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The labour desk set up at the Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA) by the government has been removed. 

The desk set up by the government targeting workers going for foreign employment was removed. It was removed after Minister for Labour, Employment and Social Security, Krishna Kumar Shrestha directed for the same. 

The desk's relevancy has ended as the government has been issuing electronic stickers to outbound Nepali migrant workers, said the Ministry.  

As per the process, the foreign job aspirants will receive e-sticker in their cell phone or e-mail. So, they would be able to clear the immigration after presenting the print out of the sticker or showing it on their electronic devices (mobile phones, laptops or tablets) to the authorities. 

The removal of the desk followed complaints that the desk provided trouble to Nepali migrant workers going for foreign jobs in the name of helping them clear the immigration, it has been said. 

Minister for Labour, Employment and Social Security Krishna Kumar Shrestha and officials reached the airport today and removed the desk. 

With this, now foreign job aspirants can easily get their immigration cleared at the TIA without the need for them to line up hours for the same in the past. 

Nepal Police on Wednesday arrested two persons on the charge of making unfounded statements and assassinating character through YouTube channel. 

The cyber bureau has arrested Hari Pariyar of Nagarjuna Municipality-8, Bhimdhunga and Nishan Chiluwal, 27, of, Rainas Municipality, of Lamjung, currently living in Tarkeshwor Sheshmati, for spreading fake news through YouTube.

Bureau spokesperson, Senior Superintendent of Police Navind Aryal said that Pariyar and Chiluwal had spread fake news through their respective YouTube channel ‘Nepal Media’ and ‘Bishal Nepal’. 

They have been charged with doing so with the purpose of influencing the ongoing criminal investigation over a serious case.

Spokesperson Aryal said that they were arrested for committing a crime under the Electronic Transaction Act, 2063 BS. 

According to the bureau, the two have been remanded to judicial custody for seven days following permission by the district court. RSS

Nepal logged 112 new Covid-19 cases on Thursday. 

According to the Ministry of Health and Population, 6,801 swab samples were tested in the RT-PCR method, of which 77 returned positive. Likewise, 2,527 people underwent antigen tests, of which 35 tested positive.

The Ministry said that no one died due to the virus today also.

The Ministry said that 429 infected people recovered from the disease in the last 24 hours.

As of today, there are 5, 340 active cases in the country.

The first person in the world to get a heart transplant from a genetically-modified pig has died, BBC reported.

David Bennett, who had terminal heart disease, survived for two months following the surgery in the US.

But his condition began to deteriorate several days ago, his doctors in Baltimore said, and the 57-year-old died on 8 March.

Mr Bennett knew the risks attached to the surgery, acknowledging before the procedure it was “a shot in the dark”.

Doctors at the University of Maryland Medical Center were granted a special dispensation by the US medical regulator to carry out the procedure, on the basis that Mr Bennett – who was ineligible for a human transplant – would otherwise have died, according to BBC.

He had already been bedridden for six weeks leading up to the surgery, attached to a machine which was keeping him alive.

Mr Bennett underwent the surgery on 7 January, and doctors say in the weeks afterwards he spent time with his family, watched the Super Bowl and spoke about wanting to get home to his dog, Lucky.

But his condition deteriorated, leaving doctors “devastated”.

“He proved to be a brave and noble patient who fought all the way to the end,” surgeon Bartley Griffith, who performed the transplant, said in a statement released by the hospital.

But Mr Bennett’s son, David Jr, said he hoped his father’s transplant would “be the beginning of hope and not the end”, according to news agency AP.

“We are grateful for every innovative moment, every crazy dream, every sleepless night that went into this historic effort,” he added, BBC reported.

Dr Griffith said previously the surgery would bring the world “one step closer to solving the organ shortage crisis”. Currently 17 people die every day in the US waiting for a transplant, with more than 100,000 reportedly on the waiting list.

The possibility of using animal organs for so-called xenotransplantation to meet the demand has long been considered, and using pig heart valves is already common.

In October 2021, surgeons in New York announced that they had successfully transplanted a pig’s kidney into a person. At the time, the operation was the most advanced experiment in the field so far. However, the recipient on that occasion was brain dead with no hope of recovery, BBC reported.

The first pig-heart transplant was a landmark moment in medicine.

The biggest barrier to using organs from another species is “hyperacute rejection”. The body sees the tissue as so foreign that it starts to kill the donated organ within minutes.

The hope was the 10 genetic modifications made to the pig meant its organs would be acceptable to the human body.

It was a nervous moment when the heart went in, but there was no hyperacute rejection and that monumental barrier had been cleared, according to BBC.