Kathmandu, April 15 (IANS) The Nepal government on Wednesday announced the formation of a commission to investigate the assets of key political office holders and senior bureaucratic officials who have held public office over the past two decades, amid allegations of rampant corruption involving such individuals. A Cabinet meeting held on Wednesday decided to form a body that will probe the properties of those who have been at the helm of the state since 2006, the year when the second people’s…
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Taipei, April 4 (IANS) With the rise of new political leadership in Kathmandu and growing strategic constraint on China’s engagement with Nepal, there is hope that the stronger democratic institutions would enable the Nepali people to comprehend Beijing’s expansionist ambitions in Nepal and the wider South Asian region, a report highlighted on Saturday. “This year’s parliamentary election in Nepal — the first after the Gen Z-led violent protest that toppled the previous government in Sep…
Kathmandu, March 2 (IANS) The arrest of former Prime Minister K P Sharma Oli and former Home Minister Ramesh Lekhak over the suppression of Gen-Z protests in September last year was hotly debated during the first meeting of the federal parliament held on Thursday, following the March 5 parliamentary elections. Oli, chairperson of the Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist–Leninist, CPN-UML), and Lekhak, a leader of the Nepali Congress, were arrested on March 28 in connection with a culpable…
Kathmandu, March 26 (IANS) Although China congratulated Nepal and the Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) for its sweeping victory in the parliamentary elections held on March 5, the results have emerged as a setback for Beijing, analysts reckon.The RSP, led by former media personality Rabi Lamichhane and Prime Ministerial hopeful Balen Shah, emerged as the largest political party in the House of Representatives, securing nearly a two-thirds majority. Traditional political parties, including the Nepa…
Kathmandu, March 8 (IANS) Nepal’s only billionaire, Binod Chaudhary, a candidate from the Nepali Congress, suffered a humiliating defeat in the country’s parliamentary elections at the hands of Rastriya Swatantra Party candidate Bikram Khanal in the Nawalparasi West-1 constituency.Khanal secured 45,241 votes to win the election, defeating Chaudhary, who received 9,502 votes, according to the Election Commission of Nepal. Chaudhary joins a long list of candidates from traditional political part…
New Delhi/Kathmandu, March 7 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday congratulated the people and government of Nepal on the successful and peaceful conduct of elections in the country, stating that, as a close friend and neighbour, India remains steadfast in its commitment to working closely with the people and the new government in the country. “I warmly congratulate the people and Government of Nepal on the successful and peaceful conduct of elections. It is heartening to see my Nepal…
Kathmandu, March 6 (IANS) The rise and fall of Nepal’s former Prime Minister Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli can be traced between two uprisings set apart by over half a century. The 74-year-old’s political identity was crafted long before he became prime minister. He first came to national attention as a young activist in the Jhapa uprising, a radical Leftist movement in the early 1970s that challenged local landlords and state authority in eastern Nepal, bordering India.Over decades he moved from…
Kathmandu, March 6 (IANS) Prime Ministerial candidate from the Rastriya Swatantra Party, Balendra Shah, is leading against former PM K.P. Sharma Oli in Jhapa-5 in eastern Nepal, as the RSP takes a sweeping early lead in the country’s parliamentary elections.Shah, the former mayor of Kathmandu Metropolitan City, is locked in a contest with Oli in the latter’s traditional political stronghold in a battle between two prime ministerial aspirants.According to the early vote count on the online po…
Kathmandu, March 5 (IANS) Around 24 per cent of voters had cast their ballots by 1 pm on Thursday in Nepal’s parliamentary elections, with polling underway peacefully across the country, the country’s election body said. More than 4.45 million voters had exercised their voting rights by 1 pm on Thursday since voting began at 7 am, accounting for 24 per cent of the total registered voters, the Election Commission said in its latest update.More than 18.90 million people are eligible to vote in…
New Delhi, Feb 24 (IANS) A multi-billion rupee Nepal project, a part of China’s ambitious Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has been dropped from election pledges by former Kathmandu Mayor Balen Shah, who is contesting against former Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli in the latter’s bastion of Jhapa-5 constituency, reports said. Parliamentary election is scheduled in Nepal on March 5 under an interim government, which was constituted after the resignation of the Oli government facing widespread Gen Z …