Prachanda News

Nepal PM and vote of confidence: Prachanda last month broke off a democratic-communist alliance forging another alliance with CPN-UML (Communist Party of Nepal- Unified Marxist Leninist) and five other parties along with 2 other independent lawmakers. 

Budhi Gandaki Hydropower Project is a storage type project, located in Central/ Western Development region on the Budhi Gandaki River of Nepal.

Nepal Parliament on Tuesday elected Nepali Congress president Sher Bahadur Deuba as 40th Prime Minister of the land-locked country.

Nepal has signed a major deal with a Chinese company to develop a 1,200 MW hydroelectric project, the biggest hydro project in the landlocked country that could resolve its perennial power crisis.

Dahal, who had announced his resignation as the PM to honour an agreement with Sher Bahadur Deuba, said the process has already been initiated.  

Millions of Nepalese on May 14 voted in the country's first local-level polls.

Pushpa Kamal Dahal stepped down as Prime Minister of Nepal on Wednesday. 

Prime Minister Prachanda, a former Maoist rebel commander who still goes by his nom de guerre, is expected to stand down after the vote under a power-sharing deal.

Nepal Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal 'Prachanda', who is on a six-day visit to China, held a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing on Monday.

Manjeev Singh Puri, India's Ambassador to the European Union, Belgium and Luxembourg, is set to be the country's envoy to Nepal.

Prime Minister Prachanda's efforts to achieve reconciliation with the Madhesi issue received a setback on Thursday when the United Democratic Madhesi Front (UDMF) and the Federal Socialist Forum-Nepal (FSF-N) refused to back the Constitution Amendment Bill.

Nepal Premier Prachanda has telephoned Prime Minister Narendra Modi and sought an arrangement so that Nepalese holding a huge stock of banned high denomination Indian bank notes could swap them with legal currency in the country.

Nepal Prime Minister Prachanda today said his government was committed to table a proposal in the parliament by next week to amend the new Constitution and meet the long-pending demands of agitating parties, including Madhesis.

Pitching Nepal as a 'dynamic bridge' between India and China, Prime Minister Prachanda floated a proposal for trilateral strategic ties to Narendra Modi and Xi Jinping, Nepalese media reported.

Nepalese Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal 'Prachanda' has cancelled his scheduled visit to the United Nations, in order to address the concerns of the Madhesis and Janjatis over the Constitution, a statement said on Monday.

 External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj called on visiting Nepal Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal "Prachanda" here on Friday.

 Nepalese Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal "Prachanda" was accorded a ceremonial welcome at the Rashtrapati Bhawan here on Friday.

Underlining the urgency to unite despite differences in ethnicity and caste, Nepalese Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal on Thursday said till the time Tharus and Madhesis are not taken into confidence, atmosphere for implementing the new Constitution cannot be created.

Maintaining that India has never been prescriptive in the Constitution making process of Nepal, Ministry of External (MEA) official spokesperson Vikas Swarup on Thursday said that the Constitution making process is an internal matter of Kathmandu, adding it is for their people to discuss what is in their best interest.