By Tika R Pradhan in The Kathmandu Post, April 22, 2023Nearly a month after his death on March 24, the struggle committee agitating against the decision of the Province 1 provincial assembly to name the province as ‘Koshi’, decided to perform the funeral rites of their activist Padam Limbu, also known as Lajehang, on Saturday, after holding a condolence assembly in Biratnagar. As there was no significant struggle when all five provinces were named by…
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report in The Himalayan Times online, Feb 25, 2023Sudurpaschim Province Chief Minister Kamal Bahadur Shah has intensified attempts to secure confidence vote as the deadline for the same nears. After the previous government failed to secure mandatory trust vote leading to its downfall, Nepali Congress’ Shah, in capacity of the parliamentary party leader of the largest party in the provincial assembly, had, by default, become the chief minister. It is important to note that though…
report in The Frontier Post, Jan 27, 2023QALA-I-NAW (Pajhwok): Books sale has declined significantly in northwestern Badghis province recently, according to bookstores owners on Thursday. The books sale market was in terrible situation in the past as well while expert believed not reading books may have dire consequences for the society and it could push the society towards backwardness. Aminullah, a bookseller of Qala-i-Naw city said, he has been associated with the bookselling business from…
REPORT IN The News, Jan 12, 2023LAHORE:The Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) Punjab arrested 26 terror suspects from different part of the province. According to a spokesperson for the CTD, on the directions of the Punjab IG, the CTD Punjab conducted extensive and coordinated combing operations across the Punjab to avert any untoward incident. The CTD conducted 40 combing and search operations in which 40 localities were checked in different districts of Punjab, he said, and…
by Tika R Pradhan in The Kathmandu Post, Jan 9, 2023CPN-UML parliamentary party leader of Province 1 Hikmat Karki has been appointed chief minister of the province. With the ruling coalition forging a power-sharing deal and seven provincial heads setting the deadline for the parties to lay claim to chief ministership, all provinces are set to get new governments within this week. “Today, the meeting of top leaders of coalition partners settled on a package…