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A landslide occurred at Dablyang in Baglung Municipality-10 has disrupted vehicular movement in the Kaligandaki corridor since last night. 

The landslide has washed away a section of the road in Dablyang after a heavy rain.

Assistant Sub-Inspector of Nepal Police Ganga Ram BK said that vehicular movement to the southern part of the Baglung district headquarters were obstructed after the road disruption.

Likewise, the vehicles left for the long routes are also off the road.

The Birgunj Inland Revenue Office has collected more than Rs 8.52 billion in revenue in the first 11 months of the current fiscal year 2081/82 BS.

The collection is more than the Office's target.

During the review period, the Office was expected to collect slightly more than Rs 7.51 billion. 

Chief Tax Officer of the Birgunj Inland Revenue Office, Tikaraj Chaulagain, said the Office collected 113.36 percent of the total target set for the first 11 months of the running fiscal year. 

According to the Office, the highest amount of the collection was received from the excise duty, which is Rs 4.5 billion.

Likewise, Rs 2.55 billion was collected under the income tax while Rs 251 million was received from the house rental tax. 

Similarly, Rs 1.83 billion was collected against the target of Rs 2.22 billion under the heading of the value added tax (VAT) during the first 11 months of the current fiscal year, according to the Birgunj Inland Revenue Office.   

A Russian missile strike on a nine-story Kyiv apartment building was a sign that more pressure must be applied on Moscow to agree to a ceasefire, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Thursday, as Moscow intensifies attacks in the war, Associated Press reported.

The drone and missile attack on Kyiv early Tuesday, the deadliest assault on the capital this year, killed 28 people across the city and wounded 142 others, Kyiv Military Administration head Tymur Tkachenko said. 

Zelenskyy, along with the head of the presidential office, Andrii Yermak, and Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko, visited the site of the apartment building in Kyiv’s Solomianskyi district on Thursday morning, laying flowers and paying tribute to the 23 people who died there after a direct hit by a missile brought down the structure.

“This attack is a reminder to the world that Russia rejects a ceasefire and chooses killing,” Zelenskyy wrote on Telegram, and thanked Ukraine’s partners who he said are ready to pressure Russia to “feel the real cost of the war," according to Associated Press.

For years, Israel has targeted Iranian nuclear scientists, hoping to choke progress on Iran’s nuclear program by striking at the brains behind it, Associated Press reported.

Now, with Iran and Israel in an open-ended direct conflict, scientists in Israel have found themselves in the crosshairs after an Iranian missile struck a premier research institute known for its work in life sciences and physics, among other fields.

While no one was killed in the strike on the Weizmann Institute of Science early Sunday, it caused heavy damage to multiple labs on campus, snuffing out years of scientific research and sending a chilling message to Israeli scientists that they and their expertise are now targets in the escalating conflict with Iran.

“It’s a moral victory” for Iran, said Oren Schuldiner, a professor in the department of molecular cell biology and the department of molecular neuroscience whose lab was obliterated in the strike. “They managed to harm the crown jewel of science in Israel," according to Associated Press.

U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday extended to September 17 a deadline for China-based ByteDance to divest the U.S. assets of short-video app TikTok despite a law that mandated a sale or shutdown without significant progress, Reuters reported

Trump signed an executive order pushing back Thursday's deadline for 90 days, a step he had previously signaled.

The Republican president had already twice granted a reprieve from federal enforcement of a law that mandated the sale or shutdown of TikTok that was supposed to take effect in January, absent significant progress toward a sale.

Trump has said he wants to keep the app, which helped him woo young voters in the 2024 presidential election, active in the U.S, according to Reuters.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday that the change or fall of Iran's leadership was not a goal of Israel's attacks but could be a result, Reuters reported.

"The matter of changing the regime or the fall of this regime is first and foremost a matter for the Iranian people. There is no substitute for this.

"And that's why I didn't present it as a goal. It could be a result, but it's not a stated or formal goal that we have," Netanyahu said in an interview with Israel's Kan public television.

He said Israel had the power to remove all of Iran’s nuclear facilities, whether U.S. President Donald Trump decides to join in or not.

Netanyahu spoke before the White House said Trump would decide in the next two weeks whether to get involved, according to Reuters.

Israel and Iran's air war entered a second week on Friday and European officials sought to draw Tehran back to the negotiating table after President Donald Trump said any decision on potential U.S. involvement would be made within two weeks, Reuters reported.

Israel began attacking Iran last Friday, saying it aimed to prevent its longtime enemy from developing nuclear weapons. Iran retaliated with missile and drone strikes on Israel. It says its nuclear programme is peaceful.

Israeli air attacks have killed 639 people in Iran, said the Human Rights Activists News Agency. Those killed include the military's top echelon and nuclear scientists. Israel has said at least two dozen Israeli civilians have died in Iranian missile attacks. Reuters could not independently verify the death toll from either side.

Israel has targeted nuclear sites and missile capabilities, but also has sought to shatter the government of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, according to Western and regional officials, according to Reuters.

The US joining Israeli strikes would cause "hell for the whole region", Iran's deputy foreign minister said, BBC reported.

Saeed Khatibzadeh said this is "not America's war" and if US President Donald Trump does get involved, he will always be remembered as "a president who entered a war he doesn't belong in".

He said US involvement would turn the conflict into a "quagmire", continue aggression and delay an end to the "brutal atrocities". 

His comments came after the Soroka hospital in southern Israel was hit during an Iranian missile attack. Iranian state media reported that the strike targeted a military site next to the hospital, and not the facility itself, according to BBC.