The Nepal–India University Professors Conference began in the capital on Friday, bringing together academics, researchers, and intellectuals from universities in Nepal and India for a three-day dialogue on language, literature, and academic collaboration.

A conflict survivor recounts her painful childhood loss and transformative journey toward forgiveness, urging a national commitment to reconciliation and transitional justice.

The Nepali Communist Party (NCP) has stepped up its opposition to the government’s proposed move to ban student unions, framing the issue as a broader struggle over democratic space, youth representation and labour rights.

The price of gold in the domestic market increased by Rs 2,900 per tola (11.6638 grams) over the past week amid ongoing tensions in the Middle East and a ceasefire announcement by the United States in its conflict with Iran.

Senior Iranian and American delegations met Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif in Islamabad on Saturday to begin negotiations towards a deal to end the Middle East war unleashed six weeks earlier by US-Israeli strikes on Tehran.

The Nepal Stock Exchange (NEPSE) index increased by 55.59 points (2 percent) last week amid high volatility in the secondary market following the formation of a new government.

"Social media broadcasts to billions, AI whispers to one," Imran Ahmed, who heads the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), told a disinformation conference this week.

Second phase to cover inner city areas

Mahmoud Bassal, spokesman for the group, which operates under the authority of the Islamist movement Hamas, said an Israeli drone had fired two missiles close to a police post in the Al-Bureij refugee camp.

The NMA said the Ministry of Health and Population’s request to run OPD services on Sundays is not feasible without additional staff. It argued that doctors and health workers are already overburdened with round-the-clock duties, including on-call, rounds and emergency services.

Legislation to return the Indian Ocean archipelago to Mauritius had run out of time in parliament and a new Chagos bill was not expected to be put forward, the BBC reported citing UK government officials.

On Saturday, the arch-foes are set to hold talks in Islamabad to end more than a month of war in the Middle East, as a fragile ceasefire holds despite deep mutual mistrust.

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The procedure has been issued in accordance with the Public Health Service Act, 2075 BS to make hospital services more people-friendly, accessible and effective.

Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar "expressed the hope that parties would engage constructively, and reiterated Pakistan's desire to continue facilitating the parties towards reaching lasting and durable solution to the conflict", said a foreign ministry statement.

The clarification comes after a notice issued by the Department of Foreign Employment on April 6 created confusion among migrant workers.

An Iranian delegation led by parliamentary speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf arrived overnight at an airbase near the capital, disembarking from the commercial plane to embrace Pakistan's powerful army chief Asim Munir, who also shares a personal rapport with US President Donald Trump.

Minimum fare in Kathmandu Valley set at Rs 24

In the last fiscal year, the department issued permits for the extraction of limestone, tourmaline, talc, quartz, kyanite, marble, iron, zinc, quartzite, magnesite, dolomite, and copper.

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The office stated that Rs 1,184,500 was deposited into the state treasury from traffic penalties.

Russia's Defence Minister Andrei Belousov and army chief Valery Gerasimov have been instructed to "cease hostilities in all directions during this period", the Kremlin said.

The NASA spacecraft carrying four astronauts -- three Americans and one Canadian -- splashed down without a hitch off the California coast, capping the US space agency's crewed test mission that returned with spectacular images of the Moon.

The two countries have been engaged in a trade war for months, with Ecuador's right-wing President Daniel Noboa criticizing his leftist counterpart Gustavo Petro for failing to crack down on drug trafficking and illegal mining along their shared border.

"They said, well, we don't have bandwidth, we've got to get all this vehicle and engineering data down," Scoville recalled. "I was like -- wrong."

The Office of the Prime Minister and Council of Ministers has directed all agencies to speed up decision-making and prevent unnecessary delays at different levels.

Minister for Foreign Affairs Shisir Khanal held separate meetings with the Foreign Ministers of India, Bhutan and Bangladesh on Friday. 

It has also directed the operation of primary care facilities for sick passengers and those with special needs.

Finance Minister Dr Swarnim Wagle marked the launch of the e-pension verification system prepared by the Financial Comptroller General's Office.

The House of Representatives meeting on Friday endorsed the nomination proposal made by Speaker Dol Prasad Aryal.