Nepal Highlights

The Unified CPN (Maoist) has demanded the resignation of Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal as the pre-condition for ending the current political crisis.

The government has adopted a policy to upgrade classes of students up to seventh grade by continuous assessment. They will not need to take the exams till seventh grade as per the new policy, the education secretary said.

The government is preparing to expand the area of Bardiya National Park (BNP) to double its present size by annexing 898 sq. km of forest area along the east-west highway in Dang.

Pioneer poet (Adi Kavi) Bhanu Bhakta Acharya’s dilapidated house located at Shikhar Kateri of Chundi Ramgha in Tanahun district is going to be reconstructed to resemble its original shape, reports say.

Nepal government has appointed Dr Madan Kumar Bhattarai as the secretary at Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Agitating doctors of BP Koirala Institute of Health Sciences (BPKIHS), Dharan have called off their strike from Sunday after two persons who manhandled doctors at the emergency ward of the hospital last week apologized in public.

Cadres of the Unified CPN (Maoist) and its student union All Nepal National Independent Students Union-Revolutionary (ANNISU-R) attacked chief of Bhojpur Multiple Campus Parvat Kumar Rai, Sunday morning, reports say.