KATHMANDU, March 11: Speaker of the House of Representatives (HoR) Devraj Ghimire reached Bahrain on Saturday to participate in the 146th Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) which is going to be held on 11-15 March 2023.

KATHMANDU, March 7: Speaker Devraj Ghimire has said that there are still practical difficulties in taking women to key positions according to the legal system.

KATHMANDU, Feb 2: Speaker Devraj Ghimire has asked the parliamentarians to set an example in the parliamentary history of Nepal by solving the problems of citizens through parliamentary activities in a short period of time.

KATHMANDU, Jan 22: The newly-elected House of Representatives (HoR) Speaker Devraj Ghimire has said that the lower house of parliament would encourage healthy and policy debates in a properly managed way.

The newly-elected House of Representatives (HoR) on Thursday picked CPN-UML’s Devraj Ghimire as its Speaker. While the ruling alliance candidate got 167 votes, his rival candidate Ishwari Neupane of the Nepali Congress (NC) was limited to 100 votes in the 275-member parliament.

KATHMANDU, Jan 19: Devraj Ghimire has been elected as the Speaker of the House of Representatives. Ghimire got 167 votes and was elected to the crucial post.

KATHMANDU, Jan 19: Devraj Ghimire of the CPN-UML has been elected as the Speaker of the House of Representatives (HoR).

KATHMANDU, Jan 19: The election to pick the Speaker of the House of Representatives (HoR), the lower house of the federal parliament, is being held on Thursday.

KATHMANDU, Jan 19: Rabi Lamichhane, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Home Affairs and Chairman of Rastriya Swatantra Party, has said that parliament has not been able to carry out the necessary work on issues such as education and health, which are of direct concern to the common people.

KATHMANDU, Jan 19: Janata Samajwadi Party (JSP) Nepal is going to vote for UML's Devraj Ghimire as Speaker.

KATHMANDU, Jan 19:The election to pick the Speaker of the House of Representatives (HoR), the lower house of the federal parliament, is being held on Thursday.

KATHMANDU, Jan 18: The newly elected Speaker of the Madhesh Province Assembly, Ramchandra Mandal and Deputy Speaker Babita Kumari Raut Ishar have taken the oath of office and secrecy.

DHANGADHI, Jan 17: Bhim Bahadur Bhandari of the CPN (Maoist Center) has been elected as the Speaker of Sudurpaschim Province Assembly. Bhandari was elected as the speaker by getting 29 votes in the election held in the meeting of the provincial assembly on Tuesday morning.

JANAKPURDHAM, Jan 16: The Speaker's election in Madhesh Province has been postponed for a day. The Speaker's election is scheduled to be held tomorrow. Secretary Ranjit Kumar Yadav of the Provincial Assembly informed Republica that the meeting of the Provincial Assembly has been postponed to mourn the loss of life in the plane crash in Pokhara.

GANDAKI, Jan 14: Krishna Dhital of CPN (Maoist Centre) and Saraswati Aryal of Nepali Congress (NC) have fielded their candidacies for the post of Speaker of Gandaki Province Assembly.

POKHARA, Jan 14: The Gandaki Province Assembly is electing its Speaker today.

KATHMANDU, Jan 13: Rastriya Prajatantra Party (RPP) leader Bhuwan Kumar Pathak has been elected as the Speaker of the Bagmati Provincial Assembly.

KATHMANDU, Jan 13: With the date of the election of the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the race has started among the UML leaders to run for the Speaker. The Parliament Secretariat is going to make a schedule for the election to be held on January 19, and fix the time for submitting nominations till January 18. In the House of Representatives, the Speaker will be elected with the support of the majority of MPs.

KATHMANDU, Jan 11: Bhuvan Kumar Pathak of the Rastriya Prajatantra Party (RPP) has registered his candidacy for the post of Speaker of Bagmati Province Assembly on behalf of the ruling coalition. His proposer is CPN-UML parliamentary party leader Jagannath Thapalia and seconder is Yuvraj Dulal of the CPN (Maoist Centre).

KATHMANDU, Jan 12: Nominations are being registered today for the election of Speaker and Deputy Speaker of Bagmati Provincial Assembly.

BIRATNAGAR, Jan 11: Baburam Gautam has been elected unopposed as the Speaker of Province 1.

KATHMANDU, Jan 12: Elections are being held today for the election of Speaker of Sudurpaschim Province Assembly. The Provincial Assembly Secretariat said that the election of the Speaker will be held at 1 pm.

KATHMANDU, Jan 10: The election to the Speaker of House of Representatives (HoR) is scheduled for January 19.

KARNALI, Jan 10: The Karnali Province Assembly is to elect a new Speaker on January 15. At the meeting of the Province Assembly held on Monday, the eldest member of the Assembly fixed the date for electing the Speaker on January 15.

KATHMANDU, Jan 6: Preparations are being made so as to hold the election of the Speaker of the House of Representatives (HoR) on January 21.

KATHMANDU, Feb 1: Preparations are underway to bring a motion against Speaker Agni Prasad Sapkota on the charge of non-cooperation in the work of the government by continuously postponing the meeting of the House of Representatives.

KATHMANDU, Jan 9: Speaker Agni Prasad Sapkota has expressed confidence that the stalemate seen in parliament will end soon on the basis of political consensus.

