With the expiration of the deadline to stake the claim for the Prime Minister, Nepal President Ram Chandra Paudel has appointed KP Sharma Oli (72) as the next Prime Minister.
KP Sharma Oli is set to become Nepal's new Prime Minister, on Sunday evening, setting him up for his fourth prime ministerial term. Meanwhile, the Oli's Communist Party of Nepal-Unified Marxist Leninist (CPN-UML) and Nepali Congress (NC) coalition are finalising ministerial list ministers
Earlier on Saturday afternoon, the body of an Indian national identified as Hrishipal Sah was recovered from Golaghat in Chitwan, approximately 50 kilometres downstream from where the vehicles were swept into the river by the landslide.
Search teams and rescue personnel from the Nepal Army, Armed Police Force and the Nepal Police started their search in the Trishuli River alongside the Mugling- Narayangadh road section from Saturday morning.
KP Sharma Oli, Chairman of the Communist Party of Nepal- Unified Marxist Leninist (CPN-UML) will be staking a claim for the Prime Minister today itself after President Ram Chandra Paudel's call to form a new government.
Search and rescue operation has been launched in the Narayangarh-Muglin section of Madan-Ashrit highway in central Nepal after landslide swept two passenger bus earlier on Friday morning
As per the officials on the site of the incident, the bus is assumed to have been swept down to the Trishuli River which has swollen hampering the search and rescue operation.
Jaishankar on Thursday welcomed colleagues from across the world for the second Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) Foreign Ministers' Retreat.