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There is no intelligence that Vladimir Putin is unstable or in bad health, the director of the CIA has said, BBC reported.

There has been increasing unconfirmed media speculation that Mr Putin, who turns 70 this year, may be suffering from ill health, possibly cancer.

But William Burns said there was no evidence to suggest this, joking that he appeared "too healthy". 

His comments came as the US announced it would provide Ukraine with more long-range weapons, according to BBC.

Earlier Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Russia's military focus in Ukraine was no longer "only" the east and implied Moscow's strategy had changed after the West supplied Ukraine with such weapons.

The special probe committee of the House of Representatives has decided to record former Finance Minister Janardan Sharma's statement on Thursday.

The committee, which had grilled former finance secretaries and a journalist of the Annapurna Post who had published the news, has decided to record the statement of former Minister Sharma tomorrow.

Sharma is accused of inviting two unauthorized persons to tweak tax rates a day before he presented the budget in the Parliament on May 29.

He has been summoned at 8 am tomorrow, committee secretary Surendra Aryal said.

Aryal said that the term of the committee will expire tomorrow.

"The term will expire tomorrow. Discussions have been held to extend the time," he said.

CPN-UML Chairman KP Sharma Oli has said that a prosperous Nepal can be built only through the proportional distribution of the production and the access to relations of production.

He said so while addressing a training programme organised by the UML Bagmati Province Committee here today.

On the occasion, he urged the people to make the UML victorious in the upcoming federal and provincial elections for achieving prosperity and happiness.

He stressed that the ‘anarchy’ seen in the party would no longer be acceptable. 

Nepal and China have agreed to jointly inspect the border.

During a Nepal-China border affairs virtual meeting held on July 14, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Nepal and the desk which looks after the border of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China had agreed to inspect the border jointly.

Nepal and China have failed to conduct joint inspection of the border since 2011.

Because of this, the two countries have been facing problems at the border frequently.

Earlier, Nepal had to search for pillar number 11 in Humla district which was said to have been missing.

As the two countries have not carried out joint inspection of the border for a long time, Nepal had faced problems to determine the pillar.

The missing border pillar had created a dispute between the two countries, after reports that China built some infrastructure in the area.

Similarly, the border dispute has also been seen in Limi-based Lolungjong of Humla.

Likewise, the Chinese side has also been found putting up barbed fences in the northern part of Gorkha unilaterally.

Nepal had requested China for joint inspection after the disputes started to surface in the northern part of the country.

Sewal Lamsal, spokesperson at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that the meeting has agreed to jointly inspect the border.

The meeting has also decided to open the Kerung and Tatopani border by adopting the Covid-19 safety protocols, Lamsal said.

She said that the meeting has decided to open the Hilsa border one way.