by Nishan Khatiwada in The Kathmandu Post, July 6, 2023On Monday, Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal, while addressing a function to launch the book ‘Roads to the Valley: The Legacy of Sardar Pritam Singh in Nepal’, had said that Sardar Pritam Singh, referred to as the pioneer trucking entrepreneur in Nepal, has played a special and historic role in enhancing Nepal-India relations. “He [Singh] had once made efforts to make me the prime minister,” Dahal…
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Report in The Kathmandu Post, June 10, 2023Ruling coalition leaders have publicly criticised the budget for the fiscal year 2023-2024 unveiled on May 29 as the fiscal estimates are being discussed in Parliament. Speaking at the general convention of the Press Organisation on Friday, CPN (Unified Socialist) Vice-chair Rajendra Pandey said the annual budget has done extreme injustice to the people and they would not tolerate it, even if that meant quitting the government. Pandey…
Report in The Kathmandu Post, June 10, 2023Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal has said that his government has no intention to curtail the Election Commission’s autonomy. He said the government did not want to scrap the district election offices, but was just managing them differently, to cut costs. The government, through its budget for the fiscal year 2023-2024, had announced that the district election offices would be scrapped and the election-related work would be conducted…
report in Prothom Alo, July 4, 2023 A total of 39 leaders-activists of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) have been contesting for councilor post in Sylhet city corporation election defying the party’s decision to boycott the polls. BNP insiders said the party is likely to take disciplinary action against these leaders soon as they continue to run in the election. BNP decided to boycott the polls for mayor and councilor posts in five city corporations as…
By Banafsha Binesh in TOLOnews Online, June 02, 2023 at 9:19 PMThe Heads of State of Central Asia and the President of the European Council met in Kyrgyzstan and participants discussed the situation in Afghanistan in addition to exchanging views on general issues of security, connectivity, climate, digital, and critical raw material, according to the joint press release. According to the joint press release, the participants articulated common concern over the deteriorating situation in Afghanistan…
By Nishan Khatiwada in The Kathmandu Post, May 24, 2023Against the backdrop of recent electoral setbacks, a section of the Nepali Congress leaders is launching a nationwide campaign to shore up the grand old party. The party’s youth leaders are planning to traverse the country with the Nepali Congress Rupantaran Abhiyan (transformation campaign) to unite cadres across the country and reconnect with voters. The leaders said they have taken serious note of the party’s poor…
By Zarmeen Zehra in The News, May 20, 2023The names of Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Senior Vice President Maryam Nawaz are on a “hit-list” of terrorist outfits which are planning to launch attacks on leaders of the armed forces, intelligence agencies and politicians. The attacks are being planned by the banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and its faction Jamaat-ul-Ahraar (JuA), which are also planning to target government officials. Furthermore, they also…
By Fidel Rahmati in The Khaama Press Online, May 1, 2023The “Talk to Me, Not About Me” letter was prepared by 21 Afghan civil society and women’s organizations in response to the Doha meeting, where the UN and other nations will discuss recognition of the Taliban. They expressed their outrage over the Taliban’s recognition on Sunday, April 30, while Afghan women, members of civil society, and media organizations remain denied access to fundamental human rights.…
By Tika R Pradhan in Kathmandu Post, April 18, 2023Top leaders of the three major political parties have agreed to nominate a new chief justice through a meeting of the Constitutional Council. However, they are yet to settle the ongoing dispute over the composition of the Parliamentary Hearing Committee, whose approval is essential for the appointment of a new chief justice. The parliamentary committee is yet to be formed due to the dispute. Based on…
By Tika R Pradhan in The Kathmandu Post, April 08, 2023A day after the 10-party ruling coalition unveiled its common minimum programme signed by its leaders, the Rastriya Jana Morcha, one of the coalition partners, said it does not approve of the government’s programme. Issuing a press statement, Jana Morcha chair Chitra Bahadur KC not only expressed his party’s displeasure with the coalition’s common programme, but also objected to the ‘unauthorised’ use of his signature…
by Tika R Pradhan in Kathmandu Post, April 3, 2023The CPN (Unified Socialist), which was formed less than two years ago by splitting the CPN-UML, the country’s largest communist party, is gradually weakening as its leaders and cadres are ditching it and drifting back to the mothership. The party has been further weakened with several senior leaders quitting it after the recent presidential elections. The resignations came after party chair Madhav Nepal declined the CPN-UML’s…