KATHMANDU, April 4: Bringing an end to a long-standing controversy within the Non-Resident Nepali Association (NRNA), the Supreme Court (SC) has dismissed the two committees of the NRNA. After the dispute arose in the election process of the previous session, as both Badri KC and RK Sharma were claiming to be the president of NRNA, two separate committees were formed.

KATHMANDU, Feb 4: Political parties have reached an understanding to run both houses of parliament and the parliamentary committees based on the calendar prepared by the Parliament Secretariat. CPN-UML Parliamentary Party Whip Mahesh Bartola said that the parties have agreed in principle to run the House of Representatives (HoR) and the National Assembly according to the calendar prepared by the Parliament Secretariat.

KATHMANDU, Jan 8: The Ministry of Finance has formed four committees to improve the budget system. Under the leadership of three under secretaries of the Budget and Program Division, the Ministry has formed committees to provide suggestions on the work to be done to improve the budget system.

KATHMANDU, Dec 20: The Rastriya Prajatantra Party (RPP) has announced to hold a mass movement for the reinstatement of Hindu nation and monarchy from mid-February. The party’s spokesperson Mohan Kumar Shrestha said that the central committee meeting of RPP, which concluded in Kathmandu on Tuesday, decided to prepare for mass gatherings across the country for two months starting from mid-December before organizing the ‘Mechi-Mahakali Unity Journey’.

KATHMANDU, Aug 5: The four parliamentary committees under the federal parliament have submitted their respective reports in today's meeting of the House of Representatives (HoR).

KATHMANDU, Aug 29: With the ruling Nepal Communist Party deciding to allot the post of chief of one of the four committees under the National Assembly (NA) to the main opposition Nepali Congress (NC), nominations were filed for the posts of chiefs of only three committees on Tuesday.

KATHMANDU, Aug 3: With the main opposition party Nepali Congress (NC) finally submitting a list of its names to the parliamentary committees, the Federal Parliament formed 14 committees on Thursday, six month into the commencement of parliamentary business.

KATHMANDU, Aug 2: The House of Representatives has formed its 10 different thematic committees.

KATHMANDU, Aug 2: Four parliamentary committees of the National Assembly have been formed after the Nepali Congress shared the names of its members. Today's NA meeting has approved the names of members of the concerned committee.

BUTWAL, July 26: Chairperson of all the six parliamentary committees in the State Assembly of State no. 5 have been elected unopposed.

KATHMANDU, July 20: The government has decided not to renew the erstwhile transport committees.

KATHMANDU, July 4: The formation of the parliamentary committees is still uncertain as the ruling and opposition parties are wrangling over choosing the heads of these committees.

DHANGADHI, June 20: The provincial parliamentary committees also known as 'mini-parliaments' is operating without leaders in Province 7 since its formation. It has been five months since the provincial assembly started conducting meetings but four committees still do not have chairpersons

NEPALGUNJ, June 17: The pressure for resolving and settling cases has increased for the judicial committees in Banke of late, following  increasing awareness among people.

KATHMANDU, June 8: The House of Representatives (HoR) – the lower house of the federal parliament – will have 10 thematic committees under its radar.

KATHMANDU, May 16: The government has intensified its crackdown on the transport committees by ordering the District Administration Offices to collect property details of all the erstwhile transport committees within 15 days.

KATHMANDU, May 7: Two days after the government's decision to freeze bank accounts of all protesting transport entrepreneurs committees, Nepal Rastra Bank (NRB) froze their accounts on Sunday.

KATHMANDU, May 4:  Home Minister Ram Bahadur Thapa has directed concerned authorities to arrest the office bearers of the transport committees for disrupting vehicular movements.

KATHMANDU, April 18: In a bold move against  organized transport syndicates, the government on Tuesday decided not to renew any transportation committees, which are registered at district administration offices (DAOs).

BIRATNAGAR, March 23: A meeting of Province 1 Assembly has proposed forming seven thematic committees and one special committee in the assembly. The proposal was submitted by the Province Assembly Regulation Drafting Committee (PARDC) 2018 on Wednesday's meeting.

PALPA, Feb 25: "Understanding  the changed structure of the government and working under it has been a challenge for us. We are still learning," said Radha Kumari Shrestha, coordinator of the judicial committee of Rambha Rural Municipality. According to her, many people are  unaware that they no longer need to go to a district court for settling their legal issues as this can be done at their own local units.

KATHMANDU, JULY 23: The ruling CPN (Maoist Center) has decided to downsize the party's central committee to two-digit figures for the effective functioning of the party.

KATHMANDU, June 24: With the commencement of local level elections, differences have emerged between two government agencies over the continuing relevance of the local peace committees, leaving such committees dysfunctional.  The committees were established in all 75 districts but with no further budget allocations they are now on the verge of dissolution.

KATHMANDU, June 13: Parliament's Development Committee has asked government to scrap bodies of similar nature such as town development committees saying that existence of parallel bodies had caused duplication and other complications in carrying out development activities.

KATHMANDU, April 26: CPN UML's Provincial Committee at Province 3 has recommended five names to party's standing committee to pick a mayor candidate in Kathmandu Metropolitan Cityin the upcoming local elections.

KATHMANDU, March 31: Naya Shakti Nepal led by former prime minister Baburam Bhattarai has formed seven committees to prepare the party for the upcoming elections, but has said that it will not take part in the polls unless the conditions it has set are addressed.

KATHMANDU, March 19: The meeting of Development Committee(DC) under legislature parliament is scheduled to be held on Tuesday at 10 am at the DC meeting hall located in Singhadurbar.

JUMLA, Oct 26: Nepali Congress leader Prakash Man Singh said that the NC will take an official decision on the impeachment motion against CIAA chief Lokman Singh Karki based on the report to be submitted by the Impeachment Recommendation Committee.

KATHMANDU Oct 18: A meeting of the parliament on Tuesday unanimously passed a proposal tabled at the meeting, seeking permission to send the Groundwater Resource Bill to the respective committee for clause-wise deliberations.

KATHMANDU, Sept 27: Speaker Onsari Gharti has started consulting major political parties over formation of a new parliamentary committee and election to the chairs of vacant House committees. The election to pick chairman of the Agriculture and Water Resource Committee has been scheduled for Thursday.

KATHMANDU, Sept 26: Speaker Onsari Gharti has urged senior leaders of major three parties to forge consensus to elect the presidents at different subject and special committees under the Legislature-Parliament.

KATHMANDU, Sept 13: The Supreme Court (SC) has ordered schools to form the school management committee as per the newly-amended law.

KATHMANDU, Aug 24: CPN-UML on Tuesday declared chiefs and deputy-chiefs for all the provincial committees of the party.

KATHMANDU, Aug 21: The proposal adding members to various committees in the parliament was approved by the meeting of the Legislature-Parliament on Sunday.

KATHMANDU, June 18: The CPN-UML has completed homework for forming seven provincial committees in line with the new constitution.