By Prithvi Man Shrestha in The Kathmandu Post, April 17, 2023The Commission for Investigation of Abuse of Authority on Sunday filed a corruption case at the Special Court against nine individuals including Bikal Paudel, the executive director of the Security Printing Centre. The anti-graft body said in a statement that they were involved in irregularities of up to Rs690.88 million while procuring equipment for the printing press. According to the CIAA, the accused were involved…
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By Tika R Pradhan in The Kathmandu Post, April 17, 2023With ruling parties including the Nepali Congress opposing the CPN-UML’s demand that the second-largest party must have four House members in the hearings committee, crucial bills are stuck in Parliament. Even the scheduled meetings of the top leaders of the three major parties—the Congress, the UML and the CPN (Maoist Centre)—have failed to take place due to the dispute. In a clear sign of conflict,…
By Nishan Khatiwada in The Kathmandu Post, April 17, 2023It has been more than a week since the CPN-UML pulled out of the Madhesh provincial government. Three coalition partners—Nepali Congress, CPN (Unified Socialist) and Loktantrik Samajbadi Party—are yet to join the government led by Chief Minister Saroj Kumar Yadav of Janata Samajbadi Party that includes ministers from the CPN (Maoist Centre) and Janamat Party. The exit of CPN-UML, the second-largest party in the federal parliament,…
Report in The Kathmandu Post, April 17, 2023The government spent a substantial amount of foreign aid in administrative activities in the fiscal year 2021-22, the Office of the Auditor General said. In its 60th annual report released last week, the constitutional body revealed that the government spent as much as Rs25.56 billion on recurrent programmes though foreign aid is supposed to be spent in areas that help in capital formation. The government spent the amount…
by Anil Giri in The Kathmandu Post, Apr 16, 2023The much talked about India visit of Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal has been deferred until May. Although the Indian side has already communicated the date of Dahal’s state visit, the two sides have agreed not to disclose it until some agendas get a concrete shape, officials from the Prime Minister’s Office and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, told the Post. After the Indian side indicated…
by Anup Ojha in The Kathmandu Post, Apr 16, 2023Nepal’s Cyber Bureau says the country has seen a steep rise in cybercrime cases over the past year. Inadequate technical human resource and lack of relevant laws have compounded the problem, the bureau says. Over the past eight months, the bureau has registered a total of 4,937 cases, a number higher than all cases registered in the whole of last fiscal year (4486 cases), according to…
By Nishan Khatiwada in The Kathmandu Post, April 15, 2023The writer is a reporter covering national politics for The Kathmandu Post.After sacking Dhaka Kumar Shrestha as a lawmaker and scrapping his ordinary membership, the Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP), on Wednesday, decided to replace him with Bindabasini Kansakar in Parliament. However, the party’s action has now sparked a legal debate. Shrestha, meanwhile, continues to claim that he is still an RSP lawmaker. Following the drastic step…
report in Prothom Alo, Apr 14, 2023Chattagram: Home minister Asaduzzaman Khan has said recommendations are being made to release leaders and activists of Hefazat-e-Islam. In accordance with their list, leaders and activists are being released. The home minister made the disclosure at Hathazari Madrasa in Chattogram on Thursday evening. Earlier on Tuesday, Hefazat in a statement warned that they would launch a movement after Eid if the leaders and activists are not released. Asaduzzaman said,…
by Ashutosh Sarkar in The Daily Star, Apr 14, 2023Both the victims and convicts of Ramna Batamul bomb blasts have been deprived of final justice due to legal tangles, even 22 years after the gruesome incident. Different issues, including repeated adjournments and reconstitution of High Court benches, have unusually delayed disposal of the case filed for killing of 10 people in the blasts. Besides, it is still uncertain when the appeals filed by the convicts…
By Nishan Khatiwada in The Kathmandu Post, April 14, 2023The writer is a reporter covering national politics for The Kathmandu Post.The Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) and its leaders, including its chair and parliamentarians, have been courting controversies, one after another, in under a year of the party’s formation. Most recently, the RSP expelled its lawmaker Dhaka Kumar Shrestha from the party on Wednesday over a leaked audio in which a voice, allegedly Shrestha’s, demands Rs20…
By Binod Ghimire in The Kathmandu Post, April 14, 2023CPN (Maoist Centre) chair and Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal has said he has never taken responsibility for 5,000 insurgency-era killings. Furnishing a written clarification to the Supreme Court through his lawyer, Dahal has argued that the petitions demanding investigation against him for insurgency-era killings should be scrapped. Dahal claimed that his statement three years ago—that he was ready to take moral responsibility for 5,000 deaths—was…