Home Minister Bal Krishna Khand has directed the subordinate bodies for the resolution of problems at Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA).
According to government spokesperson and Minister for Communications and Information Technology Gyanendra Bahadur Karki, today's meeting of the ruling parties dwelt seriously on the electoral coordination among them and that they also reached a conclusion on some issues.
Extending her gratitude towards ADB for its assistance to Nepal's development endeavors, Minister Bhusal expressed her confidence that significant cooperation in the areas of energy production and distribution would be provided by the ADB in coming days.
In 3,600 Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) tests done in the past 24 hours, a total of nine people were found infected with SARS-CoV-2, informed the Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP) in its regular update.
The government is administering Vitamin A capsules and deworming tablets to children under the national Vitamin A campaign from Tuesday.
The meeting of the ruling coalition is underway at the Prime Minister's residence in Baluwatar.
The seventh agriculture census is taking place from tomorrow (Tuesday). For the census that takes place every 10 years, 5,200 enumerators and 1,300 supervisors have been deployed.
The Election Commission has completed the print of required ballot papers for 46 districts.
The decision has been taken in the wake of an increasing trade deficit, decreasing rate of remittance inflow and pressure on the foreign reserve.
"We are making efforts to forge an understanding among the ruling coalition for all six metropolitan cities and 11 sub-metropolitan cities. Agreement on the metropolitan city has reached a conclusion point," said Chairman Prachanda, adding, " I hope we will reach a conclusion on electoral alliance for metropolis and sub-metropolis among the ruling parties by this evening."
Kathmandu, Apr. 18 (RSS): The coalition partners in the incumbent government have today discussed seat allocations in metropolitan and sub-metropolitan cities across the country for the May 13 local election.In the meeting of the local level election preparation, mobilization and monitoring committee, they also agreed to sit down again and conclude the seat allocation later today itself, according to advocate Keshab Raj Joshi, legal expert to Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba and the committee member secretary. The meeting focused on the seat allocations in basically six metropolitan and 11 sub-metropolitan cities across the country, he said. The meeting coordinated by PM Deuba, also President of Nepali Congress, that took place today morning at the official residence of Prime Minister at Baluwatar, was attended by top leaders of coalition parties—CPN (Maoist Center), CPN (Unified Socialist), Janata Samajwadi Party Nepal and Rastriya Janamorcha.
Waling, April 18 (RSS): The death toll in Syangja jeep accident has reached six. The latest victim of the accident is a 50-year-old Ganga Bahadur Dala of Waling-12 who died today morning at Gandaki Medical College in Pokhara, said Padam Raj Thapa, Spokesperson at District Police Office. The other five injured in the accident are receiving treatment at the hospital, he said. A jeep (Ga 1 Ja 7399) heading to Bayantari from Waling Municipality-12 skidded off the road and fell around 200 meters at Phirphire on Sunday morning, killing six including Dala and injuring five, said the police.
The meeting of the ruling coalition has been postponed to Monday evening.
The meeting of the ruling coalition is underway in Baluwatar. Chairman of the CPN (Maoist Centre) Pushpa Kamal Dahal 'Prachanda's press coordinator Surya Kiran informed that the meeting of the ruling coalition has been going on since 10:15 am.
The finance ministry has decided to reduce the government fuel facility by 20 per cent.