Kathmandu, March 28 (IANS) The arrest of Nepal’s former Prime Minister K P Sharma Oli on Saturday morning sparked protests across the Kathmandu Valley by cadres of the Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist) (CPN-UML), led by Oli.Police arrested Oli and former Home Minister Ramesh Lekhak in connection with homicide-related cases linked to the suppression of the Gen-Z uprising in early September last year. Both were arrested early in the morning from their residences in Bhaktapur di…
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Kathmandu, March 6 (IANS) Former Nepal Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’ has been elected from Rukum East-1 to the House of Representatives, becoming one of the few top leaders from traditional political parties to secure a win in the elections to the House of Representatives held on Thursday. He secured 10,240 votes to win the election. His closest competitor, Lilamani Gautam of the Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist–Leninist) (CPN-UML), secured 3,462 votes, according to th…
Kathmandu, March 4 (IANS) The Nepali Congress, the Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist–Leninist) (CPN-UML), and the erstwhile CPN (Maoist Centre) have ruled the country turn by turn over the last two decades. Their respective leaders — Sher Bahadur Deuba, KP Sharma Oli and Pushpa Kamal Dahal — have been at the helm of power for the last decade or so.A growing impression among the Nepali public that the country is lagging because of these leaders and that corruption is rife trig…