- Wednesday, 29 July 2026
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11 new cases, 36 recoveries in 24 hours
In 2,750 Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) tests done in the past 24 hours, a total of 11 people were found infected with SARS-CoV-2, informed the Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP) in its regular update.
President Bhandari felicitates artist with various honours
Senior artist Bhuwan Thapa Chand and senior musician Shambhujeet Baskota were felicitated with the long service honour.
Discussion on local elections in ruling coalition meeting
Top leaders of the ruling coalition held a discussion on Sunday morning.
Police ascertain identity of all five people killed in Waling
The identities of five people who died in a jeep accident in Waling, Syangja have been revealed.
Indian jackfruit in Nepali market (Photo Feature)
Jackfruit does not get ripened in Nepal in this season but in the market, there are a lot of jackfruits. Jackfruits imported from the neighbouring country India has been flooding the Nepali vegetable market for a month now as the fruit is also used for making a curry.
Corruption would imperil country if not curbed: Speaker Sapkota
Speaker of the House of Representatives (HoR) Agni Prasad Sapkota has called for a collective resolution to curb the continuously increasing corruption in the country, warning that it would imperil the country if not controlled.
Vulture breeding centre at CNP to close down
The vulture breeding centre at Chitwan National Park (CNP) is to shut down. The centre established in 2008 is closing down in view of the increasing number of vultures in the wild and the breeding not becoming impactful at the centre, the park officials said.
New runway in Gautam Buddha Int'l Airport to be operational from April 21
The new 3,000-metre runway in Gautam Buddha International Airport in Bhairahawa will be brought into operation from April 21.
EC determines election symbol for parties
The election symbols for the local level election have been fixed and included in the ballot paper. The election of 753 local levels across the country is taking place on May 13.
Nation engrossed in election
The nation is presently in an election mood as the Election Commission and all the political parties are focused on the upcoming local level election on May 13.
Five killed in Syangja jeep accident
Five people have been killed in the Syangja jeep accident on Sunday. The Mahindra Jeep (Ga 1 Ja 7399) heading towards Banyatari from Waling has met with an accident at Firfire of Waling municipality 12.
One killed, three injured in road accident
Bajhang, April 17 : A person was killed and three others were injured when a jeep (Sudurpaschim Province 01-001 Cha 0095) met with an accident at Bithadchir Rural Municipality-4 near Deulekh bazaar on Saturday night. The deceased has been identified as Binod Bohara. Of the injured—Bhuji Devi Deurukhi, 101, of Jayaprithivi Municipality-11, Anju Bohara, 19, and Sinki Bohara, 40, both of Surma Rural Municipality-2, who were receiving treatment at local Deulekh primary health center, Bohara was referred to Dhangadhi, said Kamal Prasad Chaudhary, information officer for the district police office. The ill-fated vehicle was carrying the total nine people when the accident occurred, he said.
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12 injured in shooting at South Carolina mall; 3 detained
By MICHELLE LIU , COLUMBIA, S.C. Apr 17 , (AP) — Ten people were shot and two others injured in a shooting at a busy shopping mall in South Carolina’s capital that authorities do not believe was a random attack.Three people who had firearms have been detained in connection with the Saturday afternoon shooting at Columbiana Centre, Columbia Police Chief W.H. “Skip” Holbrook said. He said at least one of those three people fired a weapon.“We don’t believe this was random,” Holbrook said. “We believe they knew each other and something led to the gunfire.”Authorities said no fatalities have been reported but that eight of the victims were taken to the hospital. Of those eight, two were in critical condition and six were in stable condition, Holbrook said. The victims ranged in age from 15 to 73, he said.Daniel Johnson said he and his family were visiting from Alabama and were eating in the food court when they first heard shots ring out and started seeing people running.Johnson said people were screaming for their children and spouses, knocking over tables in the food court as they fled.“Everybody was trying to get outside,” Johnson said. “When I was coming out, you could see baby strollers turned over, people’s phones and left keys. It was kind of a hectic situation.”Johnson said he gathered his wife, daughter and son and began heading toward the exit after letting the crowd clear out for a bit.“My biggest thing was — and not to sound selfish — was to make sure that our family was OK and to get them out safely because this is not something that we love to do for Easter weekend.”Heavy police presence continued in the area hours after the shooting, though officers began letting more traffic through the streets surrounding the shopping centers and strip malls that are usually packed on weekends. Officers were also stationed outside a nearby hotel designated as a reunification area for people at the scene of the shooting and their families.Workers from a couple of stores remained clustered in the mostly empty parking lot Saturday evening, waiting for police to let them back inside to retrieve their car keys and personal belongings so they could leave. They said they did not hear or see anything during the shooting but followed the mall’s alert system and were evacuated by police shortly after. They declined to give their names, citing company policies.“Today’s isolated, senseless act of violence is extremely upsetting and our thoughts are with everyone impacted,” Columbiana Centre said in a statement. “We are grateful for the quick response and continued support of our security team and our partners in law enforcement.”The shooting is the latest in a rash of shootings at or near malls across the country.A 15-year-old boy was shot in the head Wednesday outside Brooklyn’s Atlantic Terminal Mall. His injuries were not believed to be life-threatening. Officials said he was with a group of boys when they got into a dispute with a second group.On Tuesday, a Southern California shoe store owner mistakenly shot a 9-year-old girl while firing at two shoplifters at the Mall of Victor Valley, police said.And earlier this month, police said six people were killed and 12 others wounded in Sacramento, California, during a gunfight between rival gangs as bars closed in a busy area near the Downtown Commons shopping mall and the state Capitol.
