KATHMANDU, March 11: The Council of Ministers has recommended President Ram Chandra Poudel to dismiss three provincial chiefs and appoint new provincial chiefs.

KATHMANDU, March 8: The government has officially recognized an additional 2,674 individuals as martyrs. According to the decision announced by the government, the list of additional martyrs has been published in the Nepal Gazette.

GANDAKI, March 5:  Two ministers of the Gandaki Province government have been dismissed from their posts.  Chief Minister Surendra Raj Pandey dismissed Social Development and Health Minister Sushila Simkhada and Minister for Physical Infrastructure and Transport Management, Resham Bahadur Jugjali, who represented the CPN (Maoist Center) in the coalition government in the province.

KATHMANDU, Jan 13: The government will convene the winter session of the Federal Parliament in mid- February. The Council of Ministers has already recommended the president to convene the winter session of parliament.

KATHMANDU, Dec 30: The three months deadline given by the government to the high-level probe commission to investigate the gold smuggling case has expired.

KATHMANDU, Nov 4: Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal has called a meeting of the Council of Ministers for 8AM on Sunday.

KATHMANDU, Oct 9: Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal has convened a special meeting of the Council of Ministers today to address the evolving situation in Israel and the urgent rescue and repatriation efforts for Nepali citizens affected by recent events.

KATHMANDU, Oct 7: The Council of Ministers has approved a new customs bill, currently in the process of being registered in parliament, that allows export industries to import industrial raw materials without paying customs duty.

KATHMANDU, Oct 1: The government has formed a four-member probe commission to investigate gold smuggling. The commission is led by former judge of the High Court Dilliram Acharya. Other members of the commission are Kishor Jung Karki, Premraj Joshi and Sahakul Thapa.

KATHMANDU, Sept 20: President Ram Chandra Paudel has pardoned the remaining sentence of 670 prisoners upon the recommendation of the Council of Ministers on the occasion of the Constitution Day.

KATHMANDU, Sept 17: The Council of Ministers meeting held on September 15 decided to accept 6 million US dollars in concessional loan from the World Bank (WB) for the pre feasibility purpose of the Upper Arun Hydropower Project.

KATHMANDU, Sept 9: A meeting of the Council of Ministers has decided to present the Bill relating to the Constitution, Operations and Terms and Conditions of the Federal Civil Service to the Federal Parliament.

KATHMANDU, Aug 25: The government has decided to award the title of Janagayak to JB Tuhure (Jutha Bahadur Tuhure Khangi) in recognition of his contribution to the nation through song and music.

Kathmandu, Aug 23: The government has approved the visit of Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal to the upcoming United Nations General Assembly (UNGA).

KATHMANDU, Aug 14: Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal has reshuffled the Council of Ministers 12 times within a period of seven months.

KATHMANDU, Aug 9: The Government of Nepal has given approval to Nepal Rastra Bank (NRB) to mint 150 million coins each with the denomination of Rs 5.

KATHMANDU, Aug 7: At a time when the country is facing economic recession, the government has doled out financial aid worth Rs 27.5 million in two months. According to the decision of the Council of Ministers, the amount worth Rs 3.5 million in mid-May and Rs 24 million in mid-July was distributed under the name of financial assistance.

KATHMANDU, Aug 4: The government has decided to accept 1.5 million and 55,505 US Dollars in grant to be received from the Global Environment Facility for Restoring the Degraded Watershed and Livelihoods of Lakhandei River Basin through Sustainable Land Management.

KATHMANDU, June 15: An emergency meeting of the Council of Ministers continues at the office of the Prime Minister and the Council of Ministers. Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal called an emergency meeting.

KATHMANDU, June 7: A cabinet meeting held on Wednesday has approved the visit of Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) Mayor Balendra Shah to Belgium.

KATHMANDU, May 30: The Council of Ministers on Tuesday discussed the issue of Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal’s official visit to neighboring India, starting from Wednesday.

DANG, April 28: Chief Minister (CM) of Lumbini Province, Dilli Bahadur Chaudhary has formed a four-member Council of Ministers.

KATHMANDU, April 24: The government is preparing to submit a proposal to the Council of Ministers in order to solve the legal complexity seen in the registration process of vehicles produced in Nepal after amending the related laws.

BIRENDRANAGAR, April 19: The number of ministries has been increased to eight in Karnali Province. The number of ministries in the province was reduced to seven on January 11 by the then CPN-UML and CPN (Maoist Center) coalition government.

KATHMANDU, April 12: A meeting of the Council of Ministers held on Tuesday approved a proposal received from the infrastructure committee of the Council of Ministers on testing the level of pesticides in all imported food items.

