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KATHMANDU: Prime Minister Sushila Karki held discussions with a delegation of families of martyrs who attained martyrdom during the Gen Z demonstrations. According to the Prime Minister’s Secretariat, the meeting focused on the actions taken by the government in line with the mandate of the demonstrations.

KATHMANDU: Police have arrested Ashok Sherchan, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Prabhu Bank. According to SSP Shiv Shrestha, the spokesperson for the Central Investigation Bureau (CIB) of Nepal Police, Sherchan was taken into custody today on charges related to banking offences.

KATHMANDU: The Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) and the Bibeksheel Sajha Party have formally unified. The two parties announced their merger at a special event held at the City Hall in Kathmandu on Sunday.

KATHMANDU: The Nepal Stock Exchange (Nepse) index snapped its five-day winning run on Sunday, the first trading day of the week, closing 26.51 points lower at 2,649.52 points. Although the benchmark index opened on a positive note and posted early gains, it soon lost momentum and slipped into negative territory.

KATHMANDU: Former Chairperson of the Bibeksheel Sajha Party, Milan Pandey, has said that he is not involved in the ongoing unification with the Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP). In a social media post, Pandey said he would take a political “cooling period” for some time before moving forward in a new way.

KATHMANDU: Nepal enjoyed a trade surplus with only 28 of the more than 140 countries with which it trades, underscoring the country’s growing reliance on imports and its weak export base. The largest trade surplus was recorded with Denmark, amounting to Rs 274.41 million. Nepal exported goods worth Rs 324.