RPP Chairman Lingden files nomination from Jhapa-3
Rastriya Prajatantra Party Chairman Rajendra Lingden has filed his nomination to contest the upcoming election to the House of Representatives from Jhapa-3. He filed his candidacy this morning with the support of CPN-UML. Madhav Pokharel proposed Lingden’s nomination while Laxman Pathak of UML seconded the proposal. Nepali Congress leader Krishna Sitaula has lost to Lingden in the previous election. With the support of Rastriya Prajatantra Party, the UML has filed nominations in both the constituencies in the Province Assembly. UML’s Basanta Baniya has filed his candidacy from constituency-1 and Chabilal Chundal from Constituency-2. Nominations are being registered for the elections to the House of Representatives and Province Assembly scheduled for November 20. The Election Commission said that the filing of nominations will begin at 10 am and will end at 5 pm today.
Bhusal to contest upcoming election as an independent candidate from Rupandehi-1
Ghanshyam Bhusal, who had quit the CPN-UML, has announced that he will contest the upcoming election to the House of Representatives as an independent candidate from Rupandehi-1. Organizing a press conference at his residence in Madigram, Rupandehi on Sunday morning, he said that he will contest the forthcoming parliamentary election as an independent candidate with the support of the ruling coalition. Bhusal said that he will be supported by the Nepali Congress, CPN (Maoist Center) and CPN (Unified Socialist) in the election. “After I quit the party, Maoist Center Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal had told me to contest the election under this party’s election symbol. But I said that I will contest the election independently,” Bhusal said, adding, “Later, Dahal said that he should talk to the Prime Minister and Madhav Nepal in the coalition and at midnight they decided to support me.” He said that he has decided to file his nomination as a common candidate of the ruling coalition. Bhusal, who was elected as a lawmaker from Rupandehi-3 in the 2017 elections, quit the party after Chairman KP Sharma Oli refused to give him ticket this time.
EC makes public closed list of candidates for PR system
The Election Commission has made public the closed list of the candidates for the proportional election system. The Commission on Sunday morning made public the list of the House of Representatives and Province Assembly submitted by the political parties. According to the Election Commission, 48 political parties have submitted the closed list for the proportional election of members of the House of Representatives. Candidates will file nominations for the first-past-the-post (FPTP) seats of the federal and provincial elections today.
Kane scores as Tottenham win at Brighton
Harry Kane scored his eighth goal of the season as Tottenham won at Brighton to strengthen their place in the top three of the Premier League, BBC reported.
The England striker's stooping first-half header was enough to secure a victory that keeps Spurs third and three points behind leaders Manchester City.
Brighton, who could have moved level on points with the visitors with a win, started slowly but grew into the game and had chances to equalise before the break.
Lewis Dunk sent a header just over the bar before Solly March hit a low effort just wide of goal as half-time approached.
But in the second half both sides struggled to break each other down, although Kane should have put the game out of sight when he turned his marker but dragged his shot wide, while Danny Welbeck swept a good chance off target for the hosts.
A late injury to Kane took some of the shine off the win as the England striker went off after getting caught on the back of his foot, but he was able to walk off the pitch and confirmed after the game that it was "just a knock".
The win means Tottenham have 20 points from nine games, while Brighton are sixth on 14 points.
It has been a difficult week for all connected with Tottenham following the death of the club's fitness coach Gian Piero Ventrone.
The Italian had been part of Antonio Conte's backroom staff since November 2021 and was clearly well liked among the players, according to BBC.
A minute's applause took place before kick-off, during which Conte was in tears, and once the game got under way there appeared to be an extra element of determination from Spurs to get a result for Ventrone.
They were more hungry than Brighton in the opening exchanges and deservedly took the lead through the header from Kane, who pointed to the sky when he celebrated.
Tottenham were unable to kick on from that but did just enough to pick up their sixth win in nine Premier League games and ensure they remain firmly in the picture at the top end of the table.
"It was a really tough week for us, not only for me - my staff and players and all the Tottenham environment," Spurs boss Conte said.
"He [Ventrone] was a person who was in the heart of every single Tottenham person. It was really tough for us. It is very difficult for me to speak about the situation because it is difficult to understand what happened, BBC reported.
"At the end, to win a game today against a really strong team like Brighton, it shows that I can count not only good players but also good men."
Chelsea earn solid victory over struggling Wolves
Armando Broja scored his first Chelsea goal in a dominant victory over a lacklustre Wolves, who remain without a permanent manager, BBC reported.
Kai Havertz opened the scoring on the stroke of half-time but the Blues could have put the game out of sight long before then.
Christian Pulisic doubled the lead, playing a one-two with Mason Mount and sending the ball sailing past goalkeeper Jose Sa before Broja hammered into the bottom corner with his left foot late on.
The game marked Graham Potter's first home Premier League victory as Chelsea boss.
He made wholesale changes to the line-up from the 2-1 win over Crystal Palace last weekend, swapping seven players and showcasing the depth in the squad, with Conor Gallagher earning a start after scoring the winner last time out and Reece James and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang on the bench.
Wolves, playing their first match since sacking manager Bruno Lage last weekend, were unorganised and Diego Costa, making his first start for the Midlands club against his former side, struggled to get in the game with the team hemmed in their own half.
The 1-0 scoreline at half-time flattered Wolves as Cesar Azpilicueta, playing in his first Premier League game since August, put several teasing deliveries into the box which no one could latch on to, while Ruben Loftus-Cheek and Pulisic both hammered over the bar.
Gallagher looked lively from the outset, while Mount was dynamic - it was his lofty delivery from the right-hand side that picked out Havertz for the opener, with the Germany international's header looping over Sa, according to BBC.
