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CPN-UML Ishwor Pokharel senior Vice Chairman has been appointed the party's Acting Chair.  

He took charge of the party's Acting Chair with party Chair and Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli leaving for Thailand today on a five-day official visit including to take part in the Sixth Summit of the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral, Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) to be hosted by Thailand on April 4, according to UML Central Office secretary Dr Bhishma Adhikari. 

Pokharel was given the responsibilities of the Acting Chair in accordance with the party's Statute 2049 BS (amendment 2078 BS), it is said. 

Party Chair Oli will return home on April 5.

The former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, recognising his contributions to human rights and democratic values, The Times of India reported.

The nomination was announced by members of the Pakistan World Alliance (PWA), an advocacy organisation established in December, who are also affiliated with the Norwegian political party Partiet Sentrum.

"We are pleased to announce on behalf of Partiet Sentrum that in alliance with somebody with the right to nominate, have nominated Imran Khan, the former prime minister of Pakistan, to the Nobel Peace Prize for his work with human rights and democracy in Pakistan," Partiet Sentrum posted on X on Sunday, according to the Times of India.

Previously also, Khan received a Nobel Peace Prize nomination in 2019 for his endeavours to foster peace across South Asia.

Janata Samajbadi Party Nepal Chairman Upendra Yadav has demanded stern action against those involved in the violent activities that occurred at Tinkune, Kathmandu.

Chair Yadav made such a demand while speaking at a program organized by the Raphat Media Club, Bhaktapur on Monday. "The government must bring to book those involved in criminal and violent activities," he stressed.

Yadav reminded that every citizen has a right to express his/her views, but the March 28 demonstration leading to murder, arson and vandalism in the name of restoring monarchy was anti-democratic. The unitary system had already been abolished, thereby establishing the federal democratic republic, he said, adding that the political parties need to correct themselves so that the elements for monarchy would not rear their heads.

The leader further argued that the political parties ruling after the federal democratic republic were not delivering as per people's expectation. "The Federal government itself has obstructed the implementation of federalism," he blamed.

The decision of a French court to ban far-right leader Marine Le Pen from running in the 2027 presidential election will deepen political chaos in a country that already contends with a hung parliament and an unpopular president, Reuters reported.

And it will make it more difficult for the weak minority government led by Prime Minister François Bayrou to make the crucial decisions needed to control a ballooning public debt.

The leader of right-wing party Rassemblement National (RN) was handed on Monday a four-year prison sentence in her and her party’s trial for embezzlement, along with an interdiction to run for public office for five years.

The court found that when she was a member of the European Parliament, Le Pen and others set up a system of fake job contracts that allowed them to siphon off more than 4 million euros of European Parliament money to the RN. Le Pen is appealing the verdict, according to Reuters.

China's military on Tuesday said it had begun joint army, navy and rocket force exercises around Taiwan to "serve as a stern warning and powerful deterrent against Taiwanese independence", calling Taiwan's President Lai Ching-Te a "parasite", Reuters reported.

The exercises around the democratically governed island, which China views as its own territory and has never renounced the use of force to bring under its control, come after Lai called Beijing a "foreign hostile force" last month.

China detests Lai as a "separatist," and in a video accompanying the Eastern Theater Command's announcement depicted him as cartoon bug held by a pair of chopsticks above a burning Taiwan.

"The focus is on exercises such as combat readiness patrols at sea and in the air, seizing comprehensive control, striking maritime and land targets and imposing blockade controls on key areas and routes," the Eastern Theater Command said on its official WeChat social media account, according to Reuters.

A male tiger taken under control from Tedhuwa village of Belauri municipality-2 in Kanchanpur district will be released in the core area of the Shuklaphant National Park.

The adult wild cat was found in a wheat field on Sunday. It was later darted by a team of forest technicians and kept at the Office of Division Forest Office, Kanchanpur.

"The full grown tiger is in good health now. There is no injury either," said Chief of the District Forest Office, Ram Bichari Thakur. It would be released in a safe area of the national park. 

The forest technicians took the wild cat under control by darting with the mobilization of two elephants. Even a drone camera was used to locate the tiger in the wheat field.

The government has decided to provide 100 thousand US dollars as financial support to the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Thailand.

The meeting of the Council of Ministers held on Monday evening decided to provide the grant to AIT in view of its financial crisis and Nepal being its founding member, according to government spokesperson and Minister for Communications and Information Technology, Prithvi Subba Gurung.

Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli, who is embarking on Thailand visit this afternoon to attend the 6th summit of the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC), is also scheduled to address a programme at AIT.

PM Oli is holding an official visit to Thailand at the friendly invitation of his Thai counterpart, Paetongtarn Shinawatra.

The government has decided to recommend the President to prorogue the current session of the federal Parliament (House of Representatives and National Assembly) effective from midnight (April 1).

The meeting of the Council of Ministers held on Monday evening took a decision in this regard, according to government spokesperson and Minister for Communications and Information Technology, Prithvi Subba Gurung.

The current session of the Parliament had begun on January 31.

The President has the right to summon and prorogue the session of any or both Parliament as per Constitution.