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Nepal-IDEMIA negotiations in final stages amid passport crunch

Kathmandu, Nov. 13 -- Negotiations between the Department of Passports (DoP) and IDEMIA, the French firm that has been providing passports to Nepal from 2010 to earlier this year, are in the final sta... Read More


Gen Z draft accord aims at corruption control, reforms

Kathmandu, Nov. 12 -- A group of Gen Z leaders has finalised a draft agreement to be signed with the government and submitted it to Prime Minister Sushila Karki's advisors on Tuesday. The draft state... Read More


RSP says open to poll partnership

Kathmandu, Nov. 8 -- The Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) that was until recently opposed to any kind of alliance for the upcoming elections, has now opened the door for it. As several new and alternat... Read More


Nepal expedites talks with German and French firms to avoid passport shortage

Kathmandu, Nov. 7 -- The government has expedited negotiations with German and French companies simultaneously to ensure that the country does not face a passport crisis, particularly after December. ... Read More


Nepali ambassador takes up deportation case with Qatari counterpart in New Delhi

Kathmandu, Nov. 5 -- The Nepali Embassy in New Delhi has expressed concern after Nepali national Sambhavi Adhikari, who was on her way to attend a conference in Berlin, was offloaded by Qatar Airways ... Read More


Congress factions at odds over general convention date

Kathmandu, Nov. 4 -- Two rival factions of the Nepali Congress on Tuesday proposed different dates for the party's 15th general convention at the ongoing central working committee meeting. The establ... Read More


Snubbing Supreme Court, Nepal writes to envoys to return home

Kathmandu, Nov. 4 -- A day after the Supreme Court issued an interim order to the government not to implement the decision to recall 11 ambassadors appointed by the previous government, the Ministry o... Read More


Passport shortage looms after December

Kathmandu, Nov. 1 -- With Nepal's passport stocks dwindling rapidly, the Department of Passports (DoP) under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs could face an acute shortage after December. Current stocks... Read More


Broad agreement for timely polls emerges in tripartite talks

Kathmandu, Oct. 30 -- The first ever meeting between the government, political parties and Gen Z leaders held at the prime minister's residence in Baluwatar on Wednesday centered on the elections sche... Read More


Karki Cabinet mum on ministers' property

Kathmandu, Oct. 28 -- The prime minister of the interim government, Sushila Karki, has now expanded her Cabinet for the third time. But neither she nor her ministers, who were appointed earlier, have ... Read More