UML’s Karki elected HoR member from Sankhuwasabha
Dr Arjun Kumar Karki of CPN-UML was declared the winner in the House of Representatives (HoR) election from Sankhuwasabha district.
As per the results announced last night, Karki won the HoR seat by getting 15,663 votes against his nearest rival Mingma Sherpa.
Sherpa of Rastriya Swatantra Party bagged 15,000 votes in the election, according to the Office of the Returning Officer.
Of the total 119,630 voters in the district, 63,634 voters cast their votes in the March 5 HoR election.
RSP leads PR vote count with huge margin
The counting of votes cast under the proportional representation (PR) system for the House of Representatives (HoR) elections is underway.
As of 7:46 am today, the Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP), which has so far won 125 seats, is also leading in the PR vote counts with a wide margin.
Out of 10,297,497 votes counted so far, the party has secured 4,951,964 votes.
Similarly, the Nepali Congress (NC) has achieved 1,674,940 votes while the CPN-UML garnered 1,390,293 and the Nepali Communist Party got 753,082.
The Shram Sanskriti Party has collected 348,159 and the Rastriya Prajatantra Party achieved 322,604 votes.
As per the EC updates, the Janata Samajwadi Party Nepal secured 169,447 votes, the Rastriya Pariwartan Party 165,069 and the Janamat Party has achieved 75,486 votes.
Towards the direct electoral counts, the NC has been elected in 18 seats, UML in nine, NCP in eight, Shram Sanskriti in three, RPP and an independent candidate one each.
MLS bans Jones, Yeboah for life after gambling investigation
Major League Soccer has handed lifetime bans to midfielder Derrick Jones and winger Yaw Yeboah for violating its gambling policy, the league announced on Monday, Reuters reported.
Jones, 29, played 23 games for Columbus ‌Crew in 2024 and 2025, while 28-year-old Yeboah was his teammate before joining Los Angeles FC in January 2025 after three seasons at the Crew.
Suspicious betting alerts were investigated by the MLS who said the two players engaged in extensive gambling on matches, including on their own teams, during the 2024 and 2025 seasons, according to Reuters.
US missile hit military base near Iran school, video analysis shows
A US Tomahawk missile hit a military base near a primary school in southern Iran where Iranian authorities said 168 people, including around 110 children, were killed, expert video analysis shows, BBC reported.
A video published yesterday by Iran's semi-official Mehr news agency, which BBC Verify has confirmed as authentic, shows a missile moments before it struck an Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) base next to the Shajareh Tayebeh primary school in Minab.
BBC Verify has previously established through satellite imagery, verified videos and expert analysis that the area near the school was hit by a series of strikes, according to BBC.
