By Prithvi Man Shrestha in The Kathmandu Post, June 19, 2023The Department of Forests in May agreed to give permission to the New Butwal-Bardaghat Transmission Line Project Office to cut 5,822 trees inside national and community forests in Nawalparasi (Susta West). The department’s move was in line with a Cabinet decision of December last year. On May 16, the project office submitted a request with the Department of Forests for signing an agreement, and subsequently…
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by Sahan Tennekoon in The Morning, May 31, 2023The Cabinet of Ministers, on Monday (29), granted its approval to the joint proposal submitted by Minister of Justice, Prisons Affairs, and Constitutional Reforms President’s Counsel (PC) Dr. Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe and Minister of Foreign Affairs M.U.M. Ali Sabry PC for the establishment of a truth and reconciliation mechanism in Sri Lanka, taking into account the work of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) in South Africa. Speaking…
report in The Island, May 23, 2023President Ranil Wickremesinghe has indicated that he has no trust in the Cabinet of Ministers, and therefore he should dissolve Parliament and let the people choose their representatives so that a new Cabinet could be appointed, says SJB MP Imthiaz Bakeer Markar. Speaking to journalists over the weekend, Bakeer Markar said that President Wickremesinghe had told Cabinet secretaries that there was no further need for them to submit Cabinet…
Report in The Kathmandu Post, April 7, 2023With the largest party in the ruling coalition, the Nepali Congress, unable to nominate its four ministerial candidates, Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal has been struggling to give full shape to the Cabinet. The last time the prime minister expanded the cabinet was on Friday. The coalition has allocated eight ministries to the Congress. Party president Sher Bahadur Deuba is waiting for the Shekhar Koirala-Gagan Thapa faction to…
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…
By Asiri Fernando in The Sunday Morning, Mar 26, 2023The Government is considering the release of nearly 450 fuel stations held under the Treasury to the three new international players that are to enter the local fuel market once approved by the Cabinet, The Sunday Morning learns. According to a senior official at the Ministry of Power and Energy, the State-owned properties of the 450 fuel stations are expected to be allocated to the three…
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…
by Tika R Pradhan in The Kathmandu Post, Mar 18, 2023With the elections of the President and the Vice President, the prime minister is now geared up to give a full shape to his Cabinet where two-thirds of the seats have been vacant since the CPN-UML, Rastriya Swatantra Party and Rastriya Prajatantra Party pulled out of the government last month. The prime minister is currently holding 16 of the total 21 ministerial portfolios. Prior to…