Newly elected President Ram Chandra Paudel today garlanded the statue of the Nepal Communist Party's founder Pushpa Lal Shrestha at the Pushpa Lal Memorial Park at Champadevi of Kirtipur Municipality-4.
A writ petition has been filed against Ram Sahaya Prasad Yadav from Janata Samajwadi Party (JSP) who registered his candidacy for Vice- presidential election.
Minister for Communications and Information Technology Rekha Sharma asserted that the three-tier government should be further strengthened.
Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal 'Prachanda' said that there will be a Socialist Front in the country in a few days and communists' unification will be initiated on the basis of that front.
Newly elected President Ram Chandra Paudel has visited Bhatatrai Ashram at Bodegaun today.
Four candidates have registered their candidacy for the post of Vice President.
Mamata Jha of the Janamat Party has filed nomination for vice-presidential election representing her party.
Two children of the same family died in the fire incident at Rautamai Rural Municipality in Udayapur district.
Pramila Yadav of the Janata Samajbadi Party has filed a nomination for vice-presidential election from the ruling alliance. Pramila Yadav reached the Federal Parliament Building, New Baneshwor, and filed her candidacy.
Janata Samajwadi Party (JSP)'s Parliamentary Party Leader Ram Sahaya Prasad Yadav registered his candidacy for the vice presidential election.
UML leader Ashta Laxmi Shakya filed her candidacy for the vice presidential election. By reaching the election office for the presidential election at New Baneshwar on Saturday Shakya registered her nomination for the post.
Participants in the ruling coalition's meeting here today discussed and decided on candidacy for Vice-President. The election for Vice-President is taking place on March 17 for which nomination paper is being filed today.
The CPN (UML) has decided to nominate the party's vice-chairperson Astha Laxmi Shakya as the candidate of Vice-President.
A meeting of the eight parties of the ruling coalition has begun at the Prime Minister's Official Residence Baluwatar.
Kathmandu, March 10 : Speaker of the House of Representatives, Devraj Ghimire, has left here for Bahrain on Friday to participate in the 146th Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) Assembly. Speaker Ghimire left for Bahrain leading a nine-member delegation to participate in the IPU Assembly being held at Manama of Bahrain from March 11 to 15. Lawmakers—Ramesh Lekhak, Hitraj Pandey and Santosh Pariyar, National Assembly member Indu Kadariya, General-Secretary of Federal Parliament Dr Bharat Raj Gautam, Secretary of the House of Representatives Gopal Nath Yogi, Speaker's Secretary Tej Prakash Bhattarai and section officer at Federal Parliament Secretariat, Rajan Ghimire, are in the delegation. Speaker Ghimire on the behalf of the Federal Parliament would present his statement in the general debate 'Promoting peaceful co-existence and inclusive societies: Fighting intolerance'. The delegation would attend various meetings during the Assembly. (RSS)