Nepal cabinet expansion today

September 13th, 2009 KATHMANDU - Nepal police faced a tough time in providing security to the country's Finance Minister, Surendra Pandey as Maoist protestors pelted stones at his vehicle on Saturday. Pandey, who was in Chipledhunga-Pokhara, about 200 kilometres from Kathmandu, to inaugurate Golden News Daily, had to return without attending the function.

September 2nd, 2009 KATHMANDU - The row over the use of Hindi as Nepal's official language continued Wednesday with a defiant politician taking his oath of office in Hindi as Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal expanded his cabinet for the fifth time. Already accommodating 33 ministers, the coalition government, which includes 22 parties, is set to induct 11 more, creating a jumbo cabinet.

August 18th, 2009 KATHMANDU - Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal will be leaving on a five-day official visit to India leading a 64-member team on Tuesday afternoon. Nepal will be accompanied by his spouse Gayatri Nepal, six cabinet ministers including the Foreign, Finance and Energy Ministers, high level government officers, businessmen and journalists.

August 15th, 2009 KATHMANDU - Nepal's Minister for Commerce and Supplies Rajendra Mahato has said that Nepal and India will ink two key treaties to boost bilateral trade and provide more trade facilities during Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal's visit to New Delhi from August 18. Talking to reporters here, Mahato said: "Nepal and India will sign at least two treaties to expand trade and provide more trade facilities including opening new border points for movement of goods between the two countries." Mahato, who will accompany Nepal during the visit said, "The amendments in Nepal-India Trade Treaty - 1996 and a Treaty to Control Unauthorized Trade are the two documents on which the two nations will put their seal during Nepals visit." The other two treaties are aimed at eliminating double taxation and agreement on promotion and protection of investments.

July 3rd, 2009 KATHMANDU - Given only a couple more weeks by the Maoists and unable to table the budget in parliament due to their opposition, Nepal's beleaguered Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal Friday expanded his cabinet in a surprise move, inducting two more ministers. With this fourth expansion, the cabinet now has 32 ministers with yet another induction in the pipeline.

June 17th, 2009 KATHMANDU - Nepals Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal Wednesday expanded his 11-member cabinet to induct 10 new ministers. However, the protracted squabble with allies over power sharing continued even three weeks after Nepal assuming office with the parties from Terai not sending any new faces to the cabinet.

June 5th, 2009 KATHMANDU - Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal has expanded his three-member cabinet by inducting one deputy prime minister and seven new ministers including six ministers from Nepali Congress and one from the CPN (ML) here on Thursday. Prime Minister Nepal administered the oath of office and secrecy to the new Ministers at in the presence of the President Dr.

June 4th, 2009 KATHMANDU - Ten days after he became Nepal's new prime minister, replacing Maoist premier Pushpa Kamal Dahal Prachanda, communist leader Madhav Kumar Nepal Thursday finally expanded his three-member cabinet with eight new ministers from three more parties. Bitter infighting in the major parties held up the expansion of the cabinet and there was growing pressure from India and other foreign governments for the parties to get their act together.

June 4th, 2009 KATHMANDU - She has been likened to India's Indira Gandhi and Bangladesh's Sheikh Hasina. However, the rise of Sujata Koirala, Nepal's first daughter, has now added to the chaos confounding the fledgling cabinet of new Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal.

May 26th, 2009 KATHMANDU - Newly elected Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal will address the nation on Tuesday afternoon. He will address the nation from his office in Singha Durbar at 4.00 pm.

May 26th, 2009 KATHMANDU - European Union (EU) envoys on Tuesday assured to extend full support to Nepal peace process and Constitution drafting. The ambassadors from EU nations met newly elected Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal and congratulated him for being the second prime minister of the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal.

May 25th, 2009 KATHMANDU - Newly elected Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal will be sworn in today. President Dr Ram Baran Yadav will administer him oath of office and secrecy during a special ceremony at the president's office.

May 23rd, 2009 KATHMANDU - Almost three weeks deadlock over the formation of a new government, Nepal lawmakers will vote today to elect a new Prime Minister. Former chief of the CPN (UML) Madhav Kumar Nepal, who has been supported by 22 parties in the parliament, is almost certain to become the next Prime Minister.

May 3rd, 2009 KATHMANDU - Nepal's Chief of Army Staff, General Rookmangud Katawal, who was sacked by the Maoist government on Sunday morning, has reportedly refused to accept the cabinet letter on his sacking. The government's chief secretary, Bhoj Raj Ghimire, handed over the sack letter to General Katawal soon after the cabinet decision, but he refused to accept it, describing the decision as unconstitutional.

May 2nd, 2009 KATHMANDU - Japan's Vice Defence Minister Nobuo Kishi will arrive here on a two-day visit today. During his visit, Kishi will inspect the activities of the Japanese Arms Monitors working under the United Nations Mission in Nepal (UNMIN) to familiarise himself with the activities of UNMIN.