Dolakha, Sept 1: Two persons died and as many as five have gone missing in a landslide which occurred at Choytchoyt, Lamabagar-4 in Dolakha district on Wednesday night.
The deceased has been identified as 20-year-old Jotu Tamang while the identity of another person is yet to be established, according to Chief District Officer of Dolakha Pushparaj Adhikari.
Similarly, the disaster triggered by continuous rain last night has also swept away four houses in the locality, Armed Police Force (APF) , Lamabagar said.
Likewise, police rescued a local and an elderly Chinese national from the spot of accident, said Khem Bahadur Thapa Magar, Deputy Superintendent of Police at APF, Lamabagar.
Injured in the incident were Min Bahadur Thakuri and the Chinese national named Chi.
The road in Singti at Tamakoshi area has been disrupted following the disaste.
Pathari (Morang), Sept 1: A group of students at the Manmohan Memorial Polytechnic (MMP) at Hattimuda, Sunsari district have invented an irrigation machine and thresher that run on solar power.
The inventors claim that both machines are less costly as compared to those imported machines and could be easily operated for these inventions neither require fuel nor electricity.
Furthermore, they believe that the solar-powered irrigation machine and threshers will be very useful for the peasants in an agricultural country like ours. “These machines are very cost-effective and could be used in the places devoid of regular irrigation system,” said Saroj Thapa, one of the inventors.
MMP Principal Dr Subash Pokharel stated that if the government would help develop these solar-powered tools for commercial purpose, the tools could replace the expensive foreign-imported machines being used by farmers in the country. RSS
SINGAPORE, Aug 31, 2016 (AFP) – Homemaker Sulaiha Ngatiman hunkered indoors as the scent of mosquito repellent lingered in her second-storey flat.
The 30-year-old, who is seven months’ pregnant with her fifth child, lives in Aljunied Crescent, a sleepy eastern suburb at the heart of Singapore’s recent Zika outbreak and the scene of a war against the Aedes mosquito that carries the virus.
Downstairs, fog-like smoke billowed as pest control crews armed with thermal machines fumigated drainage canals and other potential mosquito breeding spots.
“I’m very concerned because I’ve read that a lot of the symptoms can’t be seen,” Sulaiha told AFP from her living room, where mini bottles of mosquito repellent lined a table. The smell of citronella — a natural mosquito repellent — hung heavy in the air.
“All a mother really wants is for your child to be healthy,” added Sulaiha, who now limits her outdoor exposure.
Zika, which has been detected in 58 countries including hardest-hit Brazil, causes only mild symptoms for most people, such as fever and a rash.
But in pregnant women, it can cause microcephaly, a deformation in which babies are born with abnormally small brains and heads.
As of Tuesday Singapore had confirmed 82 locally transmitted cases of Zika infection.
The initial cases were reported at the weekend from the Aljunied area and since then, the neighbourhood has been in the spotlight.
Environment agency inspectors armed with cans of insecticide and torchlights, as well as pest control teams, have become a daily sight.
On a visit by an AFP reporter Wednesday afternoon, the whine of thermal fumigators joined the roar of jets from a nearby military air base in puncturing the stillness.
Local shopkeepers reported a surge in sales of mosquito repellent patches, sprays and devices.
“I’ve sold out all my mosquito coil but people keep asking to buy patches and other things which I don’t have,” storekeeper Haranachia Mansoor, 30, told AFP.
In spite of the increased infections, life was normal for a number of residents.
“Most of us living here are old people so there are not many pregnant people anyway,” said resident Chew Ah Gek, 72.
“The government people come and check for mosquitoes all the time. There’s no need to get worked up.”
Leong Hoe Nam, an infectious diseases specialist at Singapore’s Mount Elizabeth Novena Hospital, said people are not panicking because they trust the government’s mosquito extermination efforts.
“The safest place you can be in Singapore now is right smack in Aljunied, because you have so many checks and exterminations going on,” he told AFP.
Sulaiha had a scare in 2009 while expecting her third child, when there was an outbreak of the H1N1 swine flu. Now no precaution is excessive.
“I’m going to the doctor for tests tomorrow just to be sure,” she said.
COLOMBO, Aug 31, 2016 (AFP) – The Maldives announced Wednesday it is seeking former president Mohamed Nasheed’s arrest for failing to return to the troubled archipelago to complete a prison sentence after receiving medical treatment in Britain.
Nasheed, the Maldives’ first democratically elected president, recently won political asylum in Britain after being granted permission to travel there for treatment while serving the sentence for a terror-related offence.
“A court order (has been) issued for arrest of former president Mohamed Nasheed,” the government said in a statement, issued after Nasheed flew to neighbouring Sri Lanka.
“The Maldives correctional service is seeking to have him brought back to serve the remainder of his 13-year sentence,” the statement said, without detailing how it planned to seek his return.
Opposition sources said Nasheed has been meeting Maldives opposition groups in Sri Lanka in recent days to hatch a plan to topple the archipelago’s president Abdulla Yameen.
