20 January 2011,
The meeting of senior leaders of the major three political parties –UCPN-Maoist, Nepali Congress (NC) and CPN-UML –ended inconclusively as the parties stuck to their guns on ruling the government.
19 January 2011,
The three major parties—UCPN- Maoist, Nepali Congress and CPN UML on Wednesday agreed to file an impeachment motion against Supreme Court (SC) Justice Rana Bahadur Bam.
19 January 2011,
The 28 parties represented in the Constituent Assembly (CA) on Wednesday decided to mandate the Constitutional Committee (CC) with the task of resolving the remaining contentious issues of thematic committees.
A joint meeting of the parties held in Singha Durbar decided to make active the CC stating that it is the statutory body to deal with dispute settlement in the constitution drafting process, according to UCPN-Maoist vice chairman Narayankaji Shrestha.
With the CC now vested with the authority to resolve the issues, the 28-party meeting has been postponed for an indefinite period, informed Shrestha to the media after the meeting.
A day earlier, the CA had amended its regulations for a third time mandating the CC to sort out the remaining 83 of the 210 thorny issues, with only about five months left for promulgation of a new constitution.
19 January 2011,
The Special Committee (SC) on army integration formed a three-member committee on Wednesday tasked with organising the January 22 special function at the Shaktikhor cantonment in Chitwan, during which the SC will formally take over the control of former Maoist combatants.
19 January 2011,
The politburo meeting of UCPN-Maoist convened on Wednesday discussed ways to resolve the yawning ideological rift in the party, the latest being manifested in the party’s cadre training programme in Kathmandu that saw an abrupt halt a day earlier.
