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Goods and commodities worth Rs 438.21 billion were imported during the first six months of the current fiscal year 2082/83 from the Birgunj customs point.

The total import of the review period is 15.3 percent more compared to the same period of the last fiscal year, the officials shared. 

The total import was Rs 380.6 billion in the last fiscal year.

Information Officer of the Birgunj Customs Office Udaya Singh Bista said that there was an impressive growth in the imports of goods and commodities from Birjung point in the past six months. 

During the past six months, petroleum products worth Rs 90.6 billion, while iron and iron goods worth Rs 39.3 billion were imported from the Birgunj customs point. 

Other major importable goods include machinery and auto parts, soybean oil, electric machinery goods and appliances.

Juventus claimed a statement 3-0 home win over an injury-hit Napoli on Sunday to boost their top-four hopes in Serie A, with goals from Jonathan David, Kenan Yildiz and a late strike from Filip Kostic, Reuters reported. 

The win moved Juventus to 42 points, one behind third-placed Napoli and 10 adrift of leaders Inter Milan. Juventus sit fifth, level on 42 points with AS Roma in fourth.

The visitors arrived with a growing injury list, having lost goalkeeper Vanja Milinkovic-Savic to a muscle problem he suffered in training, while David Neres was ruled out following recent surgery, with Matteo Politano, Kevin De Bruyne, Andre-Frank Zambo Anguissa and Billy Gilmour already absent, according to Reuters. 

Manchester United loosened Arsenal's grip on the Premier League title race with a 3-2 win in north London on Jan 25 thanks to stunning second-half goals by Patrick Dorgu and Matheus Cunha, Reuters reported. 

Victory would have restored Arsenal's seven-point lead over chasers Manchester City and Aston Villa, both of whom won this weekend, but Mikel Arteta's side instead left the door open as they lost at home for the first time this season.

United's win, their first in the league at Arsenal since 2017, lifted them to fourth, and while they are not in the title equation themselves, it fuelled the new-found optimism sweeping the club since Michael Carrick stepped in as interim coach, according to Reuters. 

A U.S. document on security guarantees for Ukraine is completely ready and Kyiv is waiting for a time and place for it to be signed, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Sunday, indicating that weekend talks with Russia in Abu Dhabi made some progress, Reuters reported. 

"For us, security guarantees are first and foremost guarantees of security from the United States. The document is 100% ready, and we are waiting for our partners to confirm the date and place when we will sign it," Zelenskiy told a news conference during a visit to Vilnius, the Lithuanian capital.

"The document will then be sent for ratification to the U.S. Congress and the Ukrainian parliament," he said, according to Reuters.