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The 'National Cleanliness Week' is being launched in government offices from today to make public service delivery clean and environment-friendly. 

The government has started the cleanliness week in all offices at the federal, provincial and local levels from today.

The Office of the Prime Minister and Council of Ministers has issued a special guideline, directing all bodies from federal ministries to local levels to actively participate in this campaign.

The formal launch of this national campaign is being held at Bir Hospital this morning. 

The campaign aims to implement cleanliness standards in government bodies in a way that achieves maximum returns at low cost, as stated in the 'Guidelines for the Operation of Cleanliness Week, 2083' issued by the government.

According to the Guidelines government offices should have at least two types of dustbins to segregate biodegradable and non-biodegradable waste. 

Old and useless items should be properly managed and open burning of waste should be completely banned.

To make the campaign sustainable, each agency will have to designate a cleanliness focal point. 

The guidelines have made provision for preparing a weekly cleanliness schedule and conducting a monthly self-assessment.

The entire responsibility for the implementation and monitoring of this campaign has been entrusted to the heads of the concerned agencies, who will have to maintain regular records of it. 

The weather will remain generally cloudy in Sudurpashchim Province, as well as the mountain and hilly regions of the country today, while the Tarai will remain partly cloudy. 

According to the Weather Forecasting Division, there is a possibility of moderate rainfall with thunder and lightning at a few places in the mountain and hilly regions of the country, and at one or two places in the Tarai regions of Lumbini and Sudurpashchim Provinces.

Later tonight, cloudy skies will prevail over the mountainous and hilly regions of the country including Koshi, Madhesh, Bagmati, Gandaki and Lumbini Provinces and the weather will be partly cloudy in rest of the country. 

There is a possibility of moderate to heavy rain with thunder and lightning, and snowfall at a few places in Koshi, Madhesh, Bagmati, Gandaki and Lumbini Provinces and at one or two places in the rest of the provinces.

Meteorological Analysis by the Division states that Nepal is currently under the partial influence of westerly winds, local winds, a low-pressure area in the lower atmosphere near the eastern region of Nepal, as well as a low-pressure trough in the upper atmosphere over the central and eastern regions of the country.

The Federal Parliament's budget session is beginning today. 

A joint session of the Federal Parliament will be held at 4 pm today, according to a notice issued by Federal Parliament General Secretary Padam Prasad Pandey.

As per the agenda shared by the Federal Parliament Secretariat, President Ram Chandra Paudel is scheduled to table the government's policies and programs for the upcoming fiscal year at the joint meeting of both the Houses. 

Accordingly, members of the Federal Parliament have been requested to be seated at the House of Representatives Chamber (Multipurpose Hall), Singha Durbar, for the joint meeting before 3:45 pm, adds the notice.

Prior to this, the House of Representatives and the National Assembly are scheduled to meet separately at 2 pm. 

Among other business, various ordinances recently introduced by the Government through the President are scheduled to be presented for endorsement in the House. 

A Turkish Airlines aircraft arriving in Kathmandu from Istanbul caught fire while landing at Tribhuvan International Airport on Monday. 

According to TIA Security Office Superintendent of Police Rajkumar Silwal, the plane with call sign TK726 caught fire while landing this morning. 

“This morning, a tire of the aircraft caught fire while landing. The fire was extinguished with the help of fire engines. The situation is under control now,” he said. “The runway has been closed for some time for inspection.”

According to Silwal, there were 273 passengers and 11 crew members on board the plane. All passengers were safely evacuated. 

A technical inspection is currently underway to understand the cause of the fire and its impact on the aircraft.

Iran's imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi has been moved to a hospital in the capital, Tehran, and ​has been granted a suspension of her sentence on heavy bail, a foundation run by her family said on Sunday, Reuters reported. 

Mohammadi, 54, won the prize in 2023 while in prison for a campaign to advance women's rights ​and abolish the death penalty. She suffered a heart ​attack two weeks ago.

Her family had called for her to ⁠be transferred from Zanjan, northwest of Tehran, where she was ​serving her sentence and where she had been initially taken to hospital, ​so that she could receive better medical care.

Groups of passengers and crew disembarked from a cruise ship hit by ​a deadly hantavirus outbreak on Sunday to be evacuated to their home countries where they will isolate according to national protocols to prevent further spread of the disease, Reuters reported. 

Government planes carrying Spanish and French nationals landed in Madrid and Paris on Sunday afternoon, where the passengers were transported to hospital, according to the two countries' governments.

A passenger of a cruise ship that was struck by an outbreak of hantavirus has shown symptoms of the disease while being repatriated to France, the country's prime minister has said, BBC reported. 

Sebastian Lecornu said the French national developed symptoms while on a chartered flight from Tenerife to Paris, and so all five evacuated from the MV Hondius had been "immediately placed in strict isolation until further notice".

President Donald Trump has dismissed Iran's response to US proposals to end the war as "totally unacceptable".

Iran's semi-official Tasnim news agency said Tehran's proposal, sent via Pakistan, which has served as a mediator, included an immediate end to the war on all fronts, a halt to a US naval blockade and guarantees of no further attacks on Iran, BBC reported. 

A ceasefire meant to facilitate talks to end the war launched by the US and Israel in February has been largely observed, despite occasional exchanges of fire.