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The Ambassadors Club Nepal honoured United Nations Resident Coordinator to Nepal, Hanaa Singer-Hamdy, with the ‘Recognition Award 2025’ at a special ceremony organized at its office premises in Bishalnagar on Monday.

Ambassadors Club Nepal President Amb. Dr. Sarmila Parajuli Dhakal, announced the award to Hanaa.

“In recognition of her (Hanaa’s) distinguished leadership, dedicated service, and lasting contribution to Nepal’s development journey, the Ambassadors Club Nepal will present the Recognition Award 2025 to Her Excellency Hanaa Singer-Hamdy,” President Dhakal added, who is also a former ambassador to Spain and Oman.

Pushkar Sapkota, Law and Human Rights Secretary at the Office of the Prime Minister and Council of Ministers, presented the award to Hanaa on behalf of the Ambassadors Club.

After receiving the award, UNRC-Nepal Hanaa thanked the Ambassadors Club Nepal and President Amb. Dr. Parajuli. 

“Thank you very much for honouring me. This is amazing—what you’ve done, always so graceful and always so appreciative,” Hanaa said.

Hanaa further added, “Nepal for me is my Maitighar (mother’s home). I have been coming to Nepal since 1997. I have visited Nepal around seven or eight times, and I have lived and worked in Nepal for around six years. I have travelled to over 54 districts, and I have been overwhelmed by emotions.” 

She further said that  she will always come back to Nepal because there is a kind of magic found only here—and a big part of that magic is the people.

Ambassadors, diplomats, Government of Nepal officials, officials from other diplomatic missions, and leaders of the private sector were also present on the occasion. 

Rastriya Prajatantra Party (RPP) Chairman Rajendra Prasad Lingden filed his candidacy from Jhapa 3 for the House of Representatives elections scheduled for March 5.

Chairman Lingden registered  his candidacy after reaching the Chief Election Officer's office at the District Coordination Committee Office  in Bhadrapur.

Australia's lower house of parliament has voted in favour of a national gun buyback programme, firearms and hate speech reforms, a month after the deadly shooting at Bondi Beach, BBC reported. 

Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke said the gunmen would not have legally had access to firearms if had such legislation was in place prior to the attack. 

The individuals who killed 15 people on 14 December had "hate in their hearts and guns in their hands," Burke told parliament, according to BBC. 

Four former Prime Ministers are in the race for the elections to the House of Representatives scheduled for March 5.

In this connection, CPN-UML Chairman and former Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli is filing his candidacy from Jhapa constituency-5.

Similarly, coordinator of the Nepali Communist Party and former Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal  and joint-coordinator of the same party and former Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal have been making preparations to file their candidacies from Rukum (East) constituency-1 and Rautahat constituency-1 respectively.

Likewise, patron of the Pragatisheel Loktantrik Party and former Prime Minister Dr Baburam Bhattarai is filing his candidacy from Gorkha constituency-2.

Earlier in the election held in 2079 BS, UML Chair Oli was elected from Jhapa-5, NCP Coordinator Dahal from Gorkha-2 and NCP joint-coordinator Nepal from Rautahat-1.  Former Prime Minister Dr Bhattarai had supported the NCP coordinator Dahal in the 2079 BS election.

However, Nepali Congress former President and former Prime Minister, Sher Bahadur Deuba, who had been winning election continuously from Dadeldhura since 2048 BS, is not in the election race. 

He is out of the election race this time due to circumstances that surfaced following the party's special general convention.

Nominations are being filed in all 165 constituencies across the country today for the first-past-the-post election (FPTP) scheduled for March 5.