Medical students took out a rally at New Baneshwor in the Capital on Wednesday in support of agitating Dr Govind KC who is sitting on a hunger strike for the sixth time demanding reforms in the medical education sector and implementating of the Mathema committe report.

Cadres of Netra Bikram Chand led CPN Maoist torched a taxi at Sorhakhutte, Kathmandu on Friday.

The schools that were shut following the deadly earthquake have resumed here in quake ravaged Rasuwa district from Wednesday.

The authorities on Tuesday disposed 7,000 liters of vegetable oil provided by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for the victims of earthquake.

The devastating earthquake of April 25 and its aftershocks have already claimed more than 8,600 lives, injured around 22,000 people, and rendered thousands homeless.