<p>The Election Commission (EC) has prepared a draft bill with the provision not allowing the temporary voters to cast votes in the election of provincial assembly. The draft, however, has a provision to allow them to cast vote in the House of Representatives. <br><br>The EC has made the provision in the draft prepared for provincial assembly member election that the voter, whose name has been registered in the voters list of any village body or municipality of any constituency, can cast vote only there.&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;<br><br>At a programme organised by the EC to collect suggestion of political parties on the bill today, political parties did not give any suggestion on the provision but urged the EC not to make provision of same 'threshold' for the House of Representatives and the provincial assembly. The EC has made provision of 1.5 per cent threshold in both assemblies in the draft. <br><br>However, the fringe parties have raised a clamour against the EC's decision to maintain threshold in the parliament and provincial assemblies. Lawmaker Gopal Dahit, Rukmani Chaudhary and Shivaji Yadav appealed to the EC to scrap threshold while suggesting the EC must keep the authority of announcing the date of the elections.<br><br>At the programme, EC Chief Commissioner Dr Ayodhi Prasad Yadav said the EC is of the mindset of counting the ballots at the voting centers and issuing a single ballot paper for both direct and proportional representation system.&nbsp; CEC Dr Yadav further said the EC is ready to hold elections and that the government should prepare infrastructure for it.<br><br><br></p>

<p>Former Prime Minister and CPN (UML) Chairman KP Sharma Oli today said that the government that he led was toppled against the wishes of people. <br><br>Speaking at &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;a programme organised by the Press Chautari Nepal in the Capital, chairman Oli claimed that his government raised the country in terms of country's self-esteem, national interest and development. <br><br>The CPN (UML) chairman also warned that conspiracy is being hatched to try to carry out activities that will disturb community and national unity and cause political and constitutional bitterness. <br><br><br></p>

<p>The police have come across huge cocaine cache during a security checking of a Thai national, Waranya Kaewpikul, at Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA) on Tuesday night.</p><p>The Thai woman was heading towards Thailand via Malaysia's Kuala Lampur from Kathmandu with 3 kilo and 54.5 grams of cocaine. <br><br>Nepal Police's Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) confiscated the cocaine with estimated international market price standing at Rs 61.80 million, it was informed at a press briefing. <br><br>The cocaine was hidden in a 'false bottom' inside a suitcase, police said. She had arrived in Kathmandu on August 5 and stayed at multiple hotels, preliminary investigation showed. Similarly, a Nigerian named Remmy and&nbsp; a Bolivian woman, Rossy Gueddy Toledo Vallejos were involved in the drug deal.<br><br><br></p>

<p>Experts on foreign affairs and development from Nepal and China have said the China-Nepal-India economic corridor could help propel prosperity in the region.</p><p>Former Minister for Foreign Affairs and Convenor of the Eminent Persons' Groups, Bheikh Bahadur Thapa said, "The corridor will be very beneficial to Nepal, located between the two giant economies. It will be backbone of economic prosperity. But for this, a trilateral agreement is first need." </p><p>On the occasion, Chinese Ambassador to Nepal, Wu Chuntai, said the Himalaya won't be the obstruction at all on the three country corridor, as there were the trades even in the past between the three countries.</p><p>China always wishes sustainable peace, progress, and political stability in Nepal, and was ready to extend assistance for generating capital and technology for development. 
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