Four Arab states accusing Qatar of supporting terrorism agreed Monday to a proposal by Kuwait to extend the deadline for Qatar’s response to the demands list by 48 hours, the official Saudi news agency SPA reported. With the deadline expiring at the end of Sunday, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Bahrain and […]
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Nepal’s security challenges
The National Security Policy 2016, recently ratified by the cabinet, lists foreign intervention, open international border, border encroachment, infiltration and fuel/ energy crisis as major security challenges for the country. Similarly, transition into new governance system, political instability and polarisation, entrenched communalism and regionalism have been mentioned as internal security threat. The document further lists […]
Thesis on sale !
Shiva Shankar Gautam, who is popular as Shiva Ram Gautam among his clients, is a section officer at the Dean’s office in Tribhuwan University. His business, is to sell readymade dissertations and get the plagiarized researches approved by the university professors. When we met Gautam, we requested him to provide us a Masters’ dissertation for […]
Nepal Army: All eyes on profit
The estimated cost for Devsthal Kainadanda section of Jajarkot-Dunai road was rupees 195.4 million rupees. The actual project costs exceeded by 88.42 millionrupees, without sufficient technical clarification. Procurements exceeding 100 million rupees were made in the year 2015 without following proper procedure as stipulated by Article 7 of Public Procurement Act, 2007. The welfare medical […]
Saptari Incident: Innocents reeled under ego clash
23 Falgun, 2073 (6 March, 2017): Nepal’s second largest political party, CPN-UML was conducting its mass assembly in Gajendra Narayan Singh Industrial Area at Basbitti, Saptari as part of its ‘Mechi-Mahakali Campaign’. Meanwhile, cadres of Madhesi Morcha, who had announced ‘prohibition’ of the CPN-UML from entering Madhesh were staging a protest some 300 meters away […]
Prying eyes: Growing network of Indian pension office in Nepal
On 12 November 2016, when the visiting Indian Army Chief Dalbir Singh Suhag met Prime Minsiter Pushpa Kamal Dahal, he reminded Dahal of India’s thirteen year old proposal to set up a Pension Paying Office (PPO) at Butwal. Suhag’s reminder came close on heels after the Indian President Pranab Mukherjee raised the issue during his […]
KILLING CLINICS : Where patients are prescribed death
Nilisha Karki was only 20 years when she died of blood transfusion error at Kathmandu’s Nobel Hospital in the spring of 2013. Nilisha was diagnosed with Idiopathic Thrombacytopenic Purpura (ITP), a kind of disorder resulting in unusually low levels of blood platelets, at Kathmandu’s Institute of Medicine (IOM) Teaching Hospital. In April 2013, Nilisha was […]