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Ballot boxes to be ferried by helicopter

Ballot boxes to be ferried by helicopter
Darchula, May 14 (RSS): A Nepal Army helicopter has left for Chhangaru Tinkar, the most remote place in the district, to bring the ballot boxes of the polling that took place on Friday. The ballot box of Ward No. 1, which has two polling stations, has been kept in Chhangru. Chief District Officer Dirgharaj Upadhyaya said that the ballot boxes... Read More

Counting of votes of Kathmandu to begin

Counting of votes of Kathmandu to begin
Kathmandu, May 14 (RSS): Preparations for the counting of votes of Kathmandu Metropolitan City have reached the final stage. An all-party meeting held on Friday night had decided to count the votes from 8 am today. The counting of votes will be done at the office of the Returning Officer in the City Hall building. Election Officer Prem Kumar Shrestha... Read More

Counting begins in Gokarneshwar

Counting begins in Gokarneshwar
Kathmandu, May 14 (RSS): Counting of votes of local level election in Gokarneshwor Municipality has started. The counting of votes has started from Ward No. 1 of the municipality, where 800 votes have been counted, said Election Officer Ranju Gautam. According to the preliminary results, the Nepali Congress candidate for the post of mayor and deputy mayor have taken the... Read More

Musk puts Twitter buy ā€˜on hold,ā€™ casting doubt on $44B deal

Musk puts Twitter buy ā€˜on hold,ā€™ casting doubt on $44B deal
DETROIT, May 14: Tesla billionaireĀ Elon MuskĀ has put his plan to buy Twitter on what he called a temporary ā€œhold,ā€ raising fresh doubts about whether heā€™ll proceed with the $44 billion acquisition. Musk tweeted early Friday that he wanted to pinpoint the number of spam and fake accounts on the social media platform. He has been vocal about his desire to... Read More

Voting suspended at two polling booths in Saptari

Voting suspended at two polling booths in Saptari
Saptari, May 13 (RSS): Voting at two polling booths has been suspended at the Janata Secondary School voting station, Hariraha of Dakeshwori Municipality-2 in Saptari district today. Locals manhandled the polling officer Bipin Yadav over a dispute that arose in course of the voting and also smashed the ballot box, hence the voting had to be suspended, said the Election... Read More

Election Commission seeks clarification from Dr Bhattarai

Election Commission seeks clarification from Dr Bhattarai
Kathmandu, May 13 (RSS): The Election Commission has demanded a clarification from Janata Samajwadi Party’s Federal Council Chair Dr Baburam Bhattarai for making public the ballot paper which he had marked for voting. The constitutional body responsible to conduct election sought clarification from Dr Bhattarai within 24 hours, claiming he committed offence as per Election (Offence and Punishment) Act-2073 BS’s... Read More

Thirteen killed in Waling jeep accident

Thirteen killed in Waling jeep accident
Waling, May 13 (RSS): Thirteen people have died and 12 others injured after a jeep carrying voters met with an accident at Arkhalbas of Waling-14 in Syangja district today. The jeep (Ga 2 Cha 3026) was heading towards Tiwaripasal from Sikhre at the time of the accident, spokesperson at the District Police Office Syangja, Rabindra Khanal said. The injured are... Read More

Top leaders up their election-focused mobility

Top leaders up their election-focused mobility
05 May, Kathmandu: Top leaders of major political parties have stepped up their election-focused mobility in view of upcoming May 13 local election. Nepali Congress (NC) President and Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba is scheduled to address election assembly to be held at Dhangadhi on May 9 and his home town, Dadeldhura, on May 10. Likewise, CPN-UML char KP Sharma... Read More

Domestic flights at TIA back into service

Domestic flights at TIA back into service
Kathmandu, May 4 (RSS): Domestic flights were obstructed for one hour this morning at Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA) here following a hoax that a suspicious object was spotted in the internal terminal building. TIA office said that domestic flights have resumed as no such object was found at the building after a search operation carried out by a bomb disposal... Read More

99,000 ballot papers reach Darchula

99,000 ballot papers reach Darchula
Darchula, May 2 (RSS): Darchula district has received 99,000 ballot papers for local-level election taking place on May 13. The ballot papers have been kept at the office of the Chief Returning Officer. Election Officer at the District Election Office, Chitra Prakash Joshi, 58 different types of election related materials have reached the district. With this, necessary preparations have been... Read More