Good morning, good afternoon, and good evening from Kathmandu. This is Issue 156 of Kalam Weekly, the only newsletter you need to keep up to date with everything happening in Nepal.
In this newsletter:
Ruling parties push to remove the Deputy Speaker
Badshah Kurmi steps down as Lumbini Provincial Assembly members
Three more Nepalis die in the Russia-Ukraine war
Min Bham’s Shambhala to release this week
The deep dive: What’s up with the Nepali ‘Sugar Daddy’?
Ruling parties push to remove the Deputy Speaker
Things are coming to a head in the Lower House of the federal Parliament, with the ruling coalition of the Nepali Congress and CPN-UML parties readying to impeach Deputy Speaker Indira Rana Magar for “conduct incompatible with their position.” In February last year, Rana Magar wrote a letter to the American Embassy in Kathmandu, asking that visa dates be expedited for herself and five others going to New York to participate in the 67th summit of the NGO Committee on the Status of Women. It…
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