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Veteran singer-composer Bappi Lahiri died in a Mumbai hospital following multiple health issues, reported news agency PTI. The news of his death was confirmed by hospital doctor. He died on Tuesday night at Mumbai's CritiCare Hospital in Juhu. He was 69.

"Lahiri had been admitted to the hospital for a month and was discharged on Monday. But his health deteriorated on Tuesday and his family called for a doctor to visit their home. He was brought to the hospital. He had multiple health issues. He died due to OSA (obstructive sleep apnea) shortly before midnight," Dr Deepak Namjoshi, director of the hospital, told PTI.

Fondly known as Bappi da, he was as much known for his hit numbers as he was for his fascination for gold. Bappi Lahiri was known as the true blue 'Disco King' of Bollywood of the 80s and 90s, especially for his widely popular songs for films such as Namak Halaal, Disco Dancer and Dance Dance.

He also composed songs for movies such as Himmatwala, Sharaabi, Adventures of Tarzan, Satyamev Jayate, Commando, Aaj Ke Shahenshah, Thanedaar, Numbri Aadmi and Shola Aur Shabnam, among others. The singer-composer's first big Bollywood hit score was for Aamir Khan's father Tahir Hussain's film Zakhmee. 

In the last decade, Bappi Lahiri sang songs such as Ooh La La for The Dirty Picture, Tune Maari Entriyaan for Gunday, Tamma Tamma for Badrinath Ki Dulhania, and more recently, Areey Pyar Kar Le for Shubh Mangal Zyada Saavdhan. He last composed the song Bhankas for the 2020 movie Baaghi 3.

Speaking to Hindustan Times in a 2020 interview, he had talked about the trend of recreating old classics, and said, “The trend started with recreation of my old song Tamma Tamma in Badrinath Ki Dulhania. I don’t want to comment on it. Public’s choice is the top most choice. Public is my everything."

Last year, the musician was admitted to Breach Candy hospital in Mumbai after being diagnosed with Covid-19. In September, the singer-composer had rubbished reports about his ill health, telling Hindustan Times: “I am shocked to see so many reports stating that I’ve lost my voice. It’s ridiculous and I’m really unhappy." 

In a fresh blow to apps belonging to foreign companies, India has banned an additional 54 apps, blocking access to them through app stores.

The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology has released a list of 54 apps that are recommended for a ban, and, interestingly, it includes Garena Free Fire, which is a battle royale game owned by Singapore-based Sea Ltd. The government said that it has the “power to issue directions for interception or monitoring or decryption of any information through any computer resource”, India Today reported.

While the list includes several lesser photo editing, video editing, app cloning apps, the biggest name is Garena Free Fire’s, which is one of the top downloaded games in India. Garena grew in terms of popularity after the ban on PUBG Mobile in 2020 threw a wrench in India’s mobile gaming industry. Nearly a year later, Krafton launched Battlegrounds Mobile India as a censored version of PUBG Mobile, highlighting that the game has no Chinese connection.

The ban on Garena Free Fire, however, does not apply to the publisher’s second game called Garena Free Fire Max. At the time of writing, Garena Free Fire Max was available for download on the Google Play Store. Coincidentally, the list of banned apps released by the government does not mention Free Fire Max either. However, Apple has delisted both Free Fire and Free Fire Max from its iOS app store in India.

Here is the full list of banned apps:

1. Beauty Camera: Sweet Selfie HD
2. Beauty Camera Selfie Camera
3. Equalizer Bass Booster & Volume EQ & Virtualizer
4. Music Player- Music.Mp3 Player
5. Equalizer & Bass Booster Music Volume EQ
6. Music Plus MP3 Player
7. Equalizer Pro Volume Booster & Bass Booster
8. Video Player Media All Format
9. Music Player Equalizer & MP3
10. Volume Booster Loud Speaker & Sound Booster
11. Music Player MP3 Player
12. CamCard for SalesForce Ent
13. Isoland 2: Ashes of Time Lite
14. Rise of Kingdoms: Lost Crusade
15. APUS Security HD (Pad Version)
16. Parallel Space Lite 32 Support
17. Viva Video Editor Snack Video Maker with Music
18. Nice video baidu
19. Tencent Xriver
20. Onmyoji Chess
21. Onmyoji Arena
22. AppLock
23. Dual Space Lite Multiple Accounts & Clone App
24. Dual Space Pro Multiple Accounts & App Cloner
25. DualSpace Lite 32Bit Support
26. Dual Space 32Bit Support
27. Dual Space 64Bit Support
28. Dual Space Pro 32Bit Support
29. Conquer Online MMORPG Game
30. Conquer Online Il
31. Live Weather & Radar Alerts
32. Notes- Color Notepad, Notebook
33. MP3 Cutter Ringtone Maker & Audio Cutter
34. Voice Recorder & Voice Changer
35. Barcode Scanner QR Code Scan
36. Lica Cam selfie camera app
37. EVE Echoes
38. Astracraft
39. UU Game Booster-network solution for high ping
40. Extraordinary Ones
41. Badlanders
42. Stick Fight: The Game Mobile
43. Twilight Pioneers
44. CuteU: Match With The World
45. Small World-Enjoy groupchat and video chat
46. CuteU Pro
47. FancvU Video Chat & Meetup
48. Real: Go Live. Make Friends
49. MoonChat: Enjoy Video Chats
50. Real Lite -video to live!
51. Wink: Connect Now
52. FunChat Meet People Around You
53. FancyU pro Instant Meetup through Video chat!
54. Garena Free Fire Illuminate

Police have arrested eight persons in possession of uranium worth around Rs 1 billion from Hotel Hyatt in Boudha.

Acting on a tip off, a joint team deployed from the Nepal Police headquarters in Naxal and Metropolitan Police Circle, Boudha nabbed them with the uranium.

The team arrested Bhupendra Khadka (34) of Sindhupalchok and currently residing at Kapan and Nawaraj Mahat (60) of Lalitpur with  2.8 kg of uranium from a  car (Ba 5 Cha 8209) parked in Hotel Hyatt.

During the interrogation, the duo said that they brought the uranium from India and the market price of one kg of uranium is Rs 350 million. police said.

After the interrogation, police apprehended six others involved in the illicit trading of uranium.

Police identified the detainees as Ram Krishna Lamichhane (40) of Sindhupalchok and currently residing at Mahankal, Gopi Lal Das (40) of Siraha and presently living at Thamel, Jibacha Narayan Yadav (55), Surendra Prasad Chaudhary (38) of Mahottari and currently living at Shivachok, Gokarneshwor Municipality, Raju Thakur (44) of Mahottari and  Upendra Kumar Mishra (63) of Bihar, India.

Police are further investigating into the case, SP Dinesh Raj Mainali said.

Nepal logged 680 new Covid-19 cases and two deaths on Tuesday. 

With this, the country's active caseload mounted to 1,111,898. Similarly, the death toll has climbed to 11,902. 

According to the Ministry of Health and Population, 4,256 swab samples were tested in the RT-PCR method, of which 498 returned positive. Likewise, 2,839 people underwent antigen tests, of which 182 tested positive.

The Ministry said that 1,835 infected people recovered from the disease in the last 24 hours.

As of today, there are 19,400 active cases in the country. 

The Ministry said that 19,982 people are staying in home isolation while 757 are in institutionalized isolation.

Meanwhile, the Kathmandu Valley reported 209 new cases today.

According to the Ministry, 171 cases are reported in Kathmandu, 24 in Lalitpur and 15 in Bhaktapur.