http:www.nepalitimes.com On the blogs from Nepali Times RSS Simple News http://www.nepalitimes.com/img/ntlogo1.gif http://www.nepalitimes.com/ 177 86 http://www.nepalitimes.com.np/blogs/kundadixit Wake me up when we have a new prime minister. Three weeks after the prime minister resigned, one week before the third round of parliamentary election to find his successor things are stuck again. On Sunday, closed door meetings between the NC, UML, 2010-07-26 11:04:29 http://www.nepalitimes.com.np/blogs/thebrief Parliament failed to elect a prime minister once again and set a new date for a third election on 2 August. CA chair Subash Nembang announced the results of voting at 8 pm but a non-outcome was expected as the Madhesi alliance and the UML had decided 2010-07-23 20:45:34 http://www.nepalitimes.com.np/blogs/thebrief Parliament failed to elect the prime minister once again and set a new date of 2 August for third election. The CA chair Subas Nembang announced voting result at 8 pm but the outcome was known to all long ago when the key party Madhesi alliance had 2010-07-23 20:27:47 http://www.nepalitimes.com.np/blogs/thebrief With the Madhesi alliance's decision to abstain from voting on Friday's election for the post of prime minister, the delayed parliament session scheduled for today is unlikely to be able to elect a new PM. Today's meeting of the alliance decided not 2010-07-23 16:37:27 http://www.nepalitimes.com.np/blogs/thebrief Parliament has announced a re-election for the post of prime minister on Friday as both candidates, Maoist chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal and NC vice president Ram Chandra Poudel, failed to obtain the required majority during Wednesday’s delayed 2010-07-21 23:09:36 http://www.nepalitimes.com.np/blogs/thebrief The UML central committee meeting on Tuesday concluded they would vie for the post of prime minister and proposed party chairman Jhalanath Khanal as their candidate for the post of prime minister, provided he would make an effort to forge a consensus for 2010-07-20 21:30:34 http://www.nepalitimes.com.np/blogs/thebrief As the deadline to register nominations for the post of prime minister approaches, the groundwork has begun to delay the election by three 2010-07-20 14:00:17 http://www.nepalitimes.com.np/blogs/nepalikukur If you're beyond the wide-eyed excitement of seeing restaurants and cafes crop up in the Valley like no one's business, and have realised with sad resignation that momos, chicken chilli and beer are the very usual suspects everywhere, then 2010-07-20 00:00:00 http://www.nepalitimes.com.np/blogs/thebrief The UML central committee meeting on Tuesday concluded they would vie for the post of prime minister and proposed party chairman Jhalanath Khanal as their candidate for the post of prime minister, provided he would make an effort to forge a consensus for 2010-07-20 00:00:00 http://www.nepalitimes.com.np/blogs/kundadixit From himalkhabar.com 2010-07-18 12:17:26 http://www.nepalitimes.com.np/blogs/kundadixit There isn’t a media conference these days where the subject doesn’t wind back to online vs offline journalism. Usually the debate is polarised between those who accuse 'hardcopy hardliners' of being fossil dinosaurs, and traditional hacks who think 2010-07-11 08:37:37 http://www.nepalitimes.com.np/blogs/thebrief President Ram Baran Yadav extended the deadline for the formation of a national consensus government by five days at the request of political parties in the CA on Wednesday. Yadav had given the parties a week’s time to form a national consensus 2010-07-07 20:42:38 http://www.nepalitimes.com.np/blogs/thebrief This commentary from senior NC leader Bal Bahadur Rai was published in Himal Khabarpatrika 30 June-16 July. It was dictated from his hospital bed ten days before he died on Sunday. All the leaders 2010-07-05 09:47:26 http://www.nepalitimes.com.np/blogs/thebrief Former Maoist child soldier, Sita Tamang, who gave testimony at the United Nations Security Council in New York last month, has been threatened by Maoists at her home in Chitwan. Tamang, now 18, was introduced as 'Manju Gurung' by the UN Special 2010-07-04 21:02:12 http://www.nepalitimes.com.np/blogs/kundadixit How can demagogues be prevented from hijacking democracy? This is a riddle as old as democracy 2010-06-27 13:10:13