Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba today said that Nepal is rich and prosperous in arts and culture. “Nepal’s historic antiques, cultural assets, sculpture, music and drama are equally popular in the international arena as at home,” he said that inaugurating the 13th academic assembly of the Nepal Academy of Fine Arts here today.
Minister for Communications and Information Technology and Nepali Congress (NC) central committee member, Gyanendra Bahadur Karki, has won the election to the Member of the House of Representatives (HoR) from Sunsari-4, making his way to the parliament for the third time.
According to the data provided by the Election Commission (EC), CPN (UML) has grabbed the first spot with 2,747,334 votes while the incumbent ruling party Nepali Congress is in the second position with 2,615,590 votes. CPN (Maoist Centre) is situated in the third position with 1,157,808 votes, while Rashtriya Swatantra Party has scored 1, 112,852 votes.
The Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) has in the first three months of the current fiscal year, 2022/23 secured a profit of Rs 8.5 billion.
In 337 Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) tests done in the past 24 hours, five people were found infected with SARS-CoV-2, informed the Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP) in its regular update on Thursday. Whereas, no positive case was found in 566 Antigen testing in the last 24 hours.
Results of the elections to the House of Representatives have so far been announced for 162 electoral constituencies, out of 165 across the country. However, re-voting at 10 voting centres in Dolakha is taking place today and the counting of votes in Syangja is underway while it is yet to begin in Bajura.
A member of the ruling coalition CPN (Unified Socialist), has secured a total of 14 seats in the Provincial Assembly (PA) in the November 20, elections for the member of the House of Representatives (HoR) and Provincial Assembly (PA).
Nepali Congress (NC) central member Dr Shekhar Koirala said the existing political alliance will form a joint government under the NC leadership.
Finance Minister Janardan Sharma has said the country experiences no economic crisis, but still it continues to deal with some challenges in the relevant sector.
Re-voting is taking place at 10 voting centres of Dolakha for the election to the House of Representatives and Province Assembly today.
Re-voting is taking place at 10 voting centres of Dolakha for the election to the House of Representatives and Province Assembly today. According to Chief Returning Officer, Dilli Ratna Shrestha, the voting is taking place from 7:00 am and 35 per cent of votes were cast so far. The election is taking place peacefully, he shared.
With the victory of vibrant youths from different places including the federal capital, Kathmandu, who have defeated old parties' heavyweights, some old party leaders are warning of political and parliamentary 'instability'. The instability of parliament is also projected with no parties being able to secure a resounding majority for the House of Representatives. A hung parliament is in sight.
General-Secretary of the Nepali Congress Gagan Kumar Thapa has said collaboration with the private sector was necessary to resolve problems facing the country's economy.
The Nepali Congress candidate Gyanendra Karki has been elected to the member of House of Representatives from Sunsari constituency-4.
Nepali Congress (NC) senior leader Ramchandra Poudel said his claim for Prime Minister was obvious.