KATHMANDU, April 12: Due to internal tensions within the Nepali Congress (NC), the government led by the Chairman of the Maoist Center, Pushpa Kamal Dahal, has not yet been able to get full shape. The Council of Ministers could not be completed because the NC leaders, who had come together to break the seven-party alliance with the UML, did not agree on the division of ministries.

KATHMANDU, April 11: There was a discussion in the Council of Ministers about Kathmandu Metropolitan City not picking up the garbage of Baluwatar, Singha Durbar and Shital Niwas.

KATHMANDU, March 25: The ruling CPN (Maoist Centre) has decided to give full shape to the Council of Ministers by March 27 (Monday).

KATHMANDU, March 24: A cabinet meeting is being held today at the office of the Prime Minister and the Council of Ministers at Singha Durbar at 4 pm to take decision on the appointment of new police chief.

KATHMANDU, March 18: The list of martyrs who attained martyrdom during the armed struggle and the democratic revolution has been published in the Nepal Gazette. The list was published as decided by the Council of Ministers.

KATHMANDU, March 14: According to the Ministry of Home Affairs, there is no provision in the law about the perks and benefits that the former presidents and former vice presidents and the outgoing president and vice president will get.

KATHMANDU, Feb 12: Khum Kanta Paudel has been appointed the chief attorney of the Lumbini provincial government. Chief Minister of the province, Leela Giri appointed him to the position.

KATHMANDU, Feb 7: After the participation of the CPN (Maoist Center), the Council of Ministers of Madhesh Province has been completed.

Cabinet meeting begins

February 6, 2023 17:20 pm

KATHMANDU, Feb 6: A cabinet meeting is currently underway  at the Office of Prime Minister and Council of Ministers in Singha Durbar.

SURKHET, Jan 27: In the four-point agreement reached between the two parties before the formation of a new government, the ruling CPN-UML and the CPN (Maoist Center) had agreed to reduce the number of ministries to seven. It took two weeks for the Council of Ministers to fulfill the pledges made in the agreement due to the delay in implementing the agreement to remove one ministry from the existing eight.

KATHMANDU, Jan 15: The government has instructed to conduct a technical inspection of all domestic flights.

KATHMANDU, Jan 15: An emergency meeting of the cabinet held on Sunday afternoon decided to observe one-day national mourning on Monday to mourn over the deaths of dozens of passengers and crew members in the Yeti Airline plane crash in Pokhara.

KATHMANDU, Jan 15: An emergency meeting of the Council of Ministers has started in the official residence of the Prime Minister in Baluwatar.

KATHMANDU, Jan 6: The Supreme Court has asked the government why it shouldn’t scrap the legal provision that prevents the Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA), the constitutional anti-corruption watchdog, from investigating the policy decisions taken by the Council of Ministers.

KATHMANDU, Dec 27: President Bidya Devi Bhandari has summoned the first meeting of the newly-elected House of Representatives (HoR) on January 9.

KATHMANDU, Dec 20: A meeting of the Council of Ministers held on Sunday approved the Guidelines on Management of Seasonal Workers, 2079.

KATHMANDU, August 1: It has not been decided whether the Cabinet meeting scheduled for today will be held.

KATHMANDU, June 16: The Council of Ministers has decided to accept a grant of 376 million Japanese yen (equivalent to Rs 366.2 million) from the Japanese government for human resource development in Nepal, according to government spokesperson and Minister for Communications and Information Technology, Gyanendra Bahadur Karki.

KATHMANDU, April 17: The discussion was held about providing two days of holidays a week and running the office five days a week from 9AM to 5PM in the meeting of the Council of Ministers held on April 7.

KATHMANDU, Feb 1: The government has decided to accept a concessional loan amounting to USD 150 million from the World Bank.

KATHMANDU, Jan 26: The government has decided to accept grant assistance of up to Rs 2.61 billion from the Japanese government for the implementation of Biratnagar Drinking Water Improvement Project.

KATHMANDU, Oct 9: President of Nepali Congress (NC) and Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba has said that many ‘important leaders’ were left out in the process of giving full shape to the Cabinet. Stating that many leaders could not be included in the government because it is a coalition government, Deuba expressed his commitment to include these leaders in the coming days.

KATHMANDU, Oct 8: Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba expanded his Cabinet on Friday, giving full shape to the Council of Ministers, almost three months after the formation of a new government under his leadership.

Cabinet meeting underway at Singha Durbar

September 14, 2021 15:24 pm

KATHMANDU, Sept 14: Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba has called a meeting of the Council of Ministers.

Cabinet expansion likely by Monday

August 1, 2021 09:20 am

KATHMANDU, August 1: Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba and Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Centre) Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal have agreed to expand the cabinet by Monday.