The 36-year rule of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei built Iran into a powerful anti-US force, spreading its military sway across the Middle East, while using an iron fist to crush repeated unrest at home.
He was killed on Saturday, aged 86, Iranian state media announced, in air strikes by Israel and the US that pulverised his central Tehran compound, after decades of efforts to resolve the dispute over Iran’s nuclear program diplomatically failed.
At first dismissed as weak and indecisive, Khamenei seemed an unlikely choice for supreme leader after the death of the charismatic Ayatollah Ruhollah...

The death toll from an attack Saturday on a school in Iran’s south has risen to 85, the judiciary said, after the US and Israel launched strikes on the Islamic republic.
“The number of martyrs at the girls’ school in Minab has increased to 85,” the judiciary’s Mizan Online website quoted the area’s prosecutor’s office as saying. Meanwhile, Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian on Saturday condemned what he described as a “barbaric” attack on a school in the country’s south, after US and Israeli strikes on the Islamic...

Kathmandu : Air pollution in the Kathmandu Valley is decreasing. This afternoon, air pollution has reduced and the air quality index (AQI) has reached 99. Last Tuesday, the AQI of the valley had reached 191 at 1.0pm, whereas on Wednesday at the same time it had fallen to 114. The Department of Environment said that air pollution level in the Kathmandu Valley has decreased along with the rate of occurrence of wind. As per the latest AQI, Kathmandu, which was listed as the third most polluted city in the world on Tuesday, has dropped to 18th place today. At present, Lahore in Pakistan is in...

The Embassy of Israel in Nepal facilitated the visit of Prof. Dr. Avraham Rivkind, laureate of the Israel Prize and renowned trauma and emergency medicine expert, from 16-18 February 2026 in Nepal. The visit underscored the Government of Nepal’s shared interest in advancing professional collaboration in the medical field and promoting knowledge exchange in emergency and trauma care.
During his intensive three-day program, Prof. Rivkind engaged with leading hospitals and healthcare professionals, sharing Israel’s experience and best practices in trauma care, mass-casualty management, and...