by Anil Giri in The Kathmandu Post, Dec 24, 2023On Saturday, Nepali Congress general secretary Bishwa Prakash Sharma urged Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal to talk directly to Russian President Vladimir Putin to stop the recruitment of Nepali youths in the Russian army. Sharma’s calls come at a time when as many as seven Nepali nationals have so far been confirmed killed while fighting Ukrainians on Russia’s behalf, while hundreds of Nepalis have joined the…
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Report in The Kathmandu Post, Dec 21, 2023The Commission for Investigation of Abuse of Authority has decried the tendency of governments at all three levels to make policy decisions through the Cabinet or similar authorities at provincial and local levels to avoid investigation by the anti-graft body. Making public its 46-point suggestion to the government on Wednesday, the anti-graft body called for an end to such practice. The commission said that the suggestions were provided…
by Anil Giri in The Kathmandu Post, Dec 21, 2023The government’s overall performance—from service delivery, budget expenditure, and governance to capital expenditure—has seen a sharp decline, according to a report from the Prime Minister’s Office. A meeting of government secretaries chaired by Chief Secretary Baikuntha Aryal on Monday took several decisions after the government fell short of the targets it set in its annual policies and programmes and the annual budget. Experts observing the government’s…
by Anil Giri in The Kathmandu Post, December 20, 2023 .The election for the National Assembly scheduled for January 25 will be another litmus test for Nepali Congress chief Sher Bahadur Deuba. As promised earlier, Deuba is almost prepared to field party leader Krishna Prasad Sitaula, who aspires to enter the upper house from the Koshi Province. Twenty of the National Assembly’s total 59 seats fall vacant on March 3. One of the vacancies will…
report in The Kathmandu Post, December 20, 2023 .Amid the homework of the ruling parties to bring Rastriya Prajatantra Party on board the federal cabinet and in Koshi Province, the right-wing outfit has announced nationwide protests to reinstate Nepal as a Hindu kingdom and scrap provincial structures. A three-day central committee meeting of the fifth largest party in the federal parliament announced on Tuesday that it would start the ‘Mechi-Mahakali unity march’ and Kathmandu-centric demonstrations…
by Krishana Prasain in The Kathmandu Post, Dec 18, 2023The government has once again delayed the process of establishing consumer courts, apparently disregarding Nepal’s top court ruling issued two years ago. While the government delays the consumer court formation, rights activists say that market malpractice and cheating have become rampant—prevailing everywhere from microfinances and cooperatives to online and offline shops. Government officials said that they are starting a fresh process. “We have decided to begin…
report in The Kathmandu Post, Dec 18, 2023The CPN-UML’s 18-day mid-hill march concluded in Chiwabhanjyang in Panchthar district on Sunday with a national flag hoisting ceremony. By raising the national flag near the India border in Sikkim, the party has tried to convey that nationalism remains a key element of its political agenda. The KP Sharma Oli-led party had fared excellently in the 2017 general election—the first after the promulgation of the constitution—largely attributed to…
By Anil Giri in The Kathmandu Post, Dec 17, 2023.The number of Nepali nationals serving in the Russian army and held captive by Ukrainian forces has reached four, with Kyiv setting some conditions for Nepal to meet before their release. Earlier reports said two Nepali nationals serving in the Russian army as mercenaries were held by the Ukrainian security forces as captives. According to Minister for Foreign Affairs NP Saud, the number of Nepali nationals…
by Om Prakash Thakur in The Kathmandu Post, Dec 17, 2023.Farmers in Sarlahi staged a protest in Hariwan Municipality on Saturday afternoon, demanding the government provide them with a subsidy amount of sugarcane sold last year and fix the minimum support price for this year. Protesters rallied from Krishna Chowk to Indu Shankar Sugar Mills carrying sugarcane and converged in an assembly. The farmers demanded the government fix the minimum support price of sugarcane Rs750…
by Sarahna Khadka in The Kathmandu Post, Dec 17, 2023.On Tuesday, Saroj Dahal, a 28-year-old follically challenged man, was waiting outside the dermatologist’s room at a clinic in Shantinagar, Kathmandu for his follow-up appointment. It would be his second treatment for his receding hairline. Dahal said he was frustrated with his baldness. “It made me a laughing stock everywhere I went,” Dahal told the Post. “Now there is some hair growth and that has improved…
by Prithvi Man Shrestha in The Kathmandu Post,Dec 16, 2023The alleged loan sharks who had initially asked for as much as Rs7.62 billion, have settled for only R1.72 billion during negotiations facilitated by an inquiry commission formed to address loan sharking problems. The significant reduction in settlement amounts suggests the lenders had inflated their claims and may have lent much less than the amounts indicated in the tamasuks, personal mortgaging contracts with borrowers. “Would they…