Meanwhile, the Indian Embassy in Nepal celebrated India's 74th Republic Day and it started with the unfurling of the national flag by the Ambassador of India to Nepal, Naveen Srivastava on Thursday.
Identified as Prem Prasad Acharya, the businessman from Illam District had poured diesel on himself and set himself on fire as the country's newly elected Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal's cavalcade was coming out of the parliament on Tuesday afternoon.
A 37-year-old man attempted to self-immolate in front of Nepal's federal parliament on Tuesday afternoon when PM Pushpa Kamal Dahal walked out of the parliament.
Nepal Prime Minister Pushp Kamal Dahal visited the morgue in Kathmandu on Thursday morning and met the relatives and families of the Yeti airlines plane crash victims.
On Monday evening, the top leaders of the ruling coalition had agreed on ministerial allocations. The meeting of the chiefs of four ruling parties the CPN (Maoist Centre), the CPN-UML, the Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP), the Rastriya Prajatantra Party (RPP), and the Janata Samajbadi Party (J
Nepal Prime Minister Pushp Kamal Dahal is likely to visit India on his first foreign trip in late February or early March, Nepal-based media outlet, The Kathmandu Post, reported on Sunday.
China has been trying to get the support of Nepal for its ambitious Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) but the Himalayan country is reluctant to join it as it also seeks support from the US and India which oppose Chinese policies, a Kathmandu-based online magazine Epardafas reported.
As per the arrangement, Dahal will be the Prime Minister for the first half of the five-year Prime Ministerial term with the remaining two and half years going to his alliance partner, the former Nepali Prime Minister, KP Sharma Oli.