Deadly gun attack at Russian school
A gunman has opened fire at a school in central Russia, killing at least 17 people and injuring 24, Russian officials say, BBC reported.
The victims include 11 children at the school of about 1,000 pupils in the city of Izhevsk.
The gunman killed himself at the scene and was a former pupil of the school.
Videos posted online appear to show panic inside the building where the shooting took place, with children and adults running along corridors.
Other footage shows blood on a classroom floor and a bullet hole in a window, with children crouching down underneath desks.
Eleven children and four adults were killed, including two security guards and two teachers, according to Russia's investigative committee. All but two of the 24 injured people were children.
Staff and pupils have been evacuated from the school building, which is in central Izhevsk - a city of about 650,000 residents.The attacker - named as Artem Kazantsev, who was born in 1988 - is reported to have been armed with two pistols.
A video posted online by state investigators shows the dead body of the gunman on the floor, wearing a T-shirt with a Nazi symbol and a balaclava. Investigators are searching his place of residence, according to BBC.A mourning period lasting until 29 September has been announced by the head of the region. Russian President Vladimir Putin is "deeply mourning" the deaths and denounced the shooting as an "inhuman terrorist attack", according to his spokesperson.
Dimorphos: Nasa flies spacecraft into asteroid in direct hit
The American space agency's Dart probe has smashed into an asteroid, destroying itself in the process, BBC reported.
The collision was intentional and designed to test whether space rocks that might threaten Earth could be nudged safely out of the way.
Dart's camera returned an image per second, right up to the moment of impact with the target - a 160m-wide object called Dimorphos.
What had been a steady image stream cut out as the probe was obliterated.
Controllers, based at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU-APL), erupted with joy as Dimorphos filled the field of view on Dart's camera just before then going blank. Initial calculations suggest the impact was a mere 17m off the exact centre of Dimorphos.
It will be some weeks before scientists on the Nasa-led mission know for sure whether their experiment has worked, but Dr Lori Glaze, the director of planetary science at the space agency, was convinced something remarkable had been achieved.
And Dr Elena Adams, a JHU-APL mission systems engineer, said "earthlings should sleep better" knowing they had a planetary defence solution.
Researchers will determine success, or otherwise, by studying the changes to the orbit of Dimorphos around another asteroid known as Didymos.
Telescopes on Earth will make precise measurements of the two-rock, or binary, system.
Before the collision, Dimorphos took roughly 11 hours and 55 minutes to circle its 780m-wide partner, BBC reported.
This ought to reduce by a few minutes following the crash.
Ukraine war: Russia admits mobilisation errors, amid growing public opposition
The Kremlin has admitted mistakes were made in its drive to mobilise Russian army reservists to fight in Ukraine, amid growing public opposition, BBC reported.
"There are cases when the decree is violated," Russian President Vladimir Putin's spokesman said, adding that "all the errors will be corrected".
Multiple reports say people with no military experience - or who are too old or disabled - are being called up.
Last week's mobilisation decree has already triggered widespread protests.
President Putin announced what he described as partial mobilisation on 21 September, with Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu later saying 300,000 reservists would be called up.
However, reports in opposition Russian media suggested that up to one million people could be called up, pointing out that one paragraph believed to be about the exact number of the required reservists was omitted (classified) in the published version of Mr Putin's decree on the official Kremlin website.
A number of military experts in the West and Ukraine say Mr Putin's decision to call up reservists shows that Russian troops are failing badly on the battlefield in Ukraine - more than seven months after Moscow launched its invasion.
At a briefing on Monday, Mr Putin's spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, conceded that mistakes were being made.
He said that in some regions, "governors are actively working to rectify the situation".
Mr Peskov also said he was unaware of any decisions to shut Russia's borders and impose martial law in the country.
Media reports earlier suggested this could be done to stop potential recruits escaping abroad, according to BBC.
Satellite images show lengthy queues of Russian cars on the border with Georgia.
In the latest sign of growing public protest, a man critically injured an army recruitment officer in the Siberian city of Ust-llimsk on Monday.
Footage has emerged on social media apparently showing the attacker approaching the officer and then shooting him. People in the building are then seen screaming and running in panic after the gunman shouted to them to flee.
Over the weekend, people in Russia's Dagestan republic in the North Caucasus clashed with police over the mobilisation drive. More than 100 people were arrested during protests in the regional capital, Makhachkala, said OVD-Info, an independent Russian human rights monitor, BBC reported.
There have also been reports of a number of arson attacks on recruitment centres and other administrative buildings across Russia.
Diffusion notice issued against Sandeep Lamichhane
International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol) has issued a diffusion notice against suspended Nepal national cricket team cricketer Sandeep Lamichhane accused of raping a minor girl. The Interpol issued the notice on the recommendation of the Nepal Police. Nepal Police spokesperson Tek Prasad Rai said that the diffusion notice was issued three days ago. Lamichhane through social media had said on Sunday that he is in isolation due to mental stress.
Nepal records 53 new Covid-19 cases on Monday
Nepal reported 53 new Covid-19 cases on Monday. According to the Ministry of Health and Population, 825 swab samples were tested in the RT-PCR method, of which 39 returned positive. Likewise, 1, 799 people underwent antigen tests, of which 14 were tested positive. The Ministry said that no one died of the virus in the last 24 hours. The Ministry said that 84 infected people recovered from the disease. As of today, there are 1, 178 active cases in the country.
32 die of dengue in last two months across the country
At least 32 people have died due to dengue in the last two months across the country. The Ministry of Health and Population said that 25, 543 people have been infected with dengue from August, 2022 till now. The Ministry said that 24, 492 were infected with dengue till Sunday. According to the Ministry, 19, 910 have been infected with dengue in Bagmati Province, 775 in Province 1, 380 in Madhesh Pradesh, 556 in Gandaki, 2, 887 in Lumbini, 231 in Karnali and 804 in Sudurpaschim Province.
1 killed, 15 injured in Manaslu avalanche
A person died and 15 others were injured in an avalanche of Mount Manaslu in Chumanubri Rural Municipality-1, Gorkha district on Monday. Rajendra Thakuri of Imagine Expedition Pvt. Ltd said that climbing assistant of Saturi Expedition Pvt. Ltd died in an avalanche that occurred at around 12 pm today. He said that more than 15 people including five from the Imagine Nepal, who went to the fourth camp to deliver essential goods including oxygen, were injured in the incident. Dawa Sherpa, Phurita Sherpa, Nima Dorje Sherpa, Lakpa Tamang and Jit Bahadur Sherpa is the company were injured in the avalanche. Among them, Jit Bahadur and Nima Dorje are said to be in critical condition. Two helicopters of Simrik Air and Kailash Air are on standby to rescue the injured but the rescue could not be done due to bad weather, Samagaun Police Police said.
Government releases Rs 1 billion for payment of Covid-19 insurance claims
The government has released Rs 1 billion for the payment of Covid-19 insurance claims. A Cabinet meeting held in the first week of September had decided to release Rs 1 billion for the payment of Covid-19 insurance claims. According to the same, the Ministry of Finance released the amount on Sunday. Insurance Committee Chairman Surya Silwal said that the payment will be made only after Dashain. Patients have been claiming their insurance for the past one year.
