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The Department of Passport has made it clear that it will distribute 1,000 passports daily.

The Department, through a notice, announced that passports will be available daily from today (except on public holidays).

The Department has already signed a procurement agreement in Shrawan with a new supplier for electronic passports and, according to the agreement, new infrastructure and systems are being put in place to start passport services from February 23, 2026, the press release issued today stated.

The Department has clarified that there have been some issues in passport distribution due to transition between the new and current suppliers (handover and takeover) as well as the limited number of passport booklets and high demand from service users.

It stated that efforts are being made to ensure that there is no shortage of passports until the mentioned period, urging everyone that only those service seekers who urgently need passports should apply until further notice.

The Department has drawn attention of all to not relying on unauthorised persons regarding passports and to be cautious of potential fraud from such individuals.

Light rain is forecast in some areas in the hilly and mountainous region of the country today, as the influence of the Westerly wind still exists in Nepal at present, said the Department of Hydrology and Meteorology.

The hilly areas of the country will experience partly cloudy weather. 

Similarly, in most places, the weather will mainly be fair. There is a possibility of light rain and snowfall in one or two places in the hilly areas of Koshi and Gandaki Provinces.

The precipitation caused by the 'Montha Cyclone' that developed in the Bay of Bengal affected daily life for a few days. In the Himalayan region, there was snowfall along with the rain.

Thirteen tourists, both domestic and foreign, were stranded at the base camp of Tilicho Lake in Ngisyang Rural Municipality-9, Manang due to heavy snowfall. They were rescued by a team from the Armed Police Force's Mountain Rescue Training Center, Manang.

The National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Authority (NDRRMA) said that rainfall was recorded in 301 rainfall measurement stations throughout the country from the morning of November 1 till the morning of November 2. 

Significant rainfall has been recorded in 185 of the 301 rainfall measurement stations, it is stated.

The highest rainfall was recorded in Besisahar of Lamjung, with 71.1 millimetres of rain. 

Among the centers where rainfall was measured, four centers recorded more than 50 millimetres of rain during that period.

Hamas has handed over three coffins it says contain the bodies of deceased Gaza hostages, according to the Israeli military, BBC reported.

Israel has received the coffins, via the Red Cross in the Gaza Strip, and transported them to Israel for formal identification.

If confirmed as deceased hostages, it would mean eight Israeli and foreign deceased hostages remain in Gaza, according to BBC.

An avalanche in Italy's Dolomite mountains has killed five German climbers, including a 17-year-old girl and her father, according to rescuers, BBC reported.

The mountaineers, travelling in separate groups, were scaling Cima Vertana in the Ortler Alps at around 16:00 local time on Saturday when the fast-moving snow hit. 

A group of three people "was fully swept away by the avalanche" and all died, said Italy's Alpine rescue service, Soccorso Alpino e Speleologico, according to BBC.

Jubilant India held their nerve under the weight of huge expectation to beat South Africa by 52 runs and clinch a historic first Women's World Cup win, BBC reported.

The showpiece event in front of a raucous, sold-out 45,000 crowd was delayed by two hours because of rain but no overs were lost and a match for the ages played out in Navi Mumbai.

The hosts batted first and posted a competitive 298-7 - opener Shafali Verma led the charge with a dynamic 87 from 78 balls, backed up by Deepti Sharma's 58, which set the Proteas their record one-day international run-chase, according to BBC.

A 32-year-old man is now the only suspect after multiple people were stabbed on a train, police have confirmed, BBC reported.

A railway staff member remains in a life-threatening condition following the attack on a train from Doncaster to London King's Cross, which stopped in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, shortly before 20:00 GMT on Saturday. 

A 35-year-old man, who was arrested at the scene, has been released with no further action after it was reported "in good faith" that he had been involved in the attack. Officers later confirmed this was not the case, according to BBC.

President Ram Chandra Paudel is leaving for Qatar on Monday to attend the Second World Summit for Social Development to be held in Doha of Qatar from 4 to 6 November. 

The President is visiting Qatar to attend the Summit at the invitation of Amir of Qatar Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani, Secretary at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Amrit Bahadur Rai said at a news conference today at the Ministry.

The President is leading a 12-member Nepali delegation to the Summit. 

President Paudel is scheduled to address the Plenary Meetings and the High-Level Roundtable of the Summit on November 4.

The President is scheduled to hold meetings with the UN Secretary General and the Amir of Qatar, it is said. 

On the sidelines of the Summit, the President will also meet some world leaders attending the event.

It is said that the Summit would make a shared commitment on cooperation and assistance for social development. 

The Summit is also expected to hold intensive discussions on development inequalities in the world, demographic imbalances and the impacts of technology on the society.    

The First World Summit for Social Development was held in Copenhagen, Denmark, in 1995. 

President Paudel and the delegation will return to Kathmandu on November 6.

The Supreme Court has issued an interim order not to immediately implement the government's decision to recall the ambassadors.

A joint bench of Supreme Court Justices Sharanga Subedi and Shrikant Poudel on Sunday issued the order.

Earlier on October 16, the government had decided to recall the ambassadors from 11 different countries. 

Meanwhile, journalist Sunil Bhattarai had filed a writ petition demanding that the decision be scrapped. 

The Office of the Prime Minister and Council of Ministers and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs were made the defendants.