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  Nepal PM KP Oli to arrive on 6-day India visit today

  Politics | February 19, 2016 7:56 IST

  New Delhi: On his maiden foreign trip after assuming charge, Nepal Prime Minister K P Oli will arrive here on a six-day visit today during which he will hold talks with his Indian counterpart Narendra

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  Nepal ex-PM Baburam Bhattarai quits party, parliament

  World | September 26, 2015 23:40 IST

  Kathmandu: Baburam Bhattarai, Nepal's former prime minister and top Maoist leader sympathetic to Madhesis, on Saturday resigned as lawmaker and also quit the party to form his own political "force" amid differences with the major

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  Nepal parties fail to prepare first draft of new constitution

  World | October 17, 2014 21:14 IST

  Kathmandu: In a major political setback, Nepal's political parties have missed the mid-October deadline to prepare the first draft of the country's constitution and publish it in the government gazette for public deliberations, cross-party leaders

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  Parties demand Nepal PM's resignation, Prachanda says no

  World | May 28, 2012 22:52 IST

  Kathmandu, May 28: In the midst of a raging political crisis in Nepal, major parties today demanded the resignation of Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai for “unilaterally” dissolving the Parliament even as Maoist supremo Prachanda rejected

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  Nepal plunges into fresh political turmoil

  World | May 28, 2012 22:53 IST

  Kathmandu, May 28:  Nepal plunged into a major political crisis, hours after Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai disbanded parliament with five political parties challenging the move to hold fresh elections, as the president reviewed the legality

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  10 killed, 60 missing in glacial lake burst in Nepal

  World | May 05, 2012 19:01 IST

  Kathmandu, May 5 :  A glacial lake burst today in the high Himalayan region in northwestern Nepal sweeping away houses, farms, cattles near the tourist resort of Pokhara, killing 10 people and leaving 60 missing,

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  Nepal PM Sacks Defence Minister

  World | October 19, 2011 22:18 IST

  Kathmandu, Oct 19: Nepalese Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai on Wednesday sacked Defence Minister Sarad Singh Bhandari, a prominent Madhesi leader for allegedly making secessionist remarks, days after a Maoist leader was shown the door.The prime

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  Maoist Bhattarai Elected New Nepal PM

  World | August 28, 2011 19:24 IST

  Kathmandu, August 28:   Maoist leader Baburam Bhattarai was on Sunday elected Nepal's new Prime Minister defeating his Nepali Congress rival R.C. Poudyal, with the Terai-based Madhesi alliance extending crucial support to the former