The agreements, signed during ADB President Masato Kanda’s first official visit to Nepal, will finance urban water infrastructure and support customs modernisation.

A ​police bus carried the injured inmates, some of them sprawled on its floor, to hospital. Areas within the prison were still being cleared, officials said.

Paddy transplantation has reached just 32.4 percent of the country’s 1.37 million hectares, well behind last year’s pace, though officials and experts say the season can still recover by July-end.

Decades of erosion, unplanned road construction and delayed mitigation measures have destabilised fragile slopes.

Ten of 70 secretary posts are vacant, and the number is set to rise as more officials retire while the government reviews the federal bureaucracy and restructures ministries.

Law ministry prepares legislative calendar with proposals ranging from AI regulation and surrogacy to secondary stock market access for non-resident Nepalis.

The 25-year-old was dismissed after a VAR review, with US coach Mauricio Pochettino saying it was never a red-card offence.

Hotels in Simkot, Hilsa and Nepalgunj report near-full occupancy as Indian pilgrims travel to Mount Kailash and Lake Manasarovar via Humla, generating jobs and local revenue.

Authorities say assistance deadlines have expired, but residents allege delays in payments and growing hardship as shelters shut down services and push families to leave.

Revised education regulations expand local governments’ powers over schools, tighten teacher transfer rules, reform school governance and introduce stronger safeguards for students.

Jude Bellingham scores twice and Harry Kane adds a penalty as England withstand a spirited Mexico fightback after Jarell Quansah’s red card to book a last-eight meeting with Norway.

Brazil’s record title drought stretches to six tournaments as fans blame missed chances and question Carlo Ancelotti’s tactics after last-16 defeat to Norway.

Law Minister Sobita Gautam takes aim at the judiciary’s ‘inverted pyramid’ and announces plans to reclaim state policy from external consultants.

The British travel creator has become one of the country’s most recognisable online personalities by telling the stories of rural communities in their own language.