KATHMANDU, August 23: The ruling alliance has expressed serious concern over the threats issued by a group of CPN-UML lawmakers against Speaker of House of Representatives (HoR) Agni Prasad Sapkota.

KATHMANDU, June 11: Speaker of the dissolved House of Representatives (HoR), Agni Prasad Sapkota is holding an all-party meeting today.

KATHMANDU, March 28:  Speaker of the House of Representatives (HoR) Agni Prasad Sapkota has called on Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli.

KATHMANDU, March 22: Speaker of the House of Representatives (HoR), Agni Prasad Sapkota has said that he will act impartially and neutrally to run the lower house of parliament effectively.

KATHMANDU, Feb 27: Speaker Agni Prasad Sapkota has expressed confidence that an understanding will be forged among the political parties with the reinstatement of the dissolved House of Representatives.

KATHMANDU, Oct 9: Speaker of Lumbini Province Assembly, Purna Bahadur Gharti, has been diagnosed with coronavirus disease (COVID-19).

KATHMANDU, May 3: Speaker of the House of Representatives, Agni Prasad Sapkota on Sunday held consultations with the officials of the federal parliament regarding conducting House meetings by ensuring risk reduction in view of COVID-19.

KATHMANDU, March 1: Speaker of the House of Representatives (HoR) Agni Prasad Sapkota on Monday drew the attention of the government regarding its decision to levy Rs 5 additional tax on petroleum products.

KATHMANDU, Feb 18: The Kathmandu District Court on Monday acquitted former speaker Krishna Bahadur Mahara of a charge of attempted rape.

KATHMANDU, Feb 11: Amid growing concerns regarding Nepal’s failure to settle the conflict-era cases and ensure justice to the victims, visiting Canadian Senate Speaker George J Furey is wrapping up his two-day visit to Nepal Tuesday without meeting the new speaker of the lower house Agni Sapkota – a former Maoist leader accused of murder during the decade-long insurgency.

KATHMANDU, Feb 11: Amid growing concerns regarding Nepal’s failure to settle the conflict-era cases and ensure justice to the victims, visiting Canadian Senate Speaker George J Furey is wrapping up his two-day visit to Nepal Tuesday without meeting the new speaker of the lower house Agni Sapkota – a former Maoist leader accused of murder during the decade-long insurgency.

KATHMANDU, Feb 2: The Speaker of the House of Representatives (HoR), Agni Prasad Sapkota, has expressed his commitment to work honestly to maintain dignity of the supreme body of people's representatives, HoR.

KATHMANDU, Jan 27: Soon after assuming the post of the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Nepal Communist Party leader Agni Prasad Sapkota has announced of giving up the general membership of the party.

KATHMANDU, Jan 26: Newly elected speaker of the House of Representatives (HoR) Agni Prasad Sapkota will be taking oath of office and secrecy on Monday morning.

KATHMANDU, Jan 26: As the government faces widespread criticism for some of its decisions such as the appointment of the chiefs and members of the two transitional justice (TJ) bodies and naming murder accused Agni Prasad Sapkota as speaker, the ruling Nepal Communist Party (NCP) and the main opposition Nepali Congress (NC) have agreed to move ahead defying all protests.

KATHMANDU, Jan 22: Nepal Communist Party (NCP) leader Agni Prasad Sapkota is all set to be elected speaker of the lower house of parliament unopposed as no other lawmaker contested against his candidacy.

Maoists took away my husband a decade and a half ago. Since then, my life has been an uphill struggle. Neither could I meet him alive nor was his dead body handed over to me. On April 29, 2005, my husband was attending a function at a local school when Bhola Aryal, Yadav Poudel and Shyam Gautam kidnapped him.

KATHMANDU, Jan 21: Leader Agni Prasad Sapkota from the ruling Nepal Communist Party has registered his candidacy to the post of Speaker. Sapkota registered his candidacy this afternoon at Lhotse Hall of Federal parliament Building, New Baneshwor.

KATHMANDU, Jan 21: After weeks-long wrangling between the two chairmen, the ruling Nepal Communist Party (NCP) on Sunday unanimously decided to pick Agni Sapkota – a preferred choice of Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal – as the party’s candidate for the Speaker of the House of Representatives (HoR).

KATHMANDU, Jan 17: Expressing concern over prolonged delay in convening the House of Representatives because of differences within the ruling Nepal Communist Party over the choice of a speaker candidate, a group of 17 prominent civil society leaders have urged the parties in power as well as others concerned to work proactively to end the impasse.

BIRATNAGAR, Jan 15: President of the main opposition Sher Bahadur Deuba has said that Speaker of the House of Representatives should be elected at the earliest.

KATHMANDU, Jan 15: The ongoing row over the post of House Speaker has ignited a serious dispute within the ruling Nepal Communist Party (NCP), with the leaders belonging to former CPN (Maoist Center) alleging that NCP leaders close to Prime Minister KP Oli were making an “unethical bargain”.

KATHMANDU, Jan 10: With just two days left for the next scheduled meeting of the lower house, the ruling Nepal Communist Party (NCP) has not yet held ‘serious’ discussions to decide its candidate for new speaker.