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Three people were killed in Ukrainian overnight drone attacks in the Tula and Nizhny Novgorod regions and which also targeted Moscow, Russia's regional official and the defence ministry said on Monday, Reuters reported.

Two people died and two were hospitalised following an attack before midnight on Sunday on the Tula region that borders the Moscow region to its north, Tula Governor Dmitry Milyaev said on the Telegram messaging app.

One person was killed and two others were hospitalised following a Ukrainian attack targeting an industrial zone in the Nizhny Novgorod region in western Russia, Gleb Nikitin, the governor of the region, said on the Telegram, according to Reuters.

Elon Musk's electric car and energy company Tesla has applied for a licence to supply electricity to British homes, BBC reported.

If approved by the energy watchdog Ofgem, it would allow Tesla to take on the big firms that dominate the UK energy market to provide electricity to households and businesses in England, Scotland and Wales as soon as next year.

Tesla, which is best known as one of the world's biggest makers of electric vehicles (EV), also has a solar energy and battery storage business, according to BBC.

Tesla did not immediately reply to a BBC request for comment.

Vehicular movement along the Beni-Jomsom road section has been obstructed since this morning  following landslides in different areas of Myagdi district. 

The Traffic Police Office in Myagdi shared that landslides have occurred at different places in Raghuganga Rural Municipality and Annapurna Rural Municipality, leading to vehicular disruption along the Beni-Jomsom road section. 

Chief of the Office, Assistant Police Inspector, Bishal Darjee said that efforts are going on to clear the debris.. 

With the vehicular obstruction, direct road connectivity between Mustang and Myagdi district has been disrupted.  

Likewise, air service to and from Pokhara-Jomson has also been closed citing unfavorable weather conditions. 

At least three persons died and 15 others were injured when a bus and a micro bus collided with each other in  Bhokraha Narsingha Rural Municipality-3, Sunsari district along the East West Highway on Monday.

The identities of the deceased are yet to be established, police said.

According to Yograj Khatiwada, spokesperson at the District Police Office, Sunsari, the incident occurred when the bus (Me 1 Kha 1799) heading to Diktel from Kakadbhitta, Jhapa district collided head-on with the micro bus (Province 2-01-001 Ja 0047) this morning.

Khatiwada said that the injured have been rushed to different hospitals in Inaruwa and Biratnagar for treatment.

Police said that they have arrested bus driver Gopal Adhikari of Arjundhara Municipality-1,  Jhapa for investigation.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy won diplomatic backing from Europe and the NATO alliance on Sunday ahead of a Russia-U.S. summit this week where Kyiv fears President Vladimir Putin and President Donald Trump may try to dictate terms for ending the 3-1/2-year war, Reuters reported.

Trump, who for weeks had been threatening new sanctions against Russia for failing to halt the war, announced instead on Friday that he would meet Putin on August 15 in Alaska.

A White House official has said Trump is open to Zelenskiy attending but preparations are underway for only a bilateral meeting.

Russian strikes injured at least 12 in Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia region, the country's foreign affairs ministry said on Sunday, according to Reuters.

A meteorite that crashed into a home in the US is older than planet Earth, scientists have said. 

The object flew through the skies in broad daylight before exploding across the state of Georgia on 26 June, Nasa confirmed. 

Researchers at the University of Georgia examined a fragment of the rock that pierced the roof of a home in the city of McDonough. 

They found that, based on the type of meteorite, it is expected to have formed 4.56 billion years ago, making it roughly 20 million years older than Earth.

One person has died in Turkey after a magnitude 6.1 earthquake struck the north-west province of Balikesir on Sunday evening, BBC reported.

An 81-year-old woman passed away shortly after she was pulled out from rubble in the town of Sindirgi, which was the epicentre of the quake, Turkey's interior minister said.

Sixteen buildings collapsed as a result of the tremors, and 29 people had been injured, Ali Yerlikaya added.

Turkey's disaster management agency said the quake was recorded at around 19:53 local time (16:53 GMT), and was felt as far away as Istanbul, according to BBC.

Almost 77 percent of paddy transplantation was completed until the first week of August in the eight districts of Mades Province, the Agricultural Development Directorate confirmed. 

Directorate's Director Jitendra Yadav said that Bara district recorded the highest progress in paddy transplantation with 95 percent while Mahottarai has the least progress (61.5 percent). 

Among the districts, Parsa reported progress with 92 percent of its paddy fields transplanted, followed by Rautahat at 85 percent, Sarlahi at 75 percent, and Dhanusha, Saptari and Siraha each at 70 percent. 

The paddy transplantation activities gained momentum since the rainfall began. Of the total 372,645 hectares of land allocated for paddy cultivation, paddy transplantation has been completed in 285,335 hectares of land so far. 

Yadav shared that paddy transplantation is expected to reach around 80 percent of the total target this year, resulting in reduced paddy production. 

According to Director Yadav, paddy production could decrease by some 27 percent this year due to delayed transplantation. 

The recent rainfall that was almost regular over the past weeks has brought much-needed relief to farmers across the province. 

Many fields had developed fissures due to prolonged dryness and the rains have not only irrigated land, but also brought relief and joy to farmers.

Prior to the rains, farmers were relying heavily on deep tube wells for irrigation, a costly and challenging alternative, particularly in areas with unreliable electricity supply.