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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.

China on Monday warned countries against striking a broader economic deal with the United States at its expense, ratcheting up its rhetoric in a spiralling trade war between the world's two biggest economies, Reuters reported.

China respects all parties resolving economic and trade differences with the United States through consultation on an equal footing, but it will firmly oppose any party striking a deal at China's expense, its Commerce Ministry said.

Beijing "will take countermeasures in a resolute and reciprocal manner" if any country sought such deals, a ministry spokesperson said, addressing a news report that the Trump administration was preparing to pressure other countries to limit trade with China in exchange for tariff exemptions from the United States, according to Reuters.

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth shared details of a March attack on Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthis in a message group that included his wife, brother and personal lawyer, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters on Sunday, Reuters reported.

The revelations of a second Signal chat raise more questions about Hegseth's use of an unclassified messaging system to share highly sensitive security details and come at a particularly delicate moment for him, with senior officials ousted from the Pentagon last week as part of an internal leak investigation.

In the second chat, Hegseth shared details of the attack similar to those revealed last month by The Atlantic magazine after its editor-in-chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, was included in a separate chat on the Signal app by mistake, opens new tab, in an embarrassing incident involving all of President Donald Trump's most senior national security officials, according to Reuters.

Associate Professor Dr Dabal Bahadur Dhami has been entrusted with the responsibility of acting Vice-Chancellor of the Karnali Academy of Health Sciences. 

Prime Minister and Chancellor of the Academy KP Sharma Oli appointed Dr Dhami as the Vice-Chancellor as per the decision of April 17. 

Dr Dhami also served as the Rector of the Academy.

The position remained vacant after the term of the Vice-Chancellor Dr Mangal Rawal ended on April 3.