Tag: #Pushpa Kamal Dahal
Articles tagged with #Pushpa Kamal Dahal
Old vs new
The UML-NC-NCP legacy parties face a formidable challenge from the alternative BRK alliance in March
Stages of denial
After all that has happened, it is obscene for obsolete politicians to still hanker for power
More things change, more they remain the same
Vehicles mired in the mud on Nepal’s highways are a fitting metaphor of the nation’s politics.
Rapid fire governments in Nepal
Nepali politics is in limbo again with a lame duck prime minister from a minority party
Nepal government changes again
K P Oli to be prime minister for 4th time, 6th tenure for Sher Bahadur Deuba
Hindutva juggernaut hits a speed bump
Message to Nepal’s leaders: mixing politics with religion does not work and voters will see through it all
Nepal’s corruption carousel
Public pressure to curb graft is making heads roll, but is it all just political drama?
Skeletons in the Cabinet
Some Cabinet members who have become ministers again despite nefarious pasts
Kosi now, Kathmandu next?
Will Pushpa Kamal Dahal keep his promise to hand over prime ministership to Sher Bahadur Deuba, or will he do an Oli?
RED to SAFFRON
Even by the standards set by Nepal’s flip-flopping politicians, Pushpa Kamal Dahal’s sudden U-turn is remarkable
Super-hit, or super-flop?
Prime Minister Dahal’s visit to India not received well in Nepal
An unceremonious President
The election of president should not involve such wheeling-dealing, in the spirit of inclusion it is the turn of a respected Janjati or Dalit candidate.
Nepal's political economy
The new government's biggest challenge is to save Nepal's economy (and itself) from collapse.
Oli-Dahal political déjà vu
Maoist chair Pushpa Kamal Dahal and CPN (UML) chair K P Oli are back in a coalition government, ousting Sher Bahadur Deuba and his Nepali…
Geopolitical tug-o-war over Nepal
Pushpa Kamal Dahal with Jagat Prakash Nadda, national president of BJP. Photo: JAGAT PRAKASH NADDA/TWITTERBarely days after Pushpa Kamal Dahal…
13 February
This week it will be 26 years since the Maoists took up arms against the state, and 16 years since the war ended. Sher Bahadur Deuba was prime…
Nepal House speaker embroiled in MCC row
A civil society group has urged Nepal’s political parties to take action against House Speaker Agni Sapkota, who they say has continuously…
Maoists backpedal on MCC letter
Illustration: RABINDRAPushpa Kamal Dahal usually gets favourable coverage in Nepal’s mainstream media. Which is why he must have been shocked…
‘Tis the season of conventions in Nepal
Photo: RSSAfter Nepal’s three major political parties held long overdue party conventions, it was the turn this week of the Communist Party of…
The business of politics
Illustration: BHANU ACHARYA/NEPALI TIMESDuring the 2017 elections, Baburam Bhattarai’s Naya Shakti Party propped up the Nepali Congress (NC)…
Toothless Commissions
The then Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala and rebel leader 'Prachanda' Pushpa Kamal Dahal signing the Comprehensive Peace Agreement in…
100 DAYS
Photo: MONIKA DEUPALAWednesday, 20 October marked 100 days since Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba assumed office, for the fifth time in his…
Nepal stuck between rock and hard place
Photo: AMIT MACHAMASIOn 9 September, while a US delegation was landing at Kathmandu airport on a four-day visit, Madhav Kumar Nepal, Pushpa…
Pushpa Kamal Dahal is still Prachanda
Illustration: DIWAKAR CHETTRINepal’s political headlines these days are mainly about the rift between K P Oli and Madhav Kumar Nepal that split…