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Minister for Energy, Water Resources and Irrigation Kulman Ghising inspected the flood-affected areas in Jhapa this morning. 

He visited the bridges and settlements that were damaged by the Kankai and Biring rivers in Arjundhara Municipality and Jhapa Rural Municipality. 

While returning after inspecting various locations affected by landslides in Ilam, Minister Ghising also conducted a field visit of the road connecting Kalisthan from Chiyapani via Buttabari in Arjundhara Municipality and the Mangalmadi route.

Minister Ghising inspected the bridge under construction over the Kankai Mai River, along the Postal Highway section of Jhapa Rural Municipality, as well as the small bridge at Sanomai that has been affected by the rains, said Tej Prakash Prasai, the Assistant Chief District Officer of Jhapa. 

During this visit, the Minister also engaged in a brief interaction with the flood-affected residents of Jhapa Rural Municipality-2.

The CPN-UML Central Committee meeting has been postponed due to lack of preparations, said Dr Bhishma Adhikari, the party central office secretary.

Adhikari said the party Central Committee meeting will now take place from October 15 to 17 in Kathmandu. Earlier, the meeting was scheduled for October 13 to 15.

The UML central office in Chyasal, Lalitpur has been set on fire and vandalized during the Gen- Z movement.

Today's party secretariat meeting will decide the agenda for the Central Committee meeting, it is stated.

President Ram Chandra Paudel is to hold discussions with political parties represented in the dissolved House of Representatives today regarding the upcoming elections and other matters.

The consultations between President Paudel and the party leaders are taking place for the first time following the Gen-Z movement on September 8 and 9, and after the formation of a new government and the dissolution of the House of Representatives, and in the context of the announcement of the date for election to a new HoR for March 5, 2026.

According to the President's Office, the discussions will be attended by the Prime Minister Sushila Karki along with leaders next in line after the chairpersons of political parties.

The 58th secretariat meeting of the CPN-UML is taking place at party chair KP Sharma Oli's residence in Gundu at 11 am today.

According to secretary of the UML central office, Bhishma Adhikari, the meeting will discuss the agenda of the upcoming central committee meeting, as well as contemporary political affairs.

The Central committee meeting is scheduled to take place on October 13-15.