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Strength and Weakness of Nepalese Political Parties

Monday, 5 January 2015, 10:11 am | Siddhi B. Ranjitkar

The strength and weakness of the political parties would be measured by whether they would be able to promulgate a new inclusive constitution with a consensus of all parties or not. Secularism and democracy are the two binding elements in the 21st ... More >>

Nepal: Combat Corruption Say Development Partners

Tuesday, 23 December 2014, 5:45 pm | Siddhi B. Ranjitkar

The history seemed to be repeating. The old crook political parties back on the wheels behind the governance. Working on duty of the public service, ministers were very frank and blunt on collecting money from anybody for delivering anything to the people. More >>

Nepal: Critique Intolerable To PM Koirala

Friday, 12 December 2014, 6:15 pm | Siddhi B. Ranjitkar

Understandably, Nepalese Prime Minister Sushil Koirala obviously did not want anything against his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi on the Nepalese media particularly in the State-owned media. More >>

Nepal: Craft an Inclusive Constitution, Said Indian PM Modi

Friday, 5 December 2014, 12:26 pm | Siddhi B. Ranjitkar

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said to the Nepalese political leaders to craft an inclusive constitution that could be amended by a two-thirds majority in a future parliament. More >>

Nepal: SAARC Summit in Nepal

Monday, 1 December 2014, 1:17 pm | Siddhi B. Ranjitkar

At the SAARC summit of the heads of state or government held in Kathmandu on November 26, 2014, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi delivered the commanding speech, and demonstrated that he was willing to lead the SAARC region to prosperity, and he offered ... More >>

Nepal: PM Modi Misses Attending Wedding of Divine Couple

Tuesday, 25 November 2014, 4:06 pm | Siddhi B. Ranjitkar

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi missed attending the annul wedding ceremony of the divine couple: Ram and Sita in Janakpur, Nepal before going to attend the Eighteenth SAARC Summit in Kathmandu on November 26 and 27, 2014. More >>

Nepal: Tribute to Ganeshman Singh at Centenary Celebration

Friday, 21 November 2014, 4:10 pm | Siddhi B. Ranjitkar

On November 10, 2014, Minister for Local Development Prakashman Singh opened the yearlong celebration of the birth centenary of Ganeshman Singh: one of the founding fathers of democracy in Nepal. More >>

Nepal: Empowering Or Disenfranchising CIAA

Wednesday, 19 November 2014, 5:24 pm | Siddhi B. Ranjitkar

Recently, members of parliament have been nervous about the Commission on Investigation into Abuse of Authority (CIAA) using its authority to undo the licenses given by the government for building hydropower projects, and arresting a witness for not ... More >>

Crisis of Our Making

Wednesday, 19 November 2014, 5:19 pm | Siddhi B. Ranjitkar

Many countries have created unprecedented political crisis. Power greedy political leaders had been responsible for it. They certainly disregard the democratic principles and values. The community of democratic countries did not do much against such power ... More >>

Nepal: Ruling Parties Dream The World To Dance To their Tune

Tuesday, 11 November 2014, 5:43 pm | Siddhi B. Ranjitkar

The ruling political parties knowingly or unknowingly have been strengthening the opposition parties. For example, the ruling political parties such as NC, CPN-UML and RPP have bullied the opposition parties registering the proposal for the most ... More >>

Nepal: Giving Rise To Nationalistic Feelings

Monday, 10 November 2014, 5:24 pm | Siddhi B. Ranjitkar

“Nation, Nationality and Sanatan Hindu State” is the slogan of the Hindu revivalists, according to the news posted on ekantipur.com. All the activists were the former politicians disgraced and sidelined from the mainstream politics. More >>

Nepal: Giving Rise To Nationalistic Feelings

Sunday, 9 November 2014, 9:39 am | Siddhi B. Ranjitkar

“Nation, Nationality and Sanatan Hindu State” is the slogan of the Hindu revivalists, according to the news posted on ekantipur.com. All the activists were the former politicians disgraced and sidelined from the mainstream politics. They were political ... More >>

Nepal: Local State Administration and Corruption

Wednesday, 29 October 2014, 2:21 pm | Siddhi B. Ranjitkar

Speaking at the parliament on October 14, 2014, Prime Minister Sushil Koirala said that the corruption has reached the peak in the country in absence of the elected local governments for the last 17 years; the political leaders have failed in holding ... More >>

Nepal: Benefits of Blocking Parliamentary Business

Wednesday, 22 October 2014, 3:56 pm | Siddhi B. Ranjitkar

Blocking Parliamentary business has resulted into the five-point agreement among the political parties. The parliament had been inert for about two months. The budget for the fiscal year 2014/15 has been sitting in the parliament, too for two months. More >>

Nepal: Is A New Constitution In Making?

Monday, 13 October 2014, 12:28 pm | Siddhi B. Ranjitkar

Whether a new constitution would be promulgated on time or not entirely depend on the ruling two-thirds majority government. The leaders of the ruling parties were in direct campaign against ethnic people, and federalism and multi-religion and multi-language ... More >>

Nepal: Weak Prime Minister Of Strong Government

Thursday, 4 September 2014, 2:01 pm | Siddhi B. Ranjitkar

Prime Minister Sushil Koirala has many things to do as a prime minister but he has been very slow. He is the prime minister of a two-thirds majority coalition government. His major task is to expedite the crafting of a new constitution. In fact, he was ... More >>

Nepalese Foreign Minister’s Visit To China

Wednesday, 20 August 2014, 11:23 am | Siddhi B. Ranjitkar

Immediately after the completion of the two-day visit of Indian Prime minister Narendra Modi to Nepal, on August 6 at the invitation of his Chinese counterpart Lou Jiwei, Nepalese Finance Minister Dr Ram Sharan Mahat visited China. It might be another ... More >>

Indian Prime Minister Modi’s Visit to Nepal

Wednesday, 6 August 2014, 5:34 pm | Siddhi B. Ranjitkar

The visit of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi had been one of the greatest events in the history of Nepal-India relations. The visit was after 17 years of the previous visit of the then Indian prime minister. More >>

Indian Foreign Minister’s Visit to Nepal

Thursday, 31 July 2014, 3:36 pm | Siddhi B. Ranjitkar

In preparation for the visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Nepal, Indian Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj visited Nepal from July 25 through July 27, 2014. She had jointly presided over the meeting of Nepal-India Joint Commission. More >>

Nepal-India Cooperation in Hydropower Development in Nepal

Tuesday, 29 July 2014, 3:49 pm | Siddhi B. Ranjitkar

On the eve of the visit of Indian Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj to Nepal for making an arrangement for the visit of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the leaked Draft proposal titled "Cooperation in Power Sector with India" has shadowed the publicity ... More >>

 

 
 
 
 
 

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