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Locals of Mahagadhimai Municipality, Bara burnt the effigy of Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal on Friday. Hundreds of locals burnt the effigy of the prime minister saying that the government did not show interest even when the services at the municipality were affected for four months due to the absence of a chief administrative officer. When the locals started chanting slogans by burning the effigy of Prime Minister Dahal, a team of Nepal Police and Armed Police Force personnel put off the fire. Locals also demanded the resignation of Federal Affairs and General Administration Minister Aman Lal Modi. They shouted slogans saying that the minister, who could not send a chief administrative officer, should resign immediately. At least 658 workers including municipality staffers, teachers and health workers have not got their salaries for four months and the municipality’s projects have also been affected in the absence of a chief administrative officer. Mahagadhimai Municipality Chief Upendra Prasad Yadav is currently in Kathmandu to demand a chief administrative officer.  

Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal has said that his government was advancing firmly for the strengthening of the republic and implementation of the Constitution by according top priority for social justice, good governance and prosperity. In a message of Ubhauli Parva of Kirant community today, the PM said that progressive implementation of the rights ensured in the Constitution is the key responsibility of the time and has expressed the confidence that the entire community's support will be there in the government's efforts to establish people's rights. Saying that Ubhauli Parva which came into existence with the entry of civilization in the agricultural era, the PM said that this festival is more inspiring for the agricultural country like Nepal. The PM has added that Ubhauli Parva is being institutionalized as a common festival to all Nepalis, along with the Kirant community, having ideas on productions. Likewise, PM Dahal has wished for happiness, peace, long life and prosperity to all Nepalis along with the Kirant community at home and abroad.

Nepal has signed diplomatic ties with Nauru on Thursday. The Permanent Representative of Nepal to the United Nations in New York, Amrit Rai, and the Permanent Representative of Nauru Ambassador Margo Deiye signed a joint communique in New York, establishing the diplomatic relations between the two countries, according to Nepal's Mission to the UN in New York. With this, the number of countries having diplomatic ties with Nepal reached 179. The ambassadors of both the countries have shared this information to the UN Secretary-General, it has been learnt. The ambassadors of the two countries have expressed their commitment to enhancing cooperation in international forums, work in development aspirations and deepen people to people ties. Nauru is a country in the northeast of Australia near the Pacific Ocean and had gotten the status of an independent nation in 1968.  

Newly appointed ministers took oath of office and secrecy on Thursday. President Ram Chandra Paudel administered the oath of office and secrecy to the newly appointed ministers amidst a program organized in Sheetal Niwas this afternoon. Dhan Raj Gurung was appointed as the Minister for Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs, Mohan Bahadur Basnet as Minister for Health and Population and Dig Bahadur Limbu as Minister for Youth and Sports. President Paudel appointed the trio as ministers on the recommendation of Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal. All the three newly appointed ministers are the lawmakers elected from the Nepali Congress.