Author: Himalaya Post

The Nepalis left stranded in Dubai airport after a chartered flight was cancelled will be brought home today. A wide body aircraft A-330 of Nepal Airlines left for Dubai this morning and is scheduled to return with the passengers at 4:15 in the afternoon.   The NAC aircraft with more than 260 passengers will arrive from Dubai to Kathmandu this afternoon, said NAC spokesperson Archana Khadka. The NAC’s scheduled flight on August 18 had been cancelled by the government citing lack of quarantine facility for the incoming passengers. As a result, the NAC aircraft returned to Kathmandu empty, leaving the passengers stranded in the airport. Following widespread criticism including by the affected passengers, the cabinet decided to allow a rescue flight to bring them home. The government has also decided to resume regular international flights starting September 1. However, only Nepali nationals, diplomatic staffers, UN staffers from the countries with easy PCR facility for Corona Virus testing will be allowed to come to Nepal in the flights.   Chartered flights will continue from other countries, as per the recommendation of the concerned diplomatic mission. According to Tribhuvan International Airport Manager Devendra KC, four flights are scheduled for today to bring Nepalis from different countries....

One more person has died of Corona Virus infection in Chitwan. A 65-year-old woman of Hetauda sub-metropolis, Makwanpur died during treatment at the Old medical college hospital in Bharatpur-10 on Saturday.   However, she was diagnosed with the deadly virus only after her death. The swab sample had been taken on August 17 but she died before the report arrived, said information officer at Bharatpur hospital Liladhar Poudel. She had been admitted to the hospital for treatment of liver-related ailment. Also on Saturday, another man who died while undergoing treatment at the same hospital was diagnosed with the Corona Virus infection.   The 75-year-old from Hetauda died on Thursday night but was known to be positive only on Saturday morning....

Farmers in various hilly districts of the Sudur Paschim state have been suffering due to damage caused by wildlife to their crops. Monkey menace during the day and wild boar and porcupine during the night has terrorized farmers in the district. Baitedi, Darchula, Dadeldhura and Bajhang districts are the most affected by wildlife. “Despite our continuous vigil day and night, we have not been able to stop the damage to our crops,” said Keshav Bhatta of Chadepani in ward no. 7 of Dogadakedar of Baitedi.   Currently, the maize crop has been severely damaged by wild boars. We put in a lot of effort to save the maize crop from pests but fail to protect them from wildlife, said Keshav BC of Surnaya rural municipality-7. Meanwhile, the farmers have demanded that the local governments take the initiative to control the menace of wild animals. Furthermore, the farmers are also not provided any relief and compensation for the crop loss from the wildlife. However, chief of the Maize Zone Office, Baitedi Hari Prasad Paneru said there is no government provision to compensate the loss to crops caused by wildlife. Baitedi has been declared a pocket zone for maize farming but no incentives have been provided for crop loss. The Sunarya, Dogadakedar, Pancheswar rural municipalities and Dasarathchand and Patan municipalities have been declared the maize pocket zone.   Though many other...