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What is legislative intent and why lawyers want the bench to look to it
As lawyers pleading on behalf of petitioners challenging Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli’s House dissolution move continued to parse constitutional provisions, advocate Dinmani Pokhrel brought up one of Subas Nembang’s interviews in which the two-time…
Read More: What is legislative intent and why lawyers want the bench to look to it »Has Oli accepted the constitution has flaws and it needs amendments?
If there is any political figure in Nepal who has always demonstrated a strong position against amendments to the constitution, it is Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli. He has maintained a consistent position over the years that the constitution can be amended…
Read More: Has Oli accepted the constitution has flaws and it needs amendments? »Chief justice mandatorily chairing Constitutional Bench exposes a major oversight by charter drafters
Nepal’s present constitution was seven years in the making. It took two 601-member Constituent Assemblies, elected in 2008 and again in 2013 as the first one could not agree on the finer points, and billions of rupees for one to be finally drafted. When it…
Read More: Chief justice mandatorily chairing Constitutional Bench exposes a major oversight by charter drafters »प्रतिनिधि सभा विघटन: मुद्दा विचाराधीन रहँदा प्रधानमन्त्रीको अभिव्यक्ति कति उचित
प्रधानमन्त्री केपी शर्मा ओलीले प्रतिनिधिसभा विघटन गरेपछि उक्त निर्णयविरुद्ध सर्वोच्च अदालतमा परेको रिटको सुनुवाइ विचाराधीन छ। प्रधानमन्त्री स्वयम्ले विघटन गर्नुको कारणसमेत खुलाएर लिखित जवाफ अदालतमा पेश गरिसकेका छन्। पुष २२ गतेदेखि निरन्तर सुनुवाइ हुने भनिएको…
Read More: प्रतिनिधि सभा विघटन: मुद्दा विचाराधीन रहँदा प्रधानमन्त्रीको अभिव्यक्ति कति उचित »Karki recuses himself after lawyers question why he was on bench
A hearing on writs against Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli government’s decision to dissolve the House of Representatives was adjourned on Wednesday after Justice Hari Krishna Karki recused himself from the Constitutional Bench. Karki was picked as one of the…
Read More: Karki recuses himself after lawyers question why he was on bench »Worries grow as NCP rival factions issue veiled threats to influence Supreme Court verdict on parliament dissolution
KATHMANDU, Jan 4: Not only the constitutional experts but also the general public have grown worried as top leaders of the rival factions of the ruling Nepal Communist Party (NCP) are engaged in issuing veiled threats to the Supreme Court, which is due to…
Read More: Worries grow as NCP rival factions issue veiled threats to influence Supreme Court verdict on parliament dissolution »Call for criteria to select new KU vice-chancellor
As a search committee formed to recommend names of vice-chancellor candidates for Kathmandu University plans to start the selection process within a week, the incumbent and former university officials have demanded for a standard selection criteria. The 88th…
Read More: Call for criteria to select new KU vice-chancellor »Gyawali to travel to Delhi next month amid political turmoil in Kathmandu
As the political crisis unfolds in Kathmandu after Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli’s move of dissolving the House of Representatives, which resulted in the split of the Nepal Communist Party, Foreign Minister Pradeep Gyawali is set to travel to New Delhi next…
Read More: Gyawali to travel to Delhi next month amid political turmoil in Kathmandu »Chinese delegation meets Nepal PM amid political crisis
A Chinese delegation reportedly held talks with Nepali Prime Minister Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli and President Bidya Devi Bhandari in Kathmandu on Sunday in a first diplomatic step by the neighbouring power after the prime minister dissolved parliament a week…
Read More: Chinese delegation meets Nepal PM amid political crisis »Experts question if caretaker prime minister can reshuffle the Cabinet
Constitutional affairs experts have questioned Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli’s decision to reshuffle his Cabinet to induct eight ministers, five of them former Maoist leaders, and change the portfolio of five of his ministers. While critics say the Oli…
Read More: Experts question if caretaker prime minister can reshuffle the Cabinet »Nepal's government in grip of turmoil
KATHMANDU, Nepal -- Nepal's top leader dissolved parliament Sunday amid infighting among members of the governing party, throwing into doubt the political future of a strategically important Himalayan country where China and India have long jockeyed for…
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