Kathmandu, April 16 (IANS) Nepal’s newly-elected Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rubi Kumari Thakur, has announced that she will not participate in any wedding where dowry transactions are involved. Thakur, 26, was elected Deputy Speaker on April 9, becoming the youngest person ever to hold the position, as the country’s politics witnessed a generational shift. She was elected to the lower house through the proportional representation system from the Shram Sanskriti Party, a ne…
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Kathmandu, March 9 (IANS) As counting of votes concluded in 163 electoral constituencies out of 165 under the First-Past-the-Post (FPTP) system in Nepal’s parliamentary elections by Monday evening, the Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) secured nearly 76 per cent of the seats in the House of Representatives in a sweeping electoral victory.The three-and-a-half-year-old party, led by its President Rabi Lamichhane and Prime Ministerial candidate Balen Shah, secured victory in 125 seats, as one heavyw…