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The schedule for the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup Global Qualifiers to be hosted by Nepal from January 14 to February 1 has been announced.

The Nepal Cricket Association released the match schedule and group allocations on Tuesday.

Ten teams, including Nepal, will take part in the tournament.

Bangladesh, Ireland, Papua New Guinea, Namibia and the United States have been placed in Group A, while Group B consists of Scotland, Thailand, Zimbabwe, the Netherlands and Nepal.

Warm-up matches will be held on January 14 and January 16 ahead of the main tournament.

Nepal will play their first match against Thailand on January 18.

Goods worth Rs 359 billion were imported from the Birgunj Customs Office in five months of the current fiscal year. 

Information Officer of the Birgunj Customs Office, Udaya Singh Bista, said that the total imports of this year's review period were 17 percent more compared to the same period of the last fiscal year. In the first five months of the last fiscal, the Birgunj Customs Office imported goods worth Rs 306 billion. 

Bista said that revenue collection from the Office has also significantly increased after the increase in imports of goods. 

In the first five months of the current fiscal year, petroleum products worth Rs 72.28 billion and iron and iron goods of Rs 31.65 billion were imported. 

Likewise, machinery goods and their parts of Rs 24.60 billion and soybean oil of Rs 22.85 billion were imported from the Birgunj Customs Office during the review period.

The price of gold has increased by Rs 5, 500 per tola in the domestic market on Tuesday. 

According to the Federation of Nepal Gold and Silver Dealers’ Association, the precious yellow metal is being traded at Rs 267, 200 per tola today. It was traded at Rs 261, 700 per tola on Monday. 

Similarly, the of silver has increased by Rs 15 and is being traded at Rs 4, 235 per tola today.

Amid continuing nationwide unrest in Bangladesh and mounting demands for resignation of the country’s Home Affairs Adviser following the killing of July uprising leader Sharif Osman Hadi, another leader linked to the movement was shot on Monday (December 22, 2025), The Hindu reported. 

The shooting intensified fears of a widening cycle of political violence at a time when Bangladesh is already grappling with instability, protests, and uncertainty over the path to elections.

Motaleb Shikdar, a leader of the Jatiya Sramik Shakti, the labour wing affiliated with the National Citizen Party (NCP), which spearheaded the July uprising that toppled the Sheikh Hasina government, was shot in broad daylight in Khulna city, in a manner reminiscent of the attack on Hadi, according to The Hindu. 

Australia's most populous state is set to pass tougher gun laws, ban the display of terrorist symbols and curb protests after the state parliament's lower house cleared a bill late on Monday in an emergency sitting following the Bondi mass shooting, Reuters reported. 

The terrorism and other legislation amendment bill won support from the opposition Liberal Party in New South Wales state, and is expected to clear the upper house on Tuesday.

The ruling centre-left Labor government has proposed capping most individual gun licences at four firearms and allowing up to 10 for farmers, according to Reuters. 

Liverpool striker Alexander Isak has undergone surgery after breaking his leg, the Premier League club said on Monday, Reuters reported. 

Isak suffered the injury in scoring Liverpool's opening goal in Saturday's 2-1 win over Tottenham Hotspur when his foot got caught between Micky van de Ven's legs as the defender dived to block his shot.

"Alexander Isak today successfully underwent surgery on the injury he sustained on Saturday," Liverpool said. "After diagnosis, an operation was completed today on an ankle injury that included a fibula fracture. No time frame (is) yet placed on his return."

Napoli lifted the Italian Super Cup with a 2-0 win over Bologna in Riyadh on Monday, David Neres netting both goals to earn the league champions a deserved victory over the toothless Coppa Italia winners, Reuters reported. 

Neres opened the scoring with a stunning strike from distance six minutes before the break and found the net again in the 57th minute when Bologna were caught trying to play out of defence.

"We came here as champions of Italy, we wanted this trophy and we showed it with a great performance," Napoli forward Matteo Politano told Mediaset. "We could have scored a few more goals but we are happy with the victory."

Mohamed Salah snatched a dramatic stoppage-time winner as Egypt came from behind to beat Zimbabwe 2-1 in their first fixture at the Africa Cup of Nations finals in Morocco on Monday, Reuters reported. 

Egypt’s captain, starting his first game after four successive matches on the bench at Liverpool, fired home a left-footed effort in the 91st minute to earn the seven-times champions a late victory after Zimbabwe had stunned them by going ahead in the first half.

Egypt laid an early siege to Zimbabwe’s goal, but it was the underdogs who netted first through Prince Dube in the 20th minute, according to Reuters.