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Kathmandu, July 4 – The main opposition party has decided to oppose the government’s ‘undemocratic moves aimed at weakening constitutional provisions’ from the Federal Parliament, provincial assemblies, streets, mass media and social media, and through peaceful protests. Expressing reservation over the designation of restricted areas, the Nepali Congress has stated that prohibitory orders at places, […]

Kathmandu, July 4 – Nepal Medical Association has threatened to launch the nationwide protest if Dr. Govinda KC, the senior orthopedic surgeon at Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital who has been staging the hunger strike in Jumla, was not well looked after and allowed to stage the protest on the premises of Karnali Academy of Health […]

KAPIL JOSHI Nepal has recently transitioned from unitary system of governance to federal structure. With governments at all three levels have taken shape, the expected reforms will cut across many areas of governance and administration. Provincial and local governments have a clear mandate on the functions to be carried out by them. However, there are […]

Kathmandu, July 4 – The Supreme Court today quashed a writ petition filed by Surendra Bahadur Shrestha and Govinda Belbase seeking nullification of Section 10 of Citizenship Act, 2006. Shrestha, who is a naturalized citizen of United Kingdom, had filed the writ petition, saying that he won refugee status in the UK and later obtained […]

Kathmandu, 3 July – The Central Investigation Bureau of Nepal Police raided a hi-tech Voice Over Internet Protocol call center operating from a rented room in Subhakamana Marg, Kathmandu Metropolitan City-32, and arrested a suspect for his involvement in the telecommunications crime yesterday. SP Krishnahari Sharma, the CIB spokesperson, said Zafar Khan, 24, of New […]

Frankfurt am Main, May 12 – European experts and South Korean peace activists have voiced their support for the peaceful reunification of the Korean Peninsula at the ‘Pan-European Peace Forum’ held in Frankfurt, Germany. Heavenly Culture, World Peace, Restoration of Light (HWPL), a Seoul-based peace NGO as in consultative status with the UN Economic and […]

Publics around the world overwhelmingly agree that the news media should be unbiased in their coverage of political issues, according to a new Pew Research Center survey of 38 countries. Yet, when asked how their news media are doing on reporting different political issues fairly, people are far more mixed in their sentiments, with many […]

Kathmandu, March 28 : Senior leaders of the left alliance have concluded that merger of the CPN-UML and the CPN-Maoist Centre will not be possible before Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli’s India visit, which is likely to begin on April 6. PM Oli, who is also the UML chairman, senior UML leader Madhav Kumar Nepal, […]

Chinese President Xi Jinping (second from right), and his wife Peng Liyuan (right), and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un (second from left) and his wife Ri Sol Ju (left) pose for a photo at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, on Wednesday, March 28, 2018. Photo: China’s Xinhua News Agency via AP […]