By Ramkumar Kamat in The Himalayan Times, Aug 2, 2023KATHMANDU, AUGUST 1A meeting of the Constitutional Council failed to nominate the next chief justice as leader of opposition KP Sharma Oli argued that candidates should be nominated for all the vacant posts in the constitutional bodies, including that of auditor general. The Constitutional Council comprising the prime minister, leader of opposition, speaker, deputy speaker and chairperson of the National Assembly decided to meet on Thursday,…
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by Anil Giri in The Kathmandu Post, Aug 2, 2023The Parliamentary Hearing Committee has decided to summon Foreign Minister NP Saud following public complaints that the principle of inclusiveness was ignored in ambassadorial nominations. The decision was made on Tuesday after studying the complaints lodged against the government’s nomination last month of ambassadors for six Nepali missions. Ambassadorial positions are vacant in seven vacant missions and the government has yet to name its ambassador for…
by Arjun Poudel in The Kathmandu Post, Aug 1, 2023On Sunday, a delegation of locals from Kalikamai Rural Municipality of Parsa district reached the district administration office and drew the attention of the officials concerned about the growing drinking water woes in their areas. The delegation sought help from the administration office for the supply of drinking water in areas having an acute water scarcity. “Forget about rice plantations, we are even struggling to arrange…
by Nishan Khatiwada in The Kathmandu Post, Aug 1, 2023A cloud of uncertainty continues to hang over Koshi government formation. With just a day left for the deadline set by the province head, parties have failed to seal a deal and find a way to muster a majority. Key provincial leaders of the Nepali Congress-led alliance are in Kathmandu to discuss the matter with the central leadership and find a way out. Though they claim…
report in Nepalnews, July 27,2023BARDIYA: It has been already six years since the Jabdighat bridge connecting the Gulariya and Barbardiya municipalities in Bardiya was swept away by a flood, causing inconvenience to the locals. In the lack of restoration of the bridge for years, locals are forced to undertake risker travel routes. In addition to this, it has affected their livelihood as well. Ram Gopal Tharu of Barbaridya municipality-11 expressed significant inconveniences caused by the…
report in Nepalnews, July 30 at 18:09 hrsDalit community leaders have demanded a stern action against the culprits in a case of caste-based discrimination in Bajhang. At a press meet here today, they expressed their serious concern over the demolition of the under-construction house of a Dalit by a group of non-Dalits at Syaldhunga of Bitthadchir rural municipality-7. The incident happened on July 26. A group of over 40 non-dalits allegedly demolished the house being…
by Binod Ghimire in The Kathmandu Post, July 31, 2023Despite a “positive” meeting between Prime Minister and CPN (Maoist Centre) chair Pushpa Kamal Dahal and CPN-UML Chairman KP Sharma Oli, uncertainty looms over Monday’s meeting of the House of Representatives. The House meeting remains postponed since last Wednesday after the UML disrupted the proceedings demanding formation of a high-level panel to investigate the smuggling of gold into the country. On July 18, assisted by the…
by Prithvi Man Shrestha in The Kathmandu Post, July 31, 2023Nepal plans to export 370 megawatt (MW) of electricity to India through low-capacity transmission lines besides the existing only high-capacity 400kV Dhalkebar-Muzaffarpur line as other under-construction high-capacity transmission lines have not been completed. Nepal can export a maximum of 1,000 MW through the Dhalkebar-Muzaffarpur Cross-Border Transmission and the two countries had agreed to transmit a maximum 800 MW during the Secretary-level Joint Steering Committee (JSC)…
by Nishan Khatiwada in The Kathmandu Post, July 30, 2023The ouster of the Uddhav Thapa-led government in Koshi has sparked a debate on the status of the caretaker provincial administration. Province head Parshuram Khapung has not assigned a caretaker government, creating confusion even among government agencies. For instance, after the Supreme Court’s verdict on Thursday, a team of Nepal Army had reached CPN-UML leader Hikmat Karki’s residence to provide security, apparently believing that he was…
by Tika R Pradhan in The Kathmandu Post,July 30, 2023The CPN (Maoist Centre), the third-largest party in the federal parliament, currently helms the coalition government with the backing of the Nepali Congress, the largest party, while the second-largest, the CPN-UML, remains outside the government. But Maoist leaders say the party’s increased emphasis on governance has left its organisation in a mess. As the organisational base of the party continues to erode, the Maoist Centre has…
By Binod Ghimire in The Kathmandu Post, July 30, 2023The need to revise the existing electoral system came up in the recent Central Working Committee meeting of the Nepali Congress. A number of central members demanded a complete direct election to the House of Representatives by scrapping the provision for proportional representation of ethnic populations, while making the National Assembly fully representative of the country’s diverse groups. Though the party made no decision on the…