Nepal on Saturday reported 17 more COVID-19-related fatalities, pushing the death toll to 1,087. The country also recorded 2,753 new cases
Power-surplus Nepal hopes to earn $100 million from electricity exports to India
From Thursday this week, Nepal started selling electricity, around 37 MW to Indian buyers, Nepal Electricity Corporation spokesperson Suresh Bhattarai confirmed to The Kathmandu Post. More bids are invited to sell 200 MW in India’s power exchange market on a long-term basis.
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Dahal-Nepal faction to ask Nepal PM Oli to fall in line or face the music
It looks like Nepal Communist Party chair Pushpa Kamal Dahal and his current allies, Madhav Nepal and Jhala Nath Khanal, have declared a war on KP Sharma Oli, the other party chair and prime minister
Decision not to call Nepal a federal democratic republic an attack on the system, experts say
Article 56 (1) of Nepal’s constitution reads: “The main structure of the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal shall be of three levels, namely the Federation, the State and the Local level”, thus indicating the nation’s official name
Oli and Dahal blow hot and cold, as Nepal's ruling party leaders play a game of brinkmanship
The ruling Nepal Communist Party, which has come so close to an implosion on more than one occasion since it was formed in May 2018, seems to have learned to live with one fact–keep fighting but find a way to resolve the differences
US policy towards Nepal expected to remain unchanged
With excitement over the imminent outcome of the US presidential elections and Democratic candidate Joe Biden’s victory expected, a new discourse on whether Washington’s foreign policy towards Nepal will change is likely to dominate in Nepali diplomatic and political circles in the coming days
Czech Republic to enhance ties with Nepal
The Czech Republic wants to increase people to people contact with Nepal and take bilateral relations between the two countries to the next level
Oli-Dahal meet ends inconclusively as fractures deepen in Nepal's ruling party
The meeting that took place today between the two co-chairs of ruling Nepal Communist Party (NCP) ended without a proper exit
Six held in Nepal in connection for human trafficking; three girls rescued
Police raided a hotel and arrested six persons allegedly involved in human trafficking in Dhangadhi Sub-metropolis of Kailali district
Indian Army chief takes cultural tour of Kathmandu
After arriving in Nepal on a three-day trip, Indian Army Chief General Manoj Mukund Naravane visited cultural sites in the Kathmandu Valley
Nepal hospital's emergency docs quit en masse
Sixteen doctors working in Bir Hospital emergency submitted resignation from their positions today. They handed over their resignation to Hospital Director Kedar Century after the hospital management failed to fulfil their demands
Nepal president’s involvement in party politics unwarranted and undermines high office, analysts say
There is a lot going on in the ruling Nepal Communist Party. Leaders are baying for each others’ blood
Indian Army Chief General Naravane arrives in Kathmandu
Indian Army Chief General Manoj Mukund Naravane arrived in Kathmandu on Wednesday on a three-day visit to the Himalayan nation at the invitation of his Nepali counterpart, General Purna Chandra Thapa
Nepal’s COVID-19 death toll surges past 1,000 with 20 more fatalities in the past 24 hours
Nepal on Tuesday reported 20 COVID-19-related fatalities taking the death toll to 1,004. The country also recorded 3,114 new cases, pushing the national infection tally to 179,614
What does Nepal PM Oli mean by ‘big action’?
Despite being pressured and cornered, Nepal Communist Party chair KP Sharma Oli, also the prime minister, has refused to relent
Contempt case registered in Nepal against Minister Dhakal, PM spared
Nepal's Supreme Court today registered a contempt of court case against Minister of Health and Population Bhanu Bhakta Dhakal for allegedly defying the SC directive to the government to provide diagnostic and therapeutic services to COVID patients free of cost
