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Nepal, Jan. 3 -- Dissolution of the parliament itself is not a dictatorial move if there is a reasonable reason.Is Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli's decision to dissolve the parliament and call for a fresh mandate from the sovereign people a dictatorial move? Or is it a democratic move? In a democracy, people are given the opportunity to decide the fate of the nation through the right to vote in election, whereas dictatorship is run by a single...

Nepal, Jan. 3 -- Since the Covid-19 crisis began, the spectre of sovereign default has loomed over developing economies. Many sovereigns are so afraid of losing market access that they are unwilling to address debt-sustainability problems. Yet a clear-eyed look at the impact of the Covid-19 crisis, together with the fiscal and financing realities for low-income countries, reveals a 'new normal', in which a timely default is far from the...

Deuba eyes leading government as Oli hints at an understanding Kathmandu Post Kathmandu, Jan. 3 -- The Nepali Congress seems to be a confused party. While it did hold demonstrations in all 165 constituencies across the country on December 28 in protest of KP Sharma Oli governments move of dissolving the House of Representatives, the party president, Sher Bahadur Deuba, appears to have reached an understanding with Oli. On December 29, while receiving a memorandum from All Nepal ...

news The brutal governance lessons of 2020 My Republica OXFORD, Jan. 3 -- The pandemic has revealed the urgent need to build connective tissue across governments and between national and sub-national institutions in the US and the UK. COVID-19 has offered some tough but useful lessons about governance. Many wealthy countries did not manage the crisis as well as anticipated, whereas many poorer, populous, and vulnerable countries exceeded expectations. The difference raises impor...

Hearings on Constitutional Council ordinance, appointments get deferred Kathmandu Post Kathmandu, Jan. 2 -- Petitioners and legal experts have expressed surprise over what they call low priority given by the Supreme Court on petitions filed against the ordinance on the working procedure of the Constitutional Council and the latest recommendation by the council based on the ordinance. On Friday, the Supreme Court didnt conduct hearings on the two petitions filed by advocate Om Pr...

Nepali Congress refusal to join protests raises eyebrows Kathmandu Post Kathmandu, Jan. 2 -- The plan to hold a joint agitation of political parties against the dissolution of the House of Representatives has come unstuck after the Nepali Congress rejected a proposal of the faction led by Pushpa Kamal Dahal and Madhav Nepal for it. The Dahal-Nepal faction had planned to announce the joint protest that included the Janata Samajbadi Party besides the Nepali Congress on Thursday bu...

news All positive samples of people returning from UK to be sent for whole-genome sequencing Kathmandu Post Kathmandu, Jan. 1 -- Swab samples of all those people coming from the United Kingdom in recent days who have tested positive to Covid-19 will be sent to the World Health Organizations collaborating laboratory for a whole-genome sequencing test. So far, at least seven people who returned from the United Kingdom have tested positive to the coronavirus, according to a Health ...

Ruling partys split continues to fuel conflict in provinces Kathmandu Post Kathmandu, Jan. 1 -- Two days after Prime Minister KP Sharma Olis Cabinet recommended the dissolution of the House of Representatives, his Nepal Communist Party, through a decision of its Central Committee, in which the opposition faction has a majority, took disciplinary action against him. Then the faction led by Pushpa Kamal Dahal and Madhav Kumar Nepal, through the partys Central Committee, nominated ...

For 17th year OpenText named leader in Gartner Magic Quadrant 31 Dec 2020 This is the seventeenth consecutive year OpenText has been named a Leader in this Gartner Magic Quadrant. On the announcement, OpenText CEO and CTO Mark J. Barrenechea says, “2020 has made it clear that those companies who own their digital capacities will emerge stronger and more competitive, and content services is at the heart of digitalisation. “Digital business processes have moved outside the office. More t...

news Beijing recalibrating its Nepal policy as political situation unfolds fast Kathmandu Post Kathmandu, Dec. 30 -- Caught unawares by the KP Sharma Oli governments move of dissolving the House of Representatives, which then had an immediate impact on Nepals governing Nepal Communist Party, Beijing hurriedly sent a team led by a senior leader of the Communist Party of China to Kathmandu. The four-member delegation, led by Guo Yezhou, a vice-minister of the International Departm...