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The hotline service (1151) launched by the Ministry of Energy, Water Resources and Irrigation to resolve electricity related problems has become effective.

The hotline service is receiving a large number of complaints. It was launched in order to resolve problems like dilly dallying in work, power cut without notice, irregular meter reading as well as other unnecessary hassles. 

Minister for Energy, Water Resources and Irrigation, Dipak Khadka, directed to address the people's complaints filed at the hotline as soon as possible.  

Ram Krishna Poudel, who is working at hotline service, shared that they have been resolving the problems informing the chief of the concerned offices and distribution centres soon after receiving the complaints. 

Total 1,902 complaints were registered at the hotline service from February 13-March 13 while more than 1,000 complaints have already been registered till March 31, he added. Most of the complaints received at hotline service are related to disruption in power supply and low voltage. 

The service recipients also use Facebook and viber to file complaints and additional human resources have been deputed to address the complaints. 

U.S. President Donald Trump's administration is planning an executive order that would ease rules governing exports of military equipment, and could announce it as soon as Tuesday or Wednesday, four sources familiar with the discussions said, Reuters reported.

The sources, some in government and some in industry, said they expected the order would be similar to legislation proposed by Trump's national security adviser, Michael Waltz, last year when he was a Republican member of the House of Representatives.

An executive order could increase sales for big U.S. defense contractors like Lockheed Martin.

If it had become law, the bill backed by Waltz in 2024 would have amended the U.S. Arms Export Control Act to increase the minimum dollar amounts that trigger a congressional review of arms exports to other countries. They would increase to $23 million from $14 million for arms transfers, and rise to $83 million from $50 million for the sale of military equipment, upgrades, training and other services, according to Reuters.

The World Autism Awareness Day (WAAD) is being observed globally today by organizing a variety of awareness related programmes. 

This Day has been observed on April 2 every year since 2007 at the call of the United Nations. 

The Day is marked in order to promote the full realization of human rights and fundamental freedoms for autistic individuals, ensuring their equal participation in the society. 

UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, said the Day would be useful to achieve sustainable development goals and to fulfill health related commitments. 

In a message on this Day, Guterres stressed the need of providing health, education and employment opportunities to autistic individuals.

Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli and Prime Minister of Thailand, Paetongtran Shinawatra, are holding a meeting today. 

Prime Minister Oli is on an official visit to Thailand at the cordial invitation of his Thai counterpart. 

Before the meeting with the Prime Minister of Thailand, Prime Minister Oli attended the welcome program hosted by his Thai counterpart. 

This is the first official visit of Nepali Prime Minister to Thailand. 

It is expected that this visit would contribute to the expansion of mutual relations and collaboration between the two countries. 

According to the Foreign Ministry, an agreement related to collaboration in culture and tourism sectors would be signed after the meeting between the Prime Ministers of the two countries. 

Similarly, six different memoranda of understanding would be exchanged between non-governmental and business organisations of the two countries. After the agreement, the two prime ministers are scheduled to hold a joint press conference. 

Likewise, the Prime Minister would participate in a luncheon hosted by his counterpart as well as hold a courtesy meeting with the King of Thailand, Maha Vajiralongkorn, today itself. 

He is scheduled to return home on April 5.

Nepal welcomed 121,800 foreign tourists in March, 2025. Such a number of tourists entered Nepal by air, according to the Nepal Tourism Board.

A total of 298,000 tourists visited Nepal in the first three months of 2025, added NTB. Total 79,900 tourists entered Nepal in January, 96,800 in February. 

Nepal welcomed the highest number of tourists from India in March which is 21,412.

Similarly, 11,443 tourists entered Nepal from China and 11,092 from USA, 8,886 from Sri Lanka, 5,995 from London as well as 35,287 from South Asia in March.

The government has decided to provide free treatment to those injured in the Tinkune incident.

A Cabinet meeting held on Monday decided to direct the Ministry of Health and Population to make arrangements to provide free medical treatment to the people injured in the protest that took place last Friday demanding restoration of monarchy, government spokesperson and Minister for Communications and Information Technology Prithvi Subba Gurung said.

The meeting decided to investigate the incidents of arson and vandalism occurred during the protests and take action against those found guilty.

The meeting also decided to take measures to prevent such incidents from happening in the future.

Two persons including photo journalist Suresh Rajak died and 45 others were injured during the protests.

Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA) has come into operation for 18 hours from today.

Earlier, the airport reduced the operation hours to 10 hours for five months for the runway upgrading works. With the revised schedule, the airport is to remain open from 6:00 am to 12:00 midnight, TIA General Manager Jagannath Niraula said. 

Ge said that works to construct a link way from the Taxiway to the runway have been completed. 

However, the constructions of a parallel taxiway are underway. 

Under the Air Transport Capacity Enhancement Project under the Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal, constructions of South-West Parallel Taxiway, the International Apron towards the northeast and the Hangar Apron towards the east are going on. 

It is estimated to cost around Rs 15 billion to complete the project that has so far reported 90 percent progress.   

However, it is expected to take one and half years more to complete the entire project. 

The government has appointed Choodamani Chapagain from Jhapa as the new Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Nepal Stock Exchange Ltd (Nepse).

The Cabinet on Monday decided to appoint Chapagain on the post and he received his appointment letter from Revenue Secretary Dinesh Kumar Ghimire today.

The Nepse said that it is prepared to welcome the new CEO to the office on Wednesday.