Kathmandu braces for Republic Day showdown
CPN-UML and royalist groups have planned parallel rallies. Security agencies on high alert to prevent clashes.
CPN-UML and royalist groups have planned parallel rallies. Security agencies on high alert to prevent clashes.
Ruling and opposition blocs stick to their guns as deadlock persists over Lekhak’s fate.
Hridayendra Shah may be king if monarchy is reinstated, RPP-Nepal chair Kamal Thapa suggests.
Opposition parties, however, say they may allow the government to present the annual budget tomorrow.
Lekhak denies wrongdoing, as opposition plans to block him from addressing Parliament.
Prime Minister Oli has ordered UML cadres to take control of Kathmandu streets on May 29 to counter a royalist rally.
Congress factions at odds, UML stands by home minister, some opposition leaders seek resignation on moral grounds.
The sister wings of major political parties scramble to respond as violence rises amid delayed conventions and intensifying factional antagonism.
Party leader Yagya Mani Neupane argues that the leadership vacuum cannot be prolonged till the general convention.
Leaders from his own and opposition parties ask him to step down and help the probe into alleged corruption at airport immigration.
The warning comes as the right-wing forces gear up to hold a ‘decisive agitation’ starting next week.
Accuse agencies of being harsh on Congress leaders linked to various scams and going easy on those from the UML.
Give continuity to the subcommittee meeting in near-darkness amid growing public anger over recurring outages in Kathmandu.
Party’s provincial lawmakers defy chairman’s repeated instructions to make Khagaraj Bhatta the assembly leader.
UML leader Pradeep Gyawali says the public is upset not with secularism per se but with conversions happening under its cover.
New policy is to review national pride projects and to complete active projects within the new fiscal year.
KP Sharma Oli’s leadership once seemed unchallenged but the situation is changing from bottom up.
Meeting of the largest party discusses ways out of logjams in central bank governor appointment, transitional justice recommendations.
Leaders from both regional parties say the process will go ahead after they study the incident.
National Security Council and Central Security Committee review regional situation as India-Pakistan tensions rise.