Kathmandu, April 8 (IANS) The Kathmandu District Court has reportedly issued an arrest warrant against former Nepali Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba and his wife, former Foreign Minister Arzu Rana Deuba, in connection with a money-laundering investigation. The Kathmandu Post reported that the arrest warrants were issued on Tuesday following approval from the bench of Judge Mahendra Khadka, based on a request from the Department of Money Laundering Investigation.The department has been investig…
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Kathmandu, April 5 (IANS) Dol Prasad Aryal, vice-president of the Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP), was declared elected Speaker of Nepal’s House of Representatives after emerging as the sole nominee for the post.At a meeting of the lower house on Sunday, senior-most lawmaker Arjun Narsingh KC formally announced Aryal’s unopposed election. He becomes the 10th Speaker of the lower house and the first non-communist to hold the post in nearly two decades.Given that the RSP holds a near two-thirds maj…
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 29 (IANS) Police on Sunday arrested Nepali Congress leader and former Minister for Energy, Water Resources, and Irrigation Deepak Khadka, in a money laundering case, a senior police officer said.A day after former Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli and former Home Minister Ramesh Lekhak were arrested in homicide-related cases linked to the suppression of the Gen Z movement in September last year, Khadka is the third person from the Oli-led government’s cabinet to be arrested.Senior …
New Delhi, March 27 (IANS) Nepal Prime Minister Balendra Shah’s cabinet reflects a mix of youth, gender, and personal experience that was finalised after prolonged discussions that had begun even before the final results of the March 5 national election were announced. Many of the cabinet members are new, some even first-time MPs, say reports from Kathmandu, which added that several are considered “experts in their fields”. The main names in contention between Balen – as he is popularly …
Kathmandu, March 27 (IANS) Nepal’s top political leaders congratulated newly-elected Prime Minister Balendra Shah, wishing him success in his tenure as the executive head of the Himalayan country. Former Prime Minister Sushila Karki wished him success in fulfilling the mandate given by the people to him and his party.In a Facebook post, Karki, who handed over the premiership to Balen, said she was happy to see a 35-year-old Prime Minister as her successor.Shah, who was considered a frontrunner t…
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 19 (IANS) Gagan Thapa, who was elected president of the Nepali Congress through a controversially-held special general convention in January, has resigned from his post following the party’s electoral setback in the recently held parliamentary elections. Thapa himself suffered a humiliating loss at the hands of Amaresh Kumar Singh of the all-conquering Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) in the Sarlahi-4 constituency in Madhesh Province, as his party came a distant second, with a lar…
New Delhi/Kathmandu, March 18 (IANS) While the Gen-Z movement has emerged worldwide, Nepal is the only country to bring about swift political transformation. Nepal’s recent election results have defied expectation, leaving observers questioning whether they underestimated the wave of Balendra Shah, with his party, Rashtriya Swatantra Party (RSP) – having entered the country’s political arena only in 2022 – winning close to a two-thirds majority, a report said on Wednesday. “Since the advent …
Kathmandu, March 11 (IANS) A clear majority secured by the Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) in Nepal’s recent parliamentary elections is likely to reduce near-term political uncertainty and improve policy predictability in the Himalayan nation, Fitch Ratings said on Wednesday. “This provides an opportunity for enhanced policy predictability and the implementation of governance and economic reforms,” the international rating agency added. The three-and-a-half-year-old party won 125 out of 165…