International experience shows that well-designed TVET systems can reduce youth unemployment, raise female labour force participation, and support economic diversification.

Analyses have flagged the potential for El Niño to push food inflation into double digits in import-dependent economies, compounding pressures on households still recovering from earlier crises.

The Editors Guild has positioned itself as a moral and ethical anchor for the industry, repeatedly calling for accuracy, balance and resistance to external pressures.

The initiative, supported by senior members of the Maha Sangha, comes in the wake of a landmark Supreme Court ruling that invalidated a previous pardon granted to the controversial Buddhist monk.

The human cost is measured not only in the 27 confirmed deaths and four missing, but also in the 1,082 families whose homes or livelihoods have been disrupted at a moment when many were still recovering from August’s far larger trauma.

Continuous heavy rainfall battering Nepal since Thursday has triggered floods and landslides that have claimed at least six lives, left five people missing and paralysed road networks in several provinces.

As the Indian Ocean remains a major transit zone, closer India-Sri Lanka coordination will be central to regional stability.

Police have indicated that the operation remains under review and that subsequent legal steps will rest on the findings from questioning and verification.