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Egypt international Ramadan Sobhi, who helped Pyramids win their first CAF Champions League title last season and previously played in the English Premier League, has been sentenced to one year in prison in connection with an academic fraud case, local media reported on Tuesday, Reuters reported. 

Sobhi was arrested in July upon returning from Turkey, where Pyramids had completed a pre-season camp, following allegations of falsifying official documents and having another individual sit for exams on his behalf at a private tourism and hospitality institute in Giza Governorate, Central Egypt.

The Giza Criminal Court sentenced 28-year-old Sobhi on Tuesday and a second defendant to one year with labor, acquitted a third, and handed a 10-year sentence in absentia to a fourth, who is a fugitive, according to Reuters. 

The country has witnessed a partial effect of westerly wind. 

Most of the places in the Tarai belt are predicted to have foggy weather, according to the Weather Forecasting Division.

Karnali and Sudurpaschim Provinces and the mountainous regions are likely to be partly cloudy, while light rainfall and snowfall are forecasted in few places of high hills and mountains of Koshi, Gandaki and Karnali Provinces..

The weather service has urged the concerned sectors to maintain cautions in road and air travels owing to foggy and cloudy weather. 

The minimum temperature was recorded 5 degree Celsius in the Kathmandu Valley this morning. 

The maximum temperature will fluctuate between 17 and 18 degree Celsius today.

Teaching and learning activities have been disrupted in the schools of Sunsari district due to the cold wave. .

All local levels have closed both the community and institutional schools for three days- from Wednesday to Friday. 

Itahari Sub-metropolis informed that it shut down  the schools, mentioning the closure as part of winter vacation. 

Chief of education section in the sub-metropolis, Ramesh Kumar Sah, shared that the schools were given holidays for three days to prevent effects of cold in the children's health.

The schools in Inaruwa, Koshi Rural Municipalities, Harinagar Ramdhuni, and Duhabi, among others are also closed. The closure would be managed under various other annual holidays.

The local levels have also urged the guardians to keep their children at home and adopt precaution to stay away from cold waves. 

Foreign Minister Bala Nanda Sharma left for Dhaka, Bangladesh, last night to attend the state funeral of former Prime Minister and Chairperson of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, Begum Khaleda Zia.

Sharma is paying his last respects on behalf of the government and the people of Nepal.

The Foreign Minister’s visit reflects Nepal’s deep respect for the late leader’s contributions to strengthening Nepal–Bangladesh relations during her three tenures as Prime Minister, said Foreign Ministry in a statement, adding that Minister Sharma would be accompanied by senior officials of the Foreign Ministry.

The Minister is scheduled to return home on January 1. 

A total of 64 political parties have submitted closed lists for the proportional representation election to the House of Representatives (HoR) scheduled for March 5.

Of the total, 54 submitted the closed lists with their own election symbols while 10 others in four common symbols, according to the Election Commission.

The Constitution of Nepal has the provision that 165 members of the HoR are elected under first past the post (direct election) and 110 under proportional representation.

Meanwhile, the Election Commission has made public the list of documents required for the National Assembly election scheduled for January 25.

Chart-topping K-pop band NewJeans' record label, Ador, is suing one of the band's members in what is yet another twist in their bitter year-long feud, BBC reported. 

Hybe, the record label's parent company, confirmed to the BBC that it is suing Danielle Marsh, one of her family members, and ex-boss Min Hee-jin for $30m (£22m) in damages and as part of a contract break penalty.

The band has been plunged into further turmoil as the return of Minji, another of its stars, remains uncertain, leaving the band with threemembers, according to BBC. 

The United Arab Emirates has said it will withdraw its remaining forces from Yemen, after Saudi Arabia backed a demand from the Yemeni presidential council for them to leave within 24 hours, BBC reported. 

The Emirati announcement followed an air strike by a Saudi-led military coalition on what it said was a weapons shipment for UAE-backed separatist forces in the southern port of Mukalla.

The UAE denied the shipment contained weapons and expressed "deep regret" at the Saudi accusations, according to BBC. 

Protests and strikes in Iran over inflation and currency devaluation have spread from the capital, Tehran, to several other cities on a third day of unrest, BBC reported. 

The protests began on Sunday after shopkeepers in Tehran's Grand Bazaar staged a strike when the Iranian rial hit a record low against the US dollar on the open market.

Since then, videos verified by BBC Persian have shown demonstrations in the cities of Karaj, Hamedan, Qeshm, Malard, Isfahan, Kermanshah, Shiraz and Yazd. Police were also seen using tear gas in an attempt to disperse demonstrators, according to BBC.