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Japan’s Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba stepped down from his post on Sunday following growing calls from his party to take responsibility for a historic defeat in July's parliamentary election, AFP reported.

Ishiba, who took office in October, had resisted demands from mostly right-wing opponents within his own party for more than a month.

His move came a day before his Liberal Democratic Party is set to hold an early leadership election.

In July, Ishiba’s ruling coalition failed to secure a majority in the 248-seat upper house in a crucial parliamentary election, further shaking the stability of his government, according to AFP.

The major ruling partner, Nepali Congress, has decided to talk to the government on the latter's decision to block social networks. 

The government has blocked two dozens of social networks, reasoning that they failed to get listed.

The meeting of the Central Execution Committee of NC decided to make its views public only after holding discussion with the government on restriction to social media. 

The Committee meeting was held at the residence of Party President Sher Bahadur Deuba, Budhanilakantha, according to Joint General Secretary of the party, Jivan Pariyar. 

South Korea's government says it has concluded talks with the US to release its citizens detained in a massive immigration raid at a Hyundai plant in Georgia, BBC reported.

The chief of staff of South Korea's president said a chartered plane would be sent to bring the detainees home if administration procedures were completed.

Kang Hoon-sik said the authorities were trying to improve the visa system to prevent such incidents in the future.

US officials detained 475 people - more than 300 of them South Korean nationals - who they said were found to be illegally working at the battery facility, one of the largest foreign investment projects in the state, according to BBC.

Deputy Prime Minister and Urban Development Minister Prakash Man Singh has expressed his confidence that the Civil Service Bill would be passed from the Federal Parliament at the earliest.

Addressing a program organized by Civil Service Day Main Ceremony Committee on the occasion of Civil Service Day, 2082, today, DPM Singh mentioned that the government is committed to pass the Federal Civil Service Bill, which has been expected as a milestone to strengthen administrative federalism, and implement it. 

The Parliament would pass the Bill through consensus of political parties by addressing the demands and sentiments of employees, he argued. 

The Deputy Prime Minister shared, "Civil Service, which is the backbone of governance, is an integral part of nation building. The responsibility of implementing the development, good governance and service delivery also lies upon civil service."

The role of civil service is very important to distribute advantages of democracy as well as boost citizen's trust and confidence towards the state by institutionalizing the federal democratic republic, he opined. 

DPM Singh stressed, "Civil servants should be more committed to deliver easy, smooth and result-oriented services keeping service seekers in the center," adding the civil administration remaining under political guidance should play their role to achieve long-term goals of 'Prosperous Nepal: Happy Nepali'. 

Stating that the main responsibility of the civil service is to perform its duties keeping long-term goals, periodic plans, government's policies and programmes as well as budget of current fiscal year in the centre, he underlined that the government has been moving ahead for effective implementation of federalism, improvement in public service delivery and adopting zero-tolerance policy on corruption. 

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Saturday that nearly 60% of weapons used by Ukraine’s military were domestically produced, already exceeding a target he set two months ago, Reuters reported.

”During this war, Ukraine has reached the point where nearly 60% of the weapons we have, the weapons in the hands of our soldiers, are Ukrainian-made,” Zelenskiy said in his nightly video address.

”And these are powerful weapons, with many advanced features.”

Ukraine attacked the Druzhba oil pipeline in Russia's Bryansk region, the commander of Ukraine's drone forces, Robert Brovdi, said on Sunday, Reuters reported.

Brovdi posted on the Telegram messaging channel that "comprehensive fire damage" was inflicted on the pipeline. 

The transit pipeline supplies Russian oil to Hungary and Slovakia, according to Reuters.

U.S. indie director Jim Jarmusch unexpectedly won the coveted Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival on Saturday with "Father Mother Sister Brother", a three-part meditation on the uneasy ties between parents and their adult children, Reuters reported.

Although his gentle comedy received largely positive reviews, it had not been a favourite for the top prize, with many critics instead tipping "The Voice of Hind Rajab", a harrowing true-life account of the killing of a five-year-old Palestinian girl during the Gaza war.

In the end, the film directed by Tunisia's Kaouther Ben Hania took the runner-up Silver Lion.

Divided into chapters set in New Jersey, Dublin and Paris, "Father Mother Sister Brother" features an ensemble cast including Tom Waits, Adam Driver, Mayim Bialik, Charlotte Rampling, Cate Blanchett, Vicky Krieps, Indya Moore and Luka Sabbat, according to Reuters.

A new Bollywood film has reignited an age-old conversation around how India's largest and most influential film industry represents characters from non-Hindi speaking states, BBC reported.

Param Sundari, a romcom starring Sidharth Malhotra and Janhvi Kapoor, is a love story between a woman from the southern state of Kerala and a man from Delhi in northern India.

Param and Sundari first butt heads and then fall in love, successfully overcoming the cultural differences between them.

The idea isn't new: Bollywood has long explored north-south cultural clashes through romcoms, and in a multilingual country, well-executed cross-cultural romances can be a hit, according to BBC.