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Independent candidate Balen Shah has still been maintaining the lead in Kathmandu Metropolitan City.

According to the Election Commission, he has received 2, 139 votes as of 1 pm.

CPN-UML candidate Keshav Sthapit has garnered 1, 199 votes while Nepali Congress candidate Srijana Singh secured 1, 057 votes.

Similarly, Sunita Dangol has been leading the vote count for the post of deputy mayor.

She obtained 2, 232 votes while Nepali Congress candidate Rameshwar Shrestha of CPN (Unified Socialist) has got 647 votes and Rastriya Prajantra Party's Binita Magaiya received 540 votes.

The counting of votes has been halted in Bethanchok Rural Municipality and Temal Rural Municipality of Kavre.

The counting in Temal Rural Municipality-1 has been halted following a dispute among the representatives.

The  vote counting, which was suspended from  8 pm on Saturday, has not been resumed yet.

Bimala Regmi, election officer of Temal Rural Municipality, said that an all-party meeting has been called to resume the vote counting.

Similarly, the counting of votes has been halted in Bethanchok Rural Municipality-1 after the CPN-UML cadres chanted slogans at the polling station saying that they should be allowed to watch the CCTV cameras.

Election Officer Laxmi Prasad Regmi said that the vote counting has been halted in Bethanchok Rural Municipality.

However, the vote counting is underway in 10 rural municipalities.

Independent candidate Balen Shah has been leading the vote count in Kathmandu Metropolitan City.

Out of 5, 983 votes counted so far, Shah has received 2, 238 votes.

CPN-UML candidate Keshav Sthapit has garnered 1, 319 votes.

Similarly, Nepali Congress candidate Srijana Singh secured 1, 018 votes.

Meanwhile, deputy mayoral candidate Sunita Dangol obtained 2, 075 votes.

CPN (Unified Socialist) candidate from the ruling coalition Rameshwar Shrestha received 603 votes

The Election Commission said that 190, 170 voters have cast vote in the local level elections in Kathmandu Metropolitan City.

Five different agreements are to be signed between Nepal and India to deepen the century-old educational and cultural ties between the two countries.

Five Memorandum of Understandings (MoUs) are expected to be signed on Monday in the presence of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba during the former's visit that begins the same day, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The Indian Educational and Cultural Foundation will sign one MoU each with Lumbini Buddhist University and Tribhuvan University and three MoUs with Kathmandu University.

Lumbini Buddhist University and the Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR), Tribhuvan University Nepal and Center for Asian Studies (CNAS) and ICCR, Kathmandu University and ICCR, the KU and the Indian Institute of Technology in Chennai are scheduled to sign two other MoUs.