It appears that Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal "Prachanda" is both elated and worried with the overwhelming vote of confidence in the parliament. Observers have been dissecting the mo…

Nepali politics continues to throw surprises on a regular basis. On Christmas Day, CPN-Maoist Centre Supremo Pushpa Kamal Dahal "Prachanda" took the oath of office as the prime minister by …

Christmas Day ushered in a surprise for Nepali people when the incumbent coalition broke down and an altogether new government has been formed. Nepal Congress (NC), the biggest party after the gen…

A ray of light has appeared amidst the gloom and doom of Nepali politics. Two dynamic young leaders Gagan Kumar Thapa and Bishwa Prakash Sharma were elected to the post of general secretaries of Nepa…

After going through Zhou Shengping's book "Mend or End: Nepal in the Eyes of a Chinese Journalist", the reader arrives at the conclusion that Zhou loves Nepal. His love for the Himalaya…

The frivolity with which successive governments of Nepal have been handling diplomatic matters is worrying. Take the arbitrary recall of ambassadors. The incumbent government has repeated the mist…

Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba-led government has completed its 100 days this week. Never even in his wild dreams must Deuba have had envisioned leading a government before next elections after th…

Madhav Kumar Nepal, senior leader of the opposition party CPN-UML, is caught in the horns of dilemma. On the one hand, he cannot leave the UML to form a new party. On the other, it is anathema for hi…

Journalist-turned-politician Rabindra Mishra's new proposal to roll back federalism and conduct referendum on the issue of secularism with the aim of reverting the country to Hindu state  ha…

Nepali people, disappointed with the failure of KP Sharma Oli-led government to procure vaccines against the coronavirus, have got a reason to celebrate after China promised to dispatch four million …

With the dissolution of the parliament for the second time, Nepal's political uncertainty has entered yet another phase. Although Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli's decision to dissolve the House…

The Supreme Court's verdict awarding the name Nepal Communist Party (NCP) to Rishi Kattel and reviving CPN-UML and CPN-Maoist Centre has changed the course of Nepali politics. Prime Minister K…

The government's decision to dissolve the House of Representatives and the prolonged legal challenge against it has brought a new bout of instability in the country. The backers of Prime Minis…