KATHMANDU, March 31: Top leaders of various seven political parties in parliament have expressed commitment to pass the Citizenship Bill through parliament as soon as possible.

KATHMANDU, March 23: A parliamentary committee has directed the government to retrofit and repair the old parliament building located at Singha Durbar.

KATHMANDU, March 19: Prem Suwal, the Member of Parliament from Nepal Workers and Peasants Party (NWPP) has asked if the House of Representatives ( HoR) was a parliament or a club.

KATHMANDU, March 1: Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal is preparing to take a vote of confidence after the presidential election scheduled for March 9, according to a cabinet minister.

KATHMANDU, Jan 31: The government's intentions have been doubted after it tabled the Nepal University Bill in parliament, keeping the Education Bill pending.

The alliance, if materialized, makes them the third largest political force in parliament with a decisive say in the government

KATMANDU, Jan 10: The Nepali Congress (NC) is likely to vote in favor of the new government as Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal is scheduled to take a vote of confidence in parliament on Tuesday.

Addressing the first meeting of the newly-elected House of Representatives (HoR) on Monday, top leaders of all political parties represented in federal parliament have expressed commitment to work for the cause of people and the country. As the five-year term of the new parliament officially begins with the meeting, the countdown of the days for the lawmakers to fulfill their promises also starts earnestly.

KATHMANDU,Jan 9: The first meeting of the newly-elected House of Representatives (HoR) has started.

KATHMANDU, Jan 9: Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) Chairman Rabi Lamichhane has said that the government will be ruthless in the matters of corruption.

KATHMANDU, Jan 6: The senior member of the House of Representatives, Pashupati SJB Rana, has called an all-party meeting today to set the agenda for the first meeting of parliament.

KATMANDU, Jan 3: Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal is planning to take the vote of confidence in the parliament on January 10. Dahal, who was appointed as the new prime minister on December 25, took the oath of office and secrecy on December 26.

KATHMANDU, Dec 17: Leader of the CPN (Unified Socialist) and former Prime Minister Jhalanath Khanal has said that the political parties have no alternative than to work together.

KATHMANDU, Dec 13: Former Chief Justice Kalyan Shrestha has said that parliament should not enact laws without adequate discussion.

KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 11: Malaysian Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob dissolved parliament on Monday, paving the way for national elections to be held in the coming weeks.

KATHMANDU, Sept 22: There has been widespread criticism of President Bidya Devi Bhandari as she didn’t verify the Citizenship Bill within the deadline. The bill was re-passed by the House of Representatives and the National Assembly and submitted to the President for verification.

KATHMANDU, Sept 6: The House of Representatives (HoR) is meeting today. The meeting is going to be held at the Federal Parliament Building New Baneshwor at 1 PM.

KATHMANDU, Sept 1:  Suspended Chief Justice (CJ) Cholendra SJB Rana has claimed that an impeachment motion was registered against him in parliament after he set the verdict date in the Lalita Niwas land grab scam in which former prime ministers Madhav Kumar Nepal and Dr Baburam Bhattarai, too, are embroiled.

KATHMANDU, August 31: The Impeachment Recommendation Committee has started grilling suspended Chief Justice (CJ) Cholendra SJB Rana. The committee started recording Rana’s statement in the meeting room of the Law, Justice and Human Rights Committee at Singhadurbar on Wednesday.

KATHMANDU, August 31: Suspended Chief Justice (CJ) Cholendra SJB Rana has reached Singhadurbar to register his statement. The Impeachment Recommendation Committee of parliament summoned Rana, giving him an opportunity to defend the charges leveled against him today. The ruling parties filed the impeachment proposal against Rana last year with 21 charges.

KATHMANDU, August 31: Suspended Chief Justice (CJ) Cholendra SJB Rana will answer the 21 charges leveled against him before the Impeachment Recommendation Committee of the House of Representatives on Wednesday. The Impeachment Recommendation Committee formed by the House of Representatives has summoned Rana, giving him an opportunity to defend the charges against him.

KATHMANDU, August 23: Prem Suwal, member of parliament of Nepal Workers and Peasants Party, has said that the 'Disappeared Persons Investigation, Truth and Reconciliation Commission (Third Amendment) Bill, 2079' has not come to give justice to the victims.

KATHMANDU, August 18: CPN-UML lawmaker Bhim Bahadur Rawal has said that the President has fulfilled her constitutional duty to protect the nation by sending the Citizenship Bill back to parliament, adding that issues like citizenship cannot be announced by the ruling alliance. But he said that everyone agreed that those who are in fact Nepalis should get citizenship.

KATHMANDU, August 18: In today’s meeting of the House of Representatives (HoR), Speaker Agni Sapkota announced the list of parliamentarians who have been absent for 10 consecutive days or more. The Speaker announced the list of 15 MPs who have been absent for the longest time in the meeting of the HoR.

KATHMANDU, August 15: Nepali Congress (NC) General Secretary Gagan Kumar Thapa has said that there is no need to express anger over the President’s act of sending the Citizenship Bill back to parliament for reconsideration. He said that it is up to parliament to accept the message given by the President or to send the bill again as it is.

