Report in The Kathmandu Post, Dec 31, 2023Drawing the federal government’s attention to their demand to adjust the police force and promulgate the federal civil service law has been the provincial leadership’s regular business for the last few months. The chief ministers and ministers descend on Kathmandu to pressure the prime minister to address their demands. Every time they approach Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal, he promises them to act immediately, and they return. The…
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by Anil Giri in The Kathmandu Post, Dec 21, 2023The government’s overall performance—from service delivery, budget expenditure, and governance to capital expenditure—has seen a sharp decline, according to a report from the Prime Minister’s Office. A meeting of government secretaries chaired by Chief Secretary Baikuntha Aryal on Monday took several decisions after the government fell short of the targets it set in its annual policies and programmes and the annual budget. Experts observing the government’s…
Report in The Kathmandu Post, December 12, 2023Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal has said the government has received information suggesting that more than 200 Nepali nationals may be currently serving in the Russian army. Talking to reporters at his party, CPN (Maoist Centre), headquarters at Parisdanda in Kathmandu on Monday, Dahal said the government is investigating the case of Nepali citizens serving in the Russian army. Only last week, the government revealed that at least…
By Rastriya Samachar Samiti in Nepal News, Nov 29, 2023Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’ pledged that the federal government would conclude adjustment process of police service at the earliest. According to Bagmati Province’s Minister for Internal Affairs and Law Ganga Narayan Shrestha, PM Dahal in a group meeting with Home Ministers of all seven provinces in the official residence of Prime Minister at Baluwatar, Kathmandu on Tuesday appraised that the adjustment process for police…
by Anil Giri in The Kathmandu Post, Sept 30, 2023Completing his half-month-long visit to China and New York, Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal is returning home on Saturday from Chengdu. This is probably the first time that a Nepali prime minister has been out of the country for two weeks, amid several crises including doctors’ protests and teachers’ agitation, price rises ahead of big festivals, a struggling economy and poor governance. Also, the regular House…
report in Nepalnews.comKailash Mansarovar (China), Sept 27: Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal, who is currently on an official visit to China since September 23, said that accessible arrangements will be made to visit popular Hindu shrines Mt Kailash and Mansarovar Lake in China via the Humla district of Nepal. PM Dahal visited Mt Kailash and Manasarovar Lake on Thursday. Talking briefly to the RSS after his visit to the sites, the Prime Minister said that…
edit in The Kathmandu Post, September 28, 2023That Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal will claim to have taken Nepal-China relations to newer heights upon his arrival at the Tribhuvan International Airport is a ritual all too familiar to Nepalis. The 13-point joint statement released Wednesday, before Dahal left for Tibet en route to Nepal, is diplomatic sweet talk for the most part. In the first six points of the statement, the two sides have just…
report in Nepalnews.com, Sept 28, 2023Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal has said he had felt that the China visit was more successful than he had expected. Addressing a programme organized by Nepali Consulate General here in the course of his China visit, PM Dahal, argued that the success of his China visit would be a matter of interest. “I was wondering how the China visit would be as I arrived here directly from the US.…
Report in The Kathmandu Post, Sept 19, 2023In a new twist, the CPN (Maoist Centre), which is led by Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal, has said that it can change the name of the party and remove the Maoist tag. At present, the party’s official name is CPN (Maoist Centre) and if the other communist parties and forces are ready to come together, it would be ready to drop the tag, Maoist Centre, according to…
by Anil Giri in The Kathmandu Post, Sept 17, 2023Leading a delegation to the 78th General Assembly of the United Nations, Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal left for New York on Saturday evening. The prime minister is scheduled to address the UN General Assembly on September 21 and attend a reception hosted by US President Joe Biden on September 19. He will also address the UN Sustainable Development Goals Summit and Climate Ambition Summit on…
by Prithvi Man Shrestha in The Kathmandu Post, Aug 20, 2023Nepal is preparing to propose two-cross border transmission line projects with China during Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal’s planned visit to the northern neighbour, officials at the Ministry of Energy, Water Resources and Irrigation said. Dahal’s scheduled visit to China in the third week of September will coincide with his proposed visits to the United Nations General Assembly in New York. Addressing the 38th anniversary…