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Dhulikhel Municipality has submitted a report of the four completed goals of the Millennium Sustainable Development Goals to the United Nations. Last April, the city released a report that it has achieved four goals out of 17 sustainable development goals: education, health, poverty alleviation and safe drinking water. Mayor Ashok Byanju handed over the 2022 report under Sustainable Development Goals to Curt Garigan, head of the UN’s Sustainable Urban Development Department, at the office in Thailand on Monday. "The report of 2022 under the Sustainable Development Goals was submitted to the association, it should be considered a matter of pride," he said. He addressed the meeting of the high-level political platform on sustainable development attended by representatives of 163 countries at the association's office in New York in the first week of July and informed about the four goals achieved by Dhulikhel among the sustainable development goals. In the published report, it is claimed that Dhulikhel is the first city in South Asia to publish a 'voluntary review report' indicating that four indicators of sustainable development goals have been met. After the election of local levels, the city's poverty level has decreased from 14 to 4 percent, the city has provided drinking water (one house-one tap) to 84 percent of the local residents' homes. For quality education, the city has provided free education for local residents studying up to graduation level, as well as other local levels of Kavrepalanchok and other districts.  The city was recently announced as the fifth among 15 cities in the world and the first in Asia to achieve zero carbon emissions. Dhulikhel had previously implemented the 'Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty' campaign for the first time in South Asia. Under the agreement, Dhulikhel has been giving first priority to sustainable development and healthy and clean environmental work with the aim of developing its city area as a tourist city.

The temple of Taleju Bhawani in Hanumandhoka area is crowded with pilgrims. The temple, which opens once a year on Mahanavami day, is crowded with pilgrims from early morning.

On the Mahanavami day of Dashain, people worshiped their respective vehicles. On this day, there is a trend of cleaning and worshiping vehicles. Bhadrakali temple in Kathmandu was crowded with worshipers. This ritualistic worship is considered to be of special importance. It is believed that if tools are worshiped on Mahaashtami/Navami of Navratri, they will last long.

As the number of people going home for Dashain has increased, Kathmandu Valley has become deserted. The streets of Kathmandu, which used to have heavy traffic, are now deserted. There are only a few cars on the road. After the reduction in traffic, the crossings connected to Kathmandu are also normal. It is estimated that more than 2m people left the valley this year.

US Former President Donald J Trump on Monday (local time) sued CNN, accusing the network of engaging in a smear campaign against him ahead of the 2024 presidential elections.  According to The Wall Street Journal, Trump is seeking more than $475m in damages. The lawsuit was filed in a federal court in southern Florida, alleging that CNN has sought to use its influence with viewers to spread false claims about Trump for the purpose of defeating him politically. As per The Wall Street Journal, Trump accused CNN of associating him with Adolf Hitler and portraying him as a Russian lackey and a racist.  The network, he alleged, has been escalating these efforts recently in the expectation that he may run for president again in 2024.  It is to be noted that over the course of his business and political career, Trump has frequently threatened to sue media organizations over news coverage. In 2020, his re-election campaign sued The New York Times and The Washington Post over opinion articles that linked the former US President to Russian interference in American elections, The New York Times reported. In 2019, Trump threatened CNN with a lawsuit over "unethical and unlawful attacks." CNN called that threat "a desperate PR stunt." A suit never materialized, as per The New York Times.  Meanwhile, following the day when Trump's legal team filed a lawsuit against CNN, the former US President threatened legal action against various news media outlets and the House select committee investigating the Jan 6 attack on the Capitol.  The Hill reported, Trump, however, did not specify what other media outlets he plans to sue but said he would file lawsuits against them for their "disinformation" about the 2020 election, which he lost to President Biden.  "In the coming weeks and months we will also be filing lawsuits against a large number of other Fake News Media Companies for their lies, defamation, and wrongdoing, including as it pertains to 'The Big Lie,' that they used so often in reference to their disinformation attack on Presidential Election of 2020," Trump wrote in his statement cited by The Hill.  The former president said he would target Jan 6. committee for not investigating his claims of election fraud. "The Unselect Committee has refused to acknowledge, as was done by the Biden Inspector General at the Department of Defense, and others, that days ahead of January 6th, I recommended and authorized thousands of troops to be deployed to ensure that there was peace, safety, and security at the Capitol and throughout the Country," Trump added. (ANI)

Japan on Tuesday urged residents to evacuate to shelters after North Korea fired an unidentified ballistic missile that flew over Tokyo.  According to Kyodo News, early Tuesday, the government issued an alert urging residents in Japan's northernmost main island of Hokkaido and the country's northeastern prefecture of Aomori to stay inside buildings. During a press conference, Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno as quoted by Kyodo News said that after crossing northeast Japan the missile is believed to have fallen in the Pacific Ocean outside Japan's exclusive economic zone around 7:44 am (local time). Meanwhile, the South Korean military said that North Korea fired a mid-range ballistic missile eastward from Mupyong-ri in the northern province of Jagang.  Citing Japanese government sources, Kyodo News reported that there were no immediate reports of damage to aircraft or ships.  Earlier, North Korea fired missiles on Saturday in an apparent protest against joint naval drills held last week involving the United States and South Korea, as per the media outlet. (ANI)

Around 15,000 goats have been sacrificed at the Rajdevi temple in Janakpurdham. This year, 14,941 goats were sacrificed there. The sacrifice started from 8:41 PM on Monday night and continued till 3:53 AM on Tuesday morning. Thousands of devotees had lined up since early morning on Monday for the event.  This time four temporary spaces were kept for the goat sacrifice. Volunteers were recruited in groups of 10 for each location. 24 goats were sacrificed per minute, six in one place. Five hundred volunteers were mobilized to organize the sacrifice program.  Earlier, 14,366 goats were sacrificed in Rajdevi temple in 2021. Similarly 8,968 in 2020, 14,997 in 2019 and 2018, 12,307 in 2017, 14,617 in 2016, 13,801 in 2015, 14,722 in 2014 and 14,861 goats in 2013 were sacrificed.

Light to moderate rain with thunder/lightning is currently occurring at few places in Province 1, Madhes and Bagmati provinces. This afternoon, Province 1, Madhes and Bagmati provinces are expected to have moderate to high thunderstorms, while the rest of the provinces are expected to have partial to moderate thunderstorms. There is a possibility of light to moderate rain with thunder/lightning at a few places in the rest of the provinces too. At night too, there will be general rain across the country. According to the Meteorological Division, there is a possibility of heavy rain at a few places in Bagmati, Gandaki and Lumbini provinces and one or two places in Province 1, Madhes province.