KATHMANDU, Aug. 8: A pair of black sunglasses has turned into an unlikely political symbol in Nepal’s parliament, prompting lawmakers to move toward restricting their use during House proceedings.
KATHMANDU. Members of Parliament (MPs) of the CPN (UML) will not be allowed to keep any family members as personal assistants. The criteria and procedures related to personal assistants passed by t...
Kathmandu, Aug 7: The meeting of the National Assembly scheduled for today has been postponed. The upper house of the Federal Parliament will next meet at 1:15pm on August 12. According to the Pa...
Kathmandu, Aug 7: The meeting of the National Assembly scheduled for today has been postponed. The upper house of the Federal Parliament will next meet at 1:15pm on August 12.
Miss Nepal made history in more ways this year. Anushka Shrestha became the first Miss Nepal to be elected to parliament, where she has been raising issues of art and entrepreneurship. Deepmala Dh...
Switzerland’s National Day highlights how multilingualism and local traditions can strengthen a nation’s shared future. My visits to the Swiss Parliament in Bern over recent years left me with man...
Kathmandu / Presentation of budget for the upcoming fiscal year 2083-84 BS ( 2026-27) commenced in the joint meeting of the federal parliament- House of Representatives (HoR) and the National Asse...
KATHMANDU, Aug 6: Nepal’s federal parliament has received a package of nine bills aimed at reshaping key areas of governance, justice delivery, social protection and administrative reform.
Kathmandu. Labor Culture Party's parliamentary party leader Harkaraj Rai has put forward a special proposal that all MPs should contribute 50/50 thousand rupees from their salaries to help the vict...
Kathmandu, Aug. 7: The meeting of the House of Representatives (HoR) is taking place at 1:00 pm today. According to the Federal Parliament Secretariat, four bills would be tabled in today’s HoR me...
Kathmandu, Aug 4: MPs from the ruling party, Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP), representing Sudurpaschim Province have expressed their commitment to raising their voices in parliament about the good ...
Kathmandu, May 22 Construction of the Federal Parliament Building located at Singha Durbar is nearing its final stages. The building has been constructed with a modern and grand structure. Interi...
The opposition accuses the government of failing to introduce enough bills on time. The federal parliament is set to reconvene on Thursday after a fortnight-long recess, but lawmakers are returnin...
KATHMANDU, July 30: The internal dispute within the ruling Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) has moved from the streets to Parliament and now to the party’s central committee meeting. The conflict bet...
Kathmandu. In the meeting of the Infrastructure Development Committee under the House of Representatives, MPs drew the government's attention to the lack of inter-ministry coordination in developme...
Kathmandu, Aug. 5: The meeting of the National Assembly (NA) is taking place at 1:15 this afternoon. As shared by the Federal Parliament Secretariat, Home Minister Sudan Gurung is scheduled to res...
Kathmandu, July 30: The meeting of the House of Representatives (HoR) is taking place today. The meeting has been scheduled for 11:00 am, according to the Federal Parliament Secretariat.
Officials are unable to provide a definitive timeline for completion of the Rs5.67 billion project. Parliament continues to operate from improvised chambers. Nearly seven years after construction ...
KATHMANDU, July 29: The government has granted approval for presenting various nine bills in the parliament.
Kathmandu. Nepali Congress MP Bharat Kumar Swarn has objected in Parliament, stating that Prime Minister Balendra Shah has not granted him an audience. Speaking during the zero hour of Friday's Hou...
Nepal’s parliament has recently enacted the landmark legislation - Alternative Development Finance Mobilisation Act, 2083. The new legislation establishes a separate alternative financing fund and ...
Decision revives concerns over nepotism, political patronage and misuse of public funds. The federal government has decided to restore personal secretaries for members of the federal parliament, a...
KATHMANDU, July 29: The government has granted approval for presenting various nine bills in the parliament.
Kathmandu. Communist Party of Nepal (CPN) MP Parwati BK has objected in Parliament, stating that she has been subjected to a series of 'cyberbullying' and 'harassment' through social media. In Fri...
Kathmandu, July 27: Three parliamentary committees under the Federal Parliament are meeting today.
Before invoking the need for an ordinance, Nepal’s political culture has yet to develop a practice of publicly explaining the constitutional grounds for bypassing Parliament. On April 21, Prime Mi...
KATHMANDU, July 29: The Parliamentary Hearing Committee of the Federal Parliament is set to conduct the hearing of proposed Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Man Bahadur Karki today (Wednesday). Th...
