The Election Commission has adopted a zero-tolerance policy against all sorts of harassment and discrimination at the workplace during election management. Towards this, the constitutional body responsible to conduct and monitor elections has issued 'Gender and Inclusive Policy-2077 BS'.
Three people died in separate road accidents in Sunsari last night. The District Police Office Sunsari has confirmed the deaths of Tejnarayan Sah, 45, Itahari-17; Jeevan Raut, 27, of Barahchhetra-8 and Gulab Mehata, 35, from Supaul Banauli Panchayat, India in the accidents.
A cut-throat competition among the candidates contesting House of Representatives (HoR) election on coming November 20 is estimated in the constituency no 3 in Mahottari district.
Two people died in East Nawalparasi on Thursday.
Ward chair of Gorkha municipality-5, Khil Bahadur Rana, has passed away. He collapsed all of a sudden on Thursday evening and was rushed to the Gokha Hospital where he was pronounced dead on the arrival, according to CPN (UML) Gorkha district committee secretary Kajiram Roka.
The Chhath festival fervour has gripped the Mithila region including Mahottari with the festival formally commencing from today. People's mobility has upped in and around the region ahead of the four-day grand festival where the 'Sun God' is worshipped with devotion.
Rainfall and light snowfall is forecast in some places of the country over the next week, the Department of Hydrology and Meteorology said in its special weekly weather bulletin.
The curfew clamped in Bhangaha Municipality in the district stays intact for preventing religious harmony from being disturbed, District Administration Office, Mahottari said.
The number of dengue infection cases has crossed 2,000 in Chitwan, the District Health Office Chitwan said.
The demand for earthen pots has been growing with the approaching Chhath festival. Along with the domestic clay pots, various articles required for the festival manufactured in India are also making in-roads in the Nepali market.
According to the District Police Office , Makwanpur, the fire broke out all of a sudden led the explosions of five cooking gas cylinders subsequently.
A man was killed when a motorcycle (Sudurpaschim Province 01-008 Pa 5756) he was riding and a jeep (Ba 12 Cha 2114) collided head on at Gauriganga Municipality-3 in Kailali along the East West Highway on Thursday.
The curfew was enacted at 4 pm on Thursday until further notice, according to an order issued by Chief District Officer Dipak Kumar Pahadi, adding that the administration resorted to the move in a bid to contain the tension flared up following a clash between the groups of people.
They visited the site where the 7th CPC National Congress was held, a former residence of late Chinese leader Mao Zedong, and an exhibition at the Yan'an Revolutionary Memorial Hall, which features the history of the 13 years during which the CPC Central Committee was based in Yan'an.
His three sisters (Bishnu Maya Dhakal, Kaushilya Koirala and Bishnu Oli) offered 'Bhai Tika' to him at his private residence at Balkot in Bhaktapur.