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Dr Arjun Kumar Karki of CPN-UML was declared the winner in the House of Representatives (HoR) election from Sankhuwasabha district. 

As per the results announced last night, Karki won the HoR seat by getting 15,663 votes against his nearest rival Mingma Sherpa. 

Sherpa of Rastriya Swatantra Party bagged 15,000 votes in the election, according to the Office of the Returning Officer.

Of the total 119,630 voters in the district, 63,634 voters cast their votes in the March 5 HoR election.

Nepali Communist Party (NCP) Matrika Prasad Yadav has won the election to the House of Representatives (HoR) from Dhanusha 1. 

According to the Election Commission (EC), Yadav won the seat by securing 10,428 votes, while his nearest rival Rampaltan Sah of Nepali Congress obtained 9,485 votes. 

Ram Chandra Mandal of CPN-UML secured 9,220 votes in the HoR election held on March 5. 

The result of Dhanusha-1 was announced on Monday after a meeting of the EC directed the Office of the Returning Officer for the same. 

Earlier, the EC had scrapped the candidacy of Kishori Sah, the candidate of Rastriya Swatantra Party, for being on a blacklist. 

The case is in the Supreme Court (SC) now. 

The SC on Monday directed the EC to appear on March 10 with the file regarding the cancellation of Sah's candidacy.

France is deploying about a dozen naval vessels, including its aircraft ‌carrier strike group, to the Mediterranean, Red Sea and potentially the Strait of Hormuz as part of defensive support to allies threatened by the conflict in the Middle East, Reuters reported. 

Speaking in Cyprus before visiting the Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier, which arrived this weekend in ​the eastern Mediterranean, President Emmanuel Macron sought to reassure his Cypriot counterpart after drones were intercepted heading ​towards the island last week.

"When Cyprus is attacked, then Europe is attacked," Macron said ⁠after meeting with President Nikos Christodoulides and Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis in Paphos, according to Reuters. 

U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday predicted the war in the Middle East could be over soon, even as Iran's hardliners staged a show of loyalty to new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei in a sign that it was not prepared to back down any time soon, Reuters reported. 

The ​conflicting signals sent markets on a rollercoaster, with oil prices surging and stock markets nosediving before swinging in the other direction after Trump's comments and reports of a possible ease in sanctions on Russian energy.

Khamenei, ‌56, a Shi'ite cleric with a power base among the security forces and their vast business empire, has been declared unacceptable by Trump, who has demanded Iran's unconditional surrender, according to Reuters. 

Iran is wagering it can outlast the United States and Israel--not militarily, but by grinding the war into a brutal contest of endurance. Its strategy is stark: Unleash drones and missiles, cut vital energy routes and jolt global markets hard enough ​to force Washington to blink first, Reuters reported. 

Despite the shock of the U.S.–Israeli strikes and the loss of key figures, the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC)--long the ultimate guardian of the Islamic Republic -- is firmly ‌in control, directing the battlefield, executing pre-planned contingencies and dictating strategy and targets in the war.

The IRGC also played the decisive role in elevating Mojtaba Khamenei as supreme leader after Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed in the opening U.S.–Israeli strikes, according to Reuters.

A US Tomahawk missile hit a military base near a primary school in southern Iran where Iranian authorities said 168 people, including around 110 children, were killed, expert video analysis shows, BBC reported. 

A video published yesterday by Iran's semi-official Mehr news agency, which BBC Verify has confirmed as authentic, shows a missile moments before it struck an Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) base next to the Shajareh Tayebeh primary school in Minab.

BBC Verify has previously established through satellite imagery, verified videos and expert analysis that the area near the school was hit by a series of strikes, according to BBC. 

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi held  telephone conversations with Rastriya Swatantra Party President Rabi Lamichhane and senior leader Balendra Shah on Monday. 

On the occasion, he congratulated both leaders on their electoral victories and RSP’s resounding success in the Nepal elections. 

Furthermore, he conveyed his best wishes for the forthcoming new Government and India's commitment to work with them for mutual prosperity, progress and well-being of our two countries. 

“I am confident that with our joint endeavours, India and Nepal relations will scale new heights in the years ahead,” he said. 

In the House of Representatives election held on March 5, Kathmandu, the district with the highest literacy rate, recorded 8,197 invalid votes. 

Thakur Prasad Bhattarai, the District Election Officer in Kathmandu, reported that 1,226 votes were annulled in Kathmandu-10, which has 83,301 registered voters. Out of the 60,441 votes cast in this constituency, 59,215 were deemed valid. 

In Constituency-9, a total of 933 votes were invalid, with 52,740 votes cast from a total of 78,495 voters, resulting in 51,807 valid votes. 

In Constituency-8, 623 votes were invalid, with a total of 57,811 voters. From 54,794 votes cast, only 37,171 were valid. Constituency No. 7 saw 805 votes rejected, with 44,857 votes cast from a total of 68,685 voters, leading to 44,052 valid votes. 

In Constituency-6, 811 votes were invalid, with 45,248 votes cast from a total of 67,759 voters, resulting in 44,437 valid votes, as per the District Election Office in Kathmandu. 

Constituency-5 had 902 rejected votes, with 51,969 votes cast from a total of 78,114 voters, yielding 51,067 valid votes. 

In Constituency-4, 862 votes were invalid, with 50,963 votes cast from a total of 76,251 voters, resulting in 50,101 valid votes. 

Constituency-3 had 940 rejected votes, with 44,190 votes cast from a total of 64,479 voters, leading to 43,250 valid votes. 

In Constituency-2, 1,095 votes were invalid, with 59,441 votes cast from a total of 88,708 voters, resulting in 58,346 valid votes. 

Finally, in Constituency-1, 434 votes were invalid, with 32,314 votes cast from a total of 55,292 voters, yielding 31,880 valid votes. 

The commission has declared that it will release information on Tuesday, following the tallying of all votes, concerning the overall count of invalid votes nationwide. 

According to the most recent data, it is projected that three to four percent of the votes were invalid, commission's deputy spokesperson Kul Bahadur GC told Rastriya Samachar Samiti.  

He also mentioned that by this evening, a total of 9,523,000 votes under the proportional system have been counted.