KATHMANDU, Jan 24:  Two Madhesh-based parties have forged an alliance with Nepali Congress for the upcoming election of National Assembly scheduled for February 7.

KATHMANDU, Nov 16: The China Three Gorges Corporation (CTGC) and Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) have signed an agreement to jointly invest in the West Seti Hydropower project.

KATHMANDU, Oct 26: Indian establishment and Indian Ambassador to Nepal Manjeev Singh Puri have piled pressure on the Rastriya Janata Party (RJP) to forge electoral alliance with Nepali Congress (NC) for the upcoming elections.

KATHMANDU, Oct 13: Top leaders of the major political parties remained divided over the contents of the Bill on National Medical Education that is under consideration in the Parliament.

KATHMANDU, Oct 6: Rastriya Janata Party (RJP)-Nepal and Federal Socialist Forum Nepal have decided to make an alliance in upcoming provincial and federal elections.

KATHMANDU, Oct 5: The ruling Nepali Congress's efforts to forge an alliance among right-wing forces saw signs of progress Wednesday with some smaller parties expressing readiness to be part of the proposed "democratic alliance".

DANG, June 22: At a time when the various political parties are forging an electoral alliance in view of the second round of local elections slated for June 28, independent candidates have also taken this approach to turn the table in their favor.

BIRATNAGAR, June 17: The main opposition CPN (UML) and ruling Nepal Loktantrik Forum have forged coalition in the posts of mayor and deputy mayor in Biratnagar Metropolitan City for local level elections.

KATHMANDU, May 11: In Kathmandu and Lalitpur metropolitan cities, the main opposition party, CPN-UML, and Rastriya Prajatantra Party (RPP) have forged an electoral alliance for the mayoral posts in the upcoming local polls scheduled for May 14.

KATHMANDU, May 3 : The three major political parties are all trying to forge electoral alliances with like-minded forces to win support of constituencies that they consider to be their traditional support base.

KATHMANDU, April 27: International Development Partners Group, including the United Nations in Nepal, nine embassies diplomatic missions in Nepal and World Bank, issued a press release on Thursday and stated that they encourage efforts to continue to forge a political agreement to enable the participation of as wide a section of the population as possible in the upcoming local level elections.

BIRATNAGAR, April 22: Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Local Development Kamal Thapa has said United Democratic Madhesi Morcha(UDMF) will be ready to ink accord with the government within the next few days.

KATHMANDU, Jan 16: Naya Shakti Party-Nepal (NSP-N) Coordinator Dr Baburam Bhattarai and Federal Alliance (FA) have agreed to move ahead by forming a working alliance on Monday.

Parties fail to forge consensus, again

December 26, 2016 19:50 pm

KATHMANDU, Dec 26: The meeting of the seven political parties held at the call of Speaker Onsari Gharti failed to forge consensus on the measures to clear the political deadlock after the parties did not budge from their respective positions.

Nepal, Mongolia forge new agreement

December 19, 2016 15:33 pm

KATHMANDU, Dec 19: An agreement has been reached between Nepal and Mongolia whereby the diplomatic passport-bearers and government officials of both countries will not be obliged to take visa for visit to each country.

BHAKTAPUR, Dec 9: Deputy Prime Minister Bimalendra Nidhi has said government was ready to forge consensus by revising the constitution amendment bill registered at the Legislature-Parliament.

KATHMANDU, Oct 25: A standing committee meeting of the CPN-UML has decided to support the impeachment motion registered at the Legislature-Parliament against Chief of the Commission for Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA), Lokman Singh Karki, and to forge consensus in favor of the motion.

KATHMANDU, June 19: Government’s spokesperson and Minister for Information and Communications, Sherdhan Rai on Sunday argued that it was not necessary to reach an agreement with others to hold elections.