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A dedicated desk has been brought into operation at the Tribhuvan International Airport for foreign citizens of Nepali origin and non-resident Nepalis arriving to the country.

The TIA Immigration Office has started providing services by setting up a special desk at the arrival and departure halls of the airport. 

According to Narahari Ghimire, Chief Immigration Officer of the TIA Immigration Office, separate desks had been arranged for NRNs  before and now a dedicated desk has been arranged for foreign citizens of Nepali origin. This arrangement has been made with the aim of further strengthening their relationship with the Nepali language, culture and homeland, as well as promoting tourism and investment.

As per the decision of the Department of Immigration on March 21, a separate queue and immigration desk have been arranged for foreign citizens of Nepali origin at the arrival and departure gates of the TIA Immigration Office, a press release issued by the Office today states.

Less than 48 hours before the U.S.-Israeli strike on Iran began, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke by phone to President Donald Trump about the reasons for launching the kind of complex, far-off warthe American leader once had campaigned against, Reuters reported. 

Both Trump and Netanyahu knew from intelligence briefings earlier in the week that Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and his key lieutenants would soon meet at his compound in Tehran, ​making them vulnerable to a “decapitation strike” – an attack against a country's top leaders often used by Israelis but traditionally less so by the United States.

But new intelligence suggested that the meeting had been moved forward to Saturday morning from Saturday night, according to three people briefed on the call, according to Reuters. 

Iran denied on Monday that it had engaged in negotiations with the United States, after President Donald Trump postponed a threat to bomb Iran's power grid because of what he described as productive talks with unidentified Iranian officials, Reuters reported. 

A European official said that ​while there had been no direct negotiations between the two nations, Egypt, Pakistan and Gulf states were relaying messages. A Pakistani official and a second source told Reuters that direct talks on ending the war ‌could be held in Islamabad as soon as this week.

Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform that the U.S. and Iran had held "very good and productive" conversations about a "complete and total resolution of hostilities in the Middle East".

Veteran economist Keshav Acharya died at the age of 72 on Sunday.

He breathed his last while undergoing treatment at the Annapurna Neuro Hospital following a stroke, according to family.

The body will be cremated tomorrow.

He was survived by a wife, a son and a daughter.