by Nishan Khatiwada in The Kathmandu Post, Jan 3, 2023A week after Maoist Centre chair Pushpa Kamal Dahal became the prime minister, leaders of the coalition partners are still waiting for his go-ahead to pick ministers from their respective parties. Leaders the Post spoke with said they are unable to finalise the names of the ministers as they haven’t yet been informed about the portfolios they will be assigned in the power sharing arrangement among…
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by Tika R Pradhan inThe Kathmandu Post,Jan 3, 2023On December 25, an interesting photo was published in different media outlets, in which Ganga Dahal, the youngest daughter of Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal, is seen shaking hands with CPN-UML chair KP Sharma Oli and the Maoist Center chair is seen talking to Oli while pointing at Ganga. The photo taken at the Balkot-based residence of Oli, speaks a lot as Ganga, according to leaders of…
Report in Kathmandu Post, Jan 31, 2023Nepal has been ranked in 110th position out of 180 countries and territories in the Corruption Perceptions Index. According to Corruption Perceptions Index 2022, an annual flagship publication of Transparency International, a global anti-corruption group based in Berlin, made public on Tuesday, Nepal made a slight improvement by climbing seven positions in the global rankings. Nepal was ranked in the 117th position in 2021. Transparency International uses a scale…
Report in Kathmandu Post, Jan 31, 2023Nepal is considered one of the champion countries of “Objective 6” of the global compact for safe, orderly and regular migration, commonly known as GCM. The objective is to facilitate fair and ethical recruitment and safeguarding conditions that ensure decent work. However, the reality is different. The data from Recruitment Advisor, a global recruitment and employment review platform shows, many migrant workers still pay exorbitant amounts of recruitment fees…
by Arjun Rajbanshi/ Deo Narayan Sah in The Kathmandu Post, Jan 2, 20223There was a time when strategies on the formation and dissolution of governments at Singha Durbar, the country’s administrative headquarters, were made hundreds of kilometres away in Biratnagar, Morang, the home district of Nepali Congress paramount leaders BP Koirala and Girija Prasad Koirala. Political remarks expressed in Biratnagar, the headquarters of the influential Koirala dynasty, created ripples in national politics in Kathmandu. After…
by Prithvi Man Shrestha in The Kathmandu Post, Jan 2, 2023With Nepal struggling to address a number of deficiencies to comply with the standards on anti-money laundering and terrorist financing, stakeholders are worried whether this would lead to the greylisting of the country by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), a global anti-money laundering watchdog. A delegation of the Asia Pacific Group on Money Laundering (APG), an FATF-style regional anti-money laundering body, recently concluded a…
by Arjun Poudel in The Kathmandu Post, Jan 2, 20223For the last one week, people seeking booster shots and second doses against Covid-19 vaccine have increased manifold at urban health clinics in Ward-1 of the Kathmandu Metropolitan City. Health workers serving in the clinic say that every day they get dozens of phone calls from the public, who are concerned about the news of risks and of another surge in infections. “The number of people…
by Purushottam Poudel in The Kathmandu Post, Jan 1, 2023 .The CPN (Unified Socialist) is still undecided on whether to join the Puspha Kamal Dahal-led government. Speaking to the Post, party leaders refuted rumours that the party is joining the new administration soon. The party had called a standing committee meeting on Saturday to take a decision on joining the Dahal-led government. “The ruling coalition has not formally asked our party to join the government…
report in The Himalayan Times, Jan 01, 2023KATHMANDU, DECEMBER 31Nepali Congress general secretaries Gagan Kumar Thapa and Bishwa Prakash Sharma issued a joint statement today vowing to change the party from a state of frustration and confusion to a state of opportunities to rejuvenate the party. In their National Reconciliation Day statement, the duo, who advocate handover of party leadership to new and young faces, said there should be seriousness in this adverse situation and…
Report in The Kathmandu Post, Jan 1, 2023The Federation of Nepali Journalists has said 2022 was very challenging in terms of freedom of the press and expression in Nepal. The federation says fresh challenges to press freedom have been added as new means have been adopted to curb freedom of the press with the advancement of new technology. “People or groups disagreeing with the news have started attacking media organisations and journalists through a different…
by Anil Giri in The Kathmandu Post, Jan 1, 2023At a time when Kathmandu says no project under Beijing’s Belt and Road Initiative has been signed and Nepal and China are working to finalise the text of project implementation under the BRI, the Chinese Embassy in Kathmandu made a surprise announcement on Saturday. Just a day ahead of the inauguration of Pokhara International Airport by Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal, the Chinese Embassy wrote in…