Bire waterfall lures growing number of local tourists
BY OUR CORRESPONDENTBajura, Apr 17 : Bire waterfall near Martadi, headquarters of Bajura district, has become center of attraction among local tourists. People who were compelled to confine themselves within four walls of the house due to the COVID-19 pandemic for more than two years are now enjoying at the Bire waterfall. The mesmerizing 200-meter tall waterfall is located in the middle of Ward No. 6 and 8 of Badimalika Municipality. The waterfall is growing popular among the locals, which is also a hidden gem for many outsiders. The municipality has claimed that it is the highest waterfall in Bajura. As per the human index, Bajura stands at 74th place but in terms of the touristic area, it stands first in Sudhurpaschim Province. Badimalika, Budinanda, Kalajarga, Khaptad Chhededaha, and Wadalekh including other places are popular tourist destinations of the district. Bire waterfall is a gift from nature and is drawing hordes of people. In order to conserve the waterfall area the municipality has constructed a bridge due to which the flow of internal tourists has increased day by day, said Kala Baduwal, ward chair of Ward No. 6 of the municipality. “The natural waterfall in the periphery of Martadi, mesmerizes the guests entering the district,” said Baduwal. One can reach the waterfall after 6km walk from Mardi. The tourism sector, which was down for more than two years due to COVID-19, has now slowly gaining momentum in the district. The vendors are now happy to see the costumers in the periphery of the waterfall. Locals are elated to see the flow of tourists at their place. The waterfall has become a source of income for many locals. “If we can promote and conserve this area on time, it could be a good source of income,” said Baduwal. The municipality has started to conserve and promote the waterfall area. Despite having importance of the waterfall it has not received due attention, said Prakash Bahadur Rawal, ward chair of Ward No. 8 of the municipality. Though nobody is concerned about the promotion and protection of the waterfall, the municipality will take steps towards its protection, said Padam Baduwal, mayor of the municipality. “The municipality will work enthusiastically to manage the tourist attraction endowed by nature,” said Baduwal.
Russia renews strikes on Ukraine capital, hits other cities
By ADAM SCHRECK and MSTYSLAV CHERNOV , KYIV, Ukraine Apr 17 , (AP) — Russian forces accelerated scattered attacks on Kyiv, western Ukraine and beyond Saturday in an explosive reminder to Ukrainians and their Western supporters that the whole country remains under threat despite Moscow’s pivot toward mounting a new offensive in the east.Stung by the loss of its Black Sea flagship and indignant over alleged Ukrainian aggression on Russian territory, Russia’s military command had warned of renewed missile strikes on Ukraine’s capital. Officials in Moscow said they were targeting military sites, a claim repeated — and refuted by witnesses — throughout 52 days of war.The toll reaches much deeper. Each day brings new discoveries of civilian victims of an invasion that has shattered European security. As Russia prepared for the anticipated offensive, a mother wept over her 15-year-old son’s body after rockets hit a residential area of Kharkiv, a city in northeast Ukraine. An infant and at least eight other people died, officials said.In the towns and villages just outside Kyiv, authorities have reported finding the bodies of more than 900 civilians, most shot dead, since Russian troops retreated two weeks ago. Smoke rose from the capital again early Saturday as Mayor Vitali Klitschko reported a strike that killed one person and wounded several.The mayor advised residents who fled the city earlier in the war not to return.“We’re not ruling out further strikes on the capital,” Klitschko said. “If you have the opportunity to stay a little bit longer in the cities where it’s safer, do it.”It was not immediately clear from the ground what was hit in the strike on Kyiv’s Darnytskyi district. The sprawling area on the southeastern edge of the capital contains a mixture of Soviet-style apartment blocks, newer shopping centers and big-box retail outlets, industrial areas and railyards.Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said an armored vehicle plant was targeted. He didn’t specify where the factory was located, but there is one in the Darnytskyi district.He said the plant was among multiple Ukrainian military sites hit with “air-launched high-precision long-range weapons.” As the U.S. and Europe send new arms to Ukraine, the strategy could be aimed at hobbling Ukraine’s defenses ahead of what’s expected to be a full-scale Russian assault in the east.It was the second strike in the Kyiv area since the Russian military vowed this week to step up missile strikes on the capital. Another hit a missile plant Friday.The Russian missiles hit the city just as residents were emerging for walks, foreign embassies planned to reopen and other tentative signs of