Nepali Congress (NC) women leaders have appealed to President Bidya Devi Bhandari to pave the way for political outlet by immediately endorsing the Ordinance on National Assembly election.
Issung a press release today, two dozen women leaders of the NC demanded the President to help clear the political stalemate by approving the Ordinance.
Stating that the federal and provincial parliamentary elections were accomplished under the leadership of Prime Minister and Nepali Congress President Sher Bahadur Deuba, they said that the ordinance on national assembly election presented to the President's Office should be certified without any delay.

The Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) has been signing performance-based contracts with its staffers with the goal of bringing down power leakage nationwide down to 20 per cent.
NEA Executive Director Kulman Ghising has signed one with Chairman of the NEA board of directors and Energy Secretary Anup Kumar Upadhyay.

The current leakage in the NEA power supply system is 22.9 per cent.
The NEA also plans to limit the leakage further down to 15 per cent within the next three years.

Nepal Police has made it clear that there was no discrimination of payment and allowance to the temporary police persons mobilized during the elections.
Organizing an interaction today, Deputy Inspector General of Nepal Police, Manoj Neupane, informed that all temporary police persons mobilized for the election were provided the salary, allowance and ration as announced in the terms and condition.
So allowance was not curtailed from the provisioned scheme, he added.
The basic payment of Rs 17,230 was provided to every temporary police. Similarly, the ration and allowance was different from one region to another, the Spokesperson said.
In Kalikot district, a temporary police person Bibek Aidi had died Friday in a clash erupted with the police persons, as they struggled with the reason -they were paid less allowance as mentioned in the terms and condition.
According to him, a committee formed to probe the incident has begun its task.

CPN (Maoist Centre) leader and Deputy Prime Minister, Krishna Bahadur Mahara, has said that prosperity and unity of the nation would be the top priority of the next government.

At a programme in Dang today, he expressed the view that even a small step initiated with a positive thinking would help make the campaign of building a prosperous society successful.

The government has spent Rs 340 billion in the first six months of the current fiscal year, which is around 27 per cent of the total budget.

According to the Finance Ministry, expenditure trend till the mid-December of the current fiscal year is progressive and out of Rs 1278 billion allocated budget, 26.6 per cent was spent.

Spokesperson at the Ministry, Arjun Prasad Pokharel, said 36.44 per cent or Rs 292 billion is towards current expenditure while Rs 31.99 billion or 9.55 per cent is towards capital expenditure. Similarly, Rs 15.41 billion or 10.99 per cent has been spent in fiscal management.

The government through the concerned ministries has directed the projects and offices to increase capital expenditure.

CPN (Maoist Centre) Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal has said that party unification between CPN (UML) and CPN (Maoist Centre) has reached the final step.

At a programme in Chitwan today he said that people’s mandate have already approved the unity between the two parties.

Saying that both parties would not backtrack from the decision to become one, the Maoist Centre chairman said.

There is no possibility of single transferable vote system in National Assembly election and it will be better if there is representation of Nepali Congress, which will remain in the opposition, he said.