Nepal
Nepali guide creates world record by climbing Everest twice
Sherpa first reached the top of the mountain in the evening of May 7 as a member of a rope-fixing team, and then performed the feat again on the morning of May 11, while guiding an expedition team consisting of Bahraini Prince Sheikh Mohammed Hamad Mohammed Al Khalifa, according to the company which organised both expeditions.
Nepal PM Oli loses vote of confidence in Parliament
Oli needed 136 votes to win the trust vote in the 271-strong House of Representatives. Of the 232 lawmakers present in the House on Monday, 93 cast their votes in favour of Oli, while 124 voted against the motion. A total of 15 lawmakers remained neutral.
Nepal's Oli government slips in minority
With this Maoist's decision, the Oli government has been reduced into a minority who is going to test the floor on May 10. Maoist's decision comes days before Prime Minister Oli had decided to seek a vote of trust from Parliament on May 10. Through the vote of confidence, Oli will try to prolong his stay while the Opposition will try to unseat him who are now struggling to get the required magic numbers to remove him.
Nepal oppn seeks Oli's resignation
The decisions were taken at a Central Working Committee (CWC) meeting of the NC. NC spokesperson Bishaw Prakash Sharma said the part has decided to seek Oli's resignation as he has not taken any initiative of a way forward despite the House of Representatives, which he dissolved in December 2020, being restored.
Boundary issue with India will be resolved through diplomatic talks: KP Sharma Oli
Although Nepal and India held ministerial-level talks in New Delhi last month, the two sides could not hammer out the differences after the Himalayan nation unveiled a new map in May 2020. He made the remarks at a seminar titled, ‘Nepal's International Border Security and Areas of Coordination among Border Management related Agencies', organised by the Nepal Army.
China to send 3 lakh doses of Covid vaccine to Nepal
In order to implement Chinese President Xi Jinping's solemn commitment that China will make its vaccine a global public good once available, and on the request of the Nepali government, the Chinese government has decided to provide Covid-19 vaccine to Nepal.
Prachanda faction expels Prime Minister Oli from party
Since then, the Nepal Communist Party is acting like two parties -- one headed by Oli himself and the other led by former Prime Ministers Pushpa Kamal Dahal aka Prachanda and Madhav Kumar Nepal. Both sides are running separate programmes across the country under the same banner as they await official recognition from the Election Commission.
India sending one million Covid-19 vaccines to Nepal
Addressing a press conference along with Indian Ambassador to Nepal, Vinay Mohan Kwatra, Tripathi said the Government of India will hand over the Covid vaccine manufactured by the Serum Institute of India.
Will retrieve Nepali territory from India, asserts Nepal PM KP Sharma Oli
Addressing the National Assembly, he said that one of the prime items on the agenda of Foreign Minister Pradeep Gyawali on his India visit is the boundary dispute. Gyawali is visiting India on January 14 at the invitation of his Indian counterpart, S. Jaishankar to participate in the sixth Nepal-India Joint Commission meeting at the Foreign Minister level.
Nepal stops importing all poultry items from India
The ban came into effect on Thursday. Nepal's Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development has directed all its offices to halt the import of poultry items from India, which is the primary market for the Himalayan nation's multi-billion poultry industry.
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