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Nepal welcomed 121,800 foreign tourists in March, 2025. Such a number of tourists entered Nepal by air, according to the Nepal Tourism Board.

A total of 298,000 tourists visited Nepal in the first three months of 2025, added NTB. Total 79,900 tourists entered Nepal in January, 96,800 in February. 

Nepal welcomed the highest number of tourists from India in March which is 21,412.

Similarly, 11,443 tourists entered Nepal from China and 11,092 from USA, 8,886 from Sri Lanka, 5,995 from London as well as 35,287 from South Asia in March.

The government has decided to provide free treatment to those injured in the Tinkune incident.

A Cabinet meeting held on Monday decided to direct the Ministry of Health and Population to make arrangements to provide free medical treatment to the people injured in the protest that took place last Friday demanding restoration of monarchy, government spokesperson and Minister for Communications and Information Technology Prithvi Subba Gurung said.

The meeting decided to investigate the incidents of arson and vandalism occurred during the protests and take action against those found guilty.

The meeting also decided to take measures to prevent such incidents from happening in the future.

Two persons including photo journalist Suresh Rajak died and 45 others were injured during the protests.

Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA) has come into operation for 18 hours from today.

Earlier, the airport reduced the operation hours to 10 hours for five months for the runway upgrading works. With the revised schedule, the airport is to remain open from 6:00 am to 12:00 midnight, TIA General Manager Jagannath Niraula said. 

Ge said that works to construct a link way from the Taxiway to the runway have been completed. 

However, the constructions of a parallel taxiway are underway. 

Under the Air Transport Capacity Enhancement Project under the Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal, constructions of South-West Parallel Taxiway, the International Apron towards the northeast and the Hangar Apron towards the east are going on. 

It is estimated to cost around Rs 15 billion to complete the project that has so far reported 90 percent progress.   

However, it is expected to take one and half years more to complete the entire project. 

The government has appointed Choodamani Chapagain from Jhapa as the new Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Nepal Stock Exchange Ltd (Nepse).

The Cabinet on Monday decided to appoint Chapagain on the post and he received his appointment letter from Revenue Secretary Dinesh Kumar Ghimire today.

The Nepse said that it is prepared to welcome the new CEO to the office on Wednesday. 

CPN-UML Ishwor Pokharel senior Vice Chairman has been appointed the party's Acting Chair.  

He took charge of the party's Acting Chair with party Chair and Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli leaving for Thailand today on a five-day official visit including to take part in the Sixth Summit of the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral, Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) to be hosted by Thailand on April 4, according to UML Central Office secretary Dr Bhishma Adhikari. 

Pokharel was given the responsibilities of the Acting Chair in accordance with the party's Statute 2049 BS (amendment 2078 BS), it is said. 

Party Chair Oli will return home on April 5.

The former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, recognising his contributions to human rights and democratic values, The Times of India reported.

The nomination was announced by members of the Pakistan World Alliance (PWA), an advocacy organisation established in December, who are also affiliated with the Norwegian political party Partiet Sentrum.

"We are pleased to announce on behalf of Partiet Sentrum that in alliance with somebody with the right to nominate, have nominated Imran Khan, the former prime minister of Pakistan, to the Nobel Peace Prize for his work with human rights and democracy in Pakistan," Partiet Sentrum posted on X on Sunday, according to the Times of India.

Previously also, Khan received a Nobel Peace Prize nomination in 2019 for his endeavours to foster peace across South Asia.

Janata Samajbadi Party Nepal Chairman Upendra Yadav has demanded stern action against those involved in the violent activities that occurred at Tinkune, Kathmandu.

Chair Yadav made such a demand while speaking at a program organized by the Raphat Media Club, Bhaktapur on Monday. "The government must bring to book those involved in criminal and violent activities," he stressed.

Yadav reminded that every citizen has a right to express his/her views, but the March 28 demonstration leading to murder, arson and vandalism in the name of restoring monarchy was anti-democratic. The unitary system had already been abolished, thereby establishing the federal democratic republic, he said, adding that the political parties need to correct themselves so that the elements for monarchy would not rear their heads.

The leader further argued that the political parties ruling after the federal democratic republic were not delivering as per people's expectation. "The Federal government itself has obstructed the implementation of federalism," he blamed.

The decision of a French court to ban far-right leader Marine Le Pen from running in the 2027 presidential election will deepen political chaos in a country that already contends with a hung parliament and an unpopular president, Reuters reported.

And it will make it more difficult for the weak minority government led by Prime Minister François Bayrou to make the crucial decisions needed to control a ballooning public debt.

The leader of right-wing party Rassemblement National (RN) was handed on Monday a four-year prison sentence in her and her party’s trial for embezzlement, along with an interdiction to run for public office for five years.

The court found that when she was a member of the European Parliament, Le Pen and others set up a system of fake job contracts that allowed them to siphon off more than 4 million euros of European Parliament money to the RN. Le Pen is appealing the verdict, according to Reuters.