Kathmandu. CPN (UML) has passed a directive related to the personal staff that MPs will receive. The CPN (UML) parliamentary party meeting held in Singh Durbar on Friday passed the directive, inclu...
Bhumika Shrestha was bullied out of school and once struggled to find words for her identity. Now she sits in Nepal’s federal Parliament, carrying decades of activism into the country's highest leg...
NEW DELHI, July 21: Thousands of supporters of the youth-led Cockroach movement gathered Monday to march to India's Parliament, demanding the resignation of the education minister despite police de...
Kathmandu. Opposition parties have protested by standing up in the meeting of the House of Representatives. As soon as Speaker Shukra Raj Pathak started the meeting in the Parliament Building, Sing...
Lawmakers question repeated revisions to the bill through which tax rates and fiscal provisions were altered. Opposition demands parliamentary investigation. Lawmakers have demanded a parliamentar...
KATHMANDU, July 14: Members of the House of Representatives, the lower house of the Federal Parliament, have called for the immediate addressing of the problems faced by landless squatters and thei...
Kathmandu. The date and time of the National Assembly meeting under the Federal Parliament has been changed. The meeting scheduled for today has been postponed. According to a notice issued by Pad...
The government is discussing fresh legislation as eight ordinances remain pending in Parliament, with opposition parties seeking their rejection and several key provisions already implemented. Fou...
KATHMANDU, June 15: Meetings of both houses under the Federal Parliament are scheduled to take place today. The session of the House of Representatives (HoR) will commence at 11:00 am, while the Na...
Kathmandu. Today, meetings of three parliamentary committees of the Federal Parliament are being held. A discussion on the 'Tourism Bill, 2081' with subject matter experts is scheduled for the Inte...
Prime Minister Shah’s border-related remarks and procedural disputes have repeatedly disrupted the budget session amid opposition protests and boycotts. Nepal’s federal parliament, constitutionall...
PATAN, June 4: Speaker Dol Prasad Aryal has asserted that the Federal Parliament is committed to the effective implementation of rights of Dalit community managed in Article 40 of the Constitution.
Kathmandu. The meeting of the Federal Parliament House of Representatives is convening today. The potential agenda includes presenting four bills and one report in the meeting to be held at 1:00 PM...
Prime minister tells Parliament that reports submitted to the government, including the Gen Z protest report, will be acted upon, while the Lipulekh-Limpiyadhura-Kalapani dispute will be addressed ...
The government’s decision to exclude current ministers and members of Parliament from the jurisdiction of the asset investigation commission in the updated House Rules of Procedures passed recently...
Kathmandu. The National Assembly meeting will convene for 3 days, excluding today, throughout the month of Saun. According to the updated schedule published by the Federal Parliament Secretariat, N...
Education encompasses a meagre 10.75 percent of the national budget, down from 17.1 percent in 2011-12. Two days before its presentation in Parliament, the government is giving final touches to th...
KATHMANDU, May 29 : Harka Sampang, chairperson of the Shram Sanskriti Party, walked out of the federal parliament while the national budget presentation was still underway.
Kathmandu. The Federal Parliament Secretariat has not included 'Direct Question and Answer with the Prime Minister' in the upcoming one-month fortnightly schedule of the House of Representatives. A...
News reporting must be protected from those who would turn it into a circus, but it must never be silenced. The premises of Nepal’s parliament are increasingly being transformed into a theatre of ...
KATHMANDU, May 27: CPN-UML lawmaker Ain Mahar has expressed strong dissatisfaction over the internal design of the new Parliament building being constructed in Singha Durbar, saying the assembly ha...
Kathmandu. The upcoming one-month potential schedule of the Federal Parliament, House of Representatives has been made public. According to the schedule released by the Secretariat, from Shrawan 15...
Kathmandu. Minister for Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs, Sovita Gautam, has stated that only the parliament has the authority to regulate and control the government's actions. Speaking at a...
Kathmandu. An 'Urgent Public Importance Proposal' has been registered in the Federal Parliament House of Representatives regarding the eviction of landless squatters living on riverbanks across the...
Kathmandu. The Industry, Commerce and Labour and Consumer Interest Committee of the Federal Parliament has raised questions about various allowances received by Nepal Oil Corporation employees amou...
Kathmandu. Opposition parties have protested by standing up in the meeting of the House of Representatives. As soon as Speaker Dol Prasad Aryal started the meeting in the Parliament Building in Sin...
Kathmandu. During discussions in the parliamentary committee regarding the amendment of the Nepal Rastra Bank Act, members of parliament expressed differing views on the structural reform of the ba...
