KATHMANDU, Feb 15: The Supreme Court (SC) is conducting a hearing today on the writ petitions filed against the appointment of 52 office bearers of constitutional bodies during the erstwhile KP Sharma Oli government.

KATHMANDU, July 27: Today's hearing on the writ petitions  filed against 52 constitutional appointments made during the erstwhile KP Oli government has been postponed. The hearing was put off after the lawyers pleading on behalf of the defendants of the case - the office-bearers of the constitutional bodies - raised some questions.

KATHMANDU, July 27: The Supreme Court (SC) is conducting a hearing today on the writ petitions filed against the appointment of 52 constitutional office-bearers during the erstwhile KP Sharma Oli government.

KATHMANDU, July 18: The newly-formed government has scrapped ambassadorial appointments of nine individuals made by the KP Sharma Oli-led government.

KATHMANDU, March 10: CPN (UML) senior leader Jhalanath Khanal has said now they will work toward enabling the incumbent government to complete its remaining two years' term.

Although the number of cases was increasing, the government gave up on contact tracing and testing, and tightened the ambit of testing

Sanjay Upadhya’s “The Backfire in Nepal: How India Lost Plot to China” provides a detailed account of Nepal-India relations in the last fifteen years, focusing on China’s diplomatic and strategic success in Nepal.

Situation today is even if a glaring foreign intervention happens to remove Oli from power, there is going to be a celebration, it is going to be interpreted as done for the sake of the country.

Failed leadership

October 20, 2020 09:25 am

This is how Oli-led government is failing the country and the people.

Experts say the government has decided to shred the constitution

Experts say the government has decided to shred the constitution

KATHMANDU, Oct 7: Expressing serious concerns over the ongoing fast-unto-death by Dr Govinda KC, four former Prime Ministers have urged the government to take immediate initiatives to save the life of Dr KC.

A 29-year-old mother of two children, one of whom was born just nine days before at TUTH, from Bahrabise Municipality-9, Ramche, died of coronavirus complications at Dhulikhel Hospital on Saturday, May the 16th.

Worst is yet to come

April 30, 2020 16:21 pm

Until April 20, when the government issued two infamous ordinances to change the existing laws regarding political parties and the constitutional council, before the alleged “abduction” of a lawmaker to break a fringe party apart became public, Prime Minister K P Sharma Oli still had something to fall back on. Because he has had a critical kidney transplant surgery recently, there was some sympathy for him. The Covid-19 pandemic, which is ravaging the world, was overshadowing the issues of government accountability. There was a space for him to rethink the way he is governing.

High on rhetoric

February 17, 2020 09:26 am

Prime Minister K P Sharma Oli has expressed resentment about media and public criticisms of his government. He has been saying: We have been doing all we can. We are committed to safeguarding fundamental rights of the citizens and upholding democratic values. We are committed to translating the vision of ‘Prosperous Nepal, Happy Nepali.’ But civil society has not been fair to us, nor the media. We have been targeted simply for our political ideology.

KATHMANDU, Feb 16: The main opposition Nepali Congress has accused the present government of pushing the country toward lawlessness and authoritarianism.

KATHMANDU, Feb 14: The ruling party leaders have strongly defended the activities of the government while the opposition party leaders criticized the government for its performance in the past two years.

What Yadav’s exit means

January 2, 2020 08:55 am

The resignation of Upendra Yadav from the post of Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Law on the ground that the federal government did not address the demands of Madheshi, Janajati and other disadvantaged groups by amending the constitution has created a ripple in Nepali politics. With this development, the Samajbadi Party Nepal (SPN), of which Yadav is the chairman, has given a jolt to the ruling Nepal Communist Party (NCP), which no longer has the two-thirds majority in the House of Representatives.

KATHMANDU, Dec 26: After withdrawing its support from the government, the Samajbadi Party is planning to form an alliance with other opposition political forces with a view to mount pressure for the constitution amendment, said the party’s leaders.

KATHMANDU, Nov 20: The leftist government of Prime Minister KP Oli is pushing the country toward another cycle of conflict, lawlessness and authoritarianism, the main opposition Nepali Congress (NC) has alleged.

KATHMANDU, Sept 27: Prime Minister KP Oli has expressed dissatisfaction over the performance of his cabinet ministers after most of them failed to show expected change in their working style as pledged in the work performance agreements signed around two months ago.

We wanted to find out how frequently youths get updated about the government and its politics.

KATHMANDU, July 2: Ruling Nepal Communist Party lawmakers fiercely criticized Prime Minister KP Oli for failing to run the government effectively and ensure good governance.

KATHMANDU, June 24: The Nepal Communist Party (NCP) appears headed for a major factional realignment as Prime Minister KP Oli seeks to tighten his grip on the party and the government in the backdrop of a raging power tussle.

Welcome 2076!

April 15, 2019 02:05 am

We welcome the year 2076 with hope and optimism. The year 2075 was nothing extraordinary for the country. It was rather uneventful year with the government of PM KP Sharma Oli promising bunch of things, most of which remains unfulfilled.  The Oli government is not tired of repeating its grand promises of Happy Nepali and Prosperous Nepal. We can only hope that the government will start working earnestly to lay the foundations to expedite big development works.

SINDHULI, Jan 27: President of the main opposition party Nepali Congress Sher Bahadur Deuba on Saturday claimed that the recent actions of the K P Sharma Oli government are against the spirit of democracy. He said what transpired in the House of Representatives on Friday indicated the leftist government’s inclining towards authoritarianism.

KATHMANDU, Jan 17: Expressing serious concern over the Oli government’s lack of response to the ongoing fast-unto-death by Dr Govinda KC, the main opposition party, Nepali Congress, has warned the government not to underestimate the protest as the doing of just one individual.

KATHMANDU, Dec 18: Dismayed by poor governance and sluggish party unification process, leaders of the ruling Nepal Communist Party have come down heavily against Chairman KP Oli, who also heads the government as executive head, and urged him to mend ways.

100+ days of national pain

November 4, 2018 00:26 am

It has been 102 days since Nirmala Panta, 13-year-old girl, was raped and murdered in Kanchanpur. People across the country came out, demanding swift action against the perpetrator(s). Despite multiple investigations, Nepal Police has not been able to track down the killers. The all-powerful Oli government has been in damage-control mode from the get-go. Stories of multiple lapses in the investigation were reported, and the government fired the police officers who initially handled the case.