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Home Minister Ramesh Lekhak has appointed Mokhtar Ahmad as Chairman of Nepal Hajj Committee. 

Ahmad is a resident of Kalyanpur Municipality-12 of Siraha district.

The Home Ministry shared the information that the minister-level decision made the appointment on Tuesday. 

The process to appoint members to the Committee is underway, it has been said.

Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli inaugurated the extended irrigation, hydropower project and transmission line under the Rani Jamara Kulariya Irrigation Project on Tuesday. 

PM Oli inaugurated the irrigation project with the capacity of irrigating 14,300 hectares of land.  Also brought to operation were the 4.71 MW hydropower project and a transmission line. 

This marks the completion of the project’s second phase and extension into the third one.

Following the completion of the second phase, the electricity generated from an irrigation canal at Katashe of Janaki Rural Municipality-9 in Kailali district has been connected with the 33 KV transmission line. 

The third phase of the project is expected to provide irrigation facilities to Bhajani, Joshipur, Bardagoriya and Ghodaghodi Rural Municipalities in the district while the second phase is catering to the irrigation needs of Tikapur, Lamkichuha and Janaki Rural Municipalities. 

Dubbing the project as one of the historic achievements in the development of Nepal's water resources and rural agriculture sector, the PM was confident that it would illustrate the country's rural life, agricultural production, self-reliance in energy and food security.

The Rani Jamara Kulariya irrigation facility started with the collective effort of local farmers, using traditional skills some 120 years ago, he reminded, attributing the evolution into the present state to the participation of local community and effective government coordination.

On the occasion, PM Oli instructed the concerned authority to expedite the national pride projects, such as Sikta, Babai, Mahakali III, Bheri-Babai and Sunkoshi Marine Multipurpose Projects for their timely completion.

The 7th meeting of Nepal-India Boundary Working Group (BWG) concluded in India by adopting updated modalities for the inspection, repair and maintenance of boundary pillars along the Nepal and India boundary.

The meeting concluded on Tuesday also agreed on the need to adopt new technologies in the domain of survey and mapping in order to make the work of the BWG and its associated mechanisms more efficient, according to a press release issued by the Foreign Ministry.

The Nepali delegation was led by Director General, Department of Survey, Prakash Joshi, and the Indian delegation by Surveyor General of India, Shri Hitesh Kumar S. Makwana.

The meeting reviewed the implementation of the outcomes of the 6th BWG meeting held in August 2019 in Dehradun as well as the progress of works of the 11th Survey Officials’ Committee (SOC) meeting held in September 2019 in Dehradun. 

The meeting concluded with the signing of agreed minutes. Both sides agreed to hold the next meeting of the Survey Officials’ Committee (SOC) in Nepal in August 2025 and the next meeting of the BWG in Nepal at a mutually convenient date.

The BWG is a joint body constituted by the Governments of Nepal and India in 2014 to carry out works in the fields of construction, restoration and repair of boundary pillars and other technical tasks.

Nepali Congress Bagmati Province Parliamentary Party leader Bahadur Lama has lost the post of Parliamentary Party leader.

Lama is also the Chief Minister of Bagmati Province.

In the vote that took place on a no-confidence motion registered against him, 15 NC provincial assembly members voted against the motion while 22 voted for it, ousting him from the post of Parliament Party leader.

The no-confidence motion was registered against him last Friday.

There are 37 provincial assembly members representing the Nepali Congress in the Bagmati Province Assembly and subsequent members of the NC Parliamentary Party.