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Police have arrested two persons in possession of undeclared foreign currency notes from the Tribhuvan International Airport on Friday.

The arrestees have been identified as Sahansil Bajracharya Shakya (56) of Kathmandu and Ranjita Shrestha (23) of Borlang-8, Gorkha and currently residing in Kathmandu.

According to SP Himalaya Kumar Shrestha, Shakya was about to board a flight to Dubai and Shrestha was preparing to board a flight to Australia when police apprehended them during the security check.

Shakya was nabbed with Euro 7, 100, Canadian Dollar 1, 900, Omani Riyal 33, Saudi Riyal 13 while Shrestha was arrested with Australian Dollar 19, 600, USD 46.

Both of them have been sent to the Revenue Investigation Department in Lalitpur for investigation.

Nepal recorded 37 new Covid-19 cases on Sunday.

According to the Ministry of Health and Population, 2, 798 swab samples were tested in the RT-PCR method, of which 28 returned positive. Likewise, 1, 263 people underwent antigen tests, of which 9 tested positive.

The Ministry said that no one died of virus in the last 24 hours. The Ministry said that 382 infected people recovered from the disease.

As of today, there are 3, 241 active cases in the country.

The Department of Hydrology and Meteorology said that there is a possibility of a light rain coupled with thunderstorm and lightning in some of the hilly areas in the country on Sunday with the impact of the Westerly low pressure system.

There will also be partially to generally cloudy in hilly areas of provinces including Sudurpaschim, Karnali, Gandaki and Province 1 tonight, while a few mountainous areas are likely to witness a light snowfall, the Department said.  Similarly, the sky will be clear in the rest of the areas.

The Kathmandu Valley today recorded a minimum 14.4 degree Celsius and maximum 31.5 degree temperature, according to the Meteorological Forecasting Division.

Likewise, Jumla recorded the lowest 4.0 degree Celsius today followed by the highest 36.6 degree in Biratnagar across the country. RSS

The United Kingdom (UK) has handed over two artistic cultural artifacts that disappeared from Nepal.

At a programme organized at the London-based Nepali Embassy on Friday, Detective Superintendent Head of London Metropolitan Police Office, John Roch handed over the lost heritages to Nepal’s Ambassador to the UK, Gyan Chandra Acharya.

Artifacts handed over to Nepal were the 16th century-old wooden inscribed Toran and the 18th century-old stone idol depicting a devotee with a gesture of Namaskar.

The wooden heritage was stolen from the Kumari Temple located in the eastern part of the Hanumandhoka Durbar area of Kathmandu in the decade of 1980-90. The stone-inscribed artifact was stolen from the Manjushree Temple, the London-based Embassy sources said.

On the occasion, Ambassador Acharya expressed gratitude to the metropolitan police and those others involved in the search and detection of lost heritages of Nepal.

Detective Superintendent Head Roch also expressed his pride in being successful in detecting and handing over priceless heritages to Nepal.

The artifacts would be handed over to the Nepal Government through the Department of Archeology soon, the Embassy said. RSS