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Coalition-Congress rift widens as attacks get personal

Nepal, May 20 -- The ruling and opposition parties seem to be drifting further apart over the issue of investigating the cooperatives scam as leaders from the Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) and the Ne... Read More


Government set to relax party split rules

Kathmandu, May 18 -- The government is preparing to revise the Political Parties Act to ease the conditions for splitting a political party. On Friday, the government wrote to the Parliament Secretar... Read More


Ruling coalition and opposition on collision course

Kathmandu, May 17 -- The parliamentary meeting on Thursday that was expected to end the ongoing impasse ended up in a scuffle between the ruling and opposition lawmakers. The House meeting called for... Read More


Patan High Court clears Lamichhane of rape charge

Kathmandu, May 16 -- The Patan High Court on Wednesday acquitted cricketer Sandeep Lamichhane of rape. Overturning the verdict of the Kathmandu District Court, a division of bench of judges Surya Dar... Read More


Is judicial supremacy trumping constitutional supremacy in Nepal?

Nepal, May 15 -- Nepal's judiciary is often accused of engaging in judicial activism. The latest episode came on May 3. A division bench of justices Sapana Pradhan Malla and Saranga Subedi, while pas... Read More


Reparation no substitute for truth and prosecution, say conflict victims, activists

Kathmandu, May 12 -- As the government starts preparing a reparation action plan, the insurgency-era victims and human rights defenders have cautioned not to present reparation as a substitute for oth... Read More


Attorney general's 'clean chit' to home minister stirs debate

Nepal, May 10 -- A year after clearing Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Home Affairs Rabi Lamichhane of any wrongdoing in the dual passport case, the Office of the Attorney General issued a lett... Read More


It does not suit the Congress to change its position on transitional justice

Nepal, May 6 -- The budget session of the federal parliament starts Friday without the resolution of the long-standing differences between the ruling and opposition parties over the formation of a par... Read More


Janata Samajbadi Party Nepal, a ruling partner, splits

Kathmandu, May 6 -- The ruling Janata Samajbadi Party Nepal split on Sunday after a majority of its lawmakers and over two dozen central committee members applied for the formation of a new party at t... Read More


Experts warn against hasty change in electoral system

Kathmandu, May 4 -- The calls to amend the Constitution of Nepal to revisit the current electoral system have been growing over the months. It formally started with the Nepali Congress Central Working... Read More