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A customer was beaten up at the Citizens Bank outlet in Gaushala, Mahottari. On January 25, Sanjay Mahato of Gaushala Municipality-12 had gone to the bank to open an account for his nephew. There, he was manhandled by bank security guards.

Eyewitness Raj Kumar Mahato says, “There was no crowd at the bank, and yet the staff were not working. When he [Sanjay Mahato] inquired about the delay, the guards in attendance started shoving him.”

Sanjay says he had visited the bank for the same purpose many times. He thought of inquiring only when he felt he would be turned back empty-handed that day as well.

Ram Chandra Singh Kushwaha, a security guard at the bank, clarified that the dispute ensued when Mahato entered a ‘no entry’ zone. “The officers asked me to remove him from bank premises. Mahato refused to go, resulting in a scuffle,” he adds.

According to the Police Office of Gaushala, the dispute was a minor one and was quickly resolved in a mutual agreement.

Nepal logged 8,017 new Covid-19 cases and 15 deaths on Thursday.

According to the Ministry of Health and Population, 15,736 swab samples were tested in the RT-PCR method, of which 5,616 returned positive. Likewise, 6,072 people underwent antigen tests, of which 2,201 tested positive.

With this, the country's active caseload reached 1,062,105. Similarly, death toll climbed to 11,687.

According to the Ministry, 5,292 infected people recovered from the disease. Among them, 88,642 are in home isolation, 1,934 are in institutionalized isolation.

As many as 257 are in intensive care units and 49 on ventilators.

Meanwhile, the Kathmandu Valley recorded 3,134 new cases.

Of them, 2,402 are in Kathmandu, 521 in Lalitpur and 220 in Bhaktapur.

A couple was found dead at Bojeni in Shankarapur Municipality-3, Kathmandu on Thursday.

The deceased have been identified as Padam Bahadur Thieng (52) and his wife Phul Kumari Thieng (47).

According to Dinesh Raj Mainali, spokesperson at the Metropolitan Police Range, Kathmandu, they were found dead in their room.

Police suspect that the incident might have occured due to suffocation as they had slept after burning coal in their room.

Surya Bahadur Thieng (26), son of the deceased, broke the door after they did not wake up till 7 am today and found them dead, Mainali said.

Police said that they are looking into the case.

Pokhara Metropolitan City has decided to halt services except for the most essential ones from today in view of the heightened risk of coronavirus.

Issuing a notice on Thursday, the metropolis said that its regular services would remain closed till January 30 since some of its employees have contracted coronavirus infection of late.

Metropolis spokesperson Dhan Bahadur Nepali said that all regular services except for the emergency ones have been halted to prevent the virus from spreading.

He further informed that the service delivery of four out of 33 wards of the metropolis has also been halted due to the COVID-19 outbreak. RSS