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The government has relieved General Manager of the Nepal Airlines Corporation (NAC) Dim Prasad Paudel today.

A Cabinet meeting held on Monday decided to remove Paudel from the top post of the NAC, the Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation said.

Earlier, the Ministry had asked for clarification from Paudel. The government had recalled Paudel to the Ministry saying that he was working against the norms and values of the NAC.

Minister for Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation Prem Ale had recommended the government to sack Paudel saying that he was working against the interest of the Corporation.

The erstwhile KP Sharma Oli-led government had appointed Paudel as the General Manager of the NAC for four years.

A writ petition has been filed at the Supreme Court against the government decision to reintroduce a two-day weekend—on Saturday and Sunday.

Advocates Tej Kumar Lohiya, Ram Bahadur Shahi, Santosh Bhandari, Trilok Chand and Deepak Khanal among others filed the writ petition arguing that the government decided to grant a two-day weekend without thinking about the long term effect.

Saying that the government’s decision to give two days of holiday in a week will have a huge impact on the economic, education and health sector, the advocates have demanded that the government roll back its decision to grant a two-day weekend at the earliest.

Police on Monday arrested seven persons for their alleged involvement in gang-raping a 16-year old girl in Banke.

According to DSP Mukunda Neupane of the District Police Office, Banke, the detainees have been identified as Hem Raj Tharu, Raj Kumar Tharu, Bikrant Tharu, Nirajan Tharu, Prabin Tharu, Bishwonath Tharu and Nirdeshan Tharu.

The incident occurred on Saturday night. 

According to a preliminary investigation, Hem Raj Tharu had invited the girl to celebrate his birthday. They had become friends through Facebook a year ago. 

The girl reached Phulbari at Mankhola in Baijanath Rural Municipality-8 by a bus. 

Hem Raj along with his friends, who had gathered at the Phulbari to celebrate the birthday, started consuming alcohol and also offered it to the girl. 

When they got intoxicated, Hem Raj along with his friends raped her, police said. 

Later, they took the girl, who fell unconscious after the incident, to a pig farm of Bikrant on a motorbike at Pipari in Baijanath-8 where they raped her again. 

Police said that they rounded up the culprits while they were taking the girl to Nepalgunj. 

Further investigation into the incident is underway.

Nepal reported 21 new Covid-19 cases on Monday.

According to the Ministry of Health and Population, 1, 990 swab samples were tested in the RT-PCR method, of which seven returned positive. Likewise, 1, 258 people underwent antigen tests, of which 14 were tested positive.

The Ministry said that no one died of virus in the last 24 hours. The Ministry said that eight infected people recovered from the disease.

As of today, there are 109 active cases in the country.