Everything you need to know about Nepal’s new left-led government
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Pushpa Kamal Dahal with Jagat Prakash Nadda, national president of BJP. Photo: JAGAT PRAKASH NADDA/TWITTERBarely days after Pushpa Kamal Dahal…
Thanks to our elected leaders, we finally have a solution to the problem of the unspent development budget: build statues.Great Leader Comrade…
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Illustration: DIWAKAR CHETTRINepal’s political headlines these days are mainly about the rift between K P Oli and Madhav Kumar Nepal that split…
Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba took office over a month ago, but aside from six ministers he has not been able to set up a full Cabinet yet…
The then chief of the NCP’s Foreign Affairs Department Madhav Kumar Nepal signed an MoU with the Chief of International Liaison Department of…
Illustration: DIWAKAR CHETTRINepalis are wondering who won and who lost after the Supreme Court on 7 March effectively ruled that the Nepal…
Illustration: SUBHAS RAI/NEPALI TIMES ARCHIVESThere has been a lot of speculative analysis this week about the winners and losers in Nepal’s…
Photo: AMIT MACHAMASIIn the two months since Prime Minister K P Oli dissolved the Lower House of Parliament, massive rallies were held across…
Nepal Communist Party faction loyal to PM Oli organised rally at Darbar Marg on 5 February. Despite the Covid-19 pandemic, Nepal’s politicians…
The Nepal Communist Party (NCP) has by now squandered the overwhelming mandate it got in the 2017 elections to govern for five years, and its…
Illustration: DIWAKAR CHHETRIPrime Minister K P Oli landed himself in fresh controversy after he punctuated his speech at the National Assembly…
Illustration: DIWAKAR CHHETRI Prime Minister K P Oli was half way through his one hour delivery to the Upper House on Sunday, defending his move…
Thousands of people took to the streets this week to protest prime minister Oli's decision to dissolve the Lower House. Photos: BIKRAM RAIEven…
After reports appeared in a section of the India media (pictured above) that Prime Minister K P Oli may be making a visit to New Delhi on 4…
Prime Minister K P Oli has lashed out at rivals within the Nepal Communist Party (NCP) for creating obstacles every step of the way in the past…
Illustration: DIWAKAR CHETTRI The Nepal Communist Party (NCP) Secretariat meeting on 1 December coincided with Finance Minister Bishnu Poudel’s…
For a government with a hefty majority that loftily promised voters prosperity and stability, the Nepal Communist Party (NCP) has been able to…
Going by official statistics, Nepal’s economy is doing splendidly. The economy grew at 2.27%, not bad considering that has been battered for the…
Illustration: BHANU BHATTARAIWhile Nepal hurtles towards the 1,000 Covid-19 deaths mark and hospitals run out of beds, the country’s two top…
Illustration: DIWAKAR CHHETRIThe vote of no-confidence this week by former UML leaders of the Nepal Communist Party of (NCP) in Karnali Province…
Illustration: SUBHAS RAI“What do people mean by poor governance,” asked Crown Prince Dipendra. “Are they fed up with corruption? Is it that they…
