Four members of the CPN-UML have been inducted into the Bagmati provincial government.

The CPN (Unified Socialist) has been promised leadership of two provinces in return for backing Jamkattel.

Leaders of Unified Socialist say power-sharing needs to be finalised first.

Chief Minister Jammakattel inducts CPN-UML’s Thapaliya as Minister for Economic Affairs and Planning.

Jammakattel inducted Shailendraman Bajracharya of Hamro Nepali Party in his Cabinet.

The accident occurred after a bus and a truck collided on Wednesday morning.

Police informed that they recovered 47kg of marijuana, during a security check, from a car and a motorcycle heading to Birgunj from Chitwan.

Twenty-seven of the injured passengers have been rushed to the Hetauda Hospital while the rest have been taken to the Chure Hill Hospital for treatment.

Congress provincial assembly members Bahadur Singh Lama and Tirtha Lama were sworn in as Minister for Economic Affairs and Planning and Minister for Water, Energy and Irrigation respectively.

In a voting held at the provincial assembly on Friday, Jammakattel receives 67 votes in favour of his motion.

The party left the government following a new power equation at the centre.

The injured have been taken to the Chitwan-based Bharatpur Hospital for treatment

The chief minister will seek a trust vote after the Rastriya Prajatantra Party pulled out of the government.

The move comes in the wake of a changed political equation.

Chief Minister Shalikram Jamkattel appoints eight new ministers to his Cabinet.