The UCPN (Maoist) has reiterated that the directly elected president would be the chief executive of the nation, Maoist spokesperson Dina Nath Sharma informed after the party Central Committee (CC) meeting.
A CC meeting of the party held at the party headquarters in Paris Danda on Wednesday endorsed the agreement signed between the major three political parties the previous day. The Maoists meet, which was boycotted by the party’s hard-line faction led by senior Vice Chairman Mohan Baidya, dubbed the agreement as “pro-people.”

Sharma further informed that the party meeting has refuted the media reports that stated that the prime minister elected through the parliament would be the chief executive of the government.

However, the party meeting remarked that various changes have been made in the state-restructuring map published by various newspapers has changed.

“The state-restructuring would be carried out on the basis of identity and capacity as per the proposal of Constitutional Committee,” Sharama told the reporters.

Three major parties on Tuesday signed an agreement on the major two contentious issues of constitution drafting—forms of governance and state restructuring—and reiterated their commitment to bring out the new constitution before May 27.

After 11 days of speculating about the cause of the Seti flash flood, a team including geologists has concluded that the tragedy was triggered by landslips.
The nine-member team of geologists and representatives of Trekking Agents Association of Nepal, Nepal Police, Nepal Army and local people has returned after studying the landslide site since May 9.
The team has stated that a mass of soil and other particles deposited by old glaciers near the big glacier of Mt Annapurna IV pushed a hillock ranging in altitude from 4,200 meters to 4,500 meters, triggering a number of landslides.
“It seems that a small avalanche opened a series of landslips, triggering the tragedy,” said a geology department faculty at Prithivi Narayan Campus, Pokhara.
The team reasoned that the hillock fell as it could not withstand the pressure of snowfall and rain-soaked terrain. “Parts of the hillock still remain there, but it is not sure whether they will slip further,” said team coordinator Krishna KC.

A higher secondary school in Baglung district has been accused of misappropriating scholarship funds.
Devisthan Higher Secondary School situated at Devisthan was supposed to provide the scholarship funds released by the government to poor and intelligent students. However, even 11 months after the Department of Education released money the school has not done anything except facing mounting criticism over reported irregularity. Twenty two students are entitled to receive Rs 3,000 each per year.
The students who deserve scholarship are have a tough time purchasing educational materials such as text books and other stationery.
“We have not received the scholarship money for the past one year. My mother herself bought me textbooks,” said a tenth grader, Jita Pun.
She said the head teacher did not heed their requests for funds.  Padam Bahadur Thapa, accountant at the District Education Office, said his office releases Rs 66,000 per year to 22 students of Devisthan School. He, however, said the school has not sent details of scholarship distribution yet.
District officials have also heard of complaints of irregularity while distributing scholarship funds at Gynendra Secondary School and Janajagrit Secondary School, he said.