KATHMANDU, June 8: The government has appointed six medical doctors to fill the vacant member positions in the Nepal Medical Council. A cabinet meeting held on Thursday decided to appoint them to the post.

KATHMANDU, March 29: Nepali Congress (NC) President Sher Bahadur Deuba has nominated 10 members to the cooperative department of the party.

KATHMANDU, August 4: The Central Committee of the ruling party CPN (Maoist Center) has been expanded to 407 members by adding 22 women members.

KATHMANDU, July 16: A total of 13 members have been nominated to the parliamentary department of the main opposition CPN-UML.

KATHMANDU, April 22: The government has appointed three more members to the National Planning Commission (NPC).

KATHMANDU, Sept 28: Rupesh Adhikari and Dipendra Dhimal have been elected as working committee members of All Nepal Football Association (ANFA). Rupesh and Dipendra were elected in the re-election held at the special general meeting of ANFA in Tripureshwor on Wednesday.

KATHMANDU, Jan 17: The Election Commission (EC) on Thursday said all preparations for upper house members election scheduled for January 23 have been completed.

KATHMANDU, May 8: The National Assembly (NA) members have demanded the government make sure the smooth operation of Rapti Academy of Health Sciences (RAHS) through the arrangements of budget and medical human resources required towards that end.

KATHMANDU, May 3: Fifty-seven applications have been filed seeking appointment as members or chiefs of the two Transitional Justice (TJ) bodies.

KATHMANDU, March 23: Nepal Police has arrested 130 leaders and cadres of the Netra Bikram Chand-led Communist Party of Nepal (CPN) since the recent bomb blast in the capital which took a life.

KATHMANDU, Jan 8: In a bid to prevent lawmakers from pocketing the salaries of their personal secretaries, aides, and drivers, the parliament secretariat has decided to deposit the salaries of the latter in their personal bank accounts.

KATHMANDU, Nov 21: Various parliamentary committees have been struggling to achieve quorum for their meetings as many lawmakers have not returned to Kathmandu after the festive season.

KATHMANDU, Aug 2: Lawmakers have drawn the government's attention towards various issues including increasing tax imposed by the local levels and missing border pillars in Bardiya.

KATHMANDU, Aug 1: The meeting of Parliamentary Hearing Special Committee (PHSC) has been delayed.  The meeting which was scheduled for 3.30 pm on Wednesday afternoon could not start its official meeting. However, it has been learned that the members are holding informal meetings.

KATHMANDU, Aug 1: Following recommendations from the District Security Committee, Nepal Police has deployed one Personal Security Officer to each of the members of the Parliamentary Hearing Special Committee (PHSC).

KATHMANDU, Aug 1: Rastriya Prajatantra Party Chairman Kamal Thapa on Tuesday nominated members of the party's publicity and finance departments.

BUTWAL, July 30: The members of the Province 5 assembly are all set to see hike in their pay and will get one personal assistant (PA) each as two bills to this effect tabled in the provincial assembly on April 24 were approved by the Economic, Business and Tourism Committee of the provincial assembly.

KATHMANDU, July 27: Communist Party of Nepal (CPN) has briefed its parliamentary party about the agreement signed with Dr Govinda KC regarding medical Education Bill.

TOKYO, July 26:  The last six members of a Japanese doomsday cult who remained on death row were executed Thursday for a series of crimes in the 1990s including a sarin gas attack on Tokyo subways that killed 13 people.

DOTI, July 22: A mother who apparently jumped into river along with her three children in Doti district has been missing since the last four days. However, one of her sons has been rescued by a local fisherman.

KATHMANDU, July5: The meeting of the National Reconstruction Authority (NRA) is the first one to bear the brunt after the Oli-led government decided to annul political appointments made by the then caretaker Deuba government on August 30, 2017.

KATHMANDU, July 2: In a meeting of the National Assembly (NA) today, the upper house members drew the attention of the government to various contemporary issues which also include the problems of monsoon disasters in hills and Tarai.

DANG, June 24: Three months after the formation of the provincial assembly in Province 5, lawmakers of the province are yet to get their badge, which is often considered as their identity.

KATHMANDU, June 20: Formation of parliamentary committees has been delayed because the ruling Nepal Communist Party (NCP) has failed to name members and heads of the committees as a number of senior leaders have started intense lobbying to bag the positions of committee heads.

KATHMANDU, June 19: Six months after their humiliating defeat in the National Assembly (NA) elections, the main opposition Nepali Congress (NC) party has also turned out unlucky in the drawing of lots to determine the tenures of the 59 upper house members.

