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A person died and another sustained injuries when a motorbike they were riding on met with an accident at Triyuga Municipality-3, Udayapur on Sunday.

The deceased has been identified as pillion rider Bhupendra Chaudhary (21) of Triyuga Municipality-1.

DSP Santosh Aryal of the District Police Office, Udayapur said that bike rider Abhishek Chaudhary  (21) was critally injured in the incident.

He said that the tragedy occurred after Abhishek lost control of the bike (Province-1-05-001 .Pa. 4468).

Police said that they are looking into the case.

President Bidya Devi Bhandari issued two ordinances related to health on Sunday.

She issued Medicines (third amendment) Ordinance, 2079 BS and Ordinance on Health Workers and Health Institutions (first amendment) Ordinance, 2079 BS.

President Bhandari issued the ordinances on the recommendation of the Nepal government and Council of Ministers as per Article 114 (1) of the Constitution, the President's Office said.

Russian climber Pavel Kostrikin died at Camp I of Mount Everest, the first reported death of a foreigner on the world’s highest peak in the current climbing season that began in March, a Nepali official said on Sunday, Reuters reported.

Kostrikin, 55, died at the camp, which is located at an altitude of around 5,360 metres (17,585 feet) during a rotation on the 8,848-metre (29,031 feet) mountain on Saturday, said Bhishma Kumar Bhattarai, an official of Nepal’s Department of Tourism.

“The Russian climber fell sick at Camp II and died after being brought to the Camp I,” Bhattarai told Reuters without giving further details.

Camp II on the normal southeast ridge route on Everest is located at a height of around 6,400 metres (20,997 feet).

Hiking officials said the body of Kostrikin would be brought to Kathmandu when the current cloudy weather conditions improve, according to Reuters.

Mount Everest has been climbed 10,657 times since it was first scaled in 1953, from both the Nepali and Tibetan sides of the mountain, with many climbing multiple times and 311 people have died so far, according to The Himalayan Database.

An Indian climber died during a summit push at Nepal’s Mount Kanchenjunga, the world’s third-highest mountain, a hiking official said on Saturday.

Last month, a Greek climber and a Nepali Sherpa guide died on other peaks.

Mountain climbing is the main tourism activity in Nepal and a key source of income as well as employment. The country has eight of the world’s 14 highest mountains.

More than 900 foreign mountaineers have received permits to climb 26 Himalayan peaks in Nepal, including 316 permits for Mount Everest, during the current season ending in May, Reuters reported.

The Yale University Art Gallery, Connecticut, USA is to return the stone statue of Tara/Parvati of the 9th century to Nepal. The stone was kept in the permanent collection of the Gallery.

A memorandum of understanding was signed between the Nepali Consulate General in New York and Yale University Art Gallery on Friday to return the statue to Nepal, said the Consulate General.

The sculpture had gone missing from the Birbhadreshwar Mahadev Temple at Golmadi in Bhaktapur in 2032 BS.

It was reportedly donated to the Yale University Art Gallery by a donor seven years ago.

Separate investigations were conducted by the gallery and Nepal’s Department of Archaeology to ensure whether the statue belonged to Nepal.

The Consulate General in New York will return the sculpture to Nepal in coordination with the Art Gallery and the Department of Archeology.