Voting for the House of Representatives (HoR) election began across Nepal on Wednesday morning, with polling underway simultaneously in all 77 districts from 7:00 am to 5:00 pm.
A Nepali youth has been killed in an attack at Sheikh Zayed International Airport in Abu Dhabi, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed, as the government moved swiftly to constitute an emergency response team and launched an online registration drive for the more than 1.8 million Nepali citizens living and working across West Asia.
Nepal received 105,441 international visitors in February 2026, an 8.8 per cent rise compared to the same month last year and 2.9 per cent above pre-pandemic February 2019 levels, according to data compiled by the Nepal Tourism Board.
Mexican mountaineer Luis Edgardo González has successfully summited Carstensz Pyramid, completing the Seven Summits challenge once again and becoming the oldest Mexican to achieve the feat.