By Binod Ghimire in The Kathmandu Post, June 01, 2023The writer covers parliamentary affairs and human rights for The Kathmandu Post.Over eight months after the federal parliament endorsed the amendment bill on the Citizenship Act for the second time, President Ramchandra Paudel on Wednesday authenticated the bill—the same one that his predecessor twice refused to authenticate. Paudel decided to authenticate the bill after repeated requests from the government followed by a series of consultations with…
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by Prithvi Man Shrestha in The Kathmandu Post, June 1, 2023Securing India’s approval to sell Nepal’s electricity to Bangladesh is on the agenda of Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal’s discussions in New Delhi where he reached on an official visit on Wednesday. As India’s permission for its territory and its transmission infrastructure to be used for selling Nepal’s power to Bangladesh is important, the two countries want to involve India in the development of a…
by Anil Giri in The Kathmandu Post, May 31, 2023With an agenda packed with meetings and interactions, Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal is heading for India on Wednesday afternoon on a four-day official visit at the invitation of his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi. Besides his set template of meetings and engagements, Dahal now has a new issue to deal with—a mural depicting ancient India in the newly inaugurated Indian parliament building. Leader of the main…
report in The Kathmandu Post, May 31, 2023At the invitation of the ruling CPN (Maoist Centre), Wang Xiaohui, Communist Party of China (CPC) Secretary of the Sichuan Province, arrived in Kathmandu on Tuesday evening. Wang is among senior CPC leaders to visit Kathmandu after the formation of the Pushpa Kamal Dahal government in December last year. The former deputy head of the publicity division of the CPC is currently a central committee member of the…
by Tika R Pradhan in The Kathmandu Post, May 31, 2023The largest party in federal parliament—Nepali Congress—is currently a mess with many of its leaders demanding President Sher Bahadur Deuba call crucial meetings so that they could air their discontent. The Nepali Congress in December 2021 concluded its national convention, which only elected the party’s leadership, but the party is yet to organise a policy convention. Following the convention that elected Deuba as chief, the…
by Sangam Prasain in The Kathmandu Post, May 31, 2023Cross-border air routes are once again in the spotlight as Nepal seeks extra entry points from India to give life to its newly completed empty airports. But experts say the possibility of the southern neighbour cooperating is slim with ties at a low ebb, and this is what Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal will try to set right during his southern sojourn starting Wednesday. Tourism Ministry…
By Sangam Prasain & Prithvi Man Shrestha in The Kathmandu Post, May 30, 2023Nepal’s economy has run into money problems for the first time in nearly six decades, and the coalition government is struggling to fix them. The country was officially in a recession until the second quarter of the current fiscal year, with the annual economic growth rate projected to slow down to 1.86 percent as a result. This adds to the existing pressure…
by Binod Ghimire in The Kathmandu Post, May 28, 2023Countering his party lawmaker’s statement, Prime Minister and CPN (Maoist Centre) chair Pushpa Kamal Dahal argued on Saturday that it was wrong to drag the leader of the main opposition in the controversy relating to the jalahari installation in Pashupatinath temple. Addressing a meeting of the House of Representatives, Dahal said as the Commission for Investigation of Abuse of Authority was probing the alleged irregularities, it…
by Anil Giri in The Kathmandu Post, May 28, 2023Leading a delegation of four dozen ministers, government officials and journalists, Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal will visit India from May 31 to June 3. Kathmandu and New Delhi on Saturday officially announced the visit, which is Dahal’s first official outing since assuming office in December last year. In a statement on Saturday, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Nepal said Dahal would be leaving for…
By Anil Giri in The Kathmandu Post, May 26, 2023As Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal prepares to travel to India for his first foreign state visit in his third term in office, the two sides have entered the final stage of negotiations, discussing draft agreements to be signed and announced during the visit as well as the text of the joint communiqué that would conclude his visit. The two sides will formally announce on Saturday…