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Constituent Assembly (CA) member and Unified CPN (Maoist) Central Committee member, Gaurishankar Khadka, has passed away at the age of 51 in Lalitpur Monday morning. Khadka died while undergoing treatment for cancer at B & B Hospital, Gwarko this morning. He had been admitted to the hospital a few days ago after his health condition worsened. Khadka had also been taken to New Delhi for treatment.    Born in 2016 BS, Khadka was elected CA member representing the UCPN (Maoist) from Jhapa constituency – 2 under the First Past The Post (FPTP) system. He is also the secretary of UCPN (Maoist)'s Kochila state committee.   He was a member of the CA Committee for Determining the Base of Cultural and Social Solidarity and the Legislature Assembly's International Relations and Human Rights Committee.   UCPN (Maoist) has said, Khadka's body will be kept at the party headquarters in Koteshwar from 11 am to 1 pm Monday for final tribute and taken to J...

CPN (UML) has decided to file the nomination of chairman Jhala Nath Khanal for the post of Prime Minister for election slated for February 3. A Central Committee (CC) meeting at the party headquarters in Balkhu decided to forward chairman Khanal for the top executive post. The party has also decided to strive for consensus to form a national unity government till the last moment. At today's CC meeting, senior leader KP Oli had proposed to nominate Khanal as the prime ministerial candidate and another senior leader and the caretaker Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal had seconded the proposal.

Nepali Congress (NC) president Sushil Koirala has nominated nine persons for the post of Central Working Committee (CWC) members Monday evening in a bid to thwart Sher Bahadur Deuba camp's pressure to forward Deuba as the party's prime ministerial candidate. President Koirala nominated new CWC members, most of them loyal to him, to have a comfortable majority in the CWC if a situation of voting comes to decide the next prime ministerial candidate. Those nominated include Bhim Bahadur Tamang, defeated in the race for president in the general convention, Bimalendra Nidhi and Narhari Acharya, defeated in the race for general secretary and Padhma Narayan Chaudhary, defeated in the race for treasurer. Likewise, president Koirala has nominated Krishna Tamrakar, Dil Bahadur Gharti, Pharmullah Mansoor, Gopal Raj Pahadi and Leela Koirala as CWC members. The nominations need to be approved by elected CWC. NC president Koirala made the nominations even as his previous proposal to ...

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has directed the Nepalese mission in Cairo to close down if required, Monday. The ministry directed the mission to close down if required after various missions including those of India, China and USA started closing and diplomats started returning to the home countries following unrest in the north-African country. According to first secretary at the Nepalese mission in Cairo, Tirtha Raj Aryal, the situation is very scary as the police deployed for the security of the embassy have not shown up since Saturday and internet and means of means of communication have been cut. There are over 400 Nepalis in Egypt with 200 domestic workers, 150 garment workers and 50 students.

Nepali Congress (NC) president Sushil Koirala has reiterated the claim for government leadership, Sunday.   Arguing that the UCPN (Maoist) and UML had already led the government Koirala said, it's now the turn of NC to lead the government.   Both the parties have already led the government, said Koirala speaking at a function in Bara Sunday, it's now NC's turn.   Koirala also clarified Ram Chandra Paudel would be forwarded as the prime ministerial candidate from the party.   According to our party statute, the leader of the parliamentary party becomes our prime ministerial candidate, said Koirala, we have not considered any alternatives.

The Madhes based parties are preparing to forward a common candidate for the post of Prime Minister with support of some fringe parties, if the largest three parties – Unified CPN (Maoist), Nepali Congress (NC) and UML – do not reach a consensus and come up with a common candidate by the election date, Annapurna Post daily reported. The Madhes based parties came up with the strategy as the chances of consensus among the largest three parties is becoming slimmer before the 1 st round of prime ministerial election slated for coming Thursday. Madhesi Janadhikar Forum (MJF) chairman Upendra Yadav, MJF-Loktantrik chairman Bijaya Kumar Gachchhadar or Terai Madhes Loktantrik Party (TMLP) chairman Mahanth Thakur is likely to be a common candidate from the Madhes based parties, according to a Madhes based leader. The parties have also worked out a strategy to woo all the fringe parties to vote for them in the election. The common candidate of the Madhes based parties will receive second ...

A piece of land bought by the Nepalese embassy in Colombo, Sri Lanka is being illegally encroached to make a golf course due to carelessness of Nepalese authorities, Nayapatrika daily reported. About 2 acres, 16 perches of land bought for the construction of embassy building is being encroached as a golf course is being constructed in the adjoining land. Nepalese authorities are unaware of the encroachment.