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By Karuna Thapa Kathmandu, April 20 Members of the US Congress’s lower and upper chambers will go to Nepal for a three-day visit. Senators Corey Booker, Mark Kelly, Kristen Gilbrand, and Mondry Jones will lead a delegation to Nepal on Friday. The delegation members who will arrive in Nepal on Friday will stay till next Sunday. They will visit Nepal …

By Karuna Thapa Kathmandu, April 5 The Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) project’s execution should be quickened, according to Finance Minister Janardan Sharma Prabhakar. Minister Sharma said in a virtual meeting with MCC Deputy Vice President Jonathan A. Brooks, MCC National Director (Acting) Sanjay Poudel, US Embassy in Nepal Political Expert Rosie Kattel, and a representative from the Ministry of Finance …

By Karuna Thapa Kathmandu, March 31 The Communist Party of Nepal’s General Secretary, Netra Bikram Chand Biplob, has stated that the US aid project MCC cannot be executed without the permission of the Nepalese parliament. Biplob told the Scientific Socialist Communist Party’s National Gathering that Upper Karnali had been stopped. ”Dailekh and Achham conspired in Nepal to kidnap Karnali from …

By Muna Chand Kathmandu, March 21 Chinese Foreign Affairs Minister Wang Yi is visiting Nepal on March 25, confirms the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Wang is coming to Nepal at the invitation of Foreign Minister Narayan Khadka, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs informed on Monday. During his visit to Nepal, Foreign Minister Wang will pay a courtesy call on President …

By Muna Chand Kathmandu, March 20 A group of Maoist Center leaders is joining the CPN-UML party, including outgoing provincial lawmaker Thammar Bista, who has left the CPN-Maoist Center. Ishwor Pokharel, the CPN-UML’s Senior Vice President, arrived in Surkhet on Sunday to welcome Bista to the party. Other Maoist Center district-level leaders, including Bista, have decided to join the UML. …

By Muna Chand Kathmandu, March 14 Sher Bahadur Deuba, the Prime Minister, has criticized Bhim Rawal, the leader of the CPN-UML, for opposing the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) Compact. PM Deuba reminded UML leaders at a program in Nuwakot on Monday that the MCC Compact was tabled in parliament when KP Oli was Prime Minister. Expressing dissatisfaction with UML lawmaker …

By Muna Chand Kathmandu, March 11 Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba has urged the construction firms to be ready for the tender of the MCC project. “The government has already ratified the compact, and an international public tender will be announced soon,” Prime Minister Deuba stated. “As the United States of America and Nepal both are involved in the compact, …

By Muna Chand Kathmandu, March 9 Madhav Kumar Nepal, chairman of the ruling coalition member CPN (Unified Socialist), has issued strict instructions to party leaders not to oppose the US grant Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) compact. During the party’s central committee meeting on Wednesday at Karki Banquet in Baber Mahal, Chairman Nepal instructed the central committee members not to raise …

By Muna Chand Kathmandu, March 7 After the local election, Chairman of the CPN-Maoist Centre Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’ has proposed discussing the leaders’ ‘note of dissent’ over the US grant Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) project. Prachanda urged the Maoist Centre’s Central Committee meeting, which began on Friday, to consider the importance of the ‘explanatory notes’ added to the MCC …

By Muna Chand Kathmandu, March 7 In Kathmandu, the ruling coalition’s CPN-Unified Socialist has begun its first politburo meeting. The politburo meeting is currently taking place at Arpan Party Palace in Kathmandu, according to Unified Socialist sources. The Unified Socialists held a politburo meeting to discuss the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) grant from the United States, local elections, and recent …