by Binod Ghimire in The Kathmandu Post,Nov 6, 2023At least 157 people died and hundreds were injured in Friday’s earthquake that hit Jajarkot and West Rukum districts in western Nepal. As per preliminary assessment 3,900 houses either have been completely destroyed or damaged. As the search and rescue operation continues, it is certain that there will be an increase in the tally of both human and property losses. Entire Nepal including the western belt is…
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report in Tolo News, Aug 156, 2023 at 11.28pmThe acting Defense Minister, Mawlawi Mohammad Yaqoob Mujahid, said that some countries fail to provide their own security and then blame Afghanistan. Mawlawi Yaqoob made the remarks on the 2nd anniversary of the Islamic Emirate, without specifying a particular country. He said that such remarks are possibly aiming to show Afghanistan as a dangerous country to the world. “These messages may be meant to reflect to the…
By Sandun Jayawardana in The Sunday Times, Aug 6, 2023,The Prisons Department said this week that the country’s prison population had grown rapidly since the start of 2023. While there is room for only 13,241 inmates within the prison system, there are about 19,000 suspects who are in remand custody in addition to about 10,000 prisoners. The total prison population stands at about 29,000. Overcrowding is also seen as a factor in the recent spread…
by Anil Giri in The Kathmandu Post, July 20, 2023The Nepali Congress leadership has come under withering attack from its own leaders at the ongoing central working committee meeting, which started on Monday in Lalitpur. The meeting is taking place after almost a year, although the party’s statute requires that it be held every two months. Those speaking on Tuesday and Wednesday at the meeting, which was broadcast live on social media for the first…
by Binod Ghimire in The Kathmandu Post, July 10, 2023An ongoing blame game between the ruling and opposition parties over Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal’s controversial statement has led to yet another postponement of a lower house meeting on Sunday. Hours before the meeting, leaders of the Nepali Congress, the CPN-UML and the Maoist Centre had agreed that the opposition would allow Prime Minister Dahal to provide his clarification in Parliament on the statement, thereby…
By Imran Danish, TOLOnews Feb 1, 2023 at 8:43 PMActing Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi said that Pakistan shouldn’t put the blame for the explosion on a mosque in Peshawar, a city in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, on Afghanistan. Speaking at the opening of a 5,000-bed support facility for drug addicts in Kabul, Muttaqi added that there is no terrorist base in Afghanistan and the county’s soil will not be used against other countries. “We ask Pakistan’s…