by Basant Pratap Singh in The Kathmandu Post, Dec 4, 2023Chatte Bohara, a local of Rupatola in ward 3 of Talkot Rural Municipality, has been working as a construction worker at the 40-kilometre Rupatola-Dhuli road section under the 117-kilometre Chainpur-Taklakot road for five years. He says he has not received his daily wages for the last four years. More than 150 other workers have not received their wages for over a year while some have…
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by Binod Ghimire in The Kathmandu Post, Dec 4, 2023The constitution mandates the holding of general elections every five years. Snap polls come only when all constitutional options of government formation fail. The Pushpa Kamal Dahal government, elected after the parliamentary vote held last year, is about to complete a year in office. That leaves four years for the next federal and provincial elections. But Nepali political parties already seem to be itching to head…
by Krishana Prasain in The Kathmandu Post, Dec 3, 2023Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal flew to Dubai on Wednesday to attend the 28th Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP 28) and spoke on climate finance Nepal seeks from the international community. In his speech at the summit, Dahal said, “Nepal is fully committed to the Paris Agreement. We are committed to achieving net zero greenhouse gas emission by…
By Anil Giri in The Kathmandu Post, Dec 01, 2023Giving continuity to diplomatic exchanges between the US and Nepal, several senior American officials are already in Kathmandu while more are scheduled to arrive within a week. USAID Assistant Administrator of the Bureau for Asia Michael Schiffer is in Kathmandu and has started meeting ministers and officials. He arrived on Wednesday and met Finance Minister Prakash Sharan Mahat on the same day. At the meeting, they…
By Binod Ghimire in Kathmandu Post, Dec 01, 2023The Rastriya Swatantra Party has finally shown some clarity on its view of Nepal’s provincial setup, a vital cog in the new republic’s federal machinery. A joint meeting of the party’s central committee and parliamentary party on Wednesday endorsed party chief Rabi Lamichhane’s political paper, which has proposed alternatives to the provincial mechanism. The political paper says the current provincial setup will take the country nowhere. Provinces,…
By Sanju Paudel in The Kathmandu Post, Nov 29, 2023A year and a half after the completion of the country’s second international airport in Bhairahawa in the southwest Tarai plains, the facility still stands empty. Nepal has spent nearly Rs40 billion on the construction of an airport that does not receive scheduled flights. Insiders say that the airport which was considered a landmark, and a sign of progress in this region before it was built,…
By Rastriya Samachar Samiti in Nepal News, Nov 29, 2023Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’ pledged that the federal government would conclude adjustment process of police service at the earliest. According to Bagmati Province’s Minister for Internal Affairs and Law Ganga Narayan Shrestha, PM Dahal in a group meeting with Home Ministers of all seven provinces in the official residence of Prime Minister at Baluwatar, Kathmandu on Tuesday appraised that the adjustment process for police…
By Anil Giri in The Kathmandu Post, Nov 28, 2023Nepal has seen a series of demonstrations lately—by pro-Hindu groups in Dharan and Nepalgunj, by the monarchist Rastriya Prajatantra Party in Jhapa, and by supporters of controversial medical entrepreneur Durga Prasai in Kathmandu. These protests have alarmed the country’s top political brass. Thousands of people demanding the restoration of Hindu state and constitutional monarchy staged demonstrations in Dharan in August-end, and in Nepalgunj and a few…
By Prithvi Man Shrestha in The Kathmandu Post, Nov 28, 2023Bangladesh has proposed a mechanism between Nepal, India and Bangladesh at the highest bureaucratic level to enhance trilateral cooperation in the energy sector. Currently, Nepal has bilateral mechanisms for energy cooperation with both India and Bangladesh; while India and Bangladesh also have similar mechanisms that work to smoothen out wrinkles in cooperation in the energy sector at bilateral level. Nepal’s two mechanisms with India are…
by Prakash Baral in The Kathmandu Post, Nov 26, 2023Security lapses have marred conservation efforts in Dhorpatan, the only hunting reserve in Nepal. Poaching of animals, as well as birds, and smuggling of medicinal herbs and timber go unchecked due to poor security presence in the reserve. On Tuesday, the reserve arrested three poachers with two muskets, one binocular, and 102 sets of animal traps, among other things, from the Barse block. Of late, the…
By Binod Ghimire in The Kathmandu Post, Nov 25, 2023The writers covers parliamentary affairs and human rights for The Kathmandu Post.The government on Friday stopped the ‘Campaign to protect nation, nationalism, religion, culture and citizens’, led by controversial businessman Durga Prasai, from organising and protesting in Kathmandu, arguing that it didn’t have the permit to do so. After holding a demonstration in the Balkhu area on Thursday, the Prasai-led group announced that it would hold…