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Foreign Minister Shisir Khanal is leaving for Port Louis, Republic of Mauritius today to address the 9th Indian Ocean Conference (IOC) 2026 at the invitation of Minister of External Affairs of India S. Jaishankar.

The three-day conference, scheduled to be held from April 10 to 12, is being organized by the India Foundation in association with the Government of Mauritius under the theme "Collective Stewardship for Indian Ocean Governance."

During the event, the Foreign Minister will deliver Nepal's national statement articulating Nepal's perspectives on Indian Ocean governance, the mountain-ocean ecological nexus, and the importance of maritime connectivity for economic development.

On the sidelines of the program, the Foreign Minister is also scheduled to hold bilateral meetings with his counterparts. 

Minister Khanal is scheduled to return home on April 13. .

Former Prime Minister and CPN-UML Chairman KP Sharma Oli and former Home Minister and Nepali Congress leader Ramesh Lekhak have been released on a general date on Thursday. 

Kathmandu Police Chief SSP Ramesh Thapa said that they received a letter from the public prosecutor directing them to release the individuals and hand them over to the concerned party in accordance with the Supreme Court’s order.

Hearing the writ petition filed by Oli and the Lekhak’s family, the court ordered their release after the five-day remand, extended by the Kathmandu court last Monday, expired.

Police had arrested Oli and Lekhak on March 28 while implementing the report of the inquiry commission formed to investigate the Gen Z protest held on September 8 and 9.

A total of 77 people were killed-many of them protesters shot by police- during the protests, which also resulted in the destruction of government and private property worth billions of rupees.

Two youths were fatally stabbed at Patan Durbar Square in Lalitpur on Wednesday. 

According to the District Police Range, Lalitpur, the deceased have been identified as Sumit Nembang and Srijan Nembang of Kamal Rural Municipality-6 in Jhapa. The two were brothers. 

Seriously injured in the attack, they breathed their last during the course of treatment at the B&B Hospital, Gwarko, Lalitpur this morning. 

Sanjeev Nepali of Lalitpur Metropolitan City-9 and Gagan Sunar of Gaindakot have been arrested on charge of murdering the Nembang brothers.

Daniil Medvedev obliterated a racquet as he suffered the first 6-0 6-0 loss of his career at the hands of Matteo Berrettini in Monte Carlo, BBC reported. 

The combustible Russian has made no secret of his dislike of playing on clay, previously describing it as "a surface for losers".

However, he put in an abject 49-minute second-round performance against world number 90 Berrettini.