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Fire fighters try to douse a fire at a Nebico Biscuit Factory inside Balaju Industrial area in Kathmandu, Nepal August 7, 2021. REUTERS/Navesh Chitrakar

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Monsoon mayhem:

Flash flood in Sindhupalchowk District has created mayhem damaging property worth millions.
Dozens of people are still reported missing as thick layer of mud and high flowing water submerge houses in and around Melamchi Bazar of the district.

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Aerial view shows houses of Melamchi city area submerged in flood waters in Sindhupalchok, Nepal, 16 June 2021.

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Hustle for free food (Scenes From Basantapur as government unvield budgetary plans for upcoming fiscal year)

Two bag full of free meals arrived at Basantapur Durbar Square on Saturday afternoon. Dozens of people swarmed in to get their hands on packets of free meals as prohibitory order crunch on their daily lives.

Children, youths, elderlies all hustled forward to get the meals with motive to get the food or else get left behind.

Though the government brought budget for upcoming fiscal year on Friday, group of people such as seen in Basantapur has continued to remain sidelined. The second consecutive budget which has been introduced amid second wave of pandemic has failed to address their concerns.

~ Nepal's female soldiers break taboos to tackle COVID crisis~

Four women wearing protective gear lift the body of a coronavirus victim at the Pashupati crematorium in Nepal's capital, Kathmandu, and hand it over to crematory workers - a scene unimaginable in the conservative country in recent years.
Women touching a dead body is still a cultural taboo in Nepal. But rights for women have improved since the majority-Hindu country emerged from a decade-long conflict in 2006 and abolished its centuries-old feudal monarchy two years later.
The women carrying corpses in Kathmandu, all soldiers, are being deployed for the first time as the nation of 30 million people tries to manage the bodies of COVID-19 victims amid the growing pandemic.
“I feel privileged and happy for being given a chance to do the work that was done only by the males so far,” said one of the women, a 25-year-old corporal named Rachana, who asked to be identified by just one name. "Society is changing ... I have not been to my family since I started my new duty, but my friends are happy. They thank me and say, 'You have performed a difficult task carefully and maintained your personal safety. Thank you’. I feel happy."
On their first day on the job last month, the four moved six bodies from a hospital to a crematorium.
Nepal Army spokesman Shantosh B. Poudyal said the 95,000-strong force was putting women soldiers in new roles, part of a programme to empower them.
“Women were deployed in combat duty, hospitals, ordnance, engineers and disasters before. This is the first time they are managing the bodies from hospitals and transporting them to the crematorium,” Poudyal told Reuters. “You can say it is breaking the borders … breaking the glass ceiling.”
Nepal's army is responsible for managing the bodies of coronavirus victims across the nation.
The pandemic has killed 1,508 people in the country and infected 233,452 since the virus was first detected in January, according to official data.
On Monday, 29 people were reported dead from COVID-19, the highest number of daily fatalities since Nov. 4, health ministry data showed.
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