Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal's wife Sita Dahal will be creamated with state honors.

An emergency Cabinet meeting held on Wednesday made the decision to this effect, government spokesperson Rekha Sharma said.

Prime Minister Dahal’s wife Sita Dahal passed away on Wednesday.

She breathed her last during the course of treatment at the Norvic Hospital at 8: 33 am today, the hospital said.

Issuing a statement on Wednesday, Dr Yuva Raj Sharma said that she died at the age of 69.

Dahal was taken to the hospital this morning after her condition became serious.

She was suffering from progressive supranuclear palsy, an uncommon brain disorder that causes serious problems with walking, Diabetes Mellitus-II and Hypertension for a long time.

The Central Working Committee (CWC) meeting of the Nepali Congress scheduled to start from today has been postponed.

Party General Secretary Gagan Thapa said that the office bearers and the Central Committee meeting called for today has been postponed following the death of wife of Prime Minister and CPN (Maoist Center) Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal.

Dahal’s wife Sita Dahal passed away on Wednesday. She was 69.

She breathed her last during the course of treatment at the Norvic Hospital at 8: 33 am today, the hospital said.

Dahal’s last rites will be performed at Pashupati Aryaghat at 2 pm today, PM Dahal’s Secretariat said.

Her body will be kept at the party central office Parisdanda, Koteshwar from 11 am to 1 pm to pay the final tributes, the Secretariat said.

Preparations are underway to call the meeting for July 18, the party said.  But the official announcement is yet to be made.

The meeting was called at the party central office in Sanepa from today after a year to discuss the issue of the party's policy general convention.

Prior to the Central Committee meeting, party President Sher Bahadur Deuba had called an office bearers and former office bearers’ meeting at his residence in Dhumbarahi at 9 am today.

The meeting of the National Assembly scheduled for today has been postponed for tomorrow.

The meeting scheduled for 11.01 am today has been postponed for Thursday due to a special reason, according to the Federal Parliament Secretariat.

The next meeting has been scheduled for 11.01 am on Thursday, Secretariat Deputy Spokesperson Dasharath Dhamala said.

Two more persons have been arrested in connection with the Lalita Niwas land grab case.

According to Central Investigation Bureau of Nepal Police, the then Nayab Subba of Land Revenue Office Yog Raj Paudel and Kharidar Narayan Das Mishra were apprehended from Kathmandu on Tuesday.

A source at the CIB said that police have found evidence that some former secretaries, incumbent secretaries and former ministers are also involved in this case.

With the issuance of arrest warrants against 406 people involved in the Lalita Niwas land grab case, police have started detaining high-ranking officials.

So far, police have nabbed 15 people in the Lalita Niwas case. Among them, 12 are in custody and three have already been released.

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The arrestees have been identified as Bhatbhateni Supermarket Chairman Min Bahadur Gurung, former officer at the Summer Jung Company Ramesh Kumar Pokharel, Dev Narayan Maharjan, Babu Raj Maharjan, Ghaman Kumar Karki, Shivaji Bhattarai, former election office Sudhir Kumar Shah, Dharma Prasad Gautam and Gopal Karki.

Communications Secretary Krishna Bahadur Raut, Dhruba Prasad Aryal and Lokhari Ghimire were arrested on Sunday.

Nine persons including former election commissioner Shah and Bhatbhateni Supermarket Chairman Gurung are being investigated by keeping them in custody.

Land Revenue Officer Surendra Man Kapali, then then chief at the Land Revenue Office, Dillibazaar Kaladhar Deuja and Hupendra Mani KC involved in the case were released earlier.