Basanta Dhungana

Chief Election Commissioner Bhuwan KC said the schedule slipped due to an unexpectedly high number of candidates, forcing officials to continue verification work through the night. The election secretariat said the candidate list will be made public shortly.

The current Central Committee has 121 members. The Secretariat has also decided to expand the party's office bearers to 19 positions. The revised structure will include one chairperson, one senior leader, three vice chairs, including one woman, two general secretaries, five deputy general secretarie...

Each year, the monsoon exposes Nepal’s fragile highway network, turning vital routes into accident-prone and unreliable passages.

The LPSC said 41,282 people across the district’s seven local units have been recorded, including 24,462 unmanaged settlers.

Four people, including the driver, were killed and one injured after an auto-rickshaw overturned in Kalika Municipality-9 of Chitwan on Saturday evening.

Meanwhile, Chitwan police also arrested two other individuals on charges of engaging in anti-election activities. 

In the last election, the RSP emerged as the largest party in the constituency under the proportional representation system, securing 35,945 votes. UML received 16,748 votes, NC 12,132, CPN (Maoist Centre) 8,407, and Rastriya Prajatantra Party 3,218 votes.

The search operation began after a local resident spotted parts of a vehicle while fishing along the riverbank on January 11 and alerted the police. From the same day, separate teams from Nepal Police and the Armed Police Force attempted to remove the sand manually using shovels.

Parties that have traditionally traded victories in this constituency—Nepali Congress (NC), CPN-UML, Nepali Communist Party (NCP), RSP, and RPP—are once again in the fray. Although 23 candidates have filed nominations, the real contest is expected among these five major parties.

The bus was located in the Trishuli River at Simaltal, Bharatpur Metropolitan City–29, after parts of it became visible on Sunday morning. Police carried out excavation work for three days following the sighting. Chitwan Chief District Officer Ganesh Aryal confirmed that the recovered vehicle...