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Police have arrested four staffers of the two hospitals for issuing fake PCR reports.

The staffers of the Nagarik Community Hospital in Thimi, Bhaktapur and Kantipur Hospital in Tinkune, Kathmandu have been apprehended with fake PCR reports.

Both the hospitals have been found issuing fake PCR reports for the people going abroad for employment by taking more than the amount fixed by the government of Nepal. It has also been found that the hospitals have been issuing the PCR reports without taking the swab samples.

Acting on a tip off that the hospitals have been issuing fake PCR reports, a police team detained Roshan Kumar Chittan, staffer of Nagarik Community Hospital, with the fake PCR reports issued from the hospital from the Tribhuvan International Airport and another staffer from the hospital at around 10:30 am on Tuesday.

Similarly, police have also arrested Nagendra Kumar Yadav of Kantipur Hospital. Police said that Yadav was arrested with 17 fake PCR reports from in front of the hospital.

Likewise, lab technician of the hospital Madhav Mainali has also been arrested with four fake PCR reports.

Police have also confiscated computers and equipment among others from both the hospitals in the presence of representatives of National Public Health Laboratory, Teku.

Police said that they have been searching for the operators of both the labs Bhabesh Mitra and Nirmal Giri and a doctor who signed the PCR reports.

Further investigation into the incident is underway.

A man died in a auto tempo accident at Zero Point in Dhankuta on Tuesday.

The deceased has been identified as tempo driver Lal Bahadur Darlami (60) of Haatikharka, Chatharjorpari-1.

The vehicle (Me 1 Ha 4474) was heading towards Zero Point from bazaar area when the incident occurred at around 8:30 pm yesterday.

Critically injured in the incident, Parlami was rushed to the District Hospital Dhankuta but doctors pronounced him dead on arrival.

Police said that they are looking into the case.

People from the Tamang Community are celebrating Sonal Lhosar with much fervour by extending wishes to each other and feasting on traditional cuisines on Wednesday.

On the occasion of the community's New Year festival, President Bidya Devi Bhandari  extended greetings to the Tamang Community.

The day is celebrated on the first day of the new moon during the Nepali month of Magh. In her message, the President wished the people from the Tamang community peace, happiness, prosperity, good health, fraternity and progress.

She believed that the Sonam Lhosar will strengthen the national unity.

Similarly, Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba urged all the people to celebrate the festival by following the health safety protocols.

Tamangs divide their years into 12 cycles, each one for a year, which is given a special name, represented by one of the 12 animals for each year.

The government has declared a public holiday today to celebrate the festival.

The Tamang Community is the fifth largest community in term of population in Nepal, comprising 5.64 percent of the total population, according to the Central Bureau of Statistics.

Nepal Oil Corporation (NOC) has hiked the prices of petroleum products yet again on Tuesday. 

Earlier, the state-owned monopoly had increased the prices of petroleum products on January 19.

The NOC has decided to increase Rs 3 per litre in petrol, diesel and kerosene.

According to the new revised rate, the petrol will cost Rs 142 per litre and diesel and kerosene will cost Rs 125 per litre.

The NOC has also decided to hike the price of aviation fuel for domestic airlines by Rs 10. Now, the aviation fuel for domestic airlines will cost Rs 116 per litre. 

Similarly, the NOC has decided increase the aviation fuel for international carriers by $100 per kilo liter.

Now, aviation fuel for foreign companies will $1095 per kilo litre.