the city’s prewar life started resurfacing, following the failure of Russian troops to capture Kyiv and their withdrawal.Kyiv was one of many targets Saturday. The Ukrainian president’s office reported missile strikes and shelling over the past 24 hours in eight regions across the country.The governor of the Lviv region in western Ukraine, which has been only sporadically touched by the war’s violence, reported airstrikes on the region by Russian Su-35 aircraft that took off from neighboring Belarus.In apparent preparations for its assault on the east, the Russian military has intensified shelling of Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, in recent days. Friday’s attack killed civilians and wounded more than 50 people, the Ukrainian president’s office reported.On Saturday an explosion believed to be caused by a missile sent emergency workers scrambling near an outdoor market in Kharkiv, according to AP journalists at the scene. One person was killed, and at least 18 people were wounded, according to rescue workers.“All the windows, all the furniture, all destroyed. And the door, too,” recounted stunned resident Valentina Ulianova.Kharkiv Mayor Ihor Terekhov said Saturday’s toll was three dead and 34 wounded.Nate Mook, a member of the World Central Kitchen NGO run by celebrity chef José Andrés, said in a tweet that four workers in Kharkiv were wounded by a strike. José Andrés tweeted that staff members were unnerved but safe.Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer, who met with Vladimir Putin this past week in Moscow — the first European leader to do so since the invasion began Feb. 24 — said the Russian president is “in his own war logic” on Ukraine.In an interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Nehammer said he thinks Putin believes he is winning the war and “we have to look in his eyes and we have to confront him with that, what we see in Ukraine.”Nehammer said he confronted Putin with what he saw during a visit to the Kyiv suburb of Bucha, where more than 350 bodies have been found along with evidence of killings and torture under Russian occupation, and “it was not a friendly conversation.”Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in an interview with Ukrainian journalists that the continuing siege of the port city of Mariupol, which has come at a horrific cost to trapped and starving civilians, could scuttle attempts to negotiate an end to the war.“The destruction of all our guys in Mariupol — what they are doing now — can put an end to any format of negotiations,” he said.Later, in his nightly video address to the nation, Zelenskyy said Ukraine needs more support from the West to have a chance at saving Mariupol.“Either our partners give Ukraine all of the necessary heavy weapons, the planes, and without exaggeration immediately, so we can reduce the pressure of the occupiers on Mariupol and break the blockade,” he said, “or we do so through negotiations, in which the role of our partners should be decisive.”Zelenskyy said the situation in Mariupol remains “inhuman” and Russia “is deliberately trying to destroy everyone who is there.”Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said Saturday that Ukrainian forces had been driven out of most of the city and remained only in the huge Azovstal steel mill.Capturing Mariupol would allow Russian forces in the south, which came up through the annexed Crimean Peninsula, to fully link up with troops in the Donbas region, Ukraine’s eastern industrial heartland.Zelenskyy estimated that 2,500 to 3,000 Ukrainian troops have died in the war, and about 10,000 have been wounded. The office of Ukraine’s prosecutor general said Saturday that at least 200 children have been killed, and more than 360 wounded.Russian forces also have taken captive some 700 Ukrainian troops and more than 1,000 civilians, Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said Saturday. Ukraine holds about the same number of Russian troops as prisoners and intends to arrange a swap but is demanding the release of civilians “without any conditions,” she said.Russia’s warning of stepped-up attacks on Kyiv came after it accused Ukraine on Thursday of wounding seven people and damaging about 100 residential buildings with airstrikes in Bryansk, a region bordering Ukraine. Ukrainian officials have not confirmed hitting targets in Russia.Russian Maj. Gen. Vladimir Frolov, whose troops have been among those besieging Mariupol, was buried Saturday in St. Petersburg after dying in battle, Gov. Alexander Beglov said. Ukraine has said several Russian generals and dozens of other high-ranking officers have been killed in the war.In the Vatican, Pope Francis on Saturday invoked “gestures of peace in these days marked by the horror of war” in an Easter vigil homily at St. Peter’s Basilica that was attended by the mayor of the occupied Ukrainian city of Melitopol and three members of Ukraine’s parliament. Francis did not refer directly to Russia’s invasion but has called, apparently in vain, for an Easter truce to reach a negotiated peace.
