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Bundling of many legal amendments in a single bill raises question of intent

by Binod Ghimire in The Kathmandu Post, Aug 25, 2023The government on May 9 registered a bill to amend some Nepal Acts in the House of Representatives. The bill seeks to revise 80 Acts—around a third of the country’s total. With the single bill, the government is preparing to amend the Acts related to criminal office, forest use, environment protection, university education—and what not. In case of minor revisions, there is a practice of amending…

Garments export to US declines

report in The Daily Star, June 10, 2023Garment exports to the US, the single largest export destination of Bangladesh, declined by 17.88 percent year on year in January-April period. During this period last year, Bangladesh exported goods worth $3.28 billion to the US, but this year it was $2.7 billion, according to data from the Office of Textiles and Apparel (OTEXA) of the US Department of Commerce. In 2022, Bangladesh earned $9.72 billion from garment…