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NPL Cricket 2025: Two matches today
Two matches are scheduled for today in the second edition of the Nepal Premier League (NPL) underway in Kathmandu.
Light rain/snow likely in mountainous belt of Gandaki province
Currently, there is partial cloud cover in the hilly areas of Koshi, Bagmati, Gandaki, and Karnali provinces, while the weather is largely fair in remaining areas.
EC issues 30-point directive to political parties in view of elections
Kathmandu, Dec 6: The Election Commission (EC) has issued 20-point directive to the political parties in view of the election to the House of Representatives (HoR) member scheduled for 5 March 2026. Likewise, the EC has set the date of the National Assembly (NA) election for coming December 26. Commission's Assistant Spokesperson Prakash Neupane informed that necessary directives were given to the political parties registered at the EC as per the Political Party Act, 2073 (Clause 57) to maintain good governance while keeping inclusive proportional representation in the election. In order to ensure inclusive proportional representation in the election system, each political party has to guarantee representation of women candidates in a way that one third is not overlooked, and nominate candidates to ensure gender and inclusive representation is maintained while presenting candidacies towards first-past-the-post. Likewise, the political parties are obligated to arrange candidacy nomination to ensure gender and inclusive representation for effective implementation of the policy to level up 40 percent women representation in the parliament by 2030 in consideration of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). While conducting election related activities, the political parties are not allowed to engage in any actions that would undermine mutual harmony being adherent to the Nepal Constitution and respectful to the diverse castes and ethnicities, communities, gender, religions, languages, regions and cultures. To make the polling stations and centres gender and disable-friendly, the EC has asked the political parties to extend cooperation to that end and necessarily address the gender and social inclusion arrangements in their political documents, including election manifesto. Inclusive proportional representation principle should be adhered in a way to keep at least one third women and represent Nepal's social diversities while nominating candidates to the posts, excluding the posts reserved for women, Dalit and minority communities. The political parties should also ensure participation of women, inclusive groups and target sections at the programmes, including training, workshop, seminar, discussion and interaction. During election campaigns, it is prohibited to directly or indirectly intimidate, defame, insult, discourse, attempt character assassination, or show discriminatory actions against women, children, person with disabilities, inclusive groups or any other candidates. The commission's directive has stated that the political parties must ensure that language used on social media does not impart false, misleading and malicious information that could negatively impact the feelings of womena and indigenous nationalities. Likewise, the political parties are obliged to make necessary arrangements to inform voters about gender and inclusivity in elections, the importance of the election, and voting process during poll campaigns. The political parties' office-bearers, members and workers should comply with the election code of ethics. As per the directive, the political parties should make arrangements to ensure that children are not used during political activities. Likewise, parties are not allowed to carry out undemocratic acts such as obstructing, restricting and forcing another party not to do their election-related activities. (RSS)
Robust environment set for election after joint meeting, Minister Kharel says
Minister for Communications and Information Technology Jagadish Kharel has said that the environment for poll has become further robust following the joint meeting between the government, major political parties, Election Commission and the security bodies held on Friday evening.
PM urges all parties to think about how to make the election successful
Prime Minister Sushila Karki has reiterated her commitment to holding the election as scheduled on March 5 in a peaceful and fair environment.
SAARC Secretary General calls on Vice President Yadav
During the meeting, issues of recent political developments taking place in the SAARC member states, regional cooperation and other multidimensional topics were discussed, according to the Office of the Vice President.
Lumbini defeats Janakpur, enters NPL playoff
Lumbini Lions has entered the playoff qualifier defeating Janakur Bolts in today's match under the Nepal Premier League played at the TU International Cricket Stadium.
NC President Deuba, UML Chair Oli meet first time after Gen Z protest
President of the Nepali Congress, Sher Bahadur Deuba, and Chairman of the CPN UML, KP Sharma Oli, held the first meeting after the September 8-9 Gen Z protest that topped their coalition government.
Yadav appointed Chief Minister of Madhes Province
The newly-appointed Chief Minister has received support from Nepali Congress, Janata Samajwadi Party Nepal, Janamat Party, CPN (Maoist Centre), Loktantrik Samajwadi Party Nepal and CPN (Unified Socialist).
NPL: Janakpur set target of 133 runs to Lumbini
Janakpur Bolts set a target of 133 runs to Lumbini Lions in the Nepal Premier League (NPL) match being played in TU international Cricket Ground, Kritipur today .
PM Karki holds all-side meeting on election
PM Karki is holding discussion on issues pertinent to preparation for the HoR election slated for March 5 in a joint meeting among commissioners of election commission, leaders of political parties, Gen Z representatives, chiefs of security agencies at the official residence of the Prime Minister.
Federation of commerce and industry, Siraha declare candidacy for chairperson
Pradeep Kumar Gupta announced his candidacy for the post of chairperson of federation of commerce and industry of the Siraha district.
Continuous effort must to build discrimination-free society: PM Karki
During the meeting with representatives of Hamro Party Nepal at Singha Durbar today, Prime Minister Karki suggested them to create public awareness nation-wide to prevent the situation in the society where only those having money and power win elections.
India, Russia unveil new measures to broaden trade, economic ties; PM Modi bats for bringing peace to Ukraine
Besides finalising the 2030 economic programme, the two sides signed several agreements to expand cooperation in a number of sectors including health, mobility and people-to-people exchange.
Japan's ambassador calls on PM Karki
On the occasion, the ambassador applauded the government's resolution to conduct fresh elections for the House of Representatives on the announced date, adding that the Government of Japan is ready to extend all possible support to Nepal in its efforts to conduct the elections.
