ago. 

The girl reached Phulbari at Mankhola in Baijanath Rural Municipality-8 by a bus. 

Hem Raj along with his friends, who had gathered at the Phulbari to celebrate the birthday, started consuming alcohol and also offered it to the girl. 

When they got intoxicated, Hem Raj along with his friends raped her, police said. 

Later, they took the girl, who fell unconscious after the incident, to a pig farm of Bikrant on a motorbike at Pipari in Baijanath-8 where they raped her again. 

Police said that they rounded up the culprits while they were taking the girl to Nepalgunj. 

Further investigation into the incident is underway.