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Ruling coalition mayoral candidate Renu Dahal is leading the vote count in Bharatpur Metropolitan City.

Out of 4, 877 votes counted so far, Dahal secured 1, 727 votes.

Her closest contender Bijay Subedi of CPN-UML received 1, 647 votes.

Dahal and Subedi has a difference of 80 votes. 

Independent candidate Jagannath Paudel received 470 votes. 

Similarly, Nepali Congress deputy mayoral candidate Chitrasen Adhikari got 1, 895 votes and her contender Himala Gurung of Rastriya Prajantra Party garnered 1, 333 votes.

Nepal Majdoor Kisan Party mayoral candidate Sunil Prajapati has been leading the vote count in Bhaktapur.

Out of 16, 038 votes counted so far, Prajapati has secured 8, 566 votes.

His closest contender Nepali Congress candidate Ram Prasad Kasula has obtained 1, 806 votes, CPN-UML candidate Rabindra Lachimasyu and CPN (Maoist Centre) candidate Tulsibhakta Suwal garnered 1, 154 and 329 votes respectively.

Likewise, independent candidate Satyaram Twayena secured 1, 225 votes.

Independent candidate Balen Shah has still been maintaining the lead in Kathmandu Metropolitan City.

According to the Election Commission, he has received 2, 139 votes as of 1 pm.

CPN-UML candidate Keshav Sthapit has garnered 1, 199 votes while Nepali Congress candidate Srijana Singh secured 1, 057 votes.

Similarly, Sunita Dangol has been leading the vote count for the post of deputy mayor.

She obtained 2, 232 votes while Nepali Congress candidate Rameshwar Shrestha of CPN (Unified Socialist) has got 647 votes and Rastriya Prajantra Party's Binita Magaiya received 540 votes.

A white 18-year-old wearing military gear and livestreaming with a helmet camera opened fire with a rifle at a supermarket in Buffalo, killing 10 people and wounding three others Saturday in what authorities described as “racially motivated violent extremism.”

Police said he shot 11 Black and two white victims before surrendering to authorities in a rampage he broadcast live on the streaming platform Twitch, Associated Press reported.

Later, he appeared before a judge in a paper medical gown and was arraigned on a murder charge.

“It is my sincere hope that this individual, this white supremacist who just perpetrated a hate crime on an innocent community, will spend the rest of his days behind bars. And heaven help him in the next world as well,” said Gov. Kathy Hochul, speaking near the scene of the attack.

The massacre sent shockwaves through an unsettled nation gripped with racial tensions, gun violence and a spate of hate crimes. In the day prior to the shooting, Dallas police said they were investigating a series of shootings in Koreatown as hate crimes. The Buffalo attack came just one month after another mass shooting on a Brooklyn subway train wounded 10 people.

The suspected gunman in Saturday’s attack on Tops Friendly Market was identified as Payton Gendron, of Conklin, New York, about 200 miles (320 kilometers) southeast of Buffalo.

It wasn’t immediately clear why Payton had traveled to Buffalo and that particular grocery store. A clip apparently from his Twitch feed, posted on social media, showed Gendron arriving at the supermarket in his car, according to the Associated Press.

The gunman shot four people outside the store, three fatally, said Buffalo Police Commissioner Joseph Gramaglia. Inside the store, security guard Aaron Salter, a retired Buffalo police officer, fired multiple shots. A bullet hit the gunman’s bulletproof armor but had no effect, Gramaglia said.

The gunman then killed the guard, the commissioner said, then stalked through the store shooting other victims.

Police entered the store and confronted the gunman in the vestibule. He put his rifle to his own neck, but two officers talked him into dropping the gun, Gramaglia said.

“This is the worst nightmare that any community can face, and we are hurting and we are seething right now,” Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown said at the news conference. “The depth of pain that families are feeling and that all of us are feeling right now cannot even be explained.”

Twitch said in a statement that it ended Gendron’s transmission “less than two minutes after the violence started.”

A law enforcement official told The Associated Press that investigators were looking into whether he had posted a manifesto online. The official was not permitted to speak publicly on the matter and did so on the condition of anonymity, Associated Press reported.

Buffalo police declined to comment on the document, circulated widely online, that purports to outline the attacker’s racist, anti-immigrant and antisemitic beliefs, including a desire to drive all people not of European descent from the US It said he drew inspiration the man who killed 51 people at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, in 2019.

The European Union and the Clean up Nepal in the framework of Europe Week 2022 jointly organized the Shivapuri Clean-up Campaign on May 14.

As many as 130 people took part in the clean-up campaign.

The campaign was organized to highlight littering and waste dumping as a harmful practice.

Nona Dreprez, the European Union Ambassador to Nepal, also joined the campaign. 

The participants started the campaign from the National Park's gate no. 3-hiking routes, Nagi gumba, Bishnu dwar and Shivapuri peak to collect 153 kg of waste. 

The volunteers also sensitized 165 National Park visitors to bring back their waste with them with the slogan “Take memories, leave nothing but footprints”.

The waste audit conducted after the collection showed15 kg of paper box, 23 kg of glass bottles, 40 kg of PET bottles and 75 kg of plastic wrappers collectedfrom the hiking routes.

The counting of votes has been halted in Bethanchok Rural Municipality and Temal Rural Municipality of Kavre.

The counting in Temal Rural Municipality-1 has been halted following a dispute among the representatives.

The  vote counting, which was suspended from  8 pm on Saturday, has not been resumed yet.

Bimala Regmi, election officer of Temal Rural Municipality, said that an all-party meeting has been called to resume the vote counting.

Similarly, the counting of votes has been halted in Bethanchok Rural Municipality-1 after the CPN-UML cadres chanted slogans at the polling station saying that they should be allowed to watch the CCTV cameras.

Election Officer Laxmi Prasad Regmi said that the vote counting has been halted in Bethanchok Rural Municipality.

However, the vote counting is underway in 10 rural municipalities.

Independent candidate Balen Shah has been leading the vote count in Kathmandu Metropolitan City.

Out of 5, 983 votes counted so far, Shah has received 2, 238 votes.

CPN-UML candidate Keshav Sthapit has garnered 1, 319 votes.

Similarly, Nepali Congress candidate Srijana Singh secured 1, 018 votes.

Meanwhile, deputy mayoral candidate Sunita Dangol obtained 2, 075 votes.

CPN (Unified Socialist) candidate from the ruling coalition Rameshwar Shrestha received 603 votes

The Election Commission said that 190, 170 voters have cast vote in the local level elections in Kathmandu Metropolitan City.

Nepali Congress is leading the vote count in Dharan Sub-Metropolitan City.

NC mayoral candidate Kishor Rai has secured 1, 489 votes.

Similarly, independent candidate Harka Sampang has received 1, 028 votes while CPN-UML candidate Manju Bhandari has got 789 votes.

Likewise, Aiendra Bikram Begha, a deputy mayoral candidate from the ruling coalition, is in the fore front with 603 votes while UML candidate Padam Limbu has garnered 134 votes.