By Tika R Pradhan in The Kathmandu Post, March 28, 2023The writer is a senior political correspondent for the Post, covering politics, parliament, judiciary and social affairs.After struggling for weeks to expand the Cabinet, the prime minister and top leaders of the major ruling coalition partners are now closing in on a power-sharing deal. If the officials at the prime minister’s secretariat are to be believed, Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal will expand his Cabinet…
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Report in The Kathmandu Post, March 26,2023As more results of the Free Students Union election come from Tribhuvan University constituent and affiliated campuses across the country, the wings of Nepali Congress and CPN-UML have emerged as the two largest student organisations. The rival groups have differing claims of the March 9 vote’s outcome as the university administration is yet to compile all the results and make them public. Polls have yet to be held on…
By Tika R Pradhan in The Kathmandu Post, March 27, 2023The Maoist Centre-CPN-UML ruling coalition collapsed within two months of its formation. Now the Congress-led 10-party coalition is in place in Kathmandu, and its reverberations are being felt in the provincial politics as well. In this context, the Post’s Tika R Pradhan spoke to the UML deputy general secretary and former chief minister of Gandaki province Prithvi Subba Gurung, who was also among the architects…
By Binod Ghimire in The Kathmandu Post, March 27, 2023Lawmakers including those from the ruling parties have demanded a revision of the bill to amend the Enforced Disappearances Enquiry, Truth and Reconciliation Commission Act, arguing that several of its provisions aim to protect perpetrators. Taking part in deliberations in the House of Representatives on Sunday, they argued that the bill was brought to conclude the transitional justice process without ensuring justice to the victims. “Conflict…
by Arjun Poudel in The Kathmandu Post, Mar 27, 2023Every year, hundreds of women in Nepal succumb to preventable deaths from excessive bleeding and high blood pressure, a new report by the National Statistics Office showed. More alarmingly, a significant number of maternal deaths, during pregnancy or after childbirth, are occuring due to a non-maternity cause, suicide, which also is preventable. Of the 611 maternal deaths on which the study was based, 67 percent occurred…
Report in The Kathmandu Post ONLINE, March 26, 2023Senior officials from Nepal and China are meeting this week in Lhasa, the capital of the Tibet Autonomous Region, aiming to facilitate bilateral trade and commerce. This is the first meeting of the joint mechanism set up in August last year during the official visit of then foreign minister Narayan Khadka to Qingdao, China. A statement issued after the visit had said the two foreign ministers decided…
report in Prothom Alo, Mar 26, 2023Speakers at a human chain in Rangpur demanded a fair share of water from 54 common rivers including Teesta. They also criticized India’s decision to withdraw water from Teesta by digging two new canals. An organisation named ‘Teesta Bachao Andolon’ organised the human chain in front of Rangpur Press Club premises on Saturday morning. Presided over by lawyer Palash Kanti Nag, professor Mojahar Ali, Abdus Sobhan, freedon fighter Mojaffar…
By Anil Giri in The Kathmandu Post, March 26,2023The government is mulling sending an advance team to New Delhi to lay the ground for Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal’s upcoming visit to India, according to a top-ranking official at the Prime Minister’s Office. The team will jointly work with the Indian officials to set bilateral talks agenda even though the dates of Dahal’s trip are yet to be finalised. In the absence of a designated…
By Swati Bhat and Uditha Jayasinghe in Reuters, Mar 22, 2023MUMBAI, March 21 (Reuters) – Sri Lanka has a difficult road ahead irrespective of how much funding it receives from multilateral and global financial agencies, a senior economist at Moody’s Analytics told Reuters on Tuesday. Moody’s Analytics is independent of Moody’s Investors Service, the rating agency. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) approved a nearly $3 billion bailout for Sri Lanka on Monday and the country’s…
By Tika R Pradhan in The Kathmandu Post, March 22, 2023With Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal securing the parliament’s confidence on Monday, for a second time in 70 days, a political course has been completed. Since all major constitutional positions have already been filled, now the government is expected to expedite its functioning in a full swing by expanding the Cabinet. On Tuesday morning, the prime minister met some of his coalition partners and discussed…