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The Department of National Identity Card and Civil Registration stated that the services related to the national identity card have been partially disrupted.

Information Officer of the Department, Shivaraj Sedhain, shared that the services of the Department were partly disrupted as the technical teams were working for regular maintenance and capacity enhancement of the Management Information System.  

According to Sedhain, online registration, national ID card distribution service, correction of the information, online registration and renewal of the social security allowance recipients and some other services integrated into the MIS were affected. The services were affected from Sunday.

Issuing a public notice, the Department said that entire services would resume immediately after the completion of the maintenance works and capacity enhancement of the MIS.

The Department has urged the service recipients of the national ID card to submit their details and collect the cards offline too.

A sustained Ukrainian drone attack on Russia caused Moscow's major airports to be temporarily closed and saw at least 140 flights cancelled, officials said, BBC reported.

More than 230 Ukrainian drones were downed over Russia since Saturday morning - including 27 over the capital - according to the Russian defence ministry.

According to Russia's aviation watchdog, the four major airports serving the capital were disrupted and more than 130 flights also had to be redirected. All have since resumed normal operations. 

Meanwhile, at least three people were killed during Russian air strikes on Ukraine overnight, according to regional officials, according to BBC.

Zaina Begum stood helplessly next to her withering paddy field.

A farmer in Indian-administered Kashmir's Pulwama district, she had been waiting for rainfall for more than a month, hoping to save her crop from dying, BBC reported.

So when it finally rained earlier this week, she was hopeful. 

"But it was already too late by then," she said. "Our land had completely dried up."

The region recorded its highest daytime temperature in 70 years at 37.4C (99.32F) - at least 7C above the seasonal average, according to BBC.

US TV star Ellen DeGeneres has made her first public appearance since moving to the UK, saying she decided to settle in England the day after Donald Trump was re-elected US president, BBC reported.

The comedian and host told a crowd in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, that life "is just better" in the UK.

Ellen said she and wife Portia de Rossi were considering getting married again in England after some moves in the US to reverse the right to gay marriage, and that America can still be "scary for people to be who they are".

She also addressed allegations of a toxic workplace that led to the end of her long-running chat show in 2022, admitting she could be "very blunt", but dismissed the stories as "clickbait", according to BBC.