Nasheed was among members of several exiled opposition groups meeting in Colombo, two people in Nasheed’s Maldivian Democratic Party have told AFP.
The Maldives has been gripped by political turmoil since Nasheed was forced to resign in 2012, denting its image as a paradise for upmarket tourists.
The international community has mounted fierce criticism against what they say is Yameen’s unlawful jailing of Nasheed and other opponents.
Nasheed, a climate change activist who was also imprisoned during the three-decade rule of former strongman Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, was elected president in 2008.
He rose to international prominence when he hosted a cabinet meeting underwater to draw attention to the threat global warming posed to the atoll nation’s existence.
But he was forced to resign in February 2012 after a mutiny by police and troops, which followed protests over the arrest of a top judge for alleged corruption, as well as for politically motivated rulings.
Yameen, a half-brother of former strongman Gayoom, won a presidential election run-off against Nasheed in late 2013.
Nasheed was sentenced to prison in March 2015 after being convicted on a charge of terrorism for having the judge arrested.
US Secretary of State John Kerry warned in May last year that democracy in the Maldives was under threat, saying Nasheed had been “imprisoned without due process”.
In June, Yameen’s former deputy Ahmed Adeeb was jailed for 15 years on a charge of plotting to assassinate the president.
Sources close to Nasheed said he was “keen” to discuss the Maldives turmoil with UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, who is due to arrive in Colombo late Wednesday on a two-day visit for talks with Sri Lankan leaders.
“He would be keen to meet with Ban Ki-moon,” a person close to Nasheed said, adding that no formal request for a meeting has been made.
RASUWA, Aug 20: The Gosaikunda religious fair held annually on the occasion of Janai Purnima has concluded with travelers facing less hardship due to a sudden lull in the monsoon intensity.
Gosaikunda Area Development Committee Chairman, Sanjeet DM, said all the pilgrims have returned to their respective destinations. A total of 10,000 pilgrims visited the alpine lake to mark Janai Purnima this year.
Among the total number of visitors, 2700 suffered from altitude sickness and were treated by teams stationed from the District Health Office (DHO), Nepal Army’s Narayandal Battalion, Himalayan Rescue Association and Sai Baba Hospital, DHO, Rasuwa said.
A Nepal Police head constable and a pilgrim fell seriously ill due to altitude sickness and were rushed to Kathmandu on ambulance. They are receiving treatment in Kathmandu, District Police Office Chief, Phanindra Prasai, said, adding that the head constable was being treated in ICU.
The travelers have complained of being charged exorbitant prices by hotel entrepreneurs in Gosaikunda, Chandanbari and Louri Binayak and also by Dhunche-Kathmandu transport entrepreneurs.
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KATHMANDU, Aug 20: Dr Govinda KC, who has been fighting against the anomalies and aberrations in the medical education and health sector, joined a demonstration held in front of the Prime Minister’s official residence in Baluwatar today.
Addressing a gathering of demonstrators on the occasion, Dr KC warned that he would sit for a fast-unto-death for the ninth time if the agreement reached with him was not implemented. He emphasized on the need of implementation of those agreements in order to ensure access of all to quality and accessible health education and medical service.
Nepali Congress MP Surendra Chaudhary on the occasion expressed the commitment to hold a discussion on impeachment against the CIAA Chief in the parliament, while describing Dr KC’s demands as pro-people.
Writer and activist Khagendra Sangraula said it was a conspiracy against democracy for the MPs to not the raise objection over the CIAA chief’s act to go beyond his jurisdiction.
More than a hundred people were present on the occasion, carrying placards and chanting slogans in favor of the issues raised by Dr KC, and the need to put the agreements into practice.
A large number of security personnel had been mobilized in the area to stop the demonstrators from entering the prohibited zone.
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Artist Spencer Tunick is known for his startling images of the naked body, hitting the news earlier this month for his Sea of Hull project in which thousands of men and women stripped off and painted themselves blue.
Now just weeks later, his next installation saw a group of 130 women bare all on the eve of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio.
Writing on his website, Mr Tunick said: “Republicans, Democrats and all other political parties were welcome to take part reflecting their anger through art against the hateful repressive rhetoric of many in the Republican Party towards women and minorities.
“Donald Trump and Mike Pence are giving many in America the belief that is OK to hate.”
AFP-One hundred women will appear in Tunick’s final piece
Entitled Everything She Says Means Everything, the photographs feature women holding large mirror discs claiming to reflect the “knowledge and wisdom of progressive women and the concept of Mother Nature”.
One hundred women will appear in the final result, which will be unveiled shortly before the November 8 election, but more than 1,800 initially signed up to take part.
Morning Robinson, 18, took part with her mother “to do something a little different” before going off to college.
She said: “Republicans have this view of how women should be in society and I just don’t agree.
AFP Spencer Tunick gathered 130 women together for the installation in Cleveland, Ohio