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The government has decided to form a high-level good governance commission.

A Cabinet meeting held on Monday decided to form a high-level good governance commission under the chairmanship of Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli, a source informed.

The high-level good governance commission, which will also have representation from the private sector, will have 15 members.

Officials from the private sector, the Ministry of Home Affairs, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Federal Affairs and General Administration, the Public Service Commission, the Planning Commission, and other agencies will be in the commission.

Minister for Education, Science and Technology, Bidya Bhattarai, has resigned from her post on Monday. 

Minister Bhattarai tendered her resignation to Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli, said Bhattarai's press coordinator Ramji Lamsal. 

It may be noted that community school teachers have been agitating in Kathmandu for the past few weeks demanding that the government promulgate the School Education Act. 

Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli has invited agitating teachers, who have been staging protests in Kathmandu for the past 20 days demanding endorsement of the School Education Bill, for talks.

He called on the teachers for a dialogue while inaugurating the 11th National Conference of the Progressive Professors' Organization, Nepal in Kirtipur today

Saying that the present government is democratic and not oppressive, the Prime Minister said that the legitimate demands of the teachers would be addressed.

"The School Education Bill is under consideration in a  parliamentary committee. So, the teachers do not have to hit the streets to get the Bill addressed,” PM Oli said, adding, “The school enrollment campaign has already begun. So, please go to the school and carry out a student enrollment campaign.  Check the answer sheets of SEE.” 

Stating that the students and parents have suffered a lot due to the teachers' movement and it was also not benefiting the teachers as well, he invited  the disgruntled teachers for talks. 

"This is also not the right time for you to agitate when regressive elements are on the rise,” PM Oli cautioned.

Four persons died in a tractor accident at Palanta Rural Municipality in Kalikot on Sunday.

DSP Tik Bahadur Raut of the District Police Office, Kalikot informed that the tractor was heading towards Khin via Dhaulagoha carrying food grains from Thirpu, Palanta Rural Municipality when the incident occurred at 11: 30 pm.

Police identified the deceased as Anna Shahi (32) of Palanta Rural Municipality-5, Sadu Budha (38) and Rabindra Bishwokarma (23) of Palanta Rural Municipality-4 and driver Chandra Prakash Rokaya of Khatyad, Mugu.

Local Dhankad Bishwokarma said that the tractor fell some 200 meters down the road.

Police said that they are looking into the case.

Four persons died and two others were injured after a moving Bolero jeep suddenly caught fire in Taplejung.

The deceased have been identified as 16-year-old Aadhya Acharya of  Lalitpur Metropolitan City-10, 70-year-old Binod Paudel of  Bhadrapur Municipality-15, his 69-year-old wife Sarita Paudel, and the driver, 42-year-old Durga Bhattarai of Phungling Municipality-10, Information Officer at the District Police Office, Bibek Basnet said.

The jeep (Me 1 Cha 3011) was en route to Pathibhara Temple from Phungling when the incident occurred at Sewaro Chowk in Phungling Municipality-10. 

The injured include 45-year-old Sabina Acharya of  Lalitpur-10 and her 10-year-old son Bhavimay Acharya.

The injured are being treated at the District Hospital. .

Real Madrid's Federico Valverde netted a superb late volley to secure a 1-0 home win over Athletic Bilbao on Sunday that keeps them within four points of LaLiga leaders Barcelona, Reuters reported.

Real bounced back after their midweek Champions League exit at the hands of Arsenal to move up to 69 points, six clear of third-placed Atletico Madrid, who suffered a shock 1-0 loss at Las Palmas on Saturday.

A heavily rotated Athletic side had kept the hosts at bay until Valverde scored the winner three minutes into stoppage time, pouncing on a poor clearance to fire a volley into the far top corner, according to Reuters.

U.S. Vice President JD Vance begins a four-day visit to India on Monday and will hold talks with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, as New Delhi rushes to avoid steep U.S. tariffs with an early trade deal and boost ties with the Trump administration, Reuters reported.

Their discussions will cover the first day of Vance's largely personal visit to the country with his family, which includes visiting the Taj Mahal and attending a wedding in the city of Jaipur, people familiar with the matter said.

Modi and Vance are expected to review progress made on the bilateral agenda outlined in Februarywhen the Indian leader met President Donald Trump in Washington. It includes "fairness" in their two-way trade and growing their defence partnership, according to Reuters.

 Russia and Ukraine accused each other of thousands of attacks that violated the one-day Easter ceasefire declared by President Vladimir Putin, with the Kremlin saying there was no order to extend the pause in frontline fighting, Reuters reported.

Washington said it would welcome an extension of the truce, and President Volodymyr Zelenskiy reiterated several times Ukraine's willingness to pause strikes for 30 days in the war.

But Putin, who sent thousands of Russian troops into Ukraine in February 2022 and who ordered on Saturday the halt in all military activity along the front line until midnight Moscow time (2100 GMT) on Sunday, did not give orders to extend it, according to Reuters.