KATHMANDU, August 14: President Bidya Devi Bhandari, raising questions over the Citizenship Bill, is preparing to send it back to parliament. The president seems to be in favor of moving forward only after a serious discussion on the issue of citizenship, which is always controversial. It is said that the president is in favor of moving forward resolving the questions left by history and the problems raised by the present on citizenship.

KATHMANDU, August 10: The meeting of the House of Representatives is being held today. The meeting is sitting at 1 PM.

KATHMANDU, August 9: CPN-UML lawmaker Khagaraj Adhikari has accused Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba of not being accountable to parliament.

KATHMANDU, August 8: The investigation process against Chief Justice Cholendra SJB Rana, who was suspended after an impeachment motion was registered against him in parliament, has started after almost five and a half months. The meeting of the House of Representatives (HoR) on Sunday sent the motion to the impeachment recommendation committee of parliament. The committee will call Chief Justice Rana within a week after starting the work.

KATHMANDU, August 2: The Bill to amend the Nepal Citizenship Act 2063 passed by both houses of the Federal Parliament has now reached the verification stage. The pressure to stop it has increased as it will take the form of an Act after being approved by the President. According to analysts, the provision of the constitution that the president can stop the bill means that the bill should be people-friendly.

KATHMANDU, AUGUST 2: Five and a half months have passed since an impeachment motion was filed against Chief Justice Cholendra SJB Rana. But parliament has not yet put it on the agenda for discussion. From this, it is clear that parliament has neglected the judiciary. The meeting of the House of Representatives has been going on continuously since the impeachment motion was registered against the head of the judiciary. But since the political parties in parliament are not interested in proceeding with the impeachment process, it is being analyzed that the impeachment motion was registered only to humiliate the head of the judiciary.

KATHMANDU, August 2: The meeting of the Federal Parliament House of Representatives is sitting today. The meeting is scheduled to be held at 1 PM at the Federal Parliament Building, New Baneshwor.

KATHMANDU, July 26: The meeting of the Federal Parliament House of Representatives (HoR)-- the lower house of the federal parliament– will be held today. The meeting is going to be held at the Federal Parliament Building New Baneshwor at 1 PM.

KATHMANDU, July 22: The meeting of House of Representatives (HoR) on Friday endorsed the Citizenship Act, 2007 (First Amendment) Bill, 2022 through majority votes.

Four sessions in a year of the reinstated parliament

COLOMBO, July 18: Sri Lanka's acting President Ranil Wickremesinghe gazetted orders late on Sunday for a state of emergency in the crisis-ridden island nation, in an effort to head off unrest ahead of a vote in parliament later this week to elect a new president.

KATHMANDU, July 13: The meeting of the House of Representatives is being held today. The meeting will be held at 11 AM at the Federal Parliament building in New Baneshwor.

KATHMANDU, July 12: The Finance Committee of parliament has demanded detailed information from the Ministry of Home Affairs regarding the government's decision to purchase weapons for Nepal Police.

LONDON, July 12: The lower house of the Russian parliament will gather on July 15 for an extraordinary session, its council decided on Monday, just days after President Vladimir Putin warned that he had not even started to get serious in the war in Ukraine.

KATHMANDU, July 11: Speaker Agni Prasad Sapkota has drawn the attention of the government to give proper answers to the issues raised by the lawmakers in the zero hour and special hour. The lawmakers had repeatedly objected saying that the government was not interested in the issues raised during the zero hour.

KATHMANDU, July 7: The second meeting of House of Representatives (HoR) on Wednesday unanimously approved two bills.

KATHMANDU, July 6: The CPN (Maoist Center) is ready to investigate the case of Finance Minister Janardan Sharma, who is accused of involving outsiders in the preparation of the budget.

KATHMANDU, JULY 6: The House of Representatives has made preparations to pass the bills that have been stalled in the House one after another following the passing of the budget for the Fiscal Year 2079/80 BS. The meeting of the House of Representatives on Wednesday has set an agenda to pass three bills.

KATHMANDU, June 23: The ruling parties have agreed to take forward the citizenship bill in parliament.

KATHMANDU, June 22: Ruling coalition lawmakers including Nepali Congress (NC)’s Sajay Kumar Gautam, CPN (Maoist Center)’s Dharmashila Chapagain and CPN (Unified Socialist)’s Parwati Kumari Bisunke have criticized the government over the delay in providing fertilizers to the farmers, not allocating a budget for their electoral constituency in the budget for upcoming fiscal year, and not making any efforts to provide relief to the citizens hit the hardest by the spike in inflation.

KATHMANDU, June 21: Lawmakers have welcomed the government’s decision not to proceed with the State Partnership Program (SPP) proposed by the United States of America.

KATHMANDU, June 16: A meeting of the House of Representatives (HoR) on Thursday passed the Appropriation Bill, 2022.

KATHMANDU, June 13: Member of Parliament (MP) Umashankar Argariya has demanded the government declare Nepal as a commissions-oriented country and not an agricultural one.

KATHMANDU, June 12: Lawmakers participating in a discussion under the ministry-wise headings of the Appropriation Bill for the fiscal year 2022/23 in the House of Representatives today put their views on many issues in the budget.

KATHMANDU, June 11: Lawmakers in the parliament session on Friday demanded information on the upcoming talks with the British government regarding the demands of ex-Gorkhas.