- Saturday, 11 April 2026
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9.6 million votes counted under PR category
Vote count under the proportional representation (PR) under the elections to the House of Representatives and the Province Assembly is ongoing. The elections were held on November 20.
UML's Mahaseth wins HoR seat from Dhanusha-4
CPN UML's candidate Raghubir Mahaseth has won the election to House of Representatives from constituency no 4 of Dhanusha district. He received 32,236 votes.
Farmers still waiting for chemical fertilizers
Ram Krishna Chaudhari from Tikapur Municipality-6 of Kailali was standing in line for his turn to get chemical fertilizer from a cooperative, but its office got closed without providing the supply.
Apples worth Rs 500 million exported from Mustang
The apples worth Rs 500 million have been exported from Mustang this year.
American artists to join Street Art Projects
The United States Embassy in Kathmandu welcomed renowned street artist Alejandro Poli Jr. (“Man One”) from Los Angeles, California, for a 12-day programme to promote and celebrate the voices of minority and socially excluded communities.
World Urbanism Day marked
The World Urbanism Day which is also called the World Town Planning Day has been observed under the slogan, 'think global, plan local' in Nepal too. The Day which falls on November 8 was observed on Monday due to election code of conduct in place earlier.
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Serving Business Interests
Despite the gradual receding of COVID-19, Nepal’s economy has been reeling from its aftershock and other hitches. The drawn-out pandemic gave a fatal blow to all the industrial and service sectors contributing to the national economy. That led to an overall economic slump, triggering joblessness, liquidity crisis in the market and high inflation. As an endeavour to cope with the burgeoning liquidity crunch, the Nepal Rastra Bank (NRB) allowed the Banks and Financial Institutions (BFIs) in February and July this year to raise interest rates on deposits as well as loans. Then, inter
Ruling Coalition In Driving Seat
With its ‘stunning results,’ the November 20 general election for the House of Representatives (HoR) gave no one party a clear majority. All forecasts made prior to the election that the Nepali Congress-led coalition will run away with the election by earning a landslide majority have come to nought. Against the predictions of its adversaries, the UML party, which has now been confined to about 82 to 85 seats, generated rather good results, albeit it failed to duplicate its record from the 2017 elections, when it had gained 122 HoR seats.
Solve Problem Of Landless Squatters
The problem of landless squatters is a chronic issue in the country. Successive governments have tried to solve the problem but they have not been able to come up with a permanent solution. The efforts being put in by the governments to solve the problem of landless squatters and unplanned settlers are patchy.
Deep Brain Stimulation
Mental illnesses such as obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), depression and addiction are notoriously hard to treat and often don’t respond to drugs. But a new wave of treatments that stimulate the brain with electricity are showing promise on patients and in clinical trials. In this episode of The Conversation Weekly podcast, we talk to three experts and one patient about the history of treating mental illness, how new technology and deeper understanding of the brain are leading to better treatments and where the neuroscience of mental illness is headed next.
50,000 fingerlings released in Danav River
Fingerlings have been released in Danav River to protect the aquatic biodiversity. On the occasion of World Fisheries Day, more than 50,000 fingerlings of various species were released in the river in order to increase the number of local species of fishes by improving the breed. After the disappearance of local fish, Directorate of Livestock and Fisheries Development, Veterinary Hospital and Livestock Service Expert Centre, Breed Conservation and Promotion Resource Centre, Prime Minister Agriculture Modernisation Project, Project Implementation Unit, Nepal Fishery Association, Jaldevi Fishery Producers’ Cooperative have released fishes of Naini and Rahu species in the river.
Alliance heading to secure simple majority in HoR
As the vote counting of November 20 elections is coming to an end, the five parties in the ruling alliance are likely to win simple majority seats in the House of Representatives (HoR) and in all seven provinces across the country. As of Monday, election results of 160 constituencies of HoR have been announced. Of them, the Nepali Congress won 53 seats and is leading in three other constituencies. The CPN-UML won 42 seats of the House and is leading in one constituency. Vote counting is yet to begin in two constituencies --- Syangja 2 and Bajura --- whereas the Election Commission has decided to conduct re-polling in 10 polling centres in Dolakha district of Bagmati Province.
UML leads in 68 constituencies and NC in 48 in PR vote count
Six political parties have received enough votes under the Proportional Representation (PR) system to become national parties as of Monday evening. As per the results published by the Election Commission on 7.30 pm Monday, parties of the ruling coalition Nepali Congress and CPN (Maoist Centre), parties of the opposition alliance CPN (UML), Rastriya Prajatantra Party and Janata Samajwadi Party-Nepal, and the newly-formed Rastriya Swatantra Party have crossed the required threshold to become national parties. As stated in Section 52 of the Political Parties Act 2017, only those parties who win at least one seat under the First-Past-The-Post system and get a minimum of 3 per cent of the total votes counted under the Proportional Representation system in the election for the House of Representatives will be recognised as national parties. So far, only the six aforementioned have met these criteria.
NIBL Ace Capital to invest in H Medical & Diagnostics
NIBL Ace Capital Limited, an investment bank in Nepal, and H. Medical and Diagnostic Private Limited (HMDL), a division of Dugar Healthcare, signed a definitive investment agreement on Sunday. Shivanth Bahadur Pandé, Chief Executive Officer of NIBL Ace and Abhishek Dugar, Vice Chairman and CEO of H. Medical and Diagnostic Private Limited (HMDL) have signed on the agreement on behalf of their respective institution. The HMDL in collaboration with Tata Medical and Diagnostics, a wholly owned subsidiary of TATA Group, India’s largest salt to software conglomerate, has grown to become one of the leading companies in medical tech and diagnostic sectors which develops, produces and markets futuristic diagnostic products including medical equipment, reagents, pharmaceuticals drugs and other products, according to a press statement of NIBL Ace Capital.
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What led to invalid votes in Mahottari?
The nation spends a huge sum of money to conduct an election. That’s because every vote cast matters to decide the future leaders of the county. One can win or lose an election by just a single vote. But, in four constituencies of Mahottari, more than 1,600 votes cast by the voters for the election to the House of Representatives and Provincial Assembles in the First-Past-the-Post (FPTP) category were invalid. The number of invalid votes is higher than the vote margin between the winner and his closest rival. The result would have been different in the district had there been no such large number of invalid votes.
