The Nepali Congress, the Rastriya Prajatantra Party and the CPN (Maoist Centre) are at different stages of their conventions, and are equally eager to organise huge gatherings to show their strength as the next general elections are not too far away. It is as if the coronavirus were a thing of the past. It is as if the second wave of the pandemic never caught us off guard towards the end of April, leaving over 6,000 people dead and hundreds of thousands more infected.
December 8, 2021Nepal is no stranger to coalitions, but the critical forward movement at midnight on Sunday has crafted a chapter in the Himalayan country’s political history. Equally is it a watershed in the Communist movement, of a kind that emits a signal to the fellow-travellers in neighbouring India where the Left has shot itself in the …
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February 27, 2018Chairman of the CPN-UML K.P. Oli will become the 41st Prime Minister of Nepal with incumbent Sher Bhahadur Deuba set to resign from the post on Thursday. Deuba is going to announce his resignation during a national address and submit his resignation to President Bidhya Devi Bhandari. His resignation comes 69 days after the Federal …
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February 15, 2018The desire for political stability has become important precisely because of the perpetual political instability that Nepal has been undergoing for more than half a century. Political stability coupled with other factors has forced nearly a quarter of the population to move abroad for their livelihood. This has completely changed the social structure in many …
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February 13, 2018Landlocked Nepal’s political uncertainty simply does not seem to end. The Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal held elections for the 275-seat Lower House of the Federal Parliament in two phases on November 26 and December 7, 2017. The results show that the Left Alliance made up of CPN-UML and CPN-MC swept the elections of the …
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February 8, 2018Nepal opposition urges government to focus on bilateral ties
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