SHANGHAI, Nov 26 : Major news outlets in China have largely avoided detailed reporting of district council election results in Hong Kong, where pro-democracy candidates scored a landslide victory that some say amounted to support for anti-government protests.

The defending champions’ departure is featured on front pages all over the world.

KATHMANDU, Mar 23: Stakeholders including guardians, students, teachers and government officials have started taking Grade 10 exams easy in the second year of the implementation of the new examinations system.

ISLAMABAD, Jan 30: An accountability court in Pakistan today rejected ousted premier Nawaz Sharif's objections to the supplementary case filed against him and his family by the country's anti-graft body over properties in London.

KATHMANDU, Jan 29: The Election Commission has published sample ballots papers for the National Assembly elections.

BAGLUNG, Nov 19: An unidentified group seized and tore sample ballot papers in Baglung on Saturday, while they were being taken to Nishikhola Rural Municipality-3 for educating the voters.

BAGLUNG, Nov 19: An unidentified group seized and tore sample ballot papers in Baglung on Saturday, while they were being taken to Nishikhola Rural Municipality-3 for educating the voters.

LONDON, Nov 6: The Queen's private estate, Bono and one of Donald Trump's closest advisors are among those whose offshore investments have been revealed in one of the largest ever leaks, dubbed the "Paradise Papers".

KATHMANDU, Oct 29: The Election Commission has concluded to print separate ballot papers. The conclusion came after the Supreme Court ordered the EC to print separate ballot papers for the upcoming elections of House of Representatives and Provincial Assemblies under First-Past-the-Post (FPTP) electoral system.

KATHMANDU, Oct 27: The Election Commission on Friday has begun printing the ballot papers under the first-past- the-post election system for upcoming federal and provincial elections slated for November 26.

KATHMANDU, Oct 18: The Supreme Court today refused to issue an interim order in response to a writ filed at the court, demanding the printing of separate ballot papers for the elections to the House of Representatives and State Assemblies.

KATMANDU, Oct 18: The Election Commission (EC) has said scheduled polls may be affected if the court orders to arrange different ballot papers as demanded by a writ petitioner for upcoming parliamentary and provincial assembly elections.

KATHMANDU, Oct 2: The Election Commission is to start printing the ballot paper for the proportional representation system under the election to the member of the House of Representatives and State Assemblies from Tuesday. The election is taking place on November 26 and December 7, 2017.

KATHMANDU, July 29: Taking their cue from the ballot-tearing incident during the vote count for the local polls in Bharatpur Metropolitan City (BMC), lawmakers have sought a strong legal penalty against candidates and party representatives who get involved in ballot-tearing in the upcoming parliamentary elections.

ISLAMABAD, July 28: Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Friday resigned from his post, his office said, hours after the country's Supreme Court disqualified him over corruption claims against his family.

CHITWAN, July 17: Although 50 days have elapsed since the ballot papers with votes of Bharatpur Metropolitan City-19 have been torn, no any move has been made yet to decide over the issue.

MORANG, July 6: The all-party meeting has decided to re-count the ballot papers of the ward no. 6 of Rangeli Municipality as the Nepali Congress (NC) expressed its dissatisfaction over the final result.

CHITWAN, June 28: Chief Returning Office of Bharatpur on Tuesday reached Kathmandu to submit the torn ballot papers of ward no 19 of Bharatpur Municipality to the Supreme Court.

KATHMANDU, June 27: Chief Returning Officer in Bharatpur Metropolitan City on Tuesday furnished the torn ballot papers of the ward number 19 of the metropolis to the Supreme Court.

CHITWAN, June 1: District Court Chitwan today freed two cadres of the CPN (Maoist Centre) who were alleged of tearing the ballot papers last Sunday. They were freed on bail.

CHITWAN, June 1: District Election Office, Chitwan has confirmed that 90 ballot papers were torn up during the vote counting of Bharatpur Metropolitan City on Sunday night.

CHITWAN, June 1: The ballot papers which were sealed four days ago following the incident of tearing up ballot papers in Bharatpur Metropolitan City (BMC)-19 have been opened on Thursday.

KATHMANDU, May 31: A probe panel formed by the Election Commission (EC) to investigate the incident related to tearing up ballot papers with votes in Bharatpur Metropolitan City has  submitted its report.

KATHMANDU, May 30: CPN-UML Chairman KP Sharma Oli on Tuesday claimed the act to tear up ballot papers with votes by cadres of the CPN (Maoist Centre) was premeditated.

KATHMANDU, May 29: The Election Commission (EC) has formed a panel to investigate into vote tear incident of Bharatpur Metro City.

CHITWAN, May 29: Nepal Police SP Deepak Thapa, the chief of Chitwan District Police Office, confirmed that two cadres of CPN (Maoist Center) are arrested for tearing ballot papers during the vote count of Chitwan Metropolitan City.

CHITWAN, May 29: Vote count in Bharatpur Metropolitan City has been suspended after tension flared in the vote count station at midnight.

KATHMANDU, May 17: An agreement has been reached to recount votes for Kirtipur Municipality-2 following the recovery of 10 ballot papers not bearing signatures of election officers during the vote count.

KATHMANDU, April 21: The Election Commission (EC) has completed printing of ballot papers for all 75 districts as part of its final preparations to conduct the local elections on May 14 as announced by the government. The election body has already completed printing the voter ID and voter roll.

KATHMANDU, April 21: The Election Commission (EC) has completed printing of ballot papers for all 75 districts as part of its final preparations to conduct the local elections on May 14 as announced by the government. The election body has already completed printing the voter ID and voter roll.

KATHMANDU, April 6: With the deadline of the Indian government to respond to an offer of providing exchange facility of up to Indian rupees (IRs) 4,500 expiring last week without any formal response from the government, the fate of demonetized Indian banknotes held by Nepalis now hangs in balance.

KAKTHMAND, March 26: As part of the preparations for conducting local elections within the slated date of May 14, the Election Commission (EC) has printed the ballot papers for 36 out of the 75 districts so far.  The election body plans to complete printing  the remaining ballots by April 18.  Ballot papers are being printed at the tightly-guarded Janak Shikshya Samagri Kendra (JSSK), the state-owned  press, in Bhaktapur district. “Till now, we have printed the ballot papers for 36 districts. We are on  track in terms of  the logistics for the elections,” said Election Commissioner Narendra Dahal.

KATHMANDU, March 16: The question papers of the examinations to select Nepali security personnel for deployment in the UN peacekeeping missions were leaked two hours before the examinations on Thursday.

KATHMANDU, MARCH 13: The Election Commission (EC) is making preparations to begin printing ballot papers from March 18 for the May 14 local elections as per the recently finalized local units under the federal setup.

KATHMANDU, Feb 28: The government's preparations to hold local elections will affect the printing of school textbooks, causing a crisis for millions of students.

BAITADI, Feb 18: Police here arrested an accused principal who was on the run for some months after he was accused of forgery.

KATHMANDU, Feb 17: Claiming that the results of the exams conducted for the post of assistant lecturer at Tribhuvan University (TU) last November were published violating merit, the Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) on Wednesday seized the answer sheets of the exams.

KATHMANDU, Feb 7: Around 250 private schools in the Kathmandu Valley alone are found to be existing only on papers.

KATHMANDU, Jan 6: The Election Commission (EC) on Thursday said that it might take at least two months to print the ballot papers for the local elections if additional printing machines are not arranged for Janak Sikshya Samagri Kendra (JSSK).

BANEPA, Aug 24: Almost three per cent of the quake-survivors in Kavre have not been able to receive the housing grant provided by the government due to lack of essential documents.