by Binod Ghimire in The Kathmandu Post, Dec 30, 2022Somebody rightly said that justice delayed is justice denied. On August 8, 2021, the five-party coalition government led by Sher Bahadur Deuba unveiled its common minimum programme which included a pledge to conclude the peace process by expediting the transitional justice process. The Nepali Congress, CPN (Maoist Centre), CPN (Unified Socialist), Janata Samajbadi Party and Rastriya Janamorcha claimed that the long pending task of providing justice…
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by Anil Giri in The Kathmandu Post, Dec 28, 2022A day after Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal’s assumption of office, a six-member Chinese technical team landed in Kathmandu on Tuesday to carry out a feasibility study of the Nepal-China cross-border railway. Dahal, the CPN (Maoist Centre) chairman, heads a coalition of two biggest leftist parties and others. The China Railway First Survey and Design Institute Group will carry out the feasibility study via a Chinese…
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…
by Purushottam Poudel in The Kathmandu Post,Dec 23, 2022 .Nepali Congress General Secretary Gagan Thapa has said a non-political person would be an acceptable candidate for President for all sides. In an interview with the Post on Thursday, General Secretary Thapa said that as major political parties in the ruling coalition are eying the post of President, a non-political person can be appointed as a compromise candidate. “Our party should not demand both the presidency…
But Tatopani border is unlikely to open anytime soon.by Anil Giri in The Kathmandu Post,Dec 23, 2022China has decided to resume two-way cargo movement from Rasuwagadhi-Kerung-Jilong port, which was almost shut since the start of the Covid pandemic in early 2020, possibly before the end of the first week of 2023. But the decision is yet to be communicated to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Supplies. Speaking at an…
report in The Kathmandu Post, Dec 22, 2022The Supreme Court has issued a short-term interim order against the Nepal Army’s invitation to award the contract of the sixth package of the Kathmandu-Nijgadh Fast Track project to a Chinese company—China First Highway Engineering Company Limited. After hearing the writ petition registered by advocate Rojan Khadka on behalf of an Indian company—Afcons Infrastructure Limited, a single bench of justice Tanka Bahadur Moktan issued the interim order valid…
By Binod Ghimire in The Kathmandu Post, Dec 14, 2022. .The Sher Bahadur Deuba administration’s move to amend the penal code through an ordinance to clear legal hurdles for pardoning politicians convicted of heinous crimes has met with widespread criticism. The caretaker government has been accused of misusing ordinance to create the ground for the release of Resham Chaudhary, a former lawmaker who is currently in jail after being convicted in the 2015 Tikapur killings.…
by Nishan Khatiwada in The Kathmandu Post, Dec 9, 2022On July 23, 2022, Madhav Kumar Nepal, while speaking at a function in Kathmandu, claimed that the CPN (Unified Socialist) would secure 20-25 lower house seats under the proportional representation category. “Despite fielding only 28 percent candidates in the last local polls, we garnered 927,000 votes. Had we contested in every part of the nation, we would have received 2 to 2.5 million votes. So, no…