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A public holiday has been declared in Karnali Province on Thursday i.e. the first of the month of Sharawan in the Lunar Calendar. 

The provincial government has decided to grant a public holiday on the occasion of Shawan Sankranti as well as Deuda festival.

Speaker Devraj Ghimire has expressed confidence that the Land Bill pending in the Parliament will be passed soon. 

Addressing a program to distribute land ownership certificates to the landless residents of Arjundhara Municipality in the district today, he said that the land problem that has been surfacing for years will be solved after the enactment of a new law on land by the Parliament. 

Mentioning that hundreds of landless people need to be made owners of land, he recalled that the previous commission had complained of problems in the distribution of certificates due to the high cost of revenue.

He said that after the current government reduced land revenue to five percent, the number of people willing to take loans is increasing. 

Today, 96 homeless residents of Arjundhara Municipality-11 received land ownership certificates.

The Janata Samajwadi Party (JSP) Nepal has decided to withdraw its support to the government. 

The decision to withdraw support was taken by a meeting held at the party's parliamentary party office in Singha Durbar today.

The party's support to the current government has no justification as it could not fulfill the expectations of the people and hence a decision was taken to withdraw the support and remain in opposition," said a statement issued after the meeting.

The statement also notes that the government has not been able to ensure good governance, improve the country's economy and advance the pace of economic development, while also failing to effectively implement federalism.

President Donald Trump has finally found a way to like arming Ukraine: ask European allies to donate their weapons, and sell them American replacements, Reuters reported.

Now comes the hard part — agreeing on who will actually give up their prized systems, including the Patriot missile batteries that Kyiv has been desperately seeking.

"We're going to make top-of-the-line weapons, and they'll be sent to NATO," Trump said in the Oval Office on Monday.

Some Patriot missile defense systems should arrive in Ukraine "within days," added Trump, who faces resistance from some high-profile figures in the MAGA movement who oppose U.S. support for Ukraine, according to Reuters.

Britain's annual rate of consumer price inflation unexpectedly rose to its highest in over a year at 3.6% in June, official figures showed on Wednesday, slightly dampening expectations for further cuts in Bank of England interest rates, BBC reported.

June's reading from the Office for National Statistics took the annual CPI rate to its highest since January 2024, against expectations from economists in a Reuters poll for it to remain unchanged at May's reading of 3.4%.

British inflation has risen steadily since touching a three-year low of 1.7% last September, and in May the BoE forecast it would peak at 3.7% in September - almost twice the central bank's 2% target.

Inflation in Britain is the highest of any major advanced economy and is around one percentage point more than in the United States or the euro zone, according to BBC.

A five-year-old girl died after falling into a septic tank of the Bharatpur Hospital, Chitwan.

According to the Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) at District Police Office Rabindra Khanal, Bikas Magar's daughter, Anjana, died after she fell into the tank. 

Magar is an employee of the same hospital, it has been learnt. 

The minor had fallen into the septic tank on Tuesday afternoon while playing. 

She was immediately rescued and admitted to the hospital where she breathed her last during the course of treatment.

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered the removal of half of the 4,000 National Guard troops who had been sent to Los Angeles to protect federal property and personnel during a spate of protests last month, the Pentagon said on Tuesday, Reuters reported.

Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell said the decision was due to the success of the mission.

"Thanks to our troops who stepped up to answer the call, the lawlessness in Los Angeles is subsiding," Parnell said in a statement.

"As such, the Secretary has ordered the release of 2,000 California National Guardsmen from the federal protection mission," he added, according to Reuters.

The price of land in Hanumandhoka area has been set at Rs 5m per anna, according to the Financial Act issued by the Kathmandu Metropolitan City for the fiscal year 2025/26. This is the highest land valuation in Kathmandu.

Similarly, land prices have been set at Rs 5m per anna in several areas, including New Road (from Pipalbot to the south of RB Complex), the west of the old Kathmandu Metropolitan City building, and the stretch from New Road to Khichapokhari and Dharahara. The same rate applies to land from the Keshar Mahal entrance through Thamel to Chetrapati, as well as areas covering Hanumandhoka, Indra Chowk, and the route from Asan to Bhotahiti. Additionally, land from Asan to Rastriya Nachghar, further east to Bishwojyoti Hall and Tindhara Pathshala, and from Mahendra Statue to Kathmandu Plaza has also been valued at Rs 5m per anna.

Land connected to the main road from Maitighar, Singha Durbar West Gate, Putalisadak, Hattisar, Kantipath, Jamal, Durbar Marg, and Ghantaghar to Kamaladi has also been valued at Rs 5m per anna. This same valuation applies to land along the main roads connecting Jamal, Ranipokhari, Bir Hospital, Nepal Airlines Corporation, Goshwara Post Office, and Tripureshwor, as well as land from Ratna Park, Old Bus Park, Shahid Gate to Sundhara, and Singha Durbar West Gate to Bhadrakali.

Land connected to the main roads from Putalisadak, Bagbazar, and Ratna Park has been valued at Rs 4m per anna. This valuation also applies to land from Kumari Bank, Putalisadak to Old Bus Park and Padmodaya Mode to Sahibal Chowk.

Land connected to the main roads from Khichapokhari to the south, Bhungla Marg, Ganbahal, and Bhotebahal has been valued at Rs 3.6m per anna. Similarly, land from New Road Gate to Mahabouddha Ganeshsthan, and from Chikana to Indra Chowk, has also been fixed at Rs 3.6m. The same rate applies to land from Dugam Bahil to the gate of Ranjana Hall in the west and from New Road Pipalbot to the Ranjana Hall in the north.

Land along the main road from Lainchaur Chowk, Hotel Radisson, Panipokhari, Teaching Hospital, Narayan Gopal Chowk has been fixed at Rs 3.2m per anna. This rate also applies to land from Balkumari Bridge–Koteshwor–Tinkune–Min Bhawan–New Baneshwor–Bijuli Bazaar–Thapathali–Tripureshwor–Teku to the Bishnumati Bridge.

According to the Financial Act, land along the roads from New Baneshwor Chowk to Kantipur Dental, Old Baneshwor Chowk to Gaushala Chowk, and from Maitighar Mandala to Hanumansthan via the Singha Durbar South Gate and the Archaeology Department, as well as land in front of the Kathmandu District Court is also valued at Rs 3.2m.

Land from Gaushala to Dhobikhola, connected to the Ring Road, has been assessed at Rs 3m per anna. According to the Metropolitan City’s Economic Act, land valuation across Kathmandu ranges between Rs 3m and Rs 5m per anna.