By Tika R Pradhan in The Kathmandu Post, April 01,2023After struggling for weeks, Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal finally expanded his Cabinet on Friday, but he couldn’t resolve all the dissatisfaction among the coalition partners. Within hours of the President administering the oath of office to four new ministers at the President’s Office, a sitting minister Abdul Khan of the Janamat Party tendered his resignation after the Ministry of Industry his party was hoping to…
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by Anil Giri in The Kathmandu Post,Apr 1, 2023Nepal and China are set to hold the 15th round of Diplomatic Consultation Mechanism talks in Beijing next week. For this, foreign secretary Bharat Raj Paudyal will travel to Beijing. At the talks scheduled for April 7, officials will discuss further promotion of bilateral relations and cooperation including high-level visits. Sun Weidong who has served as vice-minister of Foreign Affairs since 15 November 2022 will be leading…
by Sangam Prasain & Rupa Gahatraj in The Kathmandu Post, Apr 1, 2023Thousands of Hindu pilgrims from India used to come to Nepalgunj in southwestern Nepal every year to fly to Simikot, from where they would enter Tibet for the Kailash Manasarovar Yatra. The religious travellers would fill the hotels and restaurants, and keep travel agents, airlines, guides and porters busy. The annual pilgrimage season would be boom time for the tourism industry, and the…
By Nishan Khatiwada in The Kathmandu, March 31,2023Rajendra Mahato, a veteran of Madhesh politics, has tossed his hat in the ring for the by-election in Bara-2, a constituency that has remained vacant after Ramsahay Prasad Yadav was elected the country’s Vice President. Keshav Jha, executive member of the Loktantrik Samajbadi Party, confirmed to the Post that his party has decided to field senior leader Mahato for the by-election. “The Janamat Party had previously promised to…
Report in The Kathmandu Post, March 30,2023Economist and former National Planning Commission vice chairman Swarnim Wagle on Thursday announced quitting the Nepali Congress. In a message addressed to Congress leaders including General Secretary duo Gagan Thapa and Bishwa Prakash Sharma, Wagle said he could not stay in the party due to continuous ‘insults and humiliations from Deuba-Arzu gang’. He was referring to the behaviour of Congress President Sher Bahadur Deuba and Arzu Rana Deuba. He…
By Tika R Pradhan in The Kathmandu Post, March 31,2023Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal couldn’t expand his Cabinet on Thursday as well after some fringe parties insisted on getting the ministries allocated to other coalition partners. One such fringe party is the Nagarik Unmukti Party that has been laying claim to the Ministry of Urban Development, which Dahal had already allocated to the largest party, the Nepali Congress. Although coalition partners have agreed on a…
report in Nepalnews online, Mar 31, 2023Ruling coalition members—the Nepali Congress, CPN (Maoist Centre) and CPN (Unified Socialist), among others held a meeting on Cabinet expansion on Thursday evening. The Prime Minister’s secretariat has informed that the allocation of ministries would be finalized and an oath-taking held on Friday. The meeting was attended by Prime Minister and CPN (Maoist Centre) Chair Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’, Nepali Congress President Sher Bahadur Deuba, Vice President Purna Bahadur…
By Anil Giri in The Kathmandu Post, March 30,2023After week-long talks, the ruling parties have worked out a division of ministerial portfolios. But they have yet to allot individual ministries to be led by the representatives of each coalition partner. A meeting of the alliance on Wednesday finalised the numbers of the ministries to be led by the nine parties, according to leaders involved in the negotiations. According to a Nepali Congress leader, Prime Minister…
Report in The Kathmandu Post, MAR 30, 2023Senior Nepali and Chinese officials have agreed to fully reopen the Kerung border point for two-way trade and movement of people from April 1. The decision was made on Wednesday during the first meeting of the Nepal-China Coordination Mechanism on Border Trade and Cooperation held in Lhasa on Wednesday. The meeting was co-chaired by Madhu Kumar Marasini, secretary at the Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Supplies and Chen…
By Nishan Khatiwada in The Kathmandu Post, March 27,2023The writer is a reporter covering national politics for The Kathmandu Post.The country’s largest political party, Nepali Congress, is yet to hold the long-pending general conventions of its sister organisations and give a complete shape to their central bodies. Factionalism has trickled down to each of its wings and the demands to revive the sister organisations remain unheard as of now. The main opposition, CPN-UML, has held…