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The United Nations Resident Coordinator in Nepal Lila Pieters Yahia paid a courtesy call on Home Minister Om Prakash Aryal.

During the meeting held at the Home Ministry today, Minister Aryal thanked the UN for its continuous support in Nepal's initiatives relating to governance reform, climate change and capacity building of local levels, among others. 

He also expressed belief that the cooperation with the UN would further strengthen in the coming days. The Home Minister argued that the government had accelerated activities to institutionalize democracy by holding elections to the House of Representatives on March 5 in a free and fair environment. 

Similarly, UN Resident Coordinator Yahia enquired about expanding further cooperation and collaboration in Nepal's drug control, border security and human trafficking areas.

The collaboration with the government of Nepal would be continued, she pledged.

Nepali Congress (NC) President Gagan Kumar Thapa has expressed deep sorrow over the fatal bus accident that had occurred in the wee hours today at Bhainsegauda in Benighat Rorang Rural Municipality-5, Dhading. 

The bus (Ga 1 Kha 1421) heading towards Kathmandu from Pokhara plunged into the Trishuli River, killing 17 people and injuring 27 others. 

In a press release today, the NC President has, on his behalf and the party, extended heartfelt tributes to the deceased and condolences to the grieving families. 

He has urged the government to take all necessary arrangements so that the injured could access quality treatment. 

The party has also drawn the government's attention to the need for taking measures for addressing growing cases of road accidents lately. It wants the government to form a taskforce to find out reasons behind such accidents.

The Election Commission (EC) has urged the people's representatives of the local level not to be involved in the election publicity campaigns. 

In order to keep the free, fair, impartial, transparent, fearless and economized environment for the  March 5 House of Representatives (HoR) elections, the EC has made the plea to the locally-elected representatives. 

Citing reference to the implementation of the Election Code of Conduct, 2082 BS, the EC has reminded the responsibility of the concerned stakeholders to strictly comply with the code. 

According to the EC, it has been monitoring whether or not the political parties, candidates and concerned are fully complying with the election code of conduct. 

The commission has expressed serious concern over complaints and grievances received that some local representatives participated in the promotion of political parties and candidates contrary to the election code. 

According to the code related provisions, local executive office-bearers may participate in election campaigns of their respective political parties in local levels other than the one they were elected, yet there is a clear provision that they cannot use government resources and facilities.

The EC has cautioned the local people's representatives not to engage in poll publicity campaigns in a way to contravene the existing code.

The government has instructed all health institutions (hospitals) to provide details of those injured during the Gen-Z movement last September. 

Dr Prakash Budhathoki, Spokesperson at the Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP), shared that all health institutions involved in treating those injured during the protest have been instructed to provide complete details to the Ministry by February 27.

According to Spokesperson Dr Budhathoki, the instruction was issued in line with a coordination committee formed to make treatment and relief efforts of injured ones more effective.

The MoHA asked all the health institutions to submit the details by February 27 for timely completion of listing, classification and reclassification of the injured ones. 

Dr Budhathoki informed that the applications received by February 27 will be reviewed after which the final list of the injured persons will be published. 

So far, classification details of 200 injured persons have been received, it was shared.  

The Ministry observed that although many people were hurt during the protests, some individuals with minor injuries may not have come forward as they are not entitled to any benefits.

The government has decided to provide a monthly financial assistance of Rs 9,000 to those classified as critically injured and seriously injured and Rs 4,000 to those with moderate injuries.

According to the Ministry’s data, a total of 2,599 people had sustained injuries during the Gen-Z movement that took place on September 8 and 9 in 2025.