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The body of the husband of a couple, who went missing after a landslide buried a house at Langdi in Deurali of Modi Rural Municipality-3, Parbat on Sunday, has been found.

Deputy Superintendent of Police Rabin Bista of the District Police Office, Parbat informed that locals and security personnel found the body of 78-year-old Chhabilal Bishwakarma buried this afternoon.

Police are searching for Bishnumati who also went missing along with Chhabilal.

The landslide triggered by heavy rainfall buried their house this morning.

The price of gold has increased by Rs 800 per tola in the domestic market on Sunday.

According to the Federation of Nepal Gold and Silver Dealers’ Association, the precious yellow metal is being traded at Rs 193, 300 per tola today. It was traded at Rs 192, 500 per tola on Friday.

Similarly, the silver is being traded at Rs 2, 285 per tola today.

Minister for Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation, Badri Prasad Pandey pointed out the need of exploring safe alternative route to scale the world's highest peak, Sagarmatha, with a conclusion that the existing route to the summit was getting riskier.

The discussion held in the Ministry on Friday drew a conclusion to explore alternatives to the existing traditional route from Khumbu Icefall to Camp 1 since as it is quite complex and riskier for the climbers.

"Sagarmatha is the symbol of our national pride. Every year, thousands of foreigners and Nepali climbers come here to scale the summit. We should open up for secured, environment-friendly and sustainable solutions for their life saving", Minister Pandey noted in the discussion.

Also on the occasion, famous French mountaineer Mark Mari Batart and Nepali climber Sping Kaji Sherpa had presented comprehensive information about research, survey and photographic documents about the alternative route to highest peak.

Batart and Sherpa have been active in the campaign for exploring new route to the summit since 2018 AD.

The Sudurpaschim Province government has called on all the District Administration Offices and local levels within the Province to conduct massive public awareness campaign against the ill social and traditional practices including Chhaupadhi.

In Chhaupadhi practice, menstruating women and girls are confined to the Chhaugoth, an outdoor shed due to superstitious belief that if women and girls stay with their family members during menstrual time (four days), it would irate their family deities.

Against such social ill, the meeting of Office of Chief Minister and Council of Ministers convened in Dhangadi today directed all the concerned authorities within the province to run a social awareness campaign against the Chhaupadhi.

The decision was made considering the severity of a recent incident that a 28-year-old woman from Nigali at Krishnapur municipality-1 in Kanchanpur district died after snakebite while staying in a Chhaugoth during her menstruation last Saturday.

The provincial government expressed its commitment to taking forward the abolishment of Chhaugoth and regulating discriminatory practices as untouchability, which are social blights.

Furthermore, it has been decided that the provincial, district level and local level committees will hold regular meetings and monitor their respective areas for effective implementation of the legislation introduced by the government to eliminate Chhaupadi.

It is worth reminding that the government of Nepal had criminalized the Chhaupadhi practice early in 2017 by introducing a law. Nevertheless, the continuity of such ill practice continues to take a toll on women and girls.

The province government has decided to amplify its activism such as sensitizing people against Chhaupadhi practice, dismantling the Chhaugoth and ensuring effective implementation of legislation against Chhaupadhi among others.

Towards this, today's meeting also decided to devise an annual action-plans targeting schools, community and religious organizations within the province through the Ministry of Social Development to run awareness drive against all ill-practices and caste-based discrimination.

Earlier, the District Administration Office, Kanchanpur, had called for an urgent action to demolish all Chhaugoths in all nine local levels within the district while Krishnapur municipality, one among the 9 local levels, also recently issued similar directives, mandating the pulling down of the Chhaugoths within the municipality within 15 days.

At least 32 Palestinians seeking food have been killed by Israeli gunfire near two aid distribution points close to Khan Younis and Rafah in southern Gaza, according to the territory's Hamas-run health ministry, BBC reported.

Dozens were also injured near the two sites run by the controversial US and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), it said.

The GHF said there were no incidents "at or near" their sites, but that there had been "Israel Defense Forces (IDF) activity" hours before their sites were due to open, according to BBC.

One eyewitness told the Reuters news agency that the Israeli gunfire seemed "targeted to kill".

Ukraine has proposed a new round of peace talks with Russia, President Volodymyr Zelensky has said, in a move aimed at restarting negotiations that halted last month, BBC reported.

Senior security official Rustem Umerov has offered to meet the Russian side next week, Zelensky said in his evening address, adding that everything had to be done to get a ceasefire.

Zelenksy also repeated his readiness to meet Russia's Vladimir Putin face-to-face. "A meeting at the leadership level is needed to truly ensure peace," he said.

The proposal came hours after Ukraine was hit with another widespread air bombardment by Russia, which killed three people, according to BBC.

At least 34 people have died and several are still missing after a tourist boat capsized in Vietnam during bad weather, BBC reported.

The incident took place in Ha Long Bay, a popular tourist destination in the north of the country.

Most of the passengers were reportedly Vietnamese families visiting from the capital Hanoi.

Heavy rain has been hindering the search for survivors, rescuers say, but so far 11 people have been pulled from the water alive, according to BBC.

Sectarian clashes have continued in southern Syria despite an "immediate ceasefire" announced by the country's president, BBC reported.

Over the past week fighters from the minority Druze community have been battling armed Bedouins in Suweida Province, with both sides accused of atrocities.

Syria's interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa deployed troops but the government forces were accused of joining in attacks on the Druze. More than 900 people are reported to have been killed in the violence. 

Israel declared support for the Druze earlier this week and intervened, hitting government forces and the defence ministry in the capital Damascus, according to BBC.