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The Department of Commerce, Supplies and Consumer Protection has directed producers, importers and distributors to stop the sudden and unjustified price hike seen in daily consumer goods in the market.

Issuing a press statement on Wednesday, the Department has directed all concerned to control unnecessary price hikes in the market and maintain a competitive and fair market system. 

“The major producers, importers and distributors of food grains and oil are instructed to provide their goods or services without taking unfair profits and to provide relief to consumers by addressing the unnatural price hike,” the statement reads. .

The Department said its serious attention has been drawn to the complaints received from the consumers and reports in the media regarding the unnatural price hike and shortage in supply of daily necessities including edible oil, cooking gas, staple rice, etc.

The right of consumers to receive quality goods and services in accordance with the Consumer Protection Act, 2075 BS and the Consumer Protection Regulations, 2076 BS shall be ensured by adopting all measures as required. 

For this, joint market monitoring is being carried out to check on the producers, sellers, importers, stockpilers, and service provider firms and establishments of essential and daily consumable goods in the country.

Fog and mist will prevail in many places of the Tarai region of the country today. 

Likewise, the weather will remain mainly fair in the hilly and mountainous regions, according to the 8 am bulletin by the Meteorological Forecasting Division.

Later tonight, mist will continue to occur at a few places in the Tarai region. 

The weather will remain mostly clear in the hilly and mountainous regions of the country.

Meanwhile, Meteorological Analysis by the Division states that there is currently no significant weather system influencing Nepal.

An election-focused training program for police personnel deployed for security of the March 5 elections to the House of Representatives has started at the Police Headquarters from Wednesday.

The training has been provided to police personnel deployed for election security as per the Integrated Security Plan for the House of Representatives members' election.

Under the first phase, a total of 4,148 personnel ranging from senior sub-inspectors to police office assistants working at the Nepal Police Headquarters, bureaus and Nepal Police Hospital Maharajgunj, are to be trained in different phases for 10 days, according to the Central Police News Room.

Similarly, election-targeted training will be conducted for police personnel deployed for election security through the election cell formed in all district police offices.

The training will cover election security, introduction, role of police in elections, security management, election security and the roles or conditions that the police should adopt in security arrangements, areas that need to be secured in election work, problems that may arise in elections, expectations of the services that various individuals will receive from the police and the responsibilities of the police in elections. 

In addition, issues to be considered while constructing polling stations, conduct to be followed by security agencies, security personnel and security-related employees under the Election Code of Conduct, 2082, election management policy on the use of social media, 2077, the Police Act, 2012 and the Police Regulations, 2071, and other election-related topics (provisions related to crimes and punishments) will feature in the training.

MPs have approved the release of documents about Lord Mandelson's appointment as UK ambassador to the US, after angry Labour backbenchers forced a government climbdown over plans to withhold some material, BBC reported. 

Sir Keir Starmer told a dramatic Commons session he wanted to release the files - which could show what the government knew about Lord Mandelson's relationship with disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein - but insisted he would not publish anything that could damage national security or diplomatic relations.

That position unravelled after senior Labour figures, including former deputy leader Angela Rayner, urged ministers to change course, forcing the government to agree to involve a cross-party parliamentary committee in the process, according to BBC.