report in The Island, Mar 1, 2023Public sector trade unions yesterday (28) vowed to go ahead with their one-day strike scheduled for today (01) to pressure the government to reverse new tax regime. Spokesperson for the trade union collective, Ranjan Jayalal, told The Island that workers in sectors such as petroleum, electricity, ports, water supply and drainage, health, education, banking would join the strike. Jayalal said that the issuance of an extraordinary gazette Monday (27)…
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by Purushottam Poudel in The Kathmandu Post, Feb 27, 2023Unexpected developments within months of government formation and overnight dramatic turn of events have become a norm in Nepali politics. The prevailing crisis in the incumbent coalition government formed on December 25 is a case in point. The seven-party ruling coalition government comprising CPN-UML, CPN (Maoist Centre), Rastriya Swatantra Party, Rastriya Prajantra Party, Janata Samajbadi Party, Janamat Party and Nagarik Unmukti Party that supported Maoist Centre…
by Subash Bidari in Kathmandu Post, Feb 26, 2023A total of three ministers of the Rastriya Prajatantra Party in the Bagmati government resigned on Saturday. They submitted their resignation to Chief Minister Shalikram Jammakattel after the party decided to withdraw support to the government in the wake of new political development. The party’s provincial assembly leader Uddhav Thapa was the minister for water supply, energy and irrigation; Dambar Bahadur Tamang the minister for tourism, industry…
By Nizamuddin Rezahi in Khaama Press,Feb23, 2023The government of Turkiye plans to hand over the Consulate General of Afghanistan in Istanbul to the Taliban diplomats, according to Afghanistan International. It is also stated that the employees of the Afghan Consulate in Istanbul were told to prepare for the handover of the diplomatic mission to the Taliban officials, according to official sources. It is believed that the Taliban have introduced Gul Mohammad Zadran as the group’s…
By Nizamuddin Rezahi in Khaama Press online, Feb 21, 2023The Iranian Foreign Ministry plans to hand over the Afghan Embassy in Tehran to the Afghan interim government after months of negotiations, according to unofficial sources. Iran will officially hand over the embassy to the Taliban in the coming days according to an Afghan diplomat who has been in contact with the officials of the Iranian foreign ministry. A serious decision has been made in this…
By Mirudhula Thambiah in The Morning, Feb 21, 2023Security personnel from the Army as well as the Police were deployed in front of the Government Printing Department yesterday (20), not to provide security for ballot paper printing but due to the protest that was held in Colombo by the Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB). Speaking to The Daily Morning, Police Media Spokesman, Senior Superintendent of Police and Attorney Nihal Thalduwa said that a special security plan…
AFP report, Feb 21, 2023DHAKA: The only newspaper of Bangladesh´s main opposition party halted printing on Monday after a government suspension order was upheld, stoking fears about media freedom in the South Asian nation. Campaigners and foreign governments including the United States have long expressed worries about efforts by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to silence criticism and what they see as creeping authoritarianism. The Dainik Dinkal, a broadsheet Bengali-language newspaper, has been a vital voice…
By Mirudhula Thambiah in The Morning, Feb 20, 2023The Police Department has stated that it will have to consider providing security to the Government Printing Department only when the ballot paper printing process commences, and that officers would have to be reassigned from various police stations and duties as they would have to be deployed at the Printing Department for a longer period than usual. Responding to Government Printer Gangani Liyanage’s statement last week that…
Editorialin Dawn, February 17th, 2023IF the analysis of an American government think tank stating that the Afghan Taliban are unwilling to end their support for the banned TTP is accurate, it would put to rest the illusion harboured by some in our security establishment that a Taliban government in Kabul is good for Pakistan. If anything, the US Institute of Peace report paints an unsettling picture, which shows that not only are the Afghan rulers…
By Charumini de Silva in Daily FT, Feb 17, 2023The Government yesterday announced that an uninterrupted power supply will be provided countrywide upon the approval for higher electricity tariff revision by the Public Utilities Commission of Sri Lanka (PUCSL). President Ranil Wickremesinghe yesterday issued a directive to Power and Energy Minister Kanchana Wijesekera and relevant CEB officials to ensure an uninterrupted power supply for electricity users. He was also instructed to provide concessions for low-income…
by Mirudhula Thambiah in The Morning, Feb 17, 2023Government Printer Gangani Liyanage stated yesterday (16) that the “main reason” for the delay in the printing of the ballot papers for the postal voting at the Local Government (LG) poll is that despite many requests made to the Police Department, including to the Inspector General of Police (IGP) Chandana D. Wickramaratne by both the Election Commission (EC) and the Government Printing Department to provide security for…