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Shankar Pokharel

Type: Person

Name: Shankar Pokharel

First reported 5 hours ago - Updated 5 hours ago - 1 reports

UML‚ NC leaders show poll eagerness despite conflicts

KATHMANDU: CPN-UML secretary Shankar Pokharel blamed the UCPN-Maoist for trying to impede the road ways to the mid-November polls by picking on the issues to remove the provision of one per cent threshold on proportional representation. Talking at a press ... [Published Himalayan Times - 5 hours ago]

Entities: Shankar Pokharel, Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist), Elections

First reported May 19 2013 - Updated May 19 2013 - 1 reports

Student unions splurging out on ‘vote buying’

Campus chiefs were reportedly forced to admit hundreds of union cadresKATHMANDU, MAY 18 - The student unions affiliated with the major political parties are allegedly resorting to ‘vote-buying tactics’ to outdo each other in the upcoming Free Student ... [Published Kathmandu Post - May 19 2013]

Entities: Admission, Nepal, Student Union

First reported May 13 2013 - Updated May 13 2013 - 1 reports

Nepali Army

Uprising ahead

MAY 12 - The appointment of Lokman Singh Karki to the post of chief of the Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) has given the Kathmandu-centred civil society the tag of hopeless. Its members today have several agendas to protest ... [Published Kathmandu Post - May 13 2013]

Entities: Elections, Appointment, Nepali Army, Nepal

First reported May 10 2013 - Updated May 10 2013 - 1 reports

CPN-UML to pitch for directly-elected PM

KATHMANDU: The central committee meeting of the CPN-UML concluded today endorsing the partys previous stance that prime minister should be elected directly by people while ceremonial president should be elected by the Parliament. Both are the partys stands ... [Published Himalayan Times - May 10 2013]

Entities: Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Lenin..., Shankar Pokharel, Elections, Jhalanath Khanal (Nepal)

First reported May 10 2013 - Updated May 10 2013 - 1 reports

Constituent Assembly

UML$s month-long poll campaign

KATHMANDU, May 10: A central committee meeting of CPN-UML on Friday decided to convene a two-day gathering of its national council members to take their suggestions on major political issues in view of the upcoming Constituent Assembly (CA) election.The ... [Published MyRepublica.com - May 10 2013]

Entities: Kathmandu, Shankar Pokharel, Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Lenin..., Constituent Assembly, Student Union

First reported Apr 15 2013 - Updated Apr 15 2013 - 1 reports

Ram Sharan Mahat

Cabinet can be expanded

KATHMANDU; Nepali Congress leader Ram Sharan Mahat said on Monday that the Cabinet could be expanded to incorporate disgruntled political parties the CPN-Maoist and Madhesi Janaadhikar Forum-Nepal. Speaking at the Reporters Club, Mahat said that the High ... [Published Himalayan Times - Apr 15 2013]

Entities: Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist), Shankar Pokharel, Ram Sharan Mahat