coalition-government

Rapid fire governments in Nepal

Nepali politics is in limbo again with a lame duck prime minister from a minority party

Shristi Karki

Nepal government changes again

K P Oli to be prime minister for 4th time, 6th tenure for Sher Bahadur Deuba

Catapulting to Singha Darbar

The more things change in Nepali politics, the more they remain the same

Kunda Dixit

President’s precedent

President Bidya Devi Bhandari failed to authenticate an amendment bill to Nepal’s Citizenship Act by deadline on Tuesday 20 September, rendering it...

Shristi Karki

Election calculation

In January Nepal’s Election Commission recommended a date for the local elections for April, but the top political leadership of the governing...

Planting seeds of democracy

Four members from Madhav Kumar Nepal’s Unified Socialists including Urban Development Minister Ram Kumari Jhakri and Tourism Minister Prem Ale resigned from...

Shristi Karki

Coalition calculation

Three days after the Nepali Congress (NC) Central Working Committee announced it would leave it up to its local committees to decide...

13 February

This week it will be 26 years since the Maoists took up arms against the state, and 16 years since the war...

Dance of democracy

As per Nepal’s Local Election Act 2017, voting for all 753 local governments must be held by 19 March. But the governing coalition...

Nepal coalition dilly-dallying on polls

Nepal’s ruling political parties are facing growing calls from civil society, constitutional experts and the public to announce dates for local elections which...

Shristi Karki