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Kathmandu, April 10 Ruby Kumari Thakur of the Shram Sanskriti Party was elected as the Deputy Speaker of Nepal's House of Representatives on Friday, with the support of the ruling Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP).During the voting in the Lower House, the majority of the lawmakers endorsed a...

Kathmandu, April 10 – Rubi Kumari Thakur, 26, was elected as the Deputy Speaker of Nepal's House of Representatives (HoR) on Friday, becoming the youngest person ever to hold the position as the country's politics witnesses a generational shift.A lawmaker in the lower house elected through the...

Kathmandu, April 8 Nepalese President Ram Chandra Paudel will address a joint session of both houses of the Parliament on Friday.The Office of the President has sent a letter to the Parliament Secretariat requesting necessary arrangements for the address.President Paudel has called for a...

Tokyo, April 6 – The Japanese government is arranging summit talks with Iran, Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said on Monday, according to local media reports."We are preparing dialogues at the leadership level at an appropriate time," Takaichi told a parliamentary committee in response to a...

In Nepal, Dol Prasad Aryal, the leader of the ruling Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP), was elected as the Speaker of the country’s Parliament today. President Ramchandra Paudel administered the oath of office and secrecy to Mr. Aryal at a special ceremony held at the President's office this...

Kathmandu, April 5 Dol Prasad Aryal, a leader of the ruling Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP), was elected as the Speaker of Nepal's Parliament on Sunday.President Ramchandra Paudel administered the oath of office and secrecy to the newly elected Speaker, Aryal, at a special function at his...

Kathmandu, April 5 – Dol Prasad Aryal, the vice-president of the Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP), was declared the Speaker of Nepal's House of Representatives after being the sole candidate for the post.At a meeting of the lower house on Sunday, senior lawmaker Arjun Narsingh KC formally...

April 03, Kathmandu – In Nepal, the Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) has decided to nominate its Vice President, Dol Prasad Aryal, as the candidate for Speaker of the House of Representatives (HoR).This decision was made during a parliamentary party meeting of the RSP held at Singhadurbar on...

Kathmandu, April 3 A lawmaker from Nepal's ruling Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP), D P Aryal, is likely to be elected as the Speaker of the House of Representatives, as he was the only candidate to file nomination papers for the post on Friday.The election for the post of Speaker will take...

The Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) had decided to nominate its Vice President, Dol Prasad Aryal, as a candidate for Speaker of the House of Representatives (HoR). This decision was made at a parliamentary party meeting of the RSP held in Singhadurbar yesterday. A proposal made by RSP President...

Kathmandu, April 2 Former Nepal Prime Minister K. P. Sharma Oli will remain in judicial custody for two more days as a district court here permitted the police to extend his detention on Wednesday.The deposed Prime Minister and then Home Minister Ramesh Lekhak were arrested on March 28 for...

Kathmandu, April 1 The House of Representatives of Nepal will elect a new Speaker on Sunday, sources said on Wednesday.An all-party meeting held at the Singhadurbar secretariat on Wednesday decided to submit nominations for the Speaker candidates on April 3 and conduct the election on April 5...

Kathmandu, April 1 The most senior judge of the Supreme Court, Sapana Malla, took over as the acting Chief Justice of Nepal on Wednesday.Malla, 62, assumed the top judicial position following the retirement of Chief Justice Prakash Man Singh Raut on Tuesday, when he reached the retirement age...

Kathmandu, March 31 The Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist) announced a two-week-long protest starting April 11 against the arrest of former prime minister and party chairman K P Sharma Oli.Former prime minister and then home minister Ramesh Lekhak were arrested on Saturday for...

Kathmandu, March 30 Nepal's President Ramchandra Paudel has called sessions of both houses of parliament on April 2, following a recommendation from the newly formed government led by Prime Minister Balendra Shah.Paudel has called the session of the House of Representatives (HoR) and the...

New Delhi, March 30 The Lok Sabha session was adjourned until 12:30 pm following protests by opposition members demanding a discussion on the West Asia crisis.The issue came up as soon as Zero Hour began at 12 noon, with Congress leader Manish Tewari stating that a discussion on West Asia was...

New Delhi, March 29 Nisha Mehta, a graduate of the College of Nursing, AIIMS, Delhi, has been appointed as the health minister of Nepal, an official statement said on Sunday.In a statement, AIIMS Delhi said, "This remarkable achievement is a moment of great pride for the institution and the...

March 27, New Delhi: Balendra Shah has been officially appointed as the new Prime Minister of Nepal. President Ram Chandra Paudel administered the oath of office and secrecy to Shah in a ceremony held at the President's Office in Nepal on Friday.Under constitutional provisions, Shah will now...

Kathmandu, March 27 Rapper-turned-politician Balendra Shah 'Balen' took the oath as Nepal's democratically elected prime minister on Friday, about six months after the K P Sharma Oli-led government was ousted in a Gen-Z protest that shook the nation.The 35-year-old leader of the Rastriya...

March 27, New Delhi – Balendra Shah, a senior leader of the Rastriya Swatantra Party, is set to be sworn in as Nepal's youngest Prime Minister.Popularly known as ‘Balen’, he was projected as the party's prime ministerial candidate during the campaign leading up to the March 5 general election...