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The Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) has filed a second corruption case at the Supreme Court over alleged irregularities in the construction of the Pokhara Regional International Airport.

According to the Commission, the case has been filed against 21 individuals and two companies, including then Tourism Secretary Kedar Bahadur Adhikari.

The government is set to launch a 'Human Papillomavirus' (HPV) vaccination campaign against cervical cancer in four districts of the country this week.

Head of the Child Health and Immunisation Branch of the Department of Health Services, Dr Abhiyan Gautam, said that the vaccination campaign will be conducted in Dolpa, Humla, Jumla and Manang, where schools were closed due to snowfall in February when the vaccination campaign was conducted across the country.

HPV vaccines were administered to 6th-grade students and 10-year-old girls outside school throughout the country from February 8 to 27, except in those four districts.

Similarly, children from grades 7 to 10 and out-of-school girls aged 11 to 14 were also vaccinated. 

Dr Gautam, the head of the vaccination branch, stated that during the campaign, 323,000 girls in 73 districts were given the HPV vaccine.

Dr Gautam said instructions have been given and health workers trained in those districts to make the necessary preparations for the vaccination campaign.

He stated that the main cause of increased risk of cervical cancer is infection from the human papillomavirus, which is why the government has launched a vaccination campaign against it.

At least seven people died in separate road accidents in the country. 

These fatalities occurred in Rupandehi, Kanchanpur, Palpa and Morang districts, according to police. 

A person died in a road accident that took place in Rupandehi, one in Kanchanpur and four in Palpa and one in Morang. 

Similarly, a person who was injured in a road accident at Rangeli Municipality-7 of Morang, is undergoing treatment at Nobel Hospital, Biratnagar.

Police have been carrying out necessary investigations into the accidents, added police. 

There is a possibility of light rain and snowfall with thunder and lightning and at one or two places in the Tarai region of Koshi and Lumbini Provinces, as well as at a few places in the hilly and mountainous regions of the country today.

According to the Weather Forecasting Division, the weather will remain generally cloudy in the hilly and mountainous regions and partly cloudy in the Tarai region of the country today. 

The meteorological analysis by the Division states that at present Nepal is under the influence of a westerly low-pressure system along with local winds.