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The price of gold has dropped by Rs 2, 000 per tola in the domestic market on Thursday. 

According to the Federation of Nepal Gold and Silver Dealers’ Association, the yellow metal is being traded at Rs 265, 700 per tola today.  

Similarly, the silver is being traded at Rs 4, 835 per tola.

Nepal Police has called for applications from those interested and eligible to be recruited as Election police personnel for the upcoming March 5 House of Representatives elections. 

The Police Headquarters issued a notice today, calling applications for a total of 133,980 positions. 

Applications for the election police  personnel can be submitted to all 77 District Police Offices from tomorrow i.e. January 9 to 15. 

The Police Headquarters has stated that the age of the candidate should be between 18 to 54 years by the last date for registering the application form.

Nepali citizens, who can read and write, who have not been convicted by a court for any criminal offense, who are not members of any political party at the time of recruitment, who are physically and mentally healthy, and who are not members of terrorist and destructive organizations are eligible to take part in the recruitment process, shared Nepal Police Spokesperson and Deputy Inspector General of Police Abinarayan Kafle.

Individuals who have applied for various positions in various security agencies, such as the Nepal Army, Nepal Police, Armed Police Force Nepal, or former forest guards and security organizations and have passed the physical fitness and health tests will be selected as election police officers.

Similarly, those who have been recruited as temporary police officers in the previous elections to the House of Representatives, Provincial Assemblies, and local levels and have performed satisfactorily, and Nepali citizens who have retired after working in security agencies of foreign friendly countries, will also be selected as election police officers.

The term of office of the election police personnel will be 40 days from the date of appointment or as prescribed by the Government of Nepal. 

The election police personnel will be paid Rs 34,776 for 40 days at the rate of Rs 869.40 paisa per day, similar to the starting salary scale of Nepal Police constables. They will also receive food allowance for 40 days.

A two-day International Yam Festival is going to be organized in Bahundangi Bazaar of Mechinagar Municipality-4 on the occasion of Maghe Sankranti from January 14 to 15.

The festival is being organized by 14 government and non-government organizations and will see an exhibition of traditional foods including yams from Nepal, India and Bhutan. 

According to Arjun Karki, Ward Chairman of Mechinagar-4, who is also the chair of the organizing committee, , this is the fourth time that the Yam Festival is being organized in Bahundangi.

The organizers have stated that 18 types of traditional foods made from yams are to be exhibited at the festival. 

The festival is being organized with the participation of the Koshi Province Government and the Tourism Office Kakadbhitta with the support of UNDP, ICIMOD, WWF, and other NGOs.

Around 50,000 people are expected to attend the festival, which will also include musical performances by folk artists Daisy Baraili and Kamalikanta Bhetwal.

Inter Milan extended their lead at the top of the Serie A standings with a 2-0 win at Parma on Wednesday, with Federico Dimarco and Marcus Thuram netting the goals to claim all three points in heavy fog at the Stadio Ennio Tardini, Reuters reported. 

Inter moved to 42 points, four ahead of both AC Milan, who host Genoa on Thursday, and Napoli who were held to a 2-2 draw by Hellas Verona earlier on Wednesday. Parma are 15th in the standings on 18 points.

Parma were pinned back into their own half from the off as Inter created early chances, with Francesco Pio Esposito's header failing to trouble Parma keeper Edoardo Corvi, according to Reuters. 

Arsenal's Premier League title prospects were enhanced without them even kicking a ball on Wednesday as their closest challengers Manchester City and Aston Villa both dropped points, Reuters reported. 

Erling Haaland scored his 150th goal for City as he put them in front against Brighton and Hove Albion from the penalty spot but Kaoru Mitoma equalised for the visitors on the hour with the game finishing 1-1.

It was the third successive draw for stuttering City who were held by Sunderland on New Year's Day and by Chelsea at the weekend when they also conceded an equaliser, according to Reuters. 

Manchester United's Benjamin Sesko scored twice as his team kicked off the post‑Ruben Amorim era with a familiar sense of frustration in a 2-2 Premier League draw at lowly Burnley on Wednesday, Reuters reported. 

United, with interim manager Darren Fletcher in charge, would have climbed to fourth in the table with a win but slipped to seventh on 32 points after a third consecutive draw. Burnley are 19th, eight points adrift of safety.

United looked headed for victory before Burnley substitute Jaidon Anthony struck the equaliser against the run of play in the 66th minute, capitalising on lackadaisical defending to launch a blistering shot from the edge of the penalty area, according to Reuters. 

Any complaints against candidates, who have filed their nominations for the National Assembly member election to be held on January 25 can be filed today, according to the election program made public by the Election Commission.

The registration of candidates' nomination papers was completed peacefully at the offices of the election officers in all seven provincial capitals on Wednesday, shared the Commission's Joint Secretary and Spokesperson Narayan Prasad Bhattarai.

According to the election program, the nomination papers and complaints, if any, shall be examined and the list of candidates will be published on January 9 and 10, the candidates will withdraw their names and publish the final list of candidates on January 11, and the election symbols will be given to the candidates on January 12.

The general in command of Venezuela's presidential honour guard, Javier Marcano Tábata, has been sacked days after Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro was seized by US forces in a raid in Caracas and taken to New York to stand trial on narco-terrorism charges, BBC reported. 

The presidential honour guard is the military force which provides the bodyguards tasked with protecting the head of state.

While the Venezuelan government has not yet provided a detailed breakdown of casualties, members of the guard are thought to be among the dozens of people killed in the US operation to seize Maduro, according to BBC.