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UML expels Durga Prasai from the party

Report in Kathmandu Post, Feb 26, 2023The CPN-UML has expelled businessman and central committee member Durga Prasai from the party. A secretariat meeting of the party held on Saturday expelled Prasai from the party, according to UML’s Deputy General Secretary Prithvi Subba Gurung. Prasai, who was once close to the Maoists, became a representative in the UML’s statute convention held in October 2021. He had entered the party through a formal function held in Jhapa…

Government reintroduces diplomatic code of conduct

report in The Kathmandu Post, Jan 19, 2023The Pushpa Kamal Dahal government has reintroduced the diplomatic code of conduct that was unveiled in 2011.A Cabinet meeting on Wednesday decided to enforce the diplomatic code of conduct and make it mandatory for all ministers to follow while meeting with foreign diplomats and representatives of foreign governments, should invite the officials of the foreign ministry, according to Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance Bishnu Poudel. The…

Easter-attacks-implicated SDIG Nilantha Jayawardena promoted

by Buddhika Samaraweera in The Morning, Jan 4, 2023Former State Intelligence Service (SIS) Director, Senior Deputy Inspector General of Police (SDIG) Nilantha Jayawardena, against whom criminal proceedings were recommended by the Presidential Commission of Inquiry (CoI) that investigated into the Easter Sunday terror attacks of 2019, and who later became a State witness in the cases pertaining to the same, has been promoted to the post of Acting SDIG – Administration. When contacted by The…

A parlous path ahead for Rabi Lamichhane

by Nishan Khatiwada in The Kathmandu Post, Dec 27, 2022Rastriya Swatantra Party president Rabi Lamichhane took the oath of office and secrecy as Deputy Prime Minister and Home Minister at the Sheetal Niwas on Monday—a remarkable turn of events for a person who was running a TV show until six months ago. The Rastriya Swatantra Party—which Lamichhane formed after resigning from his TV job in June just five months prior to the November 20 elections—emerged…