by Binod Ghimire in The Kathmandu Post, July 28, 2023The Supreme Court has removed Uddhav Thapa from the post of chief minister of Koshi Province after concluding that the formation of the Nepali Congress-led provincial government was unconstitutional. A full bench of justices Ishwar Prasad Khatiwada, Ananda Mohan Bhattarai and Til Prasad Shrestha has also directed the chief of the Koshi Province and Speaker of the provincial assembly to appoint a chief minister of a…
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report in Nepalnews, July 29, 2023MORANG: Nepali Congress (NC) central member Dr. Shekhar Koirala expressed his confidence that the Koshi province government would be formed under Uddhab Thapa’s leadership itself. Talking to journalists at Biratnagar Airport on Friday evening, Dr Koirala claimed a coalition government would be formed in the Koshi province under the leadership of Thapa within a week. His remarks noting speakers’ interference on forming government in the past was a mistake has…
by Rupa Gahatraj in The Kathmandu Post, updated July 28, 2023 Dhanakali Sunar has been discriminated against all her life for being born into a Dalit family. When Sunar was elected a ward member of Baijanath Rural Municipality-1 in the last local elections, she thought her perseverance had won over discrimination and that she could now lead a respectable life alongside her neighbours. But she was proven wrong on the evening of July 2 when…
by Anil Giri in The Kathmandu Post, July 29, 2023During a recent meeting between Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal and his Bangladeshi counterpart Sheikh Hasina in Italy, the latter offered Nepal its newly-constructed Payra port for third-country trade. Dahal returned from Italy on Friday after attending the United Nations Food Systems Summit plus two Stocktaking Moment (UNFSS+2) held in Rome. The prime minister addressed various sessions and met with the UN Secretary General António Guterres…
by Shankar Acharya in The Kathmandu Post, JUly 28, 2023Nepal-bound railway rakes originating at the Indian sea ports of Kolkata and Visakhapatnam are being subjected to long delays and stops en route, resulting in losses to Nepali traders, insiders say. Indian Railways normally takes four to five days to transport containers from Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh to Sirsiya dry port in Birgunj, Nepal. Now the rakes arrive after 25 days. The journey from Kolkata port to…
report on Nepalnews.com, July 24, 2023Member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee Yuan Jiajun paid a courtesy call on Acting Prime Minister and Minister for Defense Purna Bahadur Khadka on Sunday. In the meeting held at the Ministry of Defence, Singha Durbar, Acting PM Khadka extended his best wishes to the visiting Chinese leader for assuming office some time ago and expressed his confidence that Nepal-China relations would…
Report in The Kathmandu Post, July 24, 2023 Updated at 22:25 hrsNepal Media Society and Advertising Association of Nepal have said that their attention has been drawn to the protests being organised in the name of Kantipur Joint Struggle Committee on the premises of Kantipur Publications. Issuing a joint press statement on Monday, the two umbrella organisations said that although it is natural for workers and employees to present their demands to the company management,…
by Tika R Pradhan in The Kathmandu Post, July 25, 2023Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal, who chairs the CPN (Maoist Centre), the party that waged a decade-long people’s war, has refuted allegations that he used child combatants during the insurgency. Writing a response to a writ petition filed at the Supreme Court claiming that child combatants were used during the Maoist insurgency, Dahal refuted the allegations and said that no document of the peace process…
by Anil Giri in The Kathmandu Post, July 25, 2023The visiting Chinese delegation led by Yuan Jiajun, a politburo member of the Communist Party of China, has pledged Rs145 million (eight million yuan) to carry out various agriculture-related projects in all seven provinces of Nepal. The projects will be funded through the China-South Asian Countries Poverty Alleviation and Cooperative Development Centre, headquartered in Chongqing, China. Yuan, who is tipped as a future leader of China,…
Report in The Kathmandu Post, July 24, 2023Kantipur Publications Limited has clarified that the obstruction in the distribution of its newspapers Kantipur and The Kathmandu Post has violated citizens’ right to information and that such actions are thus legally punishable. Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Kantipur Publications Mahesh Swar, issuing a statement after the disruption in the distribution of the two dailies on Sunday, said that such acts violated the freedom of expression, the right…