Kathmandu: Lumbini Province Assembly Member Sarita Pun passed away on Saturday. A permanent resident of Taksera in Rukum Purba district, Pun died while receiving treatment at the Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital in Kathmandu. According to National News Agency Nepal, Pun was elected as a province assembly member from the CPN

Kathmandu: CPN (UML) chair KP Sharma Oli has assigned the responsibility of acting chair to party’s senior vice-chair Ishwar Pokhrel. Pokhrel has been designated as the acting chair of the party after Prime Minister and party chair Oli left for Tianjin, China this morning to participate in the Shanghai Cooperation