by Tika R Pradhan in The Kathmandu Post, Dec 31, 2022On Friday, CPN-UML chair KP Sharma Oli visited Baluwatar early in the morning to discuss a power-sharing deal and the government’s way ahead with Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal. The meeting took place a day after coalition leaders formed a high-level mechanism as an oversight body to advise the government. He, however, was the one who had rejected Dahal’s proposal to form such a mechanism…
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report in The Himalayan Times, Dec 31, 2022KATHMANDU: The Ranjita Shrestha-led Nagarik Unmukti Party will join the government only after seven persons, including Resham Chaudhary, who have been convicted in Kailali carnage, are released from prison unconditionally. Resham’s father Lalbir Chaudhary, who is a member of the House of Representatives, told THT that his party had got assurance that his son Resham and other convicts would be released. Lawmaker Lalbir said he was confident that…
by Binod Ghimire in The Kathmandu Post, Dec 30, 2022Somebody rightly said that justice delayed is justice denied. On August 8, 2021, the five-party coalition government led by Sher Bahadur Deuba unveiled its common minimum programme which included a pledge to conclude the peace process by expediting the transitional justice process. The Nepali Congress, CPN (Maoist Centre), CPN (Unified Socialist), Janata Samajbadi Party and Rastriya Janamorcha claimed that the long pending task of providing justice…
by Tika R Pradhan in The Kathmandu Post, Dec 30, 2022Three days after Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal assumed office, a mechanism to support the government has been formed under the leadership of CPN-UML chair KP Sharma Oli. The mechanism is expected to support the Dahal-led government. As its first task, the panel will prepare the government’s common minimum programme within the next five days. A meeting of the coalition partners on Thursday agreed to…
by Prithvi Man Shrestha in The Kathmandu Post, Dec 29, 2022The Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) has shelved its plan to set up a substation at Trishuli Bazaar for the Nepal-China Cross-border Transmission Line as it plans to connect the power line with a Ratmate-based substation to be built with the assistance of the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), a US aid agency. When the controversy over the MCC assistance was at its height before its eventual…
report in The Kathmandu Post, Dec 29, 2022Beijing on Wednesday allowed Nepal’s exports to pass into China through the Kerung-Rasuwagadhi border after keeping it shut to two-way traffic for three years. Chinese goods have been entering Nepal intermittently through Kerung, one of the two international border points on the Nepal-China border, but it was no go in the other direction. “The two-way trade through the Kerung/Rasuwagadhi border port has been resumed today. After a ceremony,…
by Rupa Gahatraj in The Kathmandu Post, Dec 29, 2022Puja Loniya, a 23-year-old woman from Jaipur of Nepalgunj sub-metropolitan city, was found dead at her husband’s house on December 13. Puja, a mother of a son and a daughter, was married to Rajkumar Loniya of Janaki Rural Municipality-6 five years ago. Puja’s parents received the news of her death through a neighbour and have accused Rajkumar’s family of torturing and killing their daughter over dowry.…
by Prithvi Man Shrestha in The Kathmandu Post, Dec 28, 2022In a move that will make hydroelectricity generated by Indian projects cheaper than that produced by Nepal, India’s power ministry starting earlier this month removed the inter-state transmission charges for new Indian hydropower projects. The ministry on December 2 issued the order to waive Inter-State Transmission System (ISTS) charges on the transmission of electricity generated by new hydropower projects. The waiver is already available to…
by Tika R Pradhan in The Kathmandu Post, Dec 28, 2022On Monday, Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal formed an eight-member Cabinet with four ministers from the UML, and one each from the Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) and the Janamat Party. But he has failed to not only expand his Cabinet but also to fix portfolios of the four remaining ministers. The new Cabinet, which is yet to get full shape, has three deputy prime ministers—Bishnu…
by Anil Giri in The Kathmandu Post, Dec 28, 2022A day after Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal’s assumption of office, a six-member Chinese technical team landed in Kathmandu on Tuesday to carry out a feasibility study of the Nepal-China cross-border railway. Dahal, the CPN (Maoist Centre) chairman, heads a coalition of two biggest leftist parties and others. The China Railway First Survey and Design Institute Group will carry out the feasibility study via a Chinese…
by Kunal Purohit in SCMP, 28 Dec 2022The rise of a veteran Maoist leader to become Nepal’s new prime minister is likely to inject “more momentum” into the country’s China ties while also checking American influence in the region, analysts said, after communist parties came together on Sunday to oust the previous US-aligned government. Pushpa Kamal Dahal, more popularly known as Prachanda – meaning fearless – ditched his alliance partner the Nepali Congress (NC) to…