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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.

Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) President Rabi Lamichhane has said that citizens residing in disaster-prone areas will be relocated to safe zones and landless people will be provided with landownership certificates.  

At a policy dialogue on disaster risk reduction and management organized by the RSP on Sunday, Lamichhane said that citizens affected by flooding and landslides have been managed with top priority. 

"The government is safeguarding the rights of landless people at a very high speed," he added, stating that shifting the citizens from the disaster-prone sites was the right decision. 

Lamichhane said that giving a political colour to the citizens' sentiment was a wrong practice and urged that the ruling and opposition parties should not get divided to safeguard the citizens' lives.

Meanwhile, Ujyalo Nepal Party Chairman Kulman Ghising said that the issues of the landless and squatters should be resolved. 

Addressing a gathering at Tempupark of Chandrapur Municipality-2 in Rautahat district on Sunday, Ghising asked the government to manage the citizens' right to housing by addressing the concerns of squatters.

The budget session of the federal Parliament is set to begin on Monday. 

During this session, the government's policies and programs will be unveiled.

According to Parliament Secretariat Spokesperson Ekram Giri, President Ram Chandra Paudel is scheduled to address a joint session of both houses of the federal Parliament at 4 pm on Monday. 

In accordance with Article 95 of the Constitution, the President will present the government's policies and programs at the joint session of the federal Parliament. The Parliament Secretariat has requested that Members of the House of Representatives and the National Assembly be present at the joint meeting to be delivered by President Paudel. 

Meanwhile, a meeting of the House of Representatives and the National Assembly is scheduled for 2 pm. According to the Parliament Secretariat, there is a potential agenda to inform the House about the letter received from the President regarding the convening of the session, as well as to provide updates on the information received from the President's Office concerning the cabinet reshuffle. 

Additionally, eight ordinances, including the 'Public Procurement (Second Amendment) Ordinance, 2083', 'Special Provisions Ordinance on the Removal of Office of Public Officials, 2083', and 'Constitutional Council (Work, Duties, Rights and Procedures) First Amendment Ordinance, 2083', are set to be presented in Parliament.

Eleven members of a family have taken ill after consuming wild mushrooms in Jhapa.  

The incident occurred in Buttabari of Barhadashi Rural Municipality-2 after the family of Tej Bahadur Khawas ate a curry prepared from wild mushrooms collected from a nearby forest this morning.

Information officer at District Police Office, Khagendra Bahadur Khadka, said that Kamalamaya Khawas (50), Dilli Khawas (31), Anita Khawas (20) and eight other children have fallen sick after consuming the curry. 

They have been referred to the Damak-based Children's Hospital for further treatment. According to him, all of them are out of risk.