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India should have been the first to welcome the adoption of the Constitution. Hundreds of trucks loaded with essential goods, cooking gas cylinders and petroleum products were stalled at the Nepal-India border at Birgunj due to the agitation. He added: “On a day when Nepal...

With China on its other flank, Nepal has tended to cock a snook at India as if to say that if you turn cold and un-cooperative, we have the Chinese to bank upon. There are lessons to be learnt by India from the Constitution, which has recognised the rights of the LGBT community...

Nepal warns that shortages of gasoline and medicine will be severe soon as supplies from India are not arriving during protests at border crossings by hundreds of people angry about Nepal’s new constitution.

When Nepal was hit by a devastating natural disaster this year that left more than 9,000 dead, India pledged $1 billion in aid and its army assisted in relief efforts. “Nepal’s Constitution is written by a constituent assembly and endorsed by elected by members from...

It is important to note that the envisaged federalisation process – dividing the country into seven provinces – has sparked much anger, especially in the southern plains (Madhesh-Terai) and the Midwest, the epicentres of bloody protests.

He held a separate meeting with UCP-Maoist chairman Prachanda and discussed the country’s latest political situation amid protests by Madhesi groups over the issue of federating the country in the new Constitution to be unveiled on Sunday.

September 21, 2015- The global community has given a cautious welcome to Nepal’s new constitution that was promulgated on Sunday.

Modi announced the launch of a campaign in which NDA MPs would visit the constituencies of the Congress and Left MPs to “expose” what they had done and said during the session.

To recognize such small differences requires an excellent precision in sense of smell, which ants seem to often use in order to determine their place within the colony, along with easily recognizing the nearby co-workers.

Had the Congress not agreed, the government would have sprung a debate on the IPL, which the rest of the Opposition would have accepted. All leaders use Parliamentary debates to score a political point over rivals. Though it is not the first time that Rahul Gandhi has been caught...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s reluctance to attend Parliament’s business advisory meetings has led to other parties, more so the Congress party in whittling down its own seniority of participation.

With four days left to go for the monsoon session, the Congress continued to paralyse both houses of parliament, forcing finance minister Arun Jaitley on 10 August to go hammer and tongs against the situation prevailing in the Rajya Sabha.

This one-per cent additional levy, however, is rendered unnecessary after the Cabinet’s approval last month of the Rajya Sabha Select Committee’s recommendation requiring the Centre to commit itself to compensating all losses to the States owing to the transition to...

The Congress, supported by some opposition parties, has been demanding the resignation of Sushma Swaraj and Rajasthan chief minister Vasundhara Raje on their alleged help to Lalit Modi and Madhya Pradesh chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan over the Vyapam scam. The Congress Vice...

Rahul Gandhi maintained on Monday that Congress will allow Parliament to function only after external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj discloses her family’s financial transactions with controversial Lalit Modi. Sushma Swaraj should explain how much money of Lalit Modi has...