A building collapse one week ago in central China killed 53 people, state media reported Friday as the search of the large pile of debris ended after rescuers found 10 survivors.
The five-party alliance is organising a joint election mass gathering in Kathmandu today.
A person died and two others were injured in a road accident at Siddhartha highway of Tinau rural municipality-5 in Palpa district. The deceased has been identified as Surya Prasad Shrestha, 43, of Rampur municipality-3, according to Deputy Superintendent of Police at the District Police Office, Birendra Thapa.
A training for returning officers and assistant returning officers assigned in local-level elections scheduled for May 13 in Rukum (East) has been launched.
According to Birendra Thapa, information officer at the Palpa district police office, the ill-fated jeep (Lu 1 Cha 7780) was heading to Rampur of Palpa from Butwal when it skidded off the road and landed at stream 300 meters down the road.
"I am impressed by the works performed by Renu Dahal as the mayor of the Bharatpur Metropolitan City. We have to support those who do good work. We cannot defeat such a leader who does a good job."
CPN (Unified Socialist) Chairman Madhav Kumar Nepal has said that the future of the coalition should be ensured.
PM Deuba lauded the development works carried out under the leadership of Renu Dahal as the mayor of the Bharatpur Metropolitan City in her first term and urged the voters to make her victorious in the upcoming local level election.
The Election Commission (EC) has written to the Government of Nepal to close all international border crossings 48 hours before the polling day.
Chairman of the CPN (Maoist Centre) Pushpa Kamal Dahal 'Prachanda' has said that the country would be in an accident if the five-party alliance will be rejected in Bharatpur.
Vice President Nanda Bahadur Pun has said that state organs should be transparent and responsible to people for the country's prosperity along with economic development.
Bagmati Province which also incorporates the federal capital of the country is estimated to have above one-third contribution to the gross domestic product (GDP) at the national level in the current fiscal year.
In 2,376 Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) tests done in the past 24 hours, a total of 15 persons were found infected with SARS-CoV-2, informed the Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP) in its regular update.
The country's tourism sector which was hard hit by the COVID-19 pandemic has started recovering gradually. Foreign tourist arrivals have also seen a gradual rise at present.
Home Minister Bal Krishna Khand has directed security agencies to help organise the May 13 local election in a fair and impartial way as the government has shouldered the responsibility to this effect.