Bikram Rai Even after the UML-Maoist alliance won a near two-third majority in Parliament-Province elections three months ago, not many were…
The reason Swaraj is here, according to some analysts, is to make sure that Oli got the message that in return India wants loyalty
The nationwide 2018 Himalmedia Public Opinion Survey shows most Nepalis are disillusioned with politics, but they have surprisingly not given up hope for a better future.
Gopen RaiSELFRULE: Indian Minister of External Affairs Sushma Swaraj arrives at Kathmandu airport on Thursday afternoon even as the UML and…
A decade after Nepal was declared a federal republic, most Nepalis still do not know what federalism means and how it will work
Rohit Chandra BhattaraiQ&A: An enumerator interviewing a respondent in Ilam last week for the Himalmedia Public Opinion Survey 2018. A decade…
Nepalis on Thursday witnessed something they had not seen in a decade: both the ceremonial and executive heads of state offering flowers to the statue of Prithvi Narayan Shah
Bhanu Bhattarai The louder the clarification, the deeper the speculation. This appears to describe Maoist Chair Pushpa Kamal Dahal’s statement…
The louder the clarification, the deeper the speculation. This appears to describe Maoist Chair Pushpa Kamal Dahal’s statement that he will not form the new government outside his party’s alliance with the UML
The Centre is yet to decide where to set up temporary headquarters of state governments, but people in Dharan have already declared their city the capital of Province 1
Nepalis are proud about Lumbini, but not outraged about its development
Whoever wins, Nepal will likely be ruled by the same old leaders
Neither bullets nor cynicism will deter people from delivering their political verdict
Electing the Parliament and state assemblies does not necessarily ensure the kind of decentralisation that Nepalis have long needed
Bhanu Bhattarai In a month or so, when the new Parliament and seven state assemblies come into being, Nepal will join a list of countries ruled…
Nim Dutta Subedi/rssMan Bahadur Gurung, a UML candidate for the Province 4 assembly, campaigning on Wednesday in Sikles of Kaski District. As…
Either keep grumbling about bad politicians or throw them out of power by electing better ones
Forging electoral alliances in Nepal is getting to be far more difficult than solving a Rubik’s Cube.
Nepal is blessed with water resources, but cursed by geopolitics
Forging electoral alliances in Nepal is getting to be far more difficult than solving a Rubik’s Cube. While most people are immersed in…
As things stand, the left alliance has an edge over the democratic grouping. But it is far from certain if these blocs will survive intra-party and intra-alliances rifts before polls
Diwakar Chettri Who would have thought that Nepal’s two largest communist parties, poles apart ideologically and sniping constantly, would…
The main political actors have not changed: they are still mostly conservative, ‘higher’ caste men
