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A meeting of the District Health Crisis Management Committee held on Sunday has decided not to approve the leave of the health workers except for the essential cases in view of the cholera outbreak in Birgunj, Parsa.

The meeting presided over by the Acting Chief District Officer, Suman Kumar Karki, decided to deploy the health workers from the local levels in a centralized way after the detection of cholera in some areas in the city.

Minister for Health and Population of Madesh Province, Satrudhan Prasad Singh, also attended the meeting. 

Distribution, management and management of the human resources and logistics received from the federal and province governments would be carried out from the District Health Crisis Management Committee.

Similarly, the local level would carry out the investigations for the source of infection identification of the cholera outbreak, while the federal and provincial governments would ensure technical assistance for this.

Meanwhile, a meeting of the central security committee also decided to mobilize a team of medical practitioners in the cholera-hit Bijgunj city.

The committee meeting chaired by Home Minister Ramesh Lekhak on Sunday made the decision to this effect, directing the line agencies to ensure the teams for their immediate deployment in Birgunj. 

He directed the Nepali Army, the Nepal Police and the Armed Police Force to pay adequate attention to it.  

Likewise, Minister for Health and Population, Pradip Paudel, and Minister for Drinking Water, Pradip Yadav, also discussed the ways to control and prevent the cholera outbreak in Birgunj city. 

In the city, arrangements have been made for the immediate treatment of the cholera patients for free of cost at both public and private hospitals.

Both imports and exports from the Kakarbhitta customs point in Jhapa district decreased in the first month of the current fiscal year 2025/27, the customs officials shared. 

In the month of Shrawan, goods worth Rs 3.69 billion were imported, while such imports were Rs 3.88 billion in the same month in the previous year, Customs Officer Ishwar Kumar Humagain said.

Similarly, goods worth Rs 1.54 billion were exported in the month of Shrawan. Last year, the exports from the same months had surpassed Rs 1.80 billion. 

However, the revenue collection in the last month increased by Rs 151.8 million compared to the same month of the last fiscal year. Last year, the revenue collection was recorded at Rs 113.2 million.

Despite a large number of universities and colleges established in the country for higher studies, a hefty amount of money is spent for abroad studies by Nepali students. 

According to the Current Macroeconomic and Financial Situation of Nepal released by the Central Bank on Sunday based on annual data, travel payments from the country increased 18.1 percent to Rs 223.72 billion, including Rs 138.48 billion for education. "Such payments were Rs 189.43 billion and Rs 125.13 billion respectively in the previous year," it stated. 

According to the Nepal Rastra Bank, the net services income remained at a deficit of Rs 90.94 billion during 2024/25 compared to a deficit of Rs 55.86 billion in the previous year. Under the service account, travel income increased 7.7 percent to Rs 88.66 billion in the review year which was Rs 82.33 billion in the previous year.

Vietnam has ordered more than 586,000 people to be evacuated ahead of the arrival of Typhoon Kajiki, BBC reported.

The storm is already packing winds of 166km/h (103mph) and is expected to strengthen further before making landfall early on Monday, weather forecasters said.

People from the central provinces of Thanh Hoa, Quang Tri, Hue and Da Nang have been ordered to leave their homes. Flights have been cancelled and boats told to stay ashore.

The storm is skirting past Hainan in China, where the country's weather agency said up to 320mm (12.6in ) of rain was forecast, according to BBC.

Israeli forces killed four aid seekers traveling on Sunday through a military zone south of Gaza City — an area regularly used by Palestinians trying to reach a food distribution point, a hospital and witnesses said, Associated Press reported.

The deaths add to the growing toll of Palestinians killed while seeking food, as parts of the Gaza Strip plunge into famine and Israel’s military ramps up activity in northern Gaza ahead of a planned offensive to seize its largest city.

Al-Awda Hospital and two eyewitnesses told The Associated Press that the four Palestinians were killed when troops opened fire on a crowd heading to a site run by the Israeli-backed American contractor Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, or GHF, in the Netzarim corridor area. It occurred hundreds of meters (yards) away from the site, the eyewitnesses said, according to Associated Press.

President Volodymyr Zelensky said Ukraine would continue to fight for its freedom in an address to the nation on its Independence Day, BBC reported.

"We need a just peace, a peace where our future will be decided only by us," he said, adding that Ukraine would fight back against Russia "while its calls for peace are not heard".

He continued: "Ukraine has not yet won, but it has certainly not lost."

Zelensky's remarks came after Moscow said Ukraine had attacked Russian power and energy facilities overnight, blaming drone attacks for a fire at a nuclear power plant in its western Kursk region, according to Reuters.

The meeting of the Central Security Committee held on Sunday decided to mobilize a team of medical practitioners in the cholera-hit Bijgunj city, Parsa.

The Committee meeting was chaired by Home Minister Ramesh Lekhak.

In the meeting, Minister Lekhak directed the subordinates to immediately deploy the team in the cholera-hit area. 

He directed the Nepali Army, the Nepal Police and the Armed Police Force to pay adequate attention to it, according to Spokesperson at Home Ministry, Ananda Kafle.  

The peace and security situation across the country was reviewed in the meeting attended by Secretary at Home Ministry, Gokarna Mani Duwadi, and chiefs of the security agencies.

Meanwhile, Minister for Health and Population, Pradip Paudel, and Minister for Drinking Water, Pradip Yadav, held a discussion on how cholera outbreak could be controlled in Birgunj city. 

Minister Poudel informed during the discussion that the arrangements have been made for the immediate treatment of cholera patients for free of cost at both public and private hospitals.

The World Health Organization said a staff member was released on Sunday more than four weeks after being detained in Gaza by Israeli forces, Reuters reported.

"Extremely relieved that our colleague, detained since 21 July in Gaza, was released this morning," agency Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in a post on X. He reiterated a call for protection of all WHO staff and personnel, and health and humanitarian workers.

In July, the United Nations agency said the Israeli military had attacked its staff residence and main warehouse in the Gazan city of Deir al-Balah.

During that time, the WHO said that two of its staff members and two family members were detained by Israeli forces. Three were later released, while one staff member remained in detention, according to Reuters.