APPOINTED: Victory Shumsher Rana, as the Royal Nepalese Ambassador to the Union of Myanmar, and Hiranyalal Shrestha, as the Royal Nepalese Ambassador to the Russian Federation, by His Majesty the King, in accordance with the constitution of the Kingdom of Nepal 1990.

AWARDED: Bam Kumari Budha , with the 'Sangharshashil Nari Puraskar, Raamesh, with the 'Parijat Kala Puraskar, and Sudha Tripathi, with the 'Parijat Srijan Award' for this year, by Parijat Memorial Center.

ESTABLISHED : Shreedhar National Journalism Award, a journalism award fund carrying annual cash grant of Rs. 111,000, by Shreedhar Acharya, a tourism entrepreneur, in collaboration with the Federation of Nepalese Journalists (FNJ).

SHOT: Gitanidhi Rayamajhi , 32, former mayor of eastern town of Itahari, by some unidentified gunmen.

FELICITATED : Thirteen climbers who have ascended Mt. Makalu, by the Kathmandu Metropolitan City, on the occasion of Golden Jubilee celebration of first successful ascent of the mountain.

ELECTED : Nepal, as the chair of special committee of Least Developed Countries (LDC), by the seventh convention of the ESCAP, by a meeting held in Bangkok.