Eid being observed across the nation
Muslims across the country are celebrating Eid-ul-Fitr with zest and zeal today.
The great festival of the Islamic community is being observed with great gaiety and gusto by reciting special Namaz, offering prayers in mosque, receiving blessings from the elders and giving blessings to juniors.
The festival, which marks the conclusion of a month-long fasting of the Muslims during the month of Ramadan, falls on the first day of the tenth month according to the Arabic calendar.
In Nepal, the festival is being observed today as the new moon-sighting on the last day of the ninth month on Sunday evening.
On this day, Muslims devotes converge mainly in the mosque or any outdoor location in the early morning for Edi prayer and break their fast feasting on delicacies.
Families and friends gather to mark the end of a month-long fast 'Ramadan' and exchange Eid Mubarak (greetings) as well as gifts. A spirit of generosity is encouraged hence they give alms to the poor. The celebration lasts up to three days in general.
The government has declared a public holiday today on this occasion.
Light to moderate rain with thunder, lightning forecast
The local wind, low pressure system developed from Uttar Pradesh to the flatlands of West Bengal in India and the Westerly wind have their influence in Nepal at present.
The Meteorological Forecasting Division has said the weather is partly to generally cloudy throughout the country due to the impact of this weather system with light rain taking place at one or two places of Province no 1.
It will be partly to generally cloudy in the hilly region towards the afternoon while remaining generally fair in the rest of the parts of the country. There are chances of light to moderate rainfall accompanied by thunder and lightning at few places of the hilly region.
The weather will be partly to generally cloudy in the hilly region and partly cloudy in the remaining areas tonight with chances of light rainfall accompanied by thunder and lightning at some places of Province no 1, Lumbini province and Gandaki province, and at few places of the rest of the provinces.
The weather in the federal capital, Kathmandu, is fair with warm sunshine since the morning. According to the Division, Kathmandu's maximum temperature was 28.7 degrees Celsius and minimum 16 degrees Celsius.
The rainfall in Kathmandu was measured at 43.7 millimetres on the last 24 hours.
World's highest automatic weather station to be set up on Mt Everest
Chinese scientists are mounting efforts to establish a meteorological monitoring station at an altitude of 8,800 meters on Mount Everest, the world's highest peak, on the China-Nepal border, Xinhua reported.
If the station is established successfully, it will replace the one at an altitude of 8,430 meters set up by the British and US scientists on the south side of the mountain in 2019, to be the world's highest of its kind, according to the Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research (ITP), Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Equipment weighing some 50 kg will be dismantled and distributed to mountaineers, each of whom will carry no more than 7 kg up onto the mountain for the establishment, said Zhao Huabiao, a researcher with the ITP.
Currently, the engineers in charge of establishing the station are still waiting for the perfect weather for mountaineering.
Including the highest, eight elevation gradient meteorological stations will be set up on Mount Qomolangma, one of the main tasks in China's new comprehensive scientific expedition on the world's highest peak at the height of 8,848.86 meters, according to Xinhua.
Three meteorological stations were established at sea levels of 7,028 meters, 7,790 meters and 8,300 meters, respectively, earlier this year on the north side of the mountain, bringing the total number of operational weather stations between the altitudes between 5,200 meters and 8,300 meters to seven. Last year, four stations at sea levels of 6,500 meters, 5,800 meters, 5,400 meters and 5,200 meters were set up.
The new comprehensive scientific expedition on Mount Qomolangma is part of China's second scientific research survey on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, which started in 2017.
Zhao said the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is facing a warming tendency along with global warming, and the higher the altitude is on the plateau, the more the temperature has risen.
Such a conclusion is only based on the data of weather stations at sea levels below 5,000 meters and the estimated calculation in accordance with the remote sensing data, because weather monitoring data from high-altitude stations were missing in the past, Xinhua reported.
The eight stations will collect the wind speed and wind direction data, as well as relative humidity on the north side of Qomolangma, and the elevation gradient meteorological station system is of great significance for monitoring the melting glaciers and mountain snow at the high altitudes, said Zhao.
The expedition team will also set up glacier radar and measure the thickness of snow and ice at the summit of the mountain, he said, according to Xinhua.
Ward member candidate injured in Baitadi Khukuri attack
A ward member candidate of Dilasaini Rural Municipality-5, Baitadi was injured in a khukuri attack on Monday.
Hari Ram Saud (60) was attacked with the khukuri at around 10 pm yesterday, Inspector Lok Raj Joshi of the District Police Office, Baitadi said.
It has been learnt that a candidate of Maoist Centre, Hari Ram was attacked by the group of Ajit Saud.
Police said that he sustained injuries on his head and body.
The District Police Office said that Hari Ram has been referred to a hospital in Dhangadhi after receiving primary treatment at the local Gokuleshwor Hospital.
