The price of the yellow metal has dropped by Rs 1,100 in the domestic market on Wednesday.

With the price drop, the yellow bullion is being traded at Rs 99,200 per tola today.

According to the Federation of Nepal Gold and Silver Dealers' Association, gold was exchanged for Rs 100,300 per tola on Tuesday.

Meanwhile, tejabi gold is being traded at Rs 98,700 per tola today.

Similarly, the silver is being traded at Rs 1,370 per tola.

Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba inaugurated an International Conference on Sustainable Mountain Development here on Wednesday.

PM Deuba inaugurated the two-day event organized by the Ministry of Forest and Environment at Chandragiri in Kathmandu. A total of 200 representatives from 13 countries have participated in the conference. Among them, 100 are participating physically while remaining others take part in the event virtually, the organizers said. 

As per the decision of the United Nations to celebrate the year 2022 as the International Year of Sustainable Mountain Development, the Ministry of Forest and Environment is going to organize various programs throughout the year to promote the importance of mountain ecosystems.

Working papers will be presented and discussed on five various genres related to the mountain environment such as Mountain Economy, Mountain Biodiversity and Ecosystem, Mountain Culture, Mountain Women and Mountain-Lowland Connections.

Participants during the conference will prepare the issues that Nepal needed to raise in the national policy and international forums and offer recommendations for formulation of regional policy to protect and promote mountain ecosystems. RSS

The westerly low pressure system is likely to bring partial to general changes in weather conditions in most of the area of the country.

The system will potentially bring partial to general climatic changes in the mountainous area of province-1, Bagmati Province, Gandaki Province, Karnali Province and Sudurpaschim Province.

According to the Department of Hydrology and Meteorology, light rain with thunder and lightning is likely to take place in some areas.

Partial to general changes will occur in mountainous and hilly regions in the night while weather will normally remain clear in other areas.

According to the Department, the hilly and mountainous regions will see partial to general changes in weather on Thursday. However, the weather will remain clear in other areas.

According to the Weather Forecasting Division, Kathmandu Valley today has witnessed a minimum temperature of 14.8 degree Celsius and maximum 30.5 degree Celsius. RSS

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Afghanistan is the unhappiest country in the world – even before the Taliban swept to power last August. That is according to a so-called World Happiness Report released before the United Nations-designated International Day of Happiness on Sunday, Aljazeera reported.

The annual report ranked Afghanistan as last among 149 countries surveyed, with a happiness rate of just 2.5. Lebanon was the world’s second saddest country, with Botswana, Rwanda and Zimbabwe rounding out the bottom five.

Finland ranked first for the fourth year running with a 7.8 score, followed by Denmark and Switzerland, with Iceland and the Netherlands also in the top five.

Researchers ranked the countries after analysing data over three years. They looked at several categories, including gross domestic product (GDP) per capita, social safety nets, life expectancy, freedom to make life choices, generosity of the population, and perceptions of internal and external corruption levels.

Afghanistan stacked up poorly in all six categories, as it did before the Taliban’s return to power. The country was under the United States occupation for 20 years during which Washington alone spent $145bn on development, according to reports by the US special inspector general for Afghanistan, according to Aljazeera.

Still, there were signs of increasing hopelessness.

Gallup conducted a poll in 2018 and found that few Afghans they surveyed had much hope for the future. In fact, the majority said they had no hope for the future.

Afghans have faced years of war, corruption, grinding poverty and lack of jobs.

When Masoud Ahmadi, a carpenter, returned to Afghanistan from neighbouring Pakistan after the 2001 collapse of the Taliban, his hopes for the future were bright.

He dreamed of opening a small furniture workshop, maybe employing as many as 10 people. Instead, sitting in his dusty six-foot by 10-foot workshop on Saturday, he said he opens just twice a week for lack of work.

“When the money came to this country, the leadership of the government took the money and counted it as their personal money, and the people were not helped to change their life for the better,” said Ahmadi, Aljazeera reported.

Since the Taliban returned to power last August, the country’s economy has been in free fall, worsened by the US sanctions and its diplomatic and financial isolation. The Taliban has urged the international community to recognise its new government as it struggles to revive the economy battered by decades of war and foreign interventions.

Tens of thousands of girls were due to return to secondary school across Afghanistan Wednesday, more than seven months after the Taliban seized power and imposed harsh restrictions on the rights of women to be educated, NDTV reported.

All schools were closed because of the Covid-19 pandemic when the Taliban took over in August -- but only boys and some younger girls were allowed to resume classes two months later.

The international community has made the right to education for all a sticking point in negotiations over aid and recognition, with several nations and organisations offering to pay teachers.

The education ministry said schools would reopen Wednesday across several provinces -- including the capital Kabul -- but those in the southern region of Kandahar, the Taliban's spiritual heartland, will not open until next month.

The ministry said reopening the schools was always a government objective and the Taliban were not bowing to pressure, according to NDTV.

"We are not reopening the schools to make the international community happy, nor are we doing it to gain recognition from the world," said Aziz Ahmad Rayan, a ministry spokesman.

"We are doing it as part of our responsibility to provide education and other facilities to our students," he told AFP.

The Taliban had insisted they wanted to ensure schools for girls aged 12 to 19 were segregated and would operate according to Islamic principles.

"We are behind in our studies already," said Raihana Azizi, 17, as she prepared to attend class dressed in a black abaya, headscarf and veil over her face.

The Taliban have imposed a slew of restrictions on women, effectively banning them from many government jobs, policing what they wear and preventing them from travelling outside of their cities alone.

They have also detained several women's rights activists, NDTV reported.

Despite the schools reopening, barriers to girls returning to education remain, with many families suspicious of the Taliban and reluctant to allow their daughters outside.

Others see little point in girls learning at all.

"Those girls who have finished their education have ended up sitting at home and their future is uncertain," said Heela Haya, 20, from Kandahar, who has decided to quit school.