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Nepal parties’ deadline extended till July 12

With major political parties unable to arrive at a consensus after week-long parleys, Nepal President Ram Baran Yadav on Wednesday gave them additional time till July 12 to forge a unity government.

NC asks Maoists, UML to allow it to lead govt

Nepali Congress has asked other political parties, the Maoists and the CPN-UML to allow it to lead a national consensus government as both of them had their chance.
NC acting president Shushil Koirala, who had just returned from his medical treatment in the US, on Thursday told journalists at the Tribhuvan International Airport that the next government should be formed under the leadership of Nepali Congress.

Nepal SC to give verdict on Sobhraj on July 14

The fate of “bikini killer” Charles Gurmukh Sobhraj will be decided in July when Nepal’s Supreme Court gives its final verdict in the long-pending sensational murder case of an American backpacker in

Manisha ties knot in traditional ceremony

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Actress Manisha Koirala tied the knot with beau Samrat Dahal in a traditional ceremony here on Friday.

Nepal party rules out Maoist deal

Amid Maoists’ demand for a national consensus government, a top party in Nepal’s ruling coalition has claimed the former rebels have a hidden agenda of imposing totalitarian rule and said it cannot agree on a power-sharing deal unless completion of the peace process and drafting of a democratic Constitution are ensured.

Nepal PM will not quit immediately

Nepalese Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal will not step down immediately as there are other issues which needs to be sorted out, his party CPN-UML said on Wednesday, even as Maoists warned of a fresh

Maoists give Nepal PM 48 hours to step down

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Nepal’s main Opposition Maoist party on Monday issued a 48-hour ultimatum to the embattled Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal to quit, warning that the failure to implement the deal that paved the way

‘Never favoured idea of House to write statute’

In remarks that may raise a fresh storm in Nepal, Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal has said that he was never in favour of the Constituent Assembly drafting a Constitution and had agreed to it to “pl

Nepal: No emergency rule after May 28

Amid growing fears of a constitutional crisis and chaos in Nepal, the government on Saturday ruled out the imposition of an emergency rule with the deadlocked political parties set to miss a key deadline for the promulgation of a new Constitution at the end of May.

Prachanda ready to disband rebel army

As Nepal’s political parties struggled to reach a compromise to end the standoff between the government and the former rebels, the Maoist chief has said he was ready to dissolve the party’s paramilita

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