ACCEPTED: Resignation tendered by Omkar Prasad Shrestha, Minister for Tourism, Culture and Civil Aviation, by His Majesty the King, upon the recommendation of the Prime Minister.

HANDED OVER: The portfolio of Minister for Tourism, Culture and Civil Aviation, to Govinda Raj Joshi, Minister for Local Development, by His Majesty the King, upon the recommendation of the Prime Minister.

NOMINATED: Dr. Roop Jyoti, of Kathmandu, Mrs Yangkila Sherpa, of Solukhumbu and Mr Dipta Prakash Shah, of Dailekh, to the National Assembly, by His Majesty King Gyanendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev.

Bhuwanesh Kumar Pradhan, Harsha Man Shrestha, Surya Nath Bastola, Santa Bahadur Pun and Devi Prasad Bastola, to the National Hydropower Development Council, for two years, by the government.

FELICITATED: Litterateurs Parshu Pradhan, Amar Kumar Pradhan , Jeevan Chandra Koirala, by the Pratibha Literary Journalists Group.

LEFT: Chief of the Army Staff General Prajwalla Shumsher J.B. Rana and his wife, Mrs. Sindhu Rajya Laxmi Devi Rana, for the United Kingdom on a weeklong visit at the invitation of the Chief of Defense Staff of U.K, Admiral Sir Michael Boyce.

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