KP Sharma Oli and senior vice-chair Ishwar Pokharel have filed their candidacies for the post of party chair. Over 300 central positions are to be elected at the general convention currently underway in Kathmandu.
Closed session of the 11th General Convention of the CPN-UML (Communist Party of Nepal- Unified Marxist Leninist) has started in Kathmandu to select party's new leadership.
India's Ambassador to Nepal, Naveen Srivastava, was hospitalised after falling unconscious while hiking near Kathmandu. He was rescued by the Nepal Army and airlifted to a hospital, where he is undergoing treatment. Further updates are awaited.
Amnesty International has called for a fair and impartial investigation into the unlawful killing of protesters across Nepal during the youth-led "Gen-Z" demonstrations in September, urging accountability for all those responsible.
The latest publication by the Bengali writer, "Mother Mary Comes to Me" is the story of her mother, Mary Roy, whom she writes as "my shelter and my storm."
According to sources, Friday's meeting marks the first direct engagement between the two top leaders following the serious attack on Deuba during the Gen-Z protest.
The high level commission which has completed two months of its three-month tenure plans to question Oli as well as former Home Minister Ramesh Lekhak, Chief Secretary, former Police Chief amongst others.
The Embassy of India in Kathmandu organized an event titled, "AI for Inclusive Growth: Building Nepal's AI Ready Future", on Friday, in partnership with the AI Association of Nepal. The event has been recognized as an official pre-Summit event of the AI Impact Summit that will be held in New
The human rights advocacy group further states that it "found that police indiscriminately fired on protesters multiple times over three hours, killing 17 people in Kathmandu who had been demonstrating against corruption in politics and a sweeping social media ban imposed four days earlier a
Eight hours curfew has been imposed in the Simara airport area of Bara District in the Southern plains of Nepal following a clash between the Gen-Z group and the CPN-UML cadres.