KATHMANDU, June 18: The term of all members of the National Assembly has been determined through a draw.

National Assembly members bet their tenure on luck

RUPANDEHI, June 11: Chief of Province 5 Umakanta Jha today certified the 'Bill Related to Provisions of Facilities to the Office Bearers and Members of Local Level'.

KATHMANDU, June 11: The term of the lawmakers of National Assembly is set to be determined by drawing lots on June 18.

KATHMANDU, June 9: Family members rebuked ongoing social media rumors of Dr. Upendra Devkota passing away. "We are concerned that the social media was flooded with rumors of his death," family members said.

KATHMANDU, June 8: Nepali Congress (NC) President Sher Bahadur Deuba has nominated three members to the party’s Central Working Committee (CWC).

KATHMANDU, June 8: Nepali Congress (NC) President Sher Bahadur Deuba has nominated three members to the party’s Central Working Committee (CWC).

KATHMANDU, June 8: Nepali Congress (NC) President Sher Bahadur Deuba has nominated three members to the party's Central Working Committee (CWC).

KATHMANDU, June 8: Nepali Congress (NC) President Sher Bahadur Deuba has nominated three members to the party's Central Working Committee (CWC).

POKHARA, June 4: After long discussion and debate, the assembly members of Province 4 have come to a conclusion to name the province. 45 provincial members have agreed and suggested to name the province as ‘Gandaki’.

KATHMANDU, May 30: Two invitee central committee members of the Communist Party of Nepal (CPN) have asked chairman and Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli about the reasons for excluding them from the central committee.

KATHMANDU, May 29: Nepal Communist Party (NCP) on Monday submitted signatures of its central committee members and copies of their citizenship certificates as part of preparations to register the newly-formed party following the merger of two communist parties—CPN-UML and CPN (Maoist Center)—into one.

KATHMANDU, May 24: The Standing committee has been still incomplete due to delay in picking memmbers from the former party CPN (Maoist center) by Communist Party of Nepal's Chairman Puspa Kamal Dahal.

KATHMANDU, May 20: CPN UML has finalized 42 additional names from its side for the central committee of newly formed Communist Party of Nepal. The list was finalized by former chair of UML KP Sharma Oli and senior leader Madhav Kumar Nepal.

KATHMANDU, May 19: Communist Party of Nepal (CPN) is set to finalize the location for its central office within the next two days.

KATHMANDU, May 17: The newly appointed  Central Committee (CC) members of the unified party, Communist Party of Nepal,  were administered oath by KP Sharma Oli and Pushpa Kamal Dahal at Prime Minister's Official residence at  Baluwatar today.

BUTWAL, May 7: An official logo of State Assembly (SA) members of Province 5 has been unveiled.  State Assembly speaker Purna Bahadur Gharti unveiled the logo amidst a programme here today.

KATHMANDU, May 7: Pushpa Kamal Dahal's decision to form a bloated organization has come back to haunt his party, the CPN (Maoist Center), as it intensifies work to pick around 200 candidates from among its 4000-member strong central committee to be integrated in the to be unified party.

KATHMANDU, April 29: A row over the lottery method to fix the tenure of 59 members of the National Assembly (NA) has stalled the upper house regulation.

RAMPUR (PALPA), March 28: CPN-UML representatives boycotted the municipal council meeting of Rampur Municipality in Palpa district as a sign of protest against the unilateral decision of Mayor Raman Bahadur Thapa and his team in selecting development programs and reallocation of budget.

KATHMANDU, March 27: Bringing amendment to the existing Passport Regulations, the government has decided to provide diplomatic passports (red passports) to all provincial governors, chief ministers, ministers and members of the provincial assemblies.

KATHMANDU, Mar 25: Cricket Players Association Nepal (CPAN) has formed a new committee with 12 members by 3rd General Assembly held today at at Hotel Crown Plaza, Naxal, and Kathmandu.

BIRATNAGAR, March 22: Ward members of various local units of Province 1 on Wednesday encircled the Provincial Assembly building demanding their salaries. Ward members staged the protest just before the meeting of the provincial government.

KATHMANDU, March 16: Prime Minister KP Oli on Friday expanded his cabinet by inducting 15 new ministers, including four state ministers, taking the total number of cabinet members to 22. The prime minister inducted six ministers and three state ministers from his party, CPN-UML, and six ministers and a state minister from the CPN (Maoist Center).

WASHINGTON, March 15: A U.S. Navy fighter jet crashed Wednesday off the coast of Key West, Florida, killing its two crew members.