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CPN (Maoist Center) Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal has vowed to dismantle factionalism in the party. He also claimed that public trust was growing in the party. 

In an audiovisual message to the full meeting of the party's Karnali Province, Chairman Dahal reminded that the Standing Committee meeting of the party had made a resolution to make the party strong and unified by ending groupism, anarchy and conflict in the party. 

Dahal characterized the victory of party leaders at local levels, student unions and the Nepal Mountaineering Association as the symbol of rising public trust in the party, according to Dahal's personal secretariat. 

The Weather Forecasting Division under the Department of Hydrology and Meteorology has informed that the low pressure belt of monsoon is currently towards south and west of its average range. 

With the generally cloudy weather across the country today, few places of hilly regions in Koshi, Madhes, Bagmati and Gandaki Provinces and Tarai region are likely to have moderate rainfall. However, very few places in Koshi and Gandaki Provinces will see heavy rainfall in their hilly regions.

It will be partly to generally cloudy weather in the hilly areas of Koshi, Gandaki and Lumbini Provinces tonight, the weather service added. 

Few places in Tarai and of Koshi, Gandaki and Lumbini Provinces are likely to have heavy rains. 

The Division cautioned the concerned sector, especially the road transport, to remain aware of the possible floods and debris flow in the streams and rivers in the wake of possibility of rainfall.

Birgunj Metropolitan City has decided to close the schools for three more days in view of the cholera outbreak.

Chief of education division at metropolis, Anand Lamichhane, informed that the schools would remain closed from August 27 to 29 in a bid to contain cholera spread.

It was decided by a meeting chaired by the Mayor. 

All community and institutional schools will postpone the teaching learning activities during these days, he added.

The local level has further requested the teachers and employees at schools to form teams and mobilize in the community to spread public awareness against cholera. Earlier, the schools were closed for Sunday and Monday. 

The 10th Central Committee meeting of the CPN-UML called for August 29 has been postponed. 

UML Central Publicity Department Chief, Rajendra Gautam shared that the meeting set for August 29 at the central office in Chyasal, Lalitpur has been adjourned. 

The pre-set meeting has been postponed due to inadequate preparations, he shared. 

It may be noted that the UML had called the meeting meant for gearing up preparations for its second statutory convention. 

There was an agenda to present the report with recommendations on party statute amendment at the Central Committee, but it is still continuing, so the meeting has to be put off, Gautam added. 

A fresh date for the meeting will be fixed  soon, he said. 

The party has set August 27 as the deadline for its subordinate committees to submit recommendations on the statute amendment. 

President Ram Chandra Paudel has urged King Abdullah II of Jordan to take necessary initiative for the release of Bipin Joshi, a resident of Mahendranagar, Kanchanpur, who has allegedly been taken hostage by Hamas, a Palestinian armed group.

In an official message dispatched to the Jordanian monarch on Tuesday, President Paudel requested immediate efforts to ascertain Joshi’s present status, ensure his safe release, and facilitate his return to Nepal. 

The President said that Nepal would deeply appreciate any humanitarian and diplomatic initiatives undertaken by King Abdullah II in this regard.

Earlier on Sunday, Bipin's mother and sister called on President Paudel and appealed for his support in securing his release. 

In response, the President assured them that he would make all possible efforts to that end. 

Ishwori Devi Neupane has been elected unopposed as the Chairperson of the State Affairs and Good Governance Committee of the House of Representatives.

Neupane was elected unopposed as she was the only candidate to file nomination for the post.

Harka Rai, Secretary at the House of Representatives, said that only Ishwori Devi Neupane filed her candidacy within the stipulated time.

Ramhari Khatiwada proposed Neupane’s nomination while Krishna Gopal Shrestha seconded the proposal.

A meeting of the State Affairs and Good Governance Committee has been called for 3 pm tomorrow.

The Parliament Secretariat stated that Neupane will be announced as the Chairperson of the State Affairs and Good Governance Committee in the same meeting.

More than 1,000 supporters of Sri Lanka’s former president Ranil Wickremesinghe protested his arrest in Colombo on Tuesday ahead of a crucial hearing to decide whether to grant bail to the senior opposition politician accused of misusing public funds during his presidency, Associated Press reported.

Wickremesinghe, who was president from 2022 to 2024, was arrested last Friday over accusations of using public funds to attend his wife’s graduation ceremony in London after an official visit to the United States in 2023. The court ordered him to be detained until Tuesday’s hearing. 

Wickremesinghe’s arrest has caused uproar with opposition lawmakers and politicians claiming it is a political witch hunt that undermines the country’s democracy.

On Tuesday, supporters and opposition activists gathered on the main streets leading to the Magistrates’ Court in protest, according to Associated Press.

Bones, likely to be human, have been recovered at a wartime undersea mine in western Japan where about 180 mostly Korean forced laborers died in an accident in 1942, according to a Japanese civil group helping in the search for their remains, Associated Press reported.

Three possible limb bones and a skull were found in the past two days by Korean divers at the former site of the Chosei Mine in Yamaguchi prefecture, according the group known as Kizamu Kai. 

The bones were to be examined by local police to determine whether they belong to any of the victims who died at the mine 83 years ago.

If confirmed, the discovery is expected to accelerate efforts to recover other remains of the 136 Korean forced laborers and 47 Japanese workers killed in the mine collapse, according to Associated Press.