Independent candidate Gopal Hamal has been elected as the Mayor of Dhangadhi sub-metropolis. He won with 26,865 votes while the common candidate of ruling alliance Nrip Bahadur Oda of the Nepali Congress got received 14,817 votes.
With Russia claiming to have taken prisoner nearly 2,500 Ukrainian fighters from the besieged Mariupol steel plant, concerns grew about their fate as a Moscow-backed separatist leader vowed they would face tribunals.
Common candidate for the ruling alliance for the post of Mayor of Bharatpur Metropolitan City Renu Dahal taken a lead of 7,415 votes.
The results of the May 13 local level elections in 16 out of 18 municipalities in Dhanusha district have been made public. Counting of votes of two municipalities is underway.
Nepali Congress candidate Hemkarna Poudel has been elected the Mayor of Itahari sub-metropolitan city. He won the post of Mayor with 33,049 votes beating his nearest rival Yam Kumar Chungwang Subba of the CPN (UML), who got 28,031 votes.
Collection of the Yarsagumba or the caterpillar fungus in Dolpa district will be open for the public from coming May 25. This was decided by an all party meeting convened by the District Coordination Committee Dolpa.
The Ministry of Home Affairs has stated that serious attention has been paid to the published material on violence against women in various media and social media.
Kathmandu, May 21: With 11 new cases of COVID-19 confirmed on Saturday, the nation's novel coronavirus tally has reached 979,062.In 1,819 Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) tests done in the past 24 hours, a total of 11 persons were found infected with SARS-CoV-2, informed the Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP) in its regular update on Saturday.Likewise, the virus infection was detected in zero people in 1,211 antigen tests performed in the last 24 hours.Currently, there are 148 active cases of COVID-19 across the nation of which, no patients are admitted to institutional isolation while 148 patients are placed in home isolation.Meanwhile, 12 COVID-19 patients receiving treatment in institutional isolation or staying in home isolation recovered from the infection in the last 24 hours. Nepal has now recorded 966,962 cases of recovery, and the recovery rate is at 98.8 per cent.No fatality related to COVID-19 was recorded in the last 24 hours, according to the MoHP. So far, Nepals' COVID-19 death toll has reached 11,952.
Nepali Congress (NC) has won the majority of the local levels in Dolakha district in the May 13's local election.
CPN (Maoist Centre) Chairperson Pushpa Kamal Dahal 'Prachanda' has said the electoral alliance has become successful in the local-level election.
Khel Raj Pandey of the Nepali Congress party has won the Butwal sub-metropolitan city mayor
Out of eight local levels in the Jumla district, Nepali Congress has won elections in five local levels. Similarly, CPN (Maoist Centre) has been elected on two local levels while independent candidates registered victory in Chandannath municipality.
Nepali Congress (NC) candidate Rajendra Prasad Yadav has been elected mayor of Mithila Bihari Municipality in the Dhanusha district. Yadav won securing 4,304 votes.
The Janata Samajwadi Party (JSP) candidate has emerged victorious in the local level election in the Narainapur rural municipality of Banke district.
Two persons died in a road accident in Arjuni area of Daiji-Jhalari section of East-West Highway, Kanchanpur on Friday night.