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Human rights activist and advocate Ganesh Prasad Ghimire will be honoured with the Gandhi Nobel Peace Award.

Ghimire is among the 104 persons of world who will be honoured with the Gandhi Nobel Peace Award, Gandhi Peace Foundation Nepal Chairman Lal Bahadur Rana said.

The award giving ceremony will be organised at the South Hall, World Hindu Centre in London on June 3.

Ghimire has an experience of more than two decades in the field of human rights and journalism.

Former General Secretary of the Human Rights Journalists’ Association, Ghimire has been playing an instrumental role to take the news of human rights of Nepal at the international level.

At least four persons were injured when a container and a truck collided with each other at Jangha Pul in Bardibas Municipality-5 of Mahottari on Saturday.

Container driver Raju Lama (42) of Mahankal Rural Municipality-3, Lalitpur was critically injured in the incident, Inspector Balistar Singh of the Area Police Office, Bardibas said.

Lama has been sent to Kathmandu for the treatment.

Sujata Khadka (22) of Dharibathan, Ishwor-12,  Sarlahi, who was travelling in truck, sustained deep cut in his head.

Truck driver Rumesh Barayeli (30) of Bardibas-3 and assistant driver Niraj Pariyar were injured in the incident.

They are undergoing treatment at the Bardibas Hospital.

The incident occurred when the truck (Na 3 Kha 6964) heading towards Sarlahi from Bardibas collided head-on with the container (Province 1-02-001-Kha 9097) this morning, police said.

South Korea was deploying nearly 2,000 firefighters and troops on Saturday to battle a large wildfire that tore through an eastern coastal area and temporarily threatened a nuclear power station and a liquified natural gas plant, Associated Press reported.

The fire, which began Friday morning on a mountain in the seaside town of Uljin and spread across more than 3,000 hectares (7,400 acres) to the nearby city of Samcheok, destroyed at least 90 homes and other buildings and prompted the evacuation of nearly 6,000 people.

There were no immediate reports of injuries or deaths. South Korea's Ministry of the Interior and Safety said officials were investigating the cause of the blaze, which grew rapidly amid strong winds and dry conditions, according to the Associated Press.

As of Saturday morning, more than 1,950 firefighters and troops as well as 51 helicopters and 273 vehicles, were being deployed to contain the fire. Hundreds of firefighters worked overnight to successfully prevent the blaze from spreading to an LNG production facility in Samcheok.

President Moon Jae-in issued an alarm Friday afternoon as the fire reached the perimeter of a seaside nuclear power plant in Uljin, forcing the operator to reduce operations to 50% and cut off some electricity lines as preventive measures.

Hundreds of firefighters were deployed to the plant and kept the blaze under control before winds drove it northward toward Samcheok, said Kang Dae-hoon, a National Fire Agency official, Associated Press reported.

Officials didn't immediately say when they expected the fire to be under control.

Tibetans living Nepal as refugees celebrated Tibetan New Year (Lhosar) on Saturday.

The Tibetan Community celebrated the New Year 2149 Tiger Year in Jawlakhel this morning.

A limited number of people from the Tibetan Community and representatives of the diplomatic community were invited in the programme.

On the occasion, they worshipped the portrait  of religious leader Dalai Lama.

Chiefs and representatives of various diplomatic missions in Nepal were invited on the third day of the Tibetan New Year.

American Ambassador to Nepal Randy W. Berry, British Ambassador to Nepal Nicola Pollitt, Swiss Ambassador to Nepal Elisabeth von Capeller and Australian Ambassador among others attended the programme.