By Laxmi Gautam in The Kathmandu Post, Oct 12, 2023Nara Bahadur Tumbapo, a permanent resident of ward 5 in Phidim Municipality, reached the municipal office at around 10am on Wednesday to pay land tax. But he had to leave without making the payment as the office was closed due to employees’ protest. Tumbapo’s house is around one hour walk from the municipality office in Phidim. “I urgently needed the receipt of land tax clearance to…
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report in The Daily Star, Sept 15, 2023Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen has said cases against Dr Muhammad Yunus had been filed by employees of his organisations, not by the government. “One cannot be above the law just because if he is a Nobel Laureate,” he said this while responding to a question at a media briefing at the foreign ministry yesterday. The foreign minister said since these cases were pending in court, the government…
By Nizamuddin Rezahi in The Khaama Press Online, May 16, 2023International media has reported the United Nations agencies including UNICEF, World Health Organization and WFP have failed to protect the rights of their female Afghan employees under the Taliban administration in Afghanistan. The London-based news agency Tortoise Media has recently highlighted in one of its reports titled “UN betrays women in Afghanistan” that the organization does not protect its Afghan female employees against gender apartheid…
Editorial in The Nation, February 13th, 2023The security situation in KP continues to be extremely fragile as on Saturday, at least three people were killed and 22 others were injured in a suicide attack on a convoy of a petroleum company in the Mir Ali area of North Waziristan district. Once again, the TTP has claimed responsibility for the attack and it shows that the group continues to have the upper hand thus far in…