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Venezuelan Juan Vicente Perez Mora, declared the oldest person in the world by Guinness World Records last week, will hit 113 years old on Friday, Reuters reported.

Perez Mora, who enjoys good health and a cup of strong aguardiente liquor every day, has 41 grandchildren, 18 great-grandchildren, and 12 great-great-grandchildren, Guinness said in a press release.

Apart from slightly elevated blood pressure and hearing problems due to his age, Perez Mora is in very good health and does not take medication, said Enrique Guzman, a physician from a clinic in San Jose de Bolivar, in Venezuela’s Tachira state, according to Reuters.

“He seems totally fine to me,” Guzman said.

Perez Mora became the world’s oldest person after Saturnino de la Fuente Garcia, who was born on February 11, 1909 in Spain, died in January aged 112 years and 341 days old.

Nepal reported 21 new Covid-19 cases on Thursday.

According to the Ministry of Health and Population, 2, 025 swab samples were tested in the RT-PCR method, of which 14 returned positive. Likewise, 1, 603 people underwent antigen tests, of which seven were tested positive.

The Ministry said that no one died of virus in the last 24 hours. The Ministry said that 13 infected people recovered from the disease.

As of today, there are 129 active cases in the country.

The Supreme Court has overturned its own previous decision to cut the life sentence of former DIG of Armed Police Force Ranjan Koirala.

A full bench of acting Chief Justice Deepak Kumar Karki and Justices duo Tanka Bahadur Moktan and Kumar Chudal on Thursday decided to give continuity to the decision of district and high courts to send him to life in prison and confiscate his property.

Earlier, suspended Chief Justice Cholendra Shumsher JB Rana and Justice Tej Bahadur KC had issued a verdict to commute Koirala's sentence from life imprisonment to eight and a half years for murdering his wife Dhakal.

Koirala was released after serving eight and a half years prison terms on July 22, 2020.

The Kathmandu District Court handed down a life term to Koirala in January 2012 and the decision was upheld by the Patan High Court.

Koirala killed his wife Gita in February 2012. 

The Supreme Court has directed the government not to construct an international airport in Nijgadh of Bara.

A five-member bench of Justices Hari Krishna Karki, Bishowambhar Prasad Shrestha, Ishwor Prasad Khatiwada, Prakash Man Singh Raut and Manoj Kumar Sharma on Thursday scrapped the decision of the government to construct an international airport in Nijgadh.

The apex court also directed the government to find an alternative of Nijgadh.

Earlier, senior advocate Prakash Mani Sharma and Ranjuhajur Pandey among others filed a writ petition at the Supreme seeking annulment of the government decision to construct the airport by cutting down trees and using concrete at the proposed construction site of an international airport in Nijgadh.