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The Tharu community living in the Kathmandu Valley is going to celebrate the Maghi festival in Tundikhel, Kathmandu. In coordination with the Tharu Welfare Society and jointly organized by various Tharu associations. The festival will be celebrated on Jan 14-15.

Tharu National Maghi Festival Coordinator Premi Lal Chaudhary informed that the two-day festival is being celebrated for the Tharu language, culture and public awareness.

The organizers have stated that Prime Minister Sushila Karki will inaugurate the Maghi festival. Chaudhary said that before the main program, Tharu culture, costumes, and musical instruments will gather in Basantapur on Jan 15 and participate in Tundikhel by touring various places.

The Maghi Festival, which is being organized with the main slogan of “Our mission to preserve and promote Tharu art and culture, our mission to preserve and promote it,” will feature more than 100 stalls featuring Tharu cuisine, exhibitions and sales, Tharu skills and handicrafts, and book exhibitions.

Similarly, the festival will feature Tharu cultural dances and songs such as Maghauta, Sakhiya, Hurdaganwa, Jhumra, Chokra, Dinnachuwa, Ragani, Badonacha, Hori, Jharra, Lathhawa, and Mugranhawa, according to the organizers.

The Nepal Stock Exchange (NEPSE) plunged by 5. 54 points to close at 2, 635. 00 points on Monday. 

Similarly, the sensitive index dropped by 1. 61 points to close at 454. 31 points.

A total of 12,309,744-unit shares of 333 companies were traded for Rs 1. 50 billion.

Meanwhile, SY Panel Nepal Limited (SYPNL) and Shreenagar Agritech Industries Limited (SAIL) were the top gainers today with their price surging by 10. 00 percent.

Likewise, Super Madi Hydropower Limited (SMHL) was the top loser as its price fell by 4. 25 percent.

At the end of the day, the total market capitalization stood at Rs 4. 42 trillion.

Nepali Congress (NC) General Secretary Gagan Kumar Thapa has presented a political proposal on contemporary issues at the closed session being held as part of the party’s two-day Special General Convention. The event began on Sunday at the local Bhrikutimandap.

The proposal highlights the relevance of the Special General Convention in the aftermath of the September 8–9 Gen Z movement, the legal validity of the SGC, the Congress’s historical traditions, the current political context, and the policy resolutions of the convention.

It also incorporates issues related to general elections, the development of an advanced democracy and a pluralistic society, ending the practice of pre-election alliances, good governance and corruption control, and reforms in the electoral system, among others.

A closed session of the Special General Convention (SGC) of the Nepali Congress endorsed the SGC Working Procedure, 2082 on Monday. 

The closed session going on at Bhrikutimandap in the federal capital proposed the dissolution of the existing Central Executive Committee. 

According to the endorsed document, the term of the Central Executive Committee elected by the 14th General Convention (Dec10–14, 2021) has already expired. 

The document further stated that a new Central Executive Committee will be elected until the 15th General Convention is convened.

As per the approved working procedure, the Party President shall chair the Special Central General Convention. 

In the absence of the President, the senior-most member present, based on age, shall preside over the session.

Likewise, for the facilitation and continuity of the closed session under the Special General Convention, a five-member presidium shall be elected.

Malaysia and Indonesia have blocked access to Elon Musk's artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot Grok over its ability to produce sexually explicit deepfakes, BBC reported. 

Grok, a tool on Musk's X platform, allows users to generate images but has recently been used to edit images of real people to show them in revealing outfits.

The South East Asian countries said Grok could be used to produce pornographic and non-consensual images involving women and children. They are the first in the world to ban the AI tool, according to BBC. 

The closed session of the Special General Convention of the Nepali Congress (NC) underway in Kathmandu endorsed the SGC working procedure–2082 on Monday. 

The two-day convention began on Sunday, and the closed session commenced earlier today.

During the closed session, General Secretary Bishwo Prakash Sharma presented a report titled “Nation changed, and NC to be changed: A new journey towards harmony and prosperity.” 

Three persons died on the spot in a jeep accident at Sadighati of Patan municipality-8 in Baitadi district this morning.

Identities of the deceased have not been established yet, said Spokesperson of Baitadi Police, Police Inspector Suraj Singh.

The accident took place when a jeep (Ma 1 Ja 224) heading towards Dadeldhura from Motinagar fell 300 meters down the road.

"We are unable to ascertain the number of people on board the jeep at the time of accident," added Singh. Details of the incident are awaited.

A security guard working an overnight shift at a construction site near a venue for the 2026 Winter Olympics in Cortina d’Ampezzo has died, Italian authorities confirmed on Saturday. The 55-year-old man was on duty near Cortina’s ice arena when the incident occurred late Thursday night, as temperatures dropped to minus 12 degrees Celsius.

Italy’s Infrastructure Minister Matteo Salvini has called for a full investigation into the circumstances surrounding the death. According to Milan Cortina 2026 organizers, initial information from emergency services indicates the guard suffered a heart attack while at work.

Andrea Varnier, chief executive of the Fondazione Milano Cortina 2026, said all required documentation related to the site was in order and stressed that authorities are awaiting the outcome of official investigations to confirm the exact cause. The construction site was not managed by Simico, the state company overseeing Olympic infrastructure.

Local officials in Cortina expressed deep sorrow over the incident. The Milan Cortina Winter Olympics are scheduled to take place from Feb 6 to 22, 2026.