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The Narayangadh-Muglin road section, which was blocked from early morning today following a dry landslide near Tuinkhola of Ichchhakamana Rural Municipality-5 in Chitwan district, resumed for traffic a while ago. 

Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) of District Police Office, Chitwan, Rabindra Khanal said that the debris was cleared in coordination with the Road Division Office a while ago and the traffic has resumed now.

Nepal is currently under the influence of a westerly low-pressure system coupled with local winds in the lower atmosphere near the eastern region of the country. As a result of this pattern, the hilly and Himalayan regions of the country will be generally cloudy and the Tarai region will be partly cloudy today, according to the Department of Hydrology and Meteorology. 

Currently, the Himalayan regions of the country, including the Himalayan and hilly regions of Gandaki, Lumbini, Karnali and Sudurpaschim Provinces are generally cloudy, and the Tarai belt is partly cloudy.

Light rain with thunder and lightning is taking place in some places of Bagmati, Gandaki and Lumbini Provinces and one or two places in Koshi, Karnali and Sudurpashchim Provinces.

The Himalayan and hilly regions of the country, including Koshi and Madhesh Provinces, will be generally cloudy and the Tarai belt will be partly cloudy today. 

There is a possibility of light to moderate rain and snowfall with thunder and lightning at some places in the Himalayan and hilly regions of the Koshi Province and the remaining provinces, at a few places in Madhesh Province, and at one or two places in the remaining Tarai regions, the weather service stated.

The Narayangadh-Muglin road section has been blocked since early morning today following a dry landslide near Tuinkhola of Ichchhakamana Rural Municipality-5 in Chitwan district.

Police Inspector of Area Police Office, Muglin, Pratik Singh said that the road is fully obstructed due to the dry landslide. 

Currently, a team of police personnel has been deployed to clear the debris in coordination with the Road Division Office.

Three women who arrived back in Australia after spending years in Syrian detention camps have been charged, with one facing an allegation of joining Islamic State and two others facing allegations of crimes against humanity, The Guardian reported. 

The women were among a group of 13 women and children who arrived on separate flights – one into Sydney and one into Melbourne – on Thursday evening.

Two women from the group – Kawsar Abbas, 53, and her daughter Zeinab Ahmad, 31 – were arrested by officers from the Victorian joint counter-terrorism team (JCTT) at Melbourne airport.

Abbas and Ahmad were charged with crimes against humanity including enslavement and using a slave. Abbas was also charged with possessing a slave and engaging in slave trading, Australian federal police confirmed on Friday, according to The Guardian. 

With their location trackers shut off to avoid Iranian attacks, the United Arab Emirates and buyers have recently sailed several tankers loaded with crude through the Strait of Hormuz in a bid to move oil bottled up in the Gulf by the Middle East conflict, according to industry sources and shipping data, Reuters reported. 

The volumes are a fraction of the ‌UAE's typical exports before the US-Israeli war on Iran, but they demonstrate the risks the producer and buyers are willing to take to free up oil sales.

The United States and Iran exchanged fire on Thursday (May 7) in the most serious test yet of their month-long ceasefire, but Iran said the situation returned to normal while the Americans said they did not want to escalate, Reuters reported. 

Iran's military said the US targeted two ships entering the Strait of Hormuz and carried out strikes on Iranian territory. The US military said it fired in response to Iranian attacks.

An outbreak of hantavirus on board a cruise ship is not the start of a pandemic, the UN health agency has said, BBC reported. 

Maria van Kerkhove, an infectious disease epidemiologist at the World Health Organization (WHO), told a news briefing that it was not the same situation as six years ago with Covid-19, because hantavirus spreads through "close, intimate contact".

Health authorities are racing to trace dozens of people who have recently disembarked from the Dutch vessel MV Hondius.

The Constitutional Council's meeting has put forth the name of Supreme Court Justice Dr Manoj Sharma as the future Chief Justice. 

The meeting, which was chaired by Prime Minister and Chairman of the Constitutional Council Balendra Shah, endorsed the name of Sharma for the future Chief Justice today. 

Following the meeting, Speaker Dol Prasad Aryal announced that Sharma's name has been put forward for the upcoming Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. 

Once the council's recommendation is made, the parliamentary hearing committee will approve the name for the official appointment. 

Sharma is set to become the 33rd Chief Justice.