Candidates spending millions for campaigns

Published On: May 11, 2017 01:20 AM NPT By: Hari Krishna Gautam

MYAGDI, May 11: Breaching the election code of conduct, candidates for the post of ward chief in Myagdi district are spending millions of rupees to attract voters during their promotional campaigns.

BEIJING, May 10: Nepali ambassador to China Leela Mani Paudyal said that Nepal's participation in China's ambitious One Belt, One Road (OBOR) initiative is going to add new momentum to Nepal-China relations.

CPN (MC) candidate attacked with bottle

Published On: May 10, 2017 08:26 PM NPT By: Republica

BAGLUNG, May 10: A candidate contesting for the post of chairman of Bareng Rural Municipality has been attacked with a bottle on Wednesday in Bareng Rural Municipality.

Saddened by Jungu incident, PM vows for investigation

Published On: May 10, 2017 06:58 PM NPT By: Republica

KATHMANDU, May 10: Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal informed the Election Commission that the government would investigate Jungu incident that claimed life of a UML cadre.

KATHMANDU, May 10: CPN-UML Chairman KP Sharma Oli has accused the police administration of failing to intervene in incidents of physical assaults targeted towards his party cadres in various districts during the local-level election publicity campaigns, and urged it to give security to them.

Observers, third eye of EC: Secretary Mainali

Published On: May 10, 2017 04:20 PM NPT By: Republica

KATHMANDU, May 10: The Election Commission (EC) has launched an election app with a view to circulating information received during the observation of the upcoming local-level election to a central level.

POKHARA, May 10: Nepali Congress central member and Health Minister, Gagan Thapa, has claimed that responsibility of finding an outlet to the country from the existing confusion by enforcing the constitution has come upon the shoulders of the Nepali Congress.

UML condemns killing of party cadre in Dolakha

Published On: May 10, 2017 03:25 PM NPT By: Republica

KATHMANDU, May 10: The CPN-UML has condemned the killing of party cadre Kul Bahadur Tamang in a scuffle with the CPN (Maoist Centre) cadres that occurred at Gaurishankar Rural Municipality-1 in Dolakha Tuesday night.

DOLAKHA, May 10 : A man succumbed to injuries after cadres of the CPN-UML and CPN (Maoist Center) clashed at Jungu of Gaurishankar Rural Municipality in Dolakha district last night during their campaigns for the upcoming local level elections.

PM, speaker, attorney general skip Law Day function

Published On: May 10, 2017 07:18 AM NPT By: Kosh Raj Koirala

KATHMANDU, May 9 : In what could be seen as a growing rift between the executive and legislative branches on one hand and the judiciary on the other, following the impeachment motion brought against the chief justice, Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal and Speaker Onsari Gharti Magar  skipped the Law Day function on Tuesday.