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The Triveni Synthetic Yarn Industries based in the Bara-Parsa industrial corridor has paid the first installment of the electricity dues under the dedicated and trunk lines.

The industry paid the first installment to the Nepal Electricity Authority on Thursday. Subsequently, the power supply to the industry which was disconnected on October 21 has been resumed from the same day, said Manoj Silwal, Executive Director of the NEA.

Tribeni Synthetic is entitled to pay at least Rs 43.983 million in power tariff dues to the state-owned Nepal. As per the latest agreement, the Industry will pay all its dues divided into 28 installments. 

As the first installment, the industry has paid Rs 1.571 million.

Exports have increased from Birgunj customs point in the current fiscal year. The increase has been reported in the first three months of the current FY compared to the corresponding period of the previous fiscal year.

According to Chief Customs Administrator Bishnu Prasad Gyawali, goods worth Rs 26.59 billion have been exported in the first three months of the current fiscal year. Goods worth Rs 8.84 billion had been exported in the same period last fiscal year.

In the three months of the current fiscal year, 67.13 billion liters of refined soybean oil worth Rs 13.98 billion have been exported.

Similarly, 21.148 billion liters of juice worth Rs 2.7 billion have been exported in the three months of the current fiscal year. In addition, 36.848 billion liters of refined sunflower oil worth Rs 1.7 billion and 24.95 billion pieces of garments worth Rs 970 million and synthetic yarn worth Rs 660 million have been exported.

The government has made it clear that Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) will also benefit from the cross-border transmission line to be built between Nepal and India.

An agreement has already been signed between Nepal and India to jointly construct two additional 400 KV cross-border transmission lines—Inaruwa-Poornia and Dododhara-Bareilly.

For this, a joint venture company is to be established between Nepal Electricity Authority and Power Grid Corporation of India Limited. 

According to the agreement, NEA's share in the joint venture company will be 51 percent in the section to be built in Nepal, shared Sandeep Kumar Dev, Joint-Secretary at the Ministry of Energy, Water Resources and Irrigation.

Similarly, the NEA will have a 49 percent stake in the transmission line to be built in the Indian section.

The ministry has said that the construction of trans-country transmission lines has been given priority to ensure a market for the electricity generated from the power projects for which power purchase agreements have been concluded.

Partly cloudy conditions are expected in the hilly regions of Koshi and Gandaki Provinces, while the weather will remain mainly fair in the rest of the country. 

According to the Weather Forecasting Division, there is a possibility of light rain or snowfall at one or two places in the mountainous regions of Koshi and Gandaki Provinces.

The meteorological analysis by the Division shows that there is currently no significant effect of the weather system across the country.

A Ukrainian court has handed down the first jail sentence for life against a Russian soldier accused of killing a Ukrainian prisoner of war, BBC reported.

Dmitry Kurashov, 27, was found guilty of shooting dead Vitalii Hodniuk, a veteran 41-year-old Ukrainian soldier who had surrendered following capture in 2024.

Ukraine's national police said that "expert reports, witness testimony and video footage from the scene confirmed that the Russian soldier deliberately killed the POW on the orders of his commanders, who had instructed troops not to take Ukrainian soldiers captive".

Tesla boss Elon Musk has had a record-breaking pay package that could be worth nearly $1tn (£760bn) approved by shareholders, BBC reported.

The unprecedented deal was approved by 75% of votes and drew huge applause from the audience at the firm's annual general meeting on Thursday.

Musk, who is already the world's richest man, must drastically raise the electric car firm's market value over 10 years. If he does this and meets various targets, he will be rewarded with hundreds of millions of new shares, according to BBC.

US President Donald Trump has been criticised by world leaders for his stance on climate change, ahead of the global COP30 summit, BBC reported.

President Trump, who is not attending the meeting in the Amazonian city of Belem, was called a liar by the leaders of Colombia and Chile for his rejection of climate science.

UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer acknowledged the waning political support on climate change. He said it had been a unity issue internationally and in the UK but "today sadly that consensus is gone".

Over the next two weeks countries will try and negotiate a new deal on climate change, with a particular focus on channelling more money to forest protection, according to BBC.

Typhoon Kalmaegi made landfall in Vietnam on Thursday after killing at least 114 people and flooding entire towns in the Philippines, BBC reported.

More than 260,000 soldiers are on standby for rescue efforts as winds of up to 92mph (149km/h) hit the country's coastline, according to Vietnamese media and the government's online portal.

Six airports in the country have been forced to close and hundreds of flights are expected to be affected, the government warned, according to BBC.