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A few months ago, this space was loud with chants, rage, and police sirens. Now it is quieter, filled with canvases, broken objects, photographs, and people speaking in low voices. Unsilenced Voices stands right outside the Parliament building, in a space shaped to represent authority and separation from the street. Its placement is deliberate. The works do not decorate the space, they interrupt it. Using fragments of the protest,  materials left behind, fleeting images, half-remembered words, it asserts memory.

The installation emerged in the aftermath of youth-led protests that swept through Kathmandu, fueled by frustration with governance, accountability, and political indifference. What began as demonstrations demanding change escalated into confrontations, met with heavy police response, leaving injuries, arrests, and even deaths among protesters. Though the streets eventually quieted, the questions the protests raised remain.

What stands out is not just the works themselves, but the way people move through the space. There is no hurry, no performative outrage. Visitors pause, read, return. Some speak in hushed tones, others remain silent. The space demands a different kind of attention than the streets once did, one that is slower, heavier, and impossible to ignore.

For the artists, this is not about turning resistance into decoration. It is a refusal to let memory fade. In a city that quickly moves on, that rebrands unrest as disruption and treats loss as collateral, Unsilenced Voices insists that September did not end quietly. It recalls the streets alive with chants, the smoke of burning tires, the sirens cutting through the air, and the grief of families who lost children, friends, and neighbors.

The installation does not offer easy answers, comforting slogans, or tidy conclusions. Instead, it asks viewers to engage with grief, to feel the weight of anger that still simmers, and to confront what was left unresolved when the protests subsided. Every visitor moving through the space is reminded of what was lost, what was fought for, and what was silenced in September. This is not art for walls,it is the echo of streets that demanded to be heard, now transformed into objects that will not let the city forget.

The protests may have ended, but the forces that sparked them remain. In this light, the installation is not a memorial meant to close a chapter; it marks the consequences the city has yet to reckon with. Even as the streets grow quiet, the calls for justice and accountability persist, carried in images, objects, and words that demand to be seen and felt. The city may appear calm, but the questions raised in September have not been answered.

The Mahakali Bridge Project Office in Mahendranagar has forwarded the works to repair and retrofit a dozen bridges along the East West Highway in Sudurpaschim Province.

The motorable bridges in the stretch of Chisapani of Kailali to Gaddachauki of Kanchanpur will be repaired. The bridges are over a dozen of rivers/streams, according to an engineer at the Bridge Project Office, Rabi Sah.

The World Bank has provided financial assistance to carry out the undertaking at a cost of Rs 19.2 million. "Repair of the bridges has been forwarded based on the categorization of condition rating," he said, adding that safe and working infrastructures require periodic maintenance and safety strengthening. 

Neymar has agreed to extend his contract with Santos until the end of ​2026, the Brazilian club said on Tuesday, as he maintains ​hopes of a World Cup call-up despite recent injuries, Reuters reported. 

The 33-year-old forward returned to his boyhood club Santos in January 2025 and played a key role in its survival ​in the Brazilian top flight, scoring ⁠five times in its last five matches.

“Santos is my place, I’m at home,” Neymar ​said in a ⁠video published on the Brazilian club’s social media. “It’s with you that I want to achieve the dreams that are still missing,” he added, referring to Santos’ fans, according to Reuters. 

US President Donald Trump has been discussing "a range of options" to acquire Greenland, including use of the military, the White House said, BBC reported. 

The White House told the BBC that acquiring Greenland - a semi-autonomous region of fellow Nato member Denmark – was a "national security priority".

The statement came hours after European leaders issued a joint statement rallying behind Denmark, which has been pushing back against Trump's ambitions for the Arctic island, according to BBC.