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Nepal's Language Commission identifies eight more languages

The Language Commission had identified eight more languages in Nepal

Chinese vice minister arrives in Nepal

Leading a four-member delegation, Guo Yezhou, vice-minister of the International Department of the Communist Party of China (CPC), arrived in Kathmandu on Sunday to assess the ground situation after the dissolution of the House of Representatives by Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli

Nepal government to call winter session of upper house from January 1

Nepal’s cabinet recommended to President Bidhya Devi Bandhari to call the winter session of the upper house of the National Assembly from January 1 next year, The Himalayan Times reported

Temperature drops in Kathmandu valley

Winter persists with chilly weather as December is coming to a close in a few days

Nepalese experts question if caretaker prime minister can reshuffle cabinet

Constitutional affairs experts have questioned Nepal Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli’s decision to reshuffle his Cabinet to induct eight ministers, five of them former Maoist leaders, and change the portfolio of five of his ministers

Nepal’s Prime Minister Oli appoints new ministers

A beleaguered Nepal’s Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli appointed eight new ministers in his cabinet after expelling his rival, former prime minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal Prachanda from the ruling, NCP, reported The Himalayan Times

Nepal ruling-party crisis: Oli removes Prachanda from party chairman's post

Nepal's ruling party is witnessing high drama since Sunday ever since Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli dissolved the House of Representatives and proposed to hold midterm elections on April 30 and May 10

Nepal SC forms five-member constitutional bench for hearing writs against house dissolution

Nepal's Supreme Court has formed a five-member constitutional bench under Chief Justice Cholendra Shumsher Rana to hear the writ petitions filed against the government for House dissolution

Main opposition Nepali Congress declares nationwide protest on December 28

The main opposition party Nepali Congress has decided to go on a nationwide protest against dissolution of the House of Representatives

After Nepal ruling party split, there’s fight for party name and election symbol

While Supreme Court deliberations on the constitutionality of House dissolution goes on, the Election Commission is preparing for midterm polls in two phases on April 30 and May 10

Access to electricity is making new entrepreneurs in Nepal's rural areas

Indra Kumar Thapa spent most of his life in India where his father lived and worked

New Covid-linked ailment in infected Nepalese children raises alarm

Last week, a 13-year-old boy from Kathmandu admitted to Kanti Children’s Hospital for treatment died of multisystem inflammatory syndrome, believed to be linked to COVID-19

Nepal PM Oli removed as parliamentary party leader

Nepal Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli has been removed as the parliamentary leader of  the Nepal Communist Party amid internal turbulence within the Himalayan nation's ruling party that has triggered a fresh political crisis

Nepal’s last car porter dies

Hira Bahadur Ghalan, the last surviving porter who helped carry 25 vehicles into Kathmandu up and down mountain trails in the 1950s, has died in his home in Chitlang at the age of 89

Nepal ruling party heading for split?

Nepal's ruling party is all set to split into two factions, one led by Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli and the other by former Prime Ministers Pushpa Kamal Dahal 'Prachanda' and Madhav Kumar Nepal