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The price of gold reached an all-time high in the domestic market on Monday, setting a new historical record.

According to the Federation of Nepal Gold and Silver Traders, the price of gold has increased by Rs 3, 400 per tola to reach Rs 261, 700 per tola today.

Similarly, the price of silver has increased by Rs 130 and is being traded at Rs 4, 235 per tola.

The Department of Commerce, Supplies and Consumer Protection has fined Rs 50,000 each for two restaurants for not abiding by the provisions of the Consumer Protection Act, 2075 BS.

The two restaurants were fined for not keeping their business registration documents, license and other basic documents at their business sites.  

The Department shared that Priya Sweets House at Maharajgunj and Eye Café Restaurant and Bar located at Tokha were fined Rs 50,000 each. 

Likewise, the Department has issued a warning to 14 other business firms after an inspection of their services.

Activities for the road expansion drive on the Sanga-Dhulikhel road section along the Araniko Highway have been expedited lately. 

Last week, the project was given one more year for completion. 

The Lama Construction Pvt Ltd had won the contract bidding in Rs 4.5 billion for the construction of eight kilometres road from Sanga in Bhaktapur district Dhulikhel in Kavre with the commitment to complete the project in the second week of December 2025. 

However, only 60 percent of the total construction works were completed during the given deadline, Construction Manager of the Suryabinayak-Dhulikhel Road Project Rabindra Shrestha said.

Presently, the project has prioritized the blacktop of the road in the Dhulikhel and Pulbazaar-Janagal area. 

The tasks of lane cutting and gravel in the service lane have achieved progress in the Basghari-Budol section and preparations are going on to fix a culvert at Chandani chowk in Banepa, the project officials said.

Israeli forces have shot dead two Palestinians, including a teenage boy, during separate raids in the Jenin governorate in the occupied West Bank, officials say, with security camera footage showing soldiers shooting the boy at “point-blank” range, Aljazeera reported. 

The Palestinian Ministry of Health announced late on Saturday that Israeli forces shot dead Rayyan Abdel Qader, 16, after storming the town of Qabatiya. The second victim, 22-year-old Ahmad Zayoud, was killed in Silat al-Harithiya, west of Jenin.

Witnesses said Israeli troops had opened fire directly at Abdel Qader, the Wafa news agency reported on Sunday, and blocked emergency crews from reaching him, leaving him to bleed to death. Israeli forces then held his body, the Palestinian agency reported, according to Aljazeera. 

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s top foreign policy aide says that changes made by European countries and Ukraine to the United States’s proposals for an end to Russia’s war on Ukraine do not improve the prospects for peace, Aljazeera reported. 

“I am sure that the proposals that the Europeans and Ukrainians have made or are trying to make definitely do not improve the document and do not improve the possibility of achieving long-term peace,” Yury Ushakov was quoted as saying by Russian news agencies on Sunday.

The US-drafted proposals for an end to the nearly four-year ⁠war, leaked to the media last month, raised European and Ukrainian concerns that they favour more of Russia’s wartime demands, ​and that US President Donald Trump’s administration could push Kyiv into conceding too much, according to Aljazeera. 

Nigerian authorities have secured the release of 130 kidnapped schoolchildren taken by gunmen from a Catholic school in November, according to a presidential spokesman, after 100 were freed earlier this month, Aljazeera reported. 

“Another 130 Abducted Niger State Pupils Released, None Left In Captivity,” Sunday Dare said in a post on X on Sunday.

In late November, hundreds of students and staff were kidnapped from St Mary’s co-educational boarding school in north-central Niger State, according to Aljazeera. 

The United States is pursuing another oil tanker in international waters near Venezuela, a US official told Al Jazeera, as Washington intensifies a pressure campaign against the government Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, Aljazeera reported. 

The operation on Sunday comes a day after the US Coast Guard seized its second vessel off the coast of Venezuela in two weeks, as part of a “blockade” ordered by US President Donald Trump.

The US official told Al Jazeera that the US coastguard “remains in active pursuit” of the vessel, which they described as being part of Venezuela’s dark fleet trying to evade Washington’s sanctions on the Latin American country’s vital oil sector, according to Aljazeera . 

Prime Minister Sushila Karki has stressed the need of holding the elections to the House of Representatives on the slated date for the peace and stability in the country.

During the meeting with a delegation led by then member of the House of Representatives, Suhang Nembang, at Singha Durbar on Sunday, the PM urged the delegation to make preparations for the March 5 elections without any doubt as the incumbent government was formed to hold elections. 

"We have been carrying out activities to conduct voting. We are here to establish peace and hold elections after unusual circumstances. We have become successful in establishing peace and the rule of law in a short time," she reminded, arguing that elections pave the way for sustainable peace and stability.

Similarly, Nembang wished PM Karki the success to hold elections, according to PM Karki's Private Secretariat.

PM Karki had enquired leader Nembang on the preparations to contest in the elections. 

In response, Nembang said he had been preparing for the elections. 

Extending best wishes to Nembang, Prime Minister Karki expressed the view that now youth should come forward. 

"The elections will be held at any cost. Be prepared. Youths like you should come to the fore and lead the country to ensure a meaningful change. The hoary leaders are unable to lead the present generation abreast with smart service and similar expectations. Their experience and advice can be helpful, but youth should be in the driver's seat. Youths have courage and energy," she underscored. 

In the meeting, Nembang drew the attention of the PM to intensify the reconstruction of highways and bridges that were damaged by landslides and floods in Ilam. 

PM Karki shared that Minister for Physical Infrastructures, Kul Man Ghising, had recently conducted an onsite visit there and the government was serious on this issue.