Nepal Highlights

Former Prime Minister and chairperson of Rastriya Janashakti Party (RJP) has returned home from his week-long visit to New Delhi, India, Saturday.

The China festival has kicked off in capital Kathmandu Saturday. Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal and the Chinese ambassador to Nepal jointly inagurated the festival.

Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) has said the load shedding hours would be increased to 12 hours a week from the existing 10 hours a week, from Saturday.

Nepalese Minister for Peace and Reconstruction Rakam Chemjong has said the discharge of unqualified Maoist combatants will start Sunday from Dudhauli cantonment , Sindhupalchowk.

Nepal’s home minister Bhim Rawal has said, Nepal government would seek and alternative way to pass the budget for ongoing fiscal year, if the Unified CPN (Maoist) lawmakers do not allow it to be passed from the parliament by obstructing the House.

Nepal’s former Prime Minister and chairman of Rastriya Janashakti Party Surya Bahadur Thapa is returning home, Saturday after completing a week-long visit to New Delhi.

Unified CPN (Maoist) cadres have pelted stone at the vehicle used by Agriculture and Cooperatives minister Mahendra Prasad Ray Yadav in Butwal, Saturday morning.

Indian ambassador to Nepal Rakesh Sood is on week-long visit to Mustang. Mustang is a district beyond the Himalayan range on the Sino-Nepal border.

All highly placed security bosses of Nepal will be absent for the next four days with minister and state minister for home affairs, bureaucrats looking after law and order division and chiefs of three security agencies, Nepal Police, Armed Police Force (APF), and National Investigation Department (NID) going on foreign visits Saturday and Sunday.

Nepali Congress senior leader and president of Nepal's Freedom Fighters Association Cheej Kumar Shrestha has died at the age of 84 at his Bharatpur residence, Saturday morning.

Nepal is observing its 15th Condom Day with a slogan ‘increase access to condoms for dual protection’ across the country, Saturday.

Chhath festival has completed.