Kathmandu: Nepal’s Interim Prime Minister Sushila Karki recommended five new names to the president as ministers of the interim cabinet on late Sunday evening. The latest round of expansion comes a week after her first expansion of the council of ministers, which has four ministers, including herself.

Sources told ANI that the interim Prime Minister has recommended former Supreme Court justice Anil Kumar Sinha to head three ministries: Industry, Commerce and Supply; Law and Justice; and Land Reforms, Cooperatives and Poverty Alleviation.

Prime Minister Karki has recommended Mahabir Pun, Magsaysay award winner as the minister for education and science and technology and Madan Prasad Pariyar as agriculture minister while Jagdish Kharel, a media professional and the editor of Image Channels

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