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Kathmandu, Sep 19 (ANI): Maoist chairman Prachanda has threatened to launch a decisive revolt in Nepal if the Maoist-floated resolution motion on civilian supremacy were not debated in the Parliament.

Addressing a mass meeting here on Friday, Prachanda said such a revolt would sweep away all the relics of feudalism and establish people’s rule.

He said his [...]

Kathmandu, Sep 14 (ANI): Indian Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao who arrived here on a two-day visit, will meet President Ram Baran Yadav and Foreign Minister Sujata Koirala today.

Nirupama Rao’s visit is aimed at working out the strategy for implementation of the 34-point agreement between Nepal and India signed during Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal’s India [...]

Kathmandu, July 8 (ANI): Nepal Government will present its policies and programmes in the parliament on Thursday.

Constituent Assembly (CA) speaker Subhas Nemwang has said President Dr Ram Baran Yadav will read out the government’s policy document in the House.

Finance Minister Surendra Pandey is scheduled to present the budget of the new fiscal year on [...]

New Delhi, July 7 (ANI): Home Minister P Chidambaram today said the meeting of Chief Ministers of Naxal-hit states will be held in August to discuss the menace which has increasing in some states.

Replying to supplementaries in the Lok Sabha, Chidambaram said the meeting [...]

Kathmandu, July 2 (ANI): Former Nepal Prime Minister and Unified CPN (Maoist) Chairman Prachanda has claimed that a new government under the leadership of his party would be formed within next one-and-half months.

Speaking to reporters on Wednesday, Prachanda said he was now concentrating on forming a “national government with civilian supremacy”, which would come [...]

Kathmandu, June 29 (ANI): Unified CPN (Maoist) Chairman Prachanda has started furnishing answers to the questions raised by the politburo members of the party on Monday.

During the meeting, that resumed this morning here, Prachanda is furnishing answers to the questions regarding his political document.

Politburo members have finished commenting on the 19-page long the political [...]

Kathmandu, June 27 (ANI): Leaders of the main opposition Unified CPN (Maoist) and the ruling CPN (UML) met in a bid to reach an understanding to break the deadlock in parliament, but they could not arrive at any conclusion.

Nepanews quoted senior Maoist leader Narayan Kaji Shrestha as, saying that [...]

New Delhi June 20(ANI): Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon is visiting to Nepal for a two-day visit from today.

Strengthening relations between India and Nepal will be the top on the agenda of this visit.

Indian Foreign Secretary will be meeting President Ram Baran Yadav, Vice President Parmananda Jha, the Prime Minister, Foreign Minister Sujata Koirala Home [...]

Kathmandu, June 19 (ANI): Lawmakers of the CPN (UML) have criticised the Nepal cabinet decision to overturn the previous government’s decision taken on March 3 to sack Army Chief Rookmangud Katawal and appoint Lieutenant General Kul Bahadur Khadka as the acting chief.

In a meeting held at the UML parliamentary party office in Singhadurbar here today, [...]

Kathmandu, May 29 (ANI): Nepal’s first Republic Day is being celebrated on Friday throughout the nation with various programmes, exactly one year after the Constituent Assembly declared Nepal a republic on May 29, 2008 ending the 240-year old monarchy.

In his message to the nation, President Dr Ram Baran Yadav has urged everyone for consensus to [...]

Kathmandu, May 26 (ANI): : Nepali Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal today stressed on the need for a Constitution that is not just ‘good’, but is people friendly.

Addressing the nation from his office at Singha Durbar, the Prime Minister said, “We have the responsibility to [...]

KATHMANDU: As Dr Manmohan Singh was being sworn in as India’s new prime minister in New Delhi, in Kathmandu, it was finally curtains for Nepali Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal Prachanda, who left with all guns blazing as he took on in a final fight in parliament on Friday all enemies and detractors, including Singh’s [...]

Kathmandu, May 22 (IANS) After obstructing parliament for three weeks, Nepal’s Maoist party finally allowed the house to convene Friday with caretaker Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal Prachanda making an impassioned valedictory address, in which he blamed neighbour India, Nepal’s President Ram Baran Yadav, his allies and the army chief, Gen Rookmangud Katawal and warned [...]

Kathmandu, May 22 (ANI): The advisory committee on parliamentary procedures has decided to hold the election for new Prime Minister on Saturday.

During a meeting on Thursday, the committee has also handed over the authority to Speaker Subas Nemwang to decide the issue of Maoist’s resolution against the President’s decision to block the government decision to [...]

Kathmandu, May 21 (ANI): Normal business of the legislature parliament that has been obstructed for over two weeks after Prime Minister Prachanda resignation is likely to resume today.

The parliament will resume with an informal understanding between Prachanda and the Speaker of the legislature parliament Subash Chandra Nemwang.

Prachanda assured Nemwang to allow normal proceedings of [...]

Kathmandu, May 20 (ANI): Nepal speaker of the legislature parliament Subash Chandra emwang has said it is the responsibility of the Prime Minister to end the deadlock of the ouse.

Nemwang met caretaker Prime Minister Prachanda on Tuesday evening and urged him to end he House deadlock to facilitate the formation of new government.

After the meeting, [...]

Kathmandu, May 19 (ANI): The NC-UML alliance today started discussions on seeking legal options, after they failed to form a new government despite clear majority in the parliament due to the continued obstruction of the House proceedings by Maoist Constituent Assembly (CA) members.

Senior CPN-UML senior leader Madhav Kumar Nepal who has been proposed by the [...]

Kathmandu, May 18 (ANI): Nepal Vice-President Parmananda Jha on Monday accused the political parties of neglecting the Constitution-drafting process and engaging themselves in power-seeking game.

Talking to reporters, Jha said the political parties should focus on the Constitution-drafting process and not on the government making and toppling games.

He mentioned that a majority government should be formed [...]

Kathmandu, May 18 (ANI): Nepal caretaker Prime Minister and Maoist chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’ has accused the UML-led new coalition of trying to derail the peace process.

Addressing a mass meeting organised by his party here on Sunday, Prachanda said, “On the surface it looks like an attempt to bring down the Maoist-led government, [...]

Kathmandu, May 17 (IANS) Madhav Kumar Nepal could become the new prime minister of Nepal with his CPN-UML-led alliance getting the crucial support from a Madheshi Janadhikar Forum (MJF) faction, media reports said Sunday.
The Bijay Gachchhadar led MJF faction’s decision to support the CPN-UML led government came after a meeting of leaders of UML, Nepali [...]