Turkish Airline Crash in Kathmandu, Nepal

 A Turkish Airlines jet carrying 238 passengers crash-landed in Nepal after skidding off a slippery runway.

Air authorities said that the plane, which was arriving from Istanbul in Turkey, came off the runway in Nepal's capital Kathmandu in the early hours of this morning due to low visibility.

All the passengers and 11 crew members of the Airbus A330 were said to be safe, as officials confirmed there were no serious injuries after the accident. Two consecutive days of rain had left the runway at Tribhuwan International Airport in Nepal's capital extremely slippery and there was dense fog at the time. The plane, which was on a seven-hour flight from the Turkish capital, was forced to circle for 30 minutes over Nepal before it made a second attempt to land.

 

The runway remains closed after incident.

Google boy Aaditya Dahal have problem in his health

Aditya Dahal, four year old boy from Nepal, has been suffering from an undiagnosed physical disability since he was two. He can’t walk or sit without help. He can’t speak either. Aditya Dahal, has challenged the search engines like Google and Wikipedia by his extraordinary memory power. For a kid that has never been to school, Aditya knows the answer for everything. Something miraculous is going on within him which is able to explain by science until this time.
He acquired basic ABCD on his own but within a short period of time him and his parents realized that he had an extraordinary ability to store information in his brain. He remembers the name and occupation of everyone he meets , meaning of every words asked to him and even the meaning of the words from different language. The boy health is getting bad day by day.
His parents are currently looking for support for Aditya’s treatment. Aditya did not have a natural growth as a baby.He was growing normally till he was three years old but a rare medical conditions paralysed him. His parents took him to Nuro Hospital in Kathmandu for treatment but nothing was diagnosed. During the course of his sickness Aditya started developing this extraordinary memory power.

Specialist suggest genotyping virus strain

With the rise in cases of H1N1 influenza in the country, experts have urged the government to conduct thorough analysis of swine flu virus to determine if it has a potential of turning into an epidemic. Conducting genetic analysis of the virus, experts say, could help policy makers understand if the virus is similar to the one that is wreaking havoc in India

A total of 48 patients have been diagnosed with swine flu in the country so far while a woman succumbed to the disease on Saturday in Kathmandu Model Hospital. Swine flu was reported in India in early 2015. The disease affected more than 20,000 people and claimed over a 1,000 lives.

Dr Nabin Rayamajhi, virologist at the Patan Academy of Health Sciences, said the genotyping of the virus will help them compare the present virulence with the one reported in the past to determine its strength. Genotyping is a process of looking into the genetic make-up of the virus to understand the mutation it has undergone over the years.

Once the genotyping of 40 to 50 sequences are completed, Dr Rayamajhi said, analysis of the available data could help them compare its virulence.

Government officials, however, claim that since they already know that it is the same virus as seen in previous years, there is no need to "waste time and money" in genotyping.

"We have other things to take care of. From the way the new cases were detected this year, we are sure that it is a weaker strain than that of previous years," said Dr Geeta Shakya, director of National Public Health Laboratory.

Dr Shakya said in 2014, a total of 40 percent cases were detected positive while this time only 36 percent have tested positive.

Experts say people with chronic respiratory disease, diabetes, cardiac disease, pregnant women, and children below two years are vulnerable to swine flu. If they exhibit any flu-symptoms, experts have suggested them to immediately consult physicians.

H1N1 influenza had claimed thousands of lives around the world in 2009.

Nepali Woman Murdered in Raped: Indian Government Announces Compensation. 

The Indian government has declared that it will provide Rs 500,000 to the family of a 28-year-old mentally challenged Nepali woman from Rajapur-10 in Bardiya who was raped and murdered in Rothak in Haryana , India.

The victim's relatives said that Haryana 's Agriculture Minister Om Prakash Dhankar made such announcement after police charged eight men, including one Nepali national, for the crime.

Meanwhile, Senior Superintendent of Police Shashank Anand of Rohtak Police has informed Superintendent of Police Govinda Ram Pariyar in Bardiya that the perpetrators have been remanded into custody for further investigation. The accused are Nepali national Santosh BK of Pyuthan and Mandir Singh, Pramod Jath, Sunil Jath, Sarowar Singh, Rajesh Jath, Sunil Singh and Pawan of Rohtak. According to the victim’s relatives, one of the perpetrators, Sombir Jath, committed suicide after the incident.

A group of nine men had gang-raped and subsequently murdered the woman on February 1. Police had found her body four days later in a field by a highway at Bahu Ahkbarpur near Rohtak.

“We haven’t yet received DNA test results and are yet to find an advocate to fight the case on our behalf,” the victim’s sister Janaki said over the telephone. She said they are trying to find a lawyer on their own though the state government will appoint one for the same. Legal practitioner, however, have been unwilling to fight for the case in fear of local goons.

Janaki, meanwhile, said local authorities have provided security to her family as they were under constant threats from local criminal gangs. She and her husband earn a living operating a small mobile food stall in the Indian city. The victim had gone to Rothak in order to seek treatment for her mental disorder.

Janaki said various organisations representing Nepalis living in India have been helping them with the case.

A Woman dies due to 'SWINE FLU' in NEPAL

A woman, who was said to have tested positive for A (H1N1) virus, popularly known as swine flu, died at Model Hospital in the Capital on Saturday night.

Dr. Bharat Pradhan, director of  Kathmandu, Model Hospital, said the woman breathed her last during treatment on Saturday night.

The identity of the woman has not been discolsed. Hospital sources said that she was a patient of asthma and was also detected with pneumonia when she was admitted to the hospital. The woman had not travelled outside the Capital valley recently, suggesting that she had contracted the disease in the Valley.

This is the first death caused by the disease in Nepal.

It has already claimed near a 1000 lives in India.     

As of Friday, the total number of people who tested positive for the swine flu virus has reached 31 in the country. Of the 31 cases, 23 have been reported in the Valley.

With an epidemic looming, the government has already set up health desks at major transit points along the border with India and also at Tribhuvan International Airport to screen arrivals into the country.

Cough, fever, headache, sore throat, muscle pain, chills,vomiting or diarrhoea are common symptoms of swine flu. If a person develops one of these symptoms, he/she should immediately consult a doctor.