KATHMANDU, March 21: Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Narayan Kaji Shrestha is set to embark on an official visit to China on March 24 (Sunday).

KATHMANDU, Jan 18: President Ramchandra Paudel has assigned Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister Purna Bahadur Khadka to work as Acting Prime Minister during the absence of Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal in office.

KATHMANDU, Oct 2: The Law, Justice and Human Rights Committee of the House of Representatives is going to call Home Minister Narayan Kaji Shrestha to address the issue of presidential pardons granted on Constitution Day.

Bhaktapur, Aug 25: Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Defence Purna Bahadur Khadka has cautioned against what he called the tendency of disturbing social harmony.

LALITPUR, August 9: Deputy Prime Minister and Home Minister Narayan Kaji Shrestha, stated that the regulations related to citizenship would be introduced at the earliest.

KATHMANDU, May 31: Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Defense, Purna Bahadur Khadka, has shouldered the responsibilities of Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal who is in India on an official visit.

KATHMANDU, May 18: Deputy Prime Minister and Home Minister Narayan Kaji Shrestha has said the government was constantly working to put an end to corruption and the practice of undue commissions-taking.

BIRENDRANAGAR, April 21: Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister Purna Bahadur Khadka has said that the federal government will get full shape after the by-election on April 23.

KATHMANDU, April 18: Loan sharking victims continued with their protest demanding the resignation of Deputy Prime Minister and Home Minister Narayan Kaji Shrestha.

KATHMANDU, Jan 27: Deputy Prime Minister and Home Minister Rabi Lamichhane has stepped down from the post after the Supreme Court dismissed him from the post.

KATHMANDU, Jan 23: Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Physical Infrastructure and Transport Narayan Kaji Shrestha has discussed with the Indian officials the progress and problems of projects run with Indian cooperation in Nepal.

The quick political rise of former celebrity TV journalist Rabi Lamichhane is, no doubt, one of the biggest surprises in Nepali politics in recent times. Within six months of forming a political party, Lamichhane has been successful in becoming the country’s deputy prime minister and home minister. The rise of Lamichhane, who is quite new to Nepali politics, to the all-important post of home minister at once, has created quite a buzz in the home ministry and police organizations.

KATHMANDU, Dec 29: Deputy Prime Minister and Home Minister Rabi Lamichhane inspected the Department of Passport at Tripureshwor on Thursday.

KATHMANDU, Dec 27: Rabi Lamichhane was a popular TV journalist, who hosted a popular TV show ‘Janata sanga sidha kura (Straight Talk to the People). He came to fame as he attempted to set the Guinness World Record for hosting the longest-ever marathon television talk show in April, 2013.

KATHMANDU, Dec 26: The CPN (Maoist Center) has planned to send the party’s Vice Chairman Narayankaji Shrestha to the government as a deputy prime minister.

KATHMANDU, Feb 17: Deputy Prime Minister Ishwar Pokharel inaugurated two new buildings of Budhanikantha School on Saturday during a function organized to mark the 47th annual day of the school.