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One month on
Caretaker government struggles to balance Constitution, election and youth demands
State vs Nature
Nepal’s Supreme Court has summoned the President Chure Terai Madhesh Conservation Development Board and the National Trust for Nature…
Right to marry in Nepal
Behind the scenes of Nepal court rejecting the registration of same-sex marriage
Nepal’s Citizenship Amendment Bill explained
Why it was blocked by the Supreme Court after the government sent it to the president for approval
Flight of fancy
Three days after the Supreme Court released the full text of its verdict ordering the government to halt all plans to build a new international…
“India-Nepal ties must move beyond 1950 treaty”
Till he was recalled last month by Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba, Nilambar Acharya was Nepal’s ambassador to India since 2019. Acharya had…
Nepal’s lawyers on warpath against Chief Justice
Even though Nepal’s political parties do not seem very keen for the moment to impeach controversial Chief Justice Cholendra SJB Rana, the mutiny…
Nepal Court orders Deuba to succeed Oli
Nepali Congress leader Sher Bahadur Deuba will become prime minister for the fifth time on Tuesday. Photo: RSSFor many, the Supreme Court’s…
Parliamentary whiplash
Illustration: SUBHAS RAIWe will finally know in 12 July the fate of the dissolved House, whether or not K P Oli stays on as prime minister, if…
Oli's gambit
Illustration: DIWAKAR CHETTRINepal’s Supreme Court has been overturning Prime Minister K P Oli’s moves to remain in office one by one, even as…
Political ball now in Nepal’s Supreme Court
All photos: AMIT MACHAMASIAn alliance of five political parties and factions opposed to Prime Minister K P Oli’s dissolution of the House and…
Political ball now in Nepal’s Supreme Court
All photos: AMIT MACHAMASIAn alliance of five political parties and factions opposed to Prime Minister K P Oli’s dissolution of the House and…
A crucible of fragile coalitions
Illustration: DIWAKAR CHETTRINepalis are wondering who won and who lost after the Supreme Court on 7 March effectively ruled that the Nepal…
“The goal is empowerment and independence of women”
As the world celebrates 110th International Women’s Day, Nepali Times caught up with Supreme Court Justice Sapana Pradhan Malla to discuss…
Parliamentary arithmetics
Photo: BIKRAM RAIThere are 10 days to go for Nepal’s Parliament to reconvene as per the Supreme Court verdict on Tuesday.A lot needs to happen…
Legal path to new Nepal government
Photo: AMIT MACHAMASINepal’s Supreme Court on 23 February reinstated the House of Representatives and ordered Parliament to convene within 13…
Supreme Court puts Nepal politics back on track
The Dahal-Nepal faction of the Nepal Communist Party, stage rallies in Ratna Park, Kathmandu, welcoming the SC decision to reinstate the Lower…
A Kathmandu Spring
The Nepal Communist Party (NCP) has by now squandered the overwhelming mandate it got in the 2017 elections to govern for five years, and its…
Nepal’s 1-Party-2-Central Committees system
How Chief Justice Cholendra Rana decides on Wednesday to deal with the 13 writ petitions against Prime Minister K P Oli’s dissolution of the…
Nepal’s 1-Party-2-Central Committees system
How Chief Justice Cholendra Rana decides on Wednesday to deal with the 13 writ petitions against Prime Minister K P Oli’s dissolution of the…
CIAA traps small fish, lets big ones go
Last September, contractor Sujan Poudel filed a complaint at the Commission for the Investigation for the Abuse of Authority (CIAA) against…
Spat with India may hurt Nepali workers
No one knows for sure how many Nepali workers are in India at any given time, but an estimated 600,000 came back because of the COVID-19 crisis.…
Devolving the judiciary
The organisational infrastructure of the court system is of critical importance for the success of Nepal’s new constitutional order. It is in…
Ncell ruling opens a can of worms
The Supreme Court verdict on Ncell this week has left more questions unanswered