By Tika R Pradhan in The Kathmandu Post, April 22, 2023Nearly a month after his death on March 24, the struggle committee agitating against the decision of the Province 1 provincial assembly to name the province as ‘Koshi’, decided to perform the funeral rites of their activist Padam Limbu, also known as Lajehang, on Saturday, after holding a condolence assembly in Biratnagar. As there was no significant struggle when all five provinces were named by…
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Report in The Kathmandu Post, April 22, 2023After the failure of the Constitutional Council in nominating a candidate for chief justice, Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal on Friday had a meeting with CPN-UML chair KP Sharma Oli to discuss nominations and endorsement of the bills in parliament. Dahal’s attempt was to woo Oli, who is the leader of the main opposition, to ensure that the next meeting of the council would be fruitful while also…
By Anil Giri in The Kathmandu Post, April 22, 2023Seven years after signing of the Trade and Transit Agreement with China that gives Nepal access to seven Chinese ports for third country trade, not a single shipment has moved. In the wake of a “punitive” Indian blockade after Nepal refused to delay the promulgation of constitution, then Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli in April, 2016, paid an official visit to China where two sides signed…
By Bharat Jarghamagar in The Kathmandu post, April 21, 2023Police fired 27 rounds and lobbed 11 teargas shells to disperse a crowd that had gathered outside Mirchaiya mayor Nabin Kumar Yadav’s office on Thursday to protest the demolition drive carried out by the municipality. The protesters were demanding compensation for the losses caused to their houses. Sangita Kumari Sah, a Mirchaiya local, was injured after allegedly being assaulted by police, said Anjay Sah, the victim’s…
By Nishan Khatiwada in The Kathmandu Post, April 21, 2023Rabi Lamichhane and, by extension, Rastriya Swatantra Party’s supporters have been showing little tolerance for criticism and questions being asked of the newly-emerged party and its leader. Insults and epithets like ‘traitor’, ‘jhole’, ‘patrukar’, ‘brokers’ and the like are routinely traded on social media by the followers against just anyone who expresses any critical comment against Lamichhane and the RSP. Such low-level comments pour in immediately…
Report in The Kathmandu Post, April 21, 2023The government has decided to give three more years to the Nepal Army to complete the Rs175 billion Kathmandu-Tarai expressway, the fourth extension in six years after the project failed to meet the completion deadline. The Cabinet meeting on Tuesday took the decision to this effect. The new deadline is April 2027. On May 4, 2017, the government formally handed over the much-touted project to the army, putting…
By Anil Giri in The Kathmandu Post, April 20, 2023The government on Tuesday canceled a contract it had awarded to a private foreign firm for verifying personal and biological details of citizens for the National Identity Card and launched multiple investigations into the matter. The contract had been issued by the then Deputy Prime Minister and Home Minister Rabi Lamichhane. Lamichhane authenticated the procedure to award the contract to a private company when the government…
By Prithvi Man Shrestha in The Kathmandu Post, April 20, 2023The Independent Power Producers Association of Nepal said that deals were initiated for selling 2,200 MW of electricity to India during the two-day power summit that concluded on Wednesday in Kathmandu. Although the private sector is yet to get trading licence to sell electricity in the domestic and foreign market because the current law does not allow it, India’s Manikaran Power Limited on Tuesday signed…
By Nishan Khatiwada in The Kathmandu Post, Apr 18, 2023Five months after the major elections held in November last year, the provincial governments are yet to get a full shape—some have been hanging by a thread after being turned into minority governments while in others the competing interests of the parties in the ruling coalition have complicated the process. The CPN-UML has pulled out of the governments in Sudurpaschim, Madhesh, Bagmati and Karnali, but the…
By Tika R Pradhan in Kathmandu Post, April 18, 2023Top leaders of the three major political parties have agreed to nominate a new chief justice through a meeting of the Constitutional Council. However, they are yet to settle the ongoing dispute over the composition of the Parliamentary Hearing Committee, whose approval is essential for the appointment of a new chief justice. The parliamentary committee is yet to be formed due to the dispute. Based on…
By Prithvi Man Shrestha in The Kathmandu Post, April 18, 2023Nepali and Indian officials as well as Nepal’s private sector had hailed the Nepal-India Joint Vision Statement on Power Sector Cooperation as a milestone in energy cooperation and in providing international market access to Nepal’s surplus power. The joint vision statement issued in April last year seeks to strengthen mutually beneficial bilateral cooperation in the power sector through joint development of power projects in Nepal.…