report in Nepalnews, July 30 at 18:09 hrsDalit community leaders have demanded a stern action against the culprits in a case of caste-based discrimination in Bajhang. At a press meet here today, they expressed their serious concern over the demolition of the under-construction house of a Dalit by a group of non-Dalits at Syaldhunga of Bitthadchir rural municipality-7. The incident happened on July 26. A group of over 40 non-dalits allegedly demolished the house being…
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report in The Daily Star online, July 12, 2023BNP will march in all city and district headquarters on July 18 and July 19 respectively to materialise their one-point demand. Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir announced the programmes from the party’s rally at its Nayapaltan headquarters, where he announced their one-point demand — holding the next national election under a non-partisan interim administration. About the party’s programmes on those days, he said the party will…
by Andrew Mullen & Mia Nulimaimaiti in SCMP, July 10, 2023Deflation risks in China heightened in June amid weak demand, as consumer prices remained flat and a factory-gate price fall deepened, data released on Monday showed. The consumer price index (CPI) was unchanged from a year earlier, down from 0.2 per cent growth in May, according to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS). This was below the expected rise of 0.1 per cent, according to…
report in Prothom Alo, Jul 10, 2023Opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) would make an announcement of one-point demand to oust the government from a rally in front of the party’s Naya Paltan headquarters in Dhaka on Wednesday (12 July). The party has sought a permission from the police to hold the rally. Different alliances and parties that are also waging simultaneous movement with the de facto opposition will also make the announcement of the one-point…
By Binod Ghimire in The Kathmandu Post, June 26, 2023Amid growing demand for a revision of the national budget, even the ministers and ruling party leaders have said the House can amend the budget if the legislature deems it necessary. Taking part in the budget deliberations on Sunday, they said the concerns of the lawmakers expressed in the weeks-long discussions must be addressed. The national budget is mandatorily presented in the House on Jestha 15…
report in The Daily Star, June 13, 2023 Noted citizens demanded the formation of an inquiry commission to investigate the abduction of Kalpana Chakma, a female leader in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, who disappeared 27 years ago. They raised the demand from a rally in front of National Museum at Shahbagh yesterday, organised under the banner of indigenous women, students and youth organisations. In the rally, Dr Khairul Chowdhury, a teacher of Dhaka University’s sociology…
By Parbat Portel in The Kathmandu Post, June 07, 2023The writer is the Jhapa correspondent for Kantipur Publications.Demand for Nepali tea is rising in the Indian market as production has slipped across the border. Nepali tea traders say Indian tea estates are going through a lean period as the tea bushes there have reached the end of their life cycles. Most of the plants are 80 years old, and some are more than 100 years…
by Mohammad Al-Masum Molla in The Daily Star, May 28, 2023The BNP now plans to focus on one point: resignation of the Awami League government. It will drop its current 10-point demand then, party leaders say. After the weeklong anti-government programme concludes today, the BNP will work on launching the one-point movement, they said, adding that the weeklong programme is in fact a preparation for the one-point movement. The US visa policy has encouraged the…
by Javaid Ur Rahman in The Nation, Feb 14, 2023ISLAMABAD – PPP senior Senator Raza Rabbani, in the proceedings of the joint session of parliament, yesterday sought details of the negotiations with the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan in an in-camera session. “If the house is serious in debate, DG ISI and DG Intelligence Bureau be invited to brief in in-camera sitting,” PPP senior Senator Raza Rabbani suggested the government, speaking at the second day of joint sitting…
by Ananda Gautam in The Kathmandu Post, Jan 25, 2023The price of chiraito, a medicinal herb prized by the pharmaceutical industry, has hit an all-time high of Rs1,000 per kg on soaring demand in India. The plant (Swertia chirayita) grows wild in the forests of the Himalayan foothills, and is also cultivated. Tibet used to be the largest buyer of Nepali chiraito; but after Chinese authorities closed the border in eastern Nepal due to Covid-19,…
by Balram Ghimire in The Kathmandu Post, Jan 8, 2023The demand for Nepali products has started to pick up in the Chinese market as Beijing has reopened two-way trade from the Rasuwagadhi-Kerung port, which was shut since the start of the Covid pandemic. Nepali traders have been exporting goods such as flour, turmeric, chilly, bamboo stool, grass broom, handicrafts, cosmetics, noodles and among others to Tibet via Rasuwagadhi. According to the local traders, the Tibetans…