Nepal Highlights

At least 16 persons have been killed and an estimated two dozen persons injured when a passenger bus skidded off the road and fell into a gorge in Hansapur of Arghakhanchi district, Sunday morning.

Unified CPN (Maoist) chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal has hinted his party could ease obstruction in the legislature parliament to let the budget for this fiscal year pass.

A senior leader of the ruling CPN (UML) has claimed that grave conspiracies were being hatched to dissolve the Constituent Assembly and impose a presidential rule. UML vice chairman Ashok Rai said, some Nepali Congress leaders had approached his party leadership with a proposal to dissolve the CA, impose a presidential rule and promulgate a new constitution by forming a Constitutional Commission.

Nepal’s permanent envoy to the United Nations Madhu Raman Acharya has conveyed to the UN Security Council (UNSC) the position of 22 political parties backing the government on UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon’s report to the UNSC on the progress in Nepal’s peace process.

Two persons have been killed when a truck hit a motorcycle they were traveling on at New Road in the beautiful lake city Pokhara, this morning.