Gagan Thapa, the General Secretary of the Nepali Congress (NC), suggested a prohibition on professors, teachers, and students from becoming members of the NC. He argued that the education sector has been negatively affected by political involvement. Thapa emphasized that the circumstances have changed since his own involvement in student politics, which was influenced by […]
A three-member delegation of the ruling Nepali Congress party, led by party Joint General Secretary Prakash Sharan Mahat, is all set to leave for India tomorrow at the invitation the southern neighbor’s ruling Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP). The visit is reportedly aimed at improving bilateral as well as diplomatic ties between the two countries. The
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Sessions of both the Upper and Lower House of the federal Parliament are all set to begin at 4:00 pm today at the Parliament Building in New Baneshwore, Kathmandu. President Bidya Devi Bhandari had summoned the session of the House according to article 93(1) of the Constitution on the recommendation of the government. Today’s meetings
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The Education Department of the Nepali Congress (NC) has made public its proposed report of the national education policy which aims at keeping teachers, professors and students away from party politics. It has proposed to make Nepal’s education system globally competitive. Coordinator of the education department and central member of the party Hari Prasad Nepal
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The main opposition party Nepali Congress (NC) has deployed its central leaders to various district to participate in a nationwide protest program scheduled to be held on Monday against the government’s inaptitude as well as the earlier arrest of party senior leader Ram Chandra Poudel in Tanahun. According to Krishna Poudel, chief secretary of the
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As the dust following an intra-party rift within the ruling Nepal Communist Party (NCP) settles, an outcry has started to surface in primary opposition party Nepali Congress (NC) — factionalism being the main reason for both NCP and NC. Participating in a virtual meeting on Saturday, the Ramchandra Paudel-led faction of NC discussed strategies to
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Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli today said that he has been personally looking into the Rs 10 billion expenditure incurred by the government for the control, treatment, and prevention of coronavirus and would not let off anyone if found guilty of corruption, including the Nepal Army. The PM said so during a meeting with a
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The main opposition Nepali Congress has urged the government to intensify diplomatic efforts to ensure the country’s rights in the Kalapani area after the country includes its updated political and administrative map in Schedule 3 of the constitution. The main opposition through a press statement today said the campaign to reclaim encroached territories would enter
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Nepali Congress registered a private constitution amendment bill at the Parliament Secretariat seeking to change the constitution’s provisions related to citizenship, language, provincial boundaries and formation of a boundary commission on Tuesday. The same bill was registered three years ago in July 2017 by party President Sher Bahadur Deuba which had been rejected due to
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The main opposition party, Nepali Congress, obstructed today’s House of Representatives meeting protesting the Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority’s decision to indict its parliamentary party’s deputy leader Bijaya Kumar Gachhadar on a corruption case. Gachhadar is one among 175 defendants indicted in a charge-sheet that the anti-corruption constitutional body had registered at the
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