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Liverpool put their indifferent form behind them and marched into the Champions League quarter-finals as they dismantled Galatasaray 4-0 at Anfield on March 18, for a 4-1 aggregate win, Reuters reported. 

Dominik Szoboszlai put Liverpool in front in the 25th minute and they could have been ahead on aggregate before the break but Mohamed Salah had a tame penalty saved.

Liverpool ran riot after the break, with goals from Hugo Ekitike, Ryan Gravenberch and Salah as the visitors had no answer to a near-perfect performance, according to Reuters. 

Forward Harry Kane scored twice as Bayern Munich crushed Atalanta 4-1 on Wednesday, for an ​aggregate 10-2 demolition, to reach the Champions League last eight, Reuters reported. 

Kane became the first English player to reach 50 goals in the Champions League and he needed 66 matches, making him ​the third-fastest to reach the milestone.

The Bavarians, chasing ​a treble of titles, will next face Real ⁠Madrid in a mouth-watering quarter-final between two continental heavyweights ​who have been European champions a combined 21 times, according to Reuters. 

The Iranian national team are continuing to prepare for the World Cup finals and have no intention of pulling out of the tournament even if they will not travel to the ​United States, soccer chief Mehdi Taj said on Wednesday, Reuters reported. 

Iran were one of the first nations to qualify for the finals but their participation has been in doubt since the conflict between the Islamic Republic and the United States began in late February.

The tournament runs from June 11 to July 19 and is being staged ​in the U.S., Mexico and Canada, according to Reuters. 

The weather will remain generally cloudy in the hilly and mountainous regions of Karnali and Sudurpashchim Provinces while the weather in the remaining areas will be partly cloudy. 

According to the Weather Forecasting Division, there is a possibility of moderate rain and snowfall with thunder, lightning, and hail at some places in the hilly and mountainous regions of Karnali and Sudurpashchim Provinces, at a few places in the hilly and mountainous regions of Lumbini and Gandaki Provinces, and at one or two places in the hilly and mountainous regions of Koshi and Bagmati Provinces as well as the Tarai region of Sudurpashchim Province.

Meteorological Analysis by the Divisions states that currently Nepal is under the partial influence of a westerly low-pressure system and local winds.

Mechi Customs Office has collected Rs 11.58 billion in revenue in the first eight months of the current fiscal year. This is 96.06 percent of the target set for the same period.

According to the Information Officer Ishwar Kumar Humagain, the target was to collect Rs 12.55 billion by the end of Falgun of the current fiscal year. 

In the eight months of the current fiscal year, Rs 4.89 billion has been collected under the customs duty, Rs 220 million under the customs duty export, Rs 63 million under the customs related other income, Rs 629, 000 under the export service fee, and Rs 100 million under the agricultural reform fee.

Similarly, Rs 264.22 million has been collected under the excise duty, Rs 392.38 million under the road maintenance and improvement fee, Rs 1.22 billion under the infrastructure tax, Rs 1.22 billion under the health risk tax, Rs 4.20 billion under the value added tax (import) and Rs 132.35 million under the green tax.

The office has set an annual target of collecting a total of Rs 18.87 billion under the current fiscal year 2082/083, added Information Officer Humagai.

Nepali Congress President Gagan Kumar Thapa has resigned from his post. 

The party office has stated that Thapa tendered his resignation on Wednesday.

Thapa was unanimously elected as the President by the special general convention of the Nepali Congress held in mid-January earlier this year. 

He was under pressure to resign, following his own defeat and a poor showing of the party in the March 5 election to the House of Representatives.

Meanwhile, the Nepali Congress has summoned a central working committee meeting for tomorrow, Friday.

 killing of Iran's most influential powerbroker, Ali Larijani, has pushed the Islamic Republic into a more uncertain phase, complicating decision-making in Tehran and narrowing its options as the war grinds on, Reuters reported. 

The U.S.-Israeli war, opens new tab on Iran began with the ​killing of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei alongside a group of military commanders, and shows no sign of abating, with several more senior officials now targeted by air ‌strikes.

The deeper challenge for Tehran is increasingly structural. A system built for endurance is being tested by attrition. As experienced officials are picked off in targeted killings, the pool of figures capable of managing both war and statecraft is shrinking, according to Reuters. 

Three Palestinian women were killed in an ​Iranian missile attack in the occupied West Bank late on ‌Wednesday, the Palestinian Red Crescent said, in the first deadly Iranian strike there, and the first to kill Palestinians, since the start of the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran, Reuters reported. 

The ​missile struck a hair salon in the town of Beit ​Awwa, southwest of Hebron, the Palestinian Authority's official news agency ⁠WAFA reported. Thirteen were wounded, one of them seriously.

The Israeli military said it understood ​the strike was caused by a cluster munition, a warhead that splits ​into tiny bomblets that scatter into a disparate area, according to Reuters.