KATHMANDU, Oct 8: Chinese Ambassador to Nepal, Hou Yanqi, paid a farewell call on Speaker Agni Prasad Sapkota today.

KATHMANDU, Sept 30: The salaries and allowances of the Speaker and Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives (HoR) will be withheld until the court orders. The Parliament Secretariat has withheld the salaries and allowances that they are to get after September 17. Speaker Agni Prasad Sapkota and Deputy Speaker Pushpa Bhusal's salaries have been withheld and the salaries and allowances to be received by their personal secretaries, too, have been held back.

KATHMANDU, Sept 28: Speaker of the House of Representatives, Agni Prasad Sapkota has admitted that he also has shortcomings in the work of formulating quality laws.

KATHMANDU, Sept 22: Chairman of CPN-UML, KP Sharma Oli has expressed his anger saying that Speaker Agni Prasad Sapkota of the House of Representatives kept silent on an issue as important as impeachment against the suspended Chief Justice Cholendra SJB Rana for six months.

KATHMANDU, Sept 22: A writ petition has been filed at the Supreme Court demanding that the posts of Speaker Agni Prasad Sapkota and Deputy Speaker Pushpa Bhusal be vacated.

KATHMANDU, Sept 8: A visiting French delegation led by Chairperson of France-Nepal Inter-parliamentary Friendship Group, Daniel Salmon, paid a courtesy call on Speaker Agni Prasad Sapkota at his office in Singha Durbar on Thursday morning.

KATHMANDU, Sept 4: The House of Representatives is meeting today. The meeting is scheduled to be held at the Federal Parliament Building in New Baneshwor at 2 PM.

KATHMANDU, August 23: High officials of the Global Council for Tolerance and Peace (GCTP) have said that the world wants to learn from Nepal's peace process after meeting with Speaker Agni Prasad Sapkota.

KATHMANDU, August 12: Ambassador of China to Nepal Hou Yanqi paid a courtesy call on Speaker Agni Prasad Sapkota on Friday.

KATHMANDU, July 20: The Nepal Chamber of Commerce (NCC) has urged Speaker of House of Representatives Agni Prasad Sapkota to take forward the Bills related to economy/finance under consideration or deliberation in the parliament.

KATHMANDU, June 20: Speaker Agni Prasad Sapkota has asked the government to inform the House of the truth behind the recent price hike after the main opposition party CPN-UML demanded an answer from the government.

KATHMANDU, March 2: The Secretariat of the Federal Parliament has said that its attention has been drawn to a rumor regarding Speaker Agni Prasad Sapkota’s statement which he did not make.

KATHMANDU, Feb 13: Speaker Agni Prasad Sapkota has called an all-party meeting on Monday. The meeting has been called for 2 PM at the Parliament Secretariat in Singha Durbar, according to the Speaker’s Personal Secretariat.

KATHMANDU, Feb 13: The Supreme Court (SC) is set to conduct a hearing on a writ petition filed by the CPN-UML against 14 lawmakers including CPN (Unified Socialist) Chairman Madhav Kumar Nepal.

KATHMANDU, Feb 7: Speaker of House of Representatives (HoR) Agni Prasad Sapkota has urged the government to resolve the impasse seen in the federal parliament.

KATHMANDU, Oct 5: The main opposition party led by Chairman KP Sharma Oli has yet again obstructed the meeting of the House of Representatives (HoR).

KATHMANDU, Sept 30: Speaker Agni Sapkota is likely to read out a letter of repeal of the ordinance related to the political party received from the President’s Office in today’s session of the House of Representatives.

KATHMANDU, Sept 29: A pre-scheduled hearing on a case against the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Agni Sapkota, has been deferred again.

KATHMANDU, Sept 24: CPN-UML lawmakers continued with their protest in the meetings of the House of Representatives (HoR) as well as National Assembly (NA) on Friday. The UML lawmakers have been protesting against Speaker Agni Prasad Sapkota for not dismissing the 14 lawmakers whom the party had requested the Parliament Secretariat to take action against.

KATHMANDU, Sept 12: Speaker Agni Prasad Sapkota has called an all-party meeting tomorrow (Monday), aimed at advancing the parliament session effectively.

KATHMANDU, March 19: Serious dispute between Speaker Agni Prasad Sapkota and Chairperson of the National Assembly (NA) Ganesh Prasad Timilsina has surfaced after the latter declining to turn at a meeting summoned by the former on Wednesday.

KATHMANDU, March 17: Speaker Agni Prasad Sapkota has summoned the chiefs of various lower house committees to inquire about the delay in endorsement of various bills under discussion in the parliamentary panels. The speaker has called for a meeting in this regard for Wednesday.

KATHMANDU, Jan 30: Speaker Agni Prasad Sapkota refused to certify the Industrial Enterprises Bill on Wednesday after learning that a sub-section was missing in the bill. The bill was earlier endorsed by both houses of parliament.