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The Supreme Court (SC) is hearing the writ petitions filed against President of the Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP), Rabi Lamichhane, on money laundering and organized crime charges on Monday, as the case could not be completed on Sunday. 

A division bench of Justices Saranga Subedi and Sunil Kumar Pokharel would continue hearing on the petitions. 

Prior to this, a division bench of Justices Sapana Pradhan Malla and Shreekant Poudel had ordered that the petitions be presented for the hearing on Sunday.

Attorney General Sabita Bhandari had on January 14 decided to withdraw the case at a time when the case was under consideration in the SC. 

The writ petitions were filed against the decision of the Office of the Attorney General to withdraw the case related to the organized crime and money laundering charges.

Senior Advocate Dinesh Tripathi, advocates Yubaraj Paudel and Avash Regmi had filed separate writ petitions at the SC against the decision of the Attorney General.

The Nepali Congress (NC) has finalized the names from among the list of proportional representation candidates for the House of Representatives members. Among them, 15 candidates are women.

The meeting of the NC Central Working Committee convened today recommended the names of six candidates each from the indigenous communities and Khas Arya categories. 

Likewise, one each candidate has been selected from the Tharu, Dalit, Madheshi, Muslim and backward region categories. 

The meeting also decided to send three more names under the designated cluster to the Election Commission, said party Spokesperson Devraj Chalise. 

The candidates were chosen from the party's previously submitted closed list for the PR system. 

"We have finalized the names of the candidates based on the 20 seats secured by our party for the PR. We have altogether 62 seats in both the National Assembly and House of Representatives combined, out of which, 21 seats are reserved for women. So far, we have submitted a list that includes 15 women," explained Spokesperson Chalise.

If there is any issue in the cluster categories, the party will make necessary changes in line with the Election Commission's instruction, he reminded.

The meeting was chaired by party President Gagan Kumar Thapa and attended by Vice-Presidents Bishwa Prakash Sharma and Pushpa Bhuasal, General-Secretaries Pradeep Poudel and Gururaj Ghimire among others. 

The Shram Sanskriti Party has submitted the names of four candidates to the Election Commission (EC) under the proportional representation (PR) system.  

The party has secured four seats in the House of Representatives (HoR) elections under the PR system by crossing the threshold of three percent.

The party's vice chairman Loknath Chudal said that Rubi Kumari Thakur was chosen from the Madheshi women's cluster, Radhika Ramtel under Dalit women, Ambika Devi Sangraula Khadka from Khas Arya women and Purna Prasad Limbu from Adibasi Janajati cluster.  

The Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP), Nepali Congress (NC), CPN-UML, Nepali Communist Party and Rastriya Prajatantra Party also submitted the names of their candidates to the EC under the PR system for crossing the threshold of three percent of total votes.

The Rastriya Prajatantra Party (RPP) has recommended four people for the House of Representatives (HoR) Member under the proportional representation electoral system.

Party spokesperson Mohan Kumar Shrestha said that today's meeting of the party's central executive committee recommended Bharat Giri (Khas Arya male) from Mahottari, Tahir Ali (Muslim male) from Rupandehi, Khusbu Oli (Khas Arya female) from Jhapa, and Saraswati Lama (Indigenous female) from Dhading as the HoR members.

A central secretariat meeting of the Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) has finalized the names of 57 lawmakers for proportional representation to the House of Representatives. 

The RSP would submit the list of PR lawmakers to the Election Commission today itself.

The meeting recommended the names of 17 lawmakers for the Khas Arya cluster, 16 lawmakers for the indigenous nationalities cluster, three lawmakers for the Muslim cluster, eight lawmakers for the Dalit cluster and four lawmakers for the Tharu cluster, said party Spokesperson Manish Jha. 

The Nepal Stock Exchange (NEPSE) surged by 4. 45 points to close at 2, 824. 90 points on Sunday. 

Similarly, the sensitive index dropped by 0. 41 points to close at 486. 80 points.

A total of 39,549,033-unit shares of 350 companies were traded for Rs 1. 62 billion.

Meanwhile, Solu Hydropower Limited (SOHL) was the top gainer today with its price surging by 10. 00 percent.

Similarly, Daramkhola Hydro Energy Limited (DHEL) was the top loser as its price fell by 10. 00 points. 

At the end of the day, the total market capitalization stood at Rs 4. 75 trillion.

Prime Minister Sushila Karki has extended heartfelt condolences to the CPN-UML Chair KP Sharma Oli and his family members on the demise of his father.

PM Karki visited the former Prime Minister Oli's residence at Gundu, Bhaktapur to convey her condolences to him.

Chair Oli's father, Mohan Prasad Oli, passed away on March 13 at the age of 97.

Protesters in Cuba have ransacked a Communist Party building following a rally over steep food prices and persistent power cuts, in a rare show of public dissent, BBC reported. 

Five people were arrested after a small group vandalised the offices in the central city of Moron overnight into Saturday, Cuba's Interior Ministry (Minint) said.

Discontent among Cubans has been mounting as the island is buffeted by rolling blackouts and shortages of food, fuel and medicine, exacerbated by a prolonged US oil blockade, according to BBC.