Kathmandu, Aug. 14: Over 3,000 Bhutanese refugees in Nepal have been resettled in western countries, The Kathmandu Post reported on Thursday.

The refugees have been resettled in the United States, Denmark, Australia and other countries under the third country resettlement program.

Xinhua quoted an official at the International Office for Migration (IOM), which is playing a key role in the resettlement process, as saying that the process is continuing smoothly and as planned.

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Kathmandu, Aug 14: The Nepali Congress (NC) has decided to explore the option of reviving the alliance among the NC, the Unified Marxist Leninist (UML) and the Madhesi Janadhikar Forum (MJF).

Kathmandu, Aug 14: The Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) and the Nepali Congress (NC) are all set to file their candidacies for the election of the Prime Minister to be held on Friday in the Constituent Assembly.

Although NC, the second largest CA party, has yet to decide on its candidate, the single largest party CPN-M is now prepared to pitch Prachanda to contest for the top executive post, The Rising Nepal reported.

The parties are, nonetheless, voicing for a last ditch effort to strike consensus even till the last moment of candidacy withdrawal scheduled also for Thursday.

“Yes, there will be nomination and we will try to make it unanimous,” Prachanda told reporters when asked about file his candidacy for Prime Minister.

Kathmandu - At least 54 inmates escaped from a prison in south-eastern Nepal after taking two police officers hostage, media reports said Thursday.

The prisoners escaped from Siraha district prison, about 300 kilometres south-east of Kathmandu, Wednesday night, the Kathmandu Post newspaper reported.

The inmates took the officers hostages when they entered the cells to count prisoners, the Post quoted one of the officers, Pannalal Yadav, as saying.

Kathmandu, August 13 : With only two days to go for Nepal’s Prime Minister election by the Constituent Assembly (CA), all major political parties have stepped up their internal consultations in a bid to form a post-election government.

The major political parties of Nepal including the Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist (CPN-M), Nepali Congress (NC) and Communist Party of Nepal-Unified Marxist-Leninist
(CPN-UML) intensified talks as the filing of nominations for the Prime Ministerial candidates at the Constituent Assembly is scheduled for Thursday.