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Speaker Gharti off to attend SRICE in China

Edit The Himalayan 19 Sep 2016
KATHMANDU ... Gharti has been accompanied by her husband and UCPN-Maoist leader Barshaman Pun, Mohan Bhattarai among other leaders. The Nepali representative team has been scheduled to return on September 24 ... ....

When India plays warm host to good neighbours

Edit The Hindu 12 Sep 2016
Stormy start. With both Afghanistan and Nepal, India’s ties suffered through much of 2015 ... Mr ... Pushpa Kamal Dahal, or Prachanda, who leads the CPN (Maoist-Centre), formerly UCPN, who was always portrayed as pro-China, was viewed with distrust by New Delhi ... The original strain between the Modi government and the Nepalese government in November 2014, came about when the UCPN led massive protests against a planned public rally by Mr ... ....

Development possible with dedication: Sah

Edit The Himalayan 23 Aug 2016
UCPN-M politburo member Prabhu Sah addressing a press meet organised by his party in Gaur, Rautahat, on Sunday. Rautahat, August 22. CPN-Maoist Centre leader Prabhu Sah today said that development in the country was not possible without changing the old modus operandi ... ....

Lharkyal Lama ordered to post Rs 10 mln bail

Edit The Himalayan 10 Aug 2016
KATHMANDU. The Special Court on Wednesday ordered suspended Maoist lawmaker Lharkyal Lama to post Rs 10 million bail for his release ... According to the CIAA, it found that his expenditure in last 15 years did not match with his earnings ... Controversial history ... Lama took oath of office and secrecy as the Constituent Assembly member from the UCPN-Maoist on February 16, 2015 ... ....

Table amendment bill soon: UDMF

Edit The Himalayan 07 Aug 2016
Top leaders of Nepali Congress (NC), CPN Maoist Centre and Madhesi Morcha hold a meeting at the NC’s Parliamentary Party Office in Singha Durbar on Friday, July 22, 2016. Kathmandu, August 6 ... They want to see Madhesi forces remaining weak forever.” Yadav said although they did not pressurise the NC and UCPN-M to state a time frame for tabling an amendment bill, it didn’t mean that was an indefinite process ... ....

Ex-comrade Bhattarai congratulates Dahal for PM berth

Edit The Himalayan 03 Aug 2016
File – The then UCPN-Maoist leader Baburam Bhattarai (left) and UCPN-Maoist Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal....

PM Oli steps down after 287 days in office

Edit The Himalayan 24 Jul 2016
“This moment is not the end of time”. KATHMANDU ... He spent 287 days in Singhadarbar as Nepal’s executive head ... I dismiss this allegation.” ... Forming an alliance with the then UCPN-Maoist (now CPN Maoist Centre), Rastriya Prajatantra Party-Nepal, Madhesi Janadhikar Forum-Democratic, Rastriya Prajantantra Party and other fringe parties, Oli had succeeded in securing the berth at Singhadarbar ... READ ALSO ...   ... ....

Shuffling the deckchairs?

Edit The Hindu 19 Jul 2016
The opposition Nepali Congress led by Sher Bahadur Deuba and the UCPN(M-C) have worked out an alternative arrangement to share power ... If, as expected, the UCPN(M-C)-NC coalition manages to form the government with the support of smaller Madhesi parties and other groups, this would mark the 24th government in the 26 years since the first Jan Andolan ......

Dahal defends NC-Maoist alliance, flays PM Oli

Edit The Himalayan 15 Jul 2016
KATHMANDU ... Recalling the 16-point deal among the major parties — Nepali Congress, CPN-UML and then UCPN-Maoist — to promulgate the new constitution, Dahal shared that an agreement among the top three leaders was that Sushil Koirala, then Prime Minister and President of Nepali Congress, would be made the President and KP Sharma Oli, Chairman of CPN-UML, the Prime Minister in support of the Maoist party ... READ ALSO ... > ....

Fate of proposed envoys uncertain

Edit The Himalayan 15 Jul 2016
Hearing of complaints against 11 nominees for Supreme Court justices to begin on Sunday. Kathmandu, July 14 ... A Nepali Congress leader told The Himalayan Times that proposed names for envoys could be reviewed if a new government was formed ... Earlier as well, proposed envoy to India Chandra Kanta Paudel’s name was changed after the abrupt fall of the UCPN-Maoist Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal-led government in May 2009 ... ....

Dahal set to return to power

Edit The Himalayan 13 Jul 2016
Kathmandu, July 12. Chairman of CPN-Maoist Centre Pushpa Kamal Dahal is poised to become the next prime minister after his party withdrew support to CPN-UML-led government and won confidence of the Nepali Congress to form a new one ... In the years that followed, CPN-MC previously known as UCPN-Maoist formed a government under Baburam Bhattarai, who now heads a newly created outfit, Naya Shakti Nepal ... Both have formed separate parties ... ....

India rejects Oli charge on Nepal political crisis

Edit The Hindu 11 Jul 2016
A day after Nepal Prime Minister K.P ... “India did nothing to destabilise the Oli government; he could not deliver and the coalition government fell down. The fact that he still wants to stick to power despite not having the numbers in Parliament is totally undemocratic ... Oli was reduced to a minority after the Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’-led UCPN-Maoist withdrew support four days ago. Mr ... Mr ... Mr ... Conspiracy claim....

Naya Shakti Nepal finally gets registered at Election Commission

Edit The Himalayan 10 Jul 2016
KATHMANDU ... On September 26 last year, Bhattarai had announced that he had severed ties with the then UCPN-Maoist, in which he was the second man for years, claiming old political forces could not transform the nation into a prosperous one ... ....
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