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CPN (Maoist Center) has re-elected Pushpa Kamal Dahal Prachanda as a party Chairman. Prachanda is at the helm of the party leadership for 40 years.

Party’s Central Committee meeting that took place on January 3 in Kathmandu elected Prachanda as party chairman. Party’s 8th General Convention selected the party’s Central Committee which is mandated to elect officer bearer including party chair.

 In the CC meeting, Maoist leaders Narayan Kaji Shrestha and Krishna Bahadur Mahara had proposed Prachanda as a party chair which was unanimously endorsed.   "I am shouldering a huge responsibility, it is equally challenging as well," said Prachanda after being re-elected. 

The first Australian Education Fair of 2022 is being held in Kathmandu tomorrow with the theme “Study in Australia”.

The fair is being organized from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm at Everest Hotel in New Baneshwor, said fair organizer Nova Education & Consulting Services. Australian Ambassador to Nepal Felicity Volk will inaugurate the study fair.

“This year’s Australian Educational Fair will be attended by thousands of students studying in grades 11 and 12 as well as Bachelors- and Masters-level students,” said Nova Education’s Executive Director Raman Koirala.

The fair will feature colleges and universities from Australia, NMB Bank as an educational loan provider from Nepal, IDP IELTS as an IELTS partner, and Allianz Partners as an educational insurance partner, among 15 different institutions attending the education fair.

The fair will also provide information on scholarships, post-study work, and regional campuses to students. One hundred participants will receive free IELTS or PTE classes, and one lucky winner will receive free airfare to Australia, said the organizer.

According to the organizers, students will be able to get free educational counseling at the fair and will be provided with many gifts as well as scholarships. Interdiction Trade Show Nepal is managing the event.

The CPN (Maoist Center) has concluded its 8th General Convention selecting 236 Central Committee(CC) members.

The closed session of the party endorsed the names proposed by Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal Prachanda. The size of CC is 299 and Prachanda will nominate the rest of the CC members.

The Central Committee will select the party’s 15-member office bearer on Monday. A week-long convention of the party endorsed a political document tabled by Prachanda. 

Santosh Shah was crowned winner of BBC’s MasterChef: The Professionals Rematch special in scenes that aired tonight after he lost out on the title in 2020. 

The 34-year-old chef, who was dubbed the ‘people’s champion’ in last year’s series, wowed judges Marcus Wareing, Monica Galetti, and Gregg Wallace with his Nepalese cuisine, according to the news report.

Santosh stepped back into the kitchen along with fellow finalists Philli Armitage-Mattin and Bart van der Lee, who appeared on last year’s series, and Jamie Park, who reached the final in 2017.

Speaking to media he said, “I was so delighted to be invited back into the MasterChef kitchen to cook again, and had so much fun being reunited with Bart, Philli, and Jamie from the 2017 series.”