Kathmandu. Members of Parliament of the Nepali Congress will now have to compulsorily prepare a 'report card' for performance evaluation. The Congress has issued the 'Parliamentary Coordination Wo...
Kathmandu. The meeting of the Federal Parliament House of Representatives is scheduled to be held today (Tuesday) at 1:00 PM. The agenda for today's House of Representatives meeting includes the pr...
Kathmandu. The Nepali Congress Parliamentary Party has issued new criteria for the appointment of personal secretaries (PAs) to make the performance of its MPs more effective and organized. The par...
Kathmandu. The meeting of the Finance Committee of the Federal Parliament has discussed and passed various eight clauses of the bill under consideration with amendments. In the meeting of the comm...
New Delhi. The number of judges including the Chief Justice in the Indian Supreme Court will now increase from 34 to 38. The bill brought to increase the number of judges in the Supreme Court was ...
Kathmandu. Four subject committees of the Federal Parliament are meeting today. According to the Federal Parliament Secretariat, the meetings of the Finance Committee, the Women and Social Affairs...
Kathmandu. The Public Accounts Committee under the Federal Parliament is going to start the investigation and discussion process on various complaints received by it from today. The full meeting of...
Kathmandu. Nepali Congress MP Krishna Prasad Sitoula has urged the Prime Minister and ministers to be accountable and responsible to the parliament. He made this appeal during the National Assembl...
Kathmandu. The government has registered a new bill in the Federal Parliament Secretariat to stop the 'double benefits' that officials of constitutional bodies have been receiving from the state tr...
Kathmandu. The government has registered 9 bills in the Federal Parliament Secretariat in a single day. The bills were registered in the House of Representatives and the National Assembly on August...
Kathmandu. The meeting of the Federal Parliament, House of Representatives is convening today. According to the Federal Parliament Secretariat, the meeting of the House of Representatives will begi...
Kathmandu. The Council of Ministers meeting held on Wednesday has made various decisions public. The meeting approved the submission of various 9 bills to the Federal Parliament, and made decisions...
Kathmandu. The Parliamentary Hearing Committee of the Federal Parliament has unanimously approved the names of Man Bahadur Karki for Chief Election Commissioner and Gurupasad Wagley and Dr. Rajiv S...
Kathmandu. Meetings of two parliamentary committees under the Federal Parliament are being held today. The Federalism Strengthening and National Concerns Committee and the Parliamentary Hearing Com...
Kathmandu. The Federal Parliament Secretariat has urged the members of both houses of the Federal Parliament to submit their asset details for the fiscal year 2082/083. The Parliament Service Manag...
Kathmandu. Speaker DP Aryal has expressed dissatisfaction over the delay in construction work while inspecting the new parliament hall, which is in the final stage of construction at Singha Durbar....
Kathmandu. The meeting of the House of Representatives under the Federal Parliament is scheduled to be held on Monday. The 23rd meeting of the second session is scheduled for 11 AM on Monday. Acco...
Kathmandu. The meeting of the House of Representatives under the Federal Parliament is convening today. The discussion on the annual estimate of revenue and expenditure will continue in the meeting...
Kathmandu. The potential agenda for the meeting of the House of Representatives, the second session of the Federal Parliament, scheduled for Monday has been made public. The main agenda for the 18t...
Kathmandu. Speaker of the House of Representatives Dol Prasad Aryal has said that the Federal Parliament is fully committed to eradicating caste discrimination and untouchability. He said this whi...
Kathmandu. The working procedure of the Law, Justice and Human Rights Committee under the Federal Parliament has been passed. The committee meeting held at Singh Durbar on Wednesday passed the work...
Kathmandu. The House of Representatives meeting under the Federal Parliament is also scheduled to convene today. The Federal Parliament Secretariat has set the agenda for the meeting to be held at ...
Kathmandu. Prime Minister Balen Shah has reached the Parliament building. As the budget speech for the upcoming fiscal year is scheduled for Friday, Prime Minister Shah reached the Parliament build...
Kathmandu. Finance Minister Dr. Swarnim Wagle is presenting the budget for the upcoming fiscal year in the joint meeting of the Federal Parliament today. The government, formed with approximately a...
Kathmandu. Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) House of Representatives member Mingma David Sherpa has climbed Mount Everest with the logo of the Federal Parliament. It has been informed that he climbed...
Kathmandu. Discussions will be held in various thematic committees under the Federal Parliament focusing on the budget for the upcoming fiscal year and the issue of resolving the problems of landle...
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