The government is preparing to cover social security for workers in the informal sector, Nepali migrant workers abroad and those engaged through self-employment.
More than 60 former Members of Parliaments (MP) contesting this election have lost it, thereby staying out of legislative body.
The Election Commission has decided to hold the reelection at 10 voting centres of Dolakha district within four days.
Candidate for House of Representatives member from Sunsari constituency no 4, Gyanendra Bahadur Karki, has demanded recounting of votes.
“Nepal-India BFSI Partnership Summit-2022” organized to hold a discussion on ways to advance collaboration among bank and financial institutions between Nepal and India is concluded on November 25.
The district hospital in Rukum East reports the first C-section birth.
The major ruling Nepali Congress (NC) has emerged as the largest party in the Sudurpashim Province in the counting of votes under the first-past-the-post under the House of Representatives (HoR) polls on November 20.
Shaligram Sharma Paudel, the spokesperson of the Election Commission, informed that process to enter the details about PR votes counted so far in the information system of the EC and that of the office of the chief election officer is underway.
The ruling alliance won majority seats in the recent election to the Member of the Province Assembly in the Karnali Province. The ruling alliance clinched 18 seats followed by five by the CPN (UML) in the ongoing vote count under the first-past-the-post system. In the previous election, the alliance between the CPN (Maoist Centre) and the UML won the highest 20 seats.
“I took membership of the Maoist party in 2000 when I was doing the second year of Proficiency Level. But, within two years I got arrested. I was beaten severely. When I gained consciousness, I found myself at the side of a road in the jungle. Later on, I knew that a teacher had rescued me saying that I was not a Maoist,”
The Nepali Congress has topped the vote count tally so far under the House of Representatives (HoR) and Province Assembly (PA) elections held on November 20. The vote count across the country is ongoing. As per the results update under the first-past-the-post (FPTP) category by the Election Commission till this afternoon, the NC has come ahead by winning 53 seats.
In 512 Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) tests done in the past 24 hours, a total of three people were found infected with SARS-CoV-2, informed the Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP) in its regular update on Sunday. Whereas, one case has been found in 428 Antigen testing.
The vote count in Sunsari constituency-4 has been postponed since Saturday evening. The Chief Returning Officer Arjun Adhikari said the vote count could not resume yet as local political parties failed to forge a consensus.
Nepali Congress candidate Dig Bahadur Limbu has been elected as a member of the House of Representatives from Morang constituency-1. He received 25,794 votes.
The voters in the Madhesh Province this time decided to send mixed faces to the Province Assembly. Through the recently concluded polls, the Province Assembly in the Madhesh which comprises eight districts in the southern plain is all set to reflect a diverse mass in terms of political parties, age groups, class and community.