Kathmandu, March 5 (IANS) Around 24 per cent of voters had cast their ballots by 1 pm on Thursday in Nepal’s parliamentary elections, with polling underway peacefully across the country, the country’s election body said. More than 4.45 million voters had exercised their voting rights by 1 pm on Thursday since voting began at 7 am, accounting for 24 per cent of the total registered voters, the Election Commission said in its latest update.More than 18.90 million people are eligible to vote in…
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Kathmandu, March 5 (IANS) Nepal is set to hold parliamentary elections on Thursday, marking the first nationwide vote since the Gen Z uprising of September last year that shook the Himalayan nation.Voters will elect 275 members to the House of Representatives, the lower chamber of the federal parliament. Of the total seats, 165 lawmakers will be chosen through the first-past-the-post (FPTP) system, while the remaining 110 will be filled under the proportional representation model.The elections a…
Kathmandu, Jan 18 (IANS) Balen Shah, Mayor of Kathmandu Metropolitan City, resigned from his post on Sunday ahead of the completion of his tenure to contest the elections to the Nepal’s House of Representatives scheduled for March 5. His office confirmed that Shah, who has been leading the country’s largest metropolitan city for the past three-and-a-half years, submitted his resignation to the Deputy Mayor Sunita Dangol.In his resignation letter, Shah said that he stepped down voluntarily in acc…