report in The Daily Star, Mar 14, 2023The cabinet has permitted neighboring country Bhutan to use Bangladesh’s land and sea ports for the country’s import and export yesterday. The approval came from a cabinet meeting chaired by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at her office today. “Bhutan is a landlocked country. They have no river or sea port of their own for import-export. Therefore, they get similar opportunities from India also. Now they are getting an…
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by Tika R Pradhan in The Kathmandu Post, Jan 21, 2023Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal inducted 15 ministers and state ministers to his Cabinet on Wednesday, but failed to honour the constitutional spirit of inclusiveness. Now the Dahal-led Council of Ministers has 20 ministers, including the prime minister and three ministers of state, but the coalition partners failed to make it inclusive. As Dahal leads a government involving many parties, he could have asked the…
report in The Kathmandu Post, Jan 19, 2023The Pushpa Kamal Dahal government has reintroduced the diplomatic code of conduct that was unveiled in 2011.A Cabinet meeting on Wednesday decided to enforce the diplomatic code of conduct and make it mandatory for all ministers to follow while meeting with foreign diplomats and representatives of foreign governments, should invite the officials of the foreign ministry, according to Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance Bishnu Poudel. The…
by Nishan Khatiwada in The Kathmandu Post, .January 14th, 2023Even though all seven provincial assemblies have elected their chief ministers who are now busy picking ministers, people appear more curious about the composition of the new Cabinet in the Madhesh province. That is so for a number of reasons. First, there has been a significant change in the power equation in Madhesh after the November 20 polls with previously dominant regional forces losing ground and…
by Tika R Pradhan in The Kathmandu Post, Jan 5, 2023Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal is preparing to expand his Cabinet only after securing a vote of confidence in Parliament on January 10. But he is struggling to distribute ministerial posts given the composition of the ruling coalition. While the coalition partners have yet to reach a clear understanding on power-sharing, the Janata Samajbadi Party, one of the partners, is still undecided on whether 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…