LALITPUR, Sept 24: Poet Ghanashyam Kandel has been awarded with the Madan Puraskar -2073 for the epic titled Dhritarastra. Dhritarastra is his sixth book where he has sympathized with the blind king Dhritarastra, a major character of the Mahabharat.

ARGHAKHANCHI, July 3: Nepali Congress and CPN(Maoist Center) have clinched mayoral and deputy mayoral posts respectively in Samdhikharka Municipality in Arghkhanchi district.

BHAKTAPUR, May 22: Madan Sundar Shrestha, CPN-UML mayoral candidate backed by Nepal Workers Peasants Party(NWPP) in line with an electoral alliance forged between the two parties has emerged victorious in the race for mayor of Madhyapur Thimi Municipality.

DHADING, May 18: Nepali Congress candidate Binod Timilsena has won the race for chief of Jwalamukhi Rural Municipality with 5954 votes, compared to 5930 votes for his closest rival UML candidate Ram Prasad Adhikari.

GORKHA, May 18: Nepali Congress candidate Santa Bahadur Gurung has emerged victorious in the race for chief of Dharchema Rural Municipality with 1709 votes, compared 1656 votes for his closest rival Naya Shakti candidate Laxman Gurung.

KASKI, May 17: Nepali Congress and CPN-UML have won the races for chief  and deputy chief of Annapurna Rural Municipality respectively in Kaski district.

LALITPUR, May 17: Nepali Congress(NC) is taking the lead in the race for mayoral position of  Lalitpur Metropolitan City.

KAVRE, May 17: Nepali Congress(NC) and CPN-UML have won the election in Bethan Chowk and Khani Khola Rural Municipalities in Kavre respectively.

DANG, May 16: CPN-UML and CPN (Maoist Center) have won the race for chief and deputy chief of Darma and Dhorchaur Rural Municipalities respectively.

DHADING, May 16: Of the 13 local levels including both municipalities and rural municipalities, 7 seem to be stronghold of UML, 4 of Nepali Congress and 2 of CPN(Maoist Center) given the share of votes they have garnered by the time this news was being prepared.