But Broja, who impressed on loan at Southampton last season, will have been pleased to get off the mark with his first goal for the club when he replaced Mount after the break.
Without midfielder Ruben Neves, who is suspended having picked up five yellow cards this season, Wolves looked uncomfortable at the back, giving the ball away carelessly deep in their own half and making hard work for themselves in dangerous areas.
Wolves have been linked with former Sevilla boss Julen Lopetegui, with interim boss Steve Davis saying earlier in the week he had been told he was in charge of the match against Chelsea but was unsure of the situation beyond that, BBC reported.
They remain stuck in the relegation zone having lost their last three matches, while Chelsea move to fourth.
Creeslough: Ten dead after Donegal petrol station explosion
Ten people have died after a huge explosion at a petrol station in the Republic of Ireland, BBC reported.
Four men, three women, a teenage boy and girl and a younger girl were killed, said gardaí (Irish police).
The blast happened at the Applegreen service station in the County Donegal village of Creeslough on Friday.
It destroyed the building and a section of an apartment block, with police saying the evidence gathered so far suggested it was a tragic accident.
Taoiseach (Irish Prime Minister) Micheál Martin described the explosion as an "enormous trauma".
Another person is critically ill in the burns unit of a hospital in Dublin.
Early on Saturday evening An Garda Síochána (the Irish police force) said a search and rescue operation had ended with no more causalities found, according to BBC.
Emergency service crews from Northern Ireland had been sent across the border to help their Irish counterparts deal with the aftermath of the blast.
The taoiseach described the rescue mission as a demonstration of "solidarity and community values".
Protests in Iran: State-run live TV hacked by protesters
Iran's state-run broadcaster was apparently hacked on air Saturday, with a news bulletin interrupted by a protest against the country's leader, BBC reported.
A mask appeared on the screen, followed by an image of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei with flames around him.
The group called itself "Adalat Ali", or Ali's Justice.
It comes after at least three people were shot dead when protesters clashed with security forces in new unrest over the death of Mahsa Amini.
Ms Amini was detained in Tehran by morality police for allegedly not covering her hair properly. The 22-year-old Iranian Kurd died in custody on 16 September, three days after her arrest.
Her death has sparked an unprecedented wave of protest across the country.
One of the captions read "join us and rise up", whilst another said "our youths' blood is dripping off your paws".
The interruption lasted only a few seconds before being cut off.
Such displays of rebellion against Ayatollah Ali Khamenei are historically rare, and he wields almost complete power within Iran. But following Ms Amini's death, there has been some open dissent.
Also on Saturday, social media videos emerged which seemed to show female students at a university in Tehran chanting "get lost" during a visit by President Ebrahim Raisi, according to BBC.
Earlier in the day, two people were killed in Sanandaj, including a man shot in his car after he sounded his horn in support of protesters. A video shared online also showed a woman shot in the neck lying unconscious on the ground in Mashhad.
On Friday, Iran's Forensic Medicine Organisation said Ms Amini had died from multiple organ failure caused by cerebral hypoxia - and not from blows to the head, as her family and protesters contend.
Rights groups say more than 150 people have been killed since the protests in the Islamic Republic began on 17 September.
Shops in several cities have shut in support of the protesters, including in Tehran's bazaar where some set fire to a police kiosk and chased the security forces away, BBC reported.
The protests reaching the bazaar in Tehran will ring alarm bells with Iranian leaders who have counted the merchants as among their supporters.
Crimean bridge: Excitement and fear in Ukraine after bridge blast
Ukraine is exploding with excitement this morning.
Videos of the damaged Crimean bridge have spread like wildfire on social media; this is already being compared to the sinking of the Russian warship Moskva in April.
"The guided missile cruiser Moskva and the Kerch bridge - two notorious symbols of Russian power in Ukrainian Crimea - have gone down," tweeted Ukraine's ministry of defence.
"What's next in line, Russkies?" it went on.
Ukraine's inventive social media activists are gleefully pumping out memes to celebrate the occasion, BBC reported.
And Ukraine's second largest bank, Monobank, says it has already issued a new debit card design featuring the collapsed bridge.
Oleksii Danilov, Secretary of Ukraine's National Security Council, wasn't the only one noting that the attack came just a day after Vladimir Putin's 70th birthday, tweeting a video of the damaged bridge next to Marilyn Monroe's famous performance of Happy Birthday, Mr President from 1962.
The sense of excitement is palpable.
Coming on the back of weeks of mostly good news from the battlefront, where Ukrainian forces continue to take back territory seized by Russia back in February and March, the sight of the crippled, burning bridge is a massive additional boost to morale.
How was this done? Any number of theories are doing the rounds - from a Ukrainian special forces operation to the work of partisans in Crimea, a missile strike, or even a suicide bomb.
"This is a masterpiece of clandestine sabotage," a former senior British army explosives expert told me.
"A well-planned attack from below may have been the cause," he said.
Ukrainian officials are giving little away, happy to apply the same level of ambiguity that followed a mysterious attack on the Russian airbase in Crimea in August.
But the attacks on the Saky base and the bridge are all part of the same wider effort: to undermine Russia's ability to use Crimea as a launch pad for its war in southern Ukraine.
The road and railway bridges are vital links in Russia's supply chain. Without them, Moscow will find it even harder to send troops and equipment to repel Ukraine's offensive north of Kherson, according to BBC.
Kyiv is also saying to Moscow: Crimea is ours and eventually we are going to take it back.
For all the giddy delight ricocheting across social media, some Ukrainians are anxious.
People there suspect that they are being punished by Russia as Moscow lashes out after its recent military failures. They fear the coming days may bring more, BBC reported.
