REPORT IN Daily Mirror, Dec 28, 2023The economic crisis is bearing on people with as many as 60.5 percent of households finding their monthly average incomes reduced while 91.0 percent of households experiencing an increase in their monthly expenditure levels, according to a survey by the Department of Census and Statistics. The Department traced back the origin of the crisis to the 2019 Easter Sunday attack, said it was exacerbated by the pandemic. The survey…
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by Basant Pratap Singh in The Kathmandu Post, Dec 14, 2023.On October 22, a 40-year-old woman from ward 4 of Kedarsyun Rural Municipality in Bajhang, fell off a cliff while cutting grass and suffered critical injuries. She was rushed to Dhangadhi town of Kailali for lack of a good hospital in Bajhang. But the doctors in Dhangadhi advised her family to take her to a well-facilitated hospital. However, her family thought it better to take…
By Saman Indrajith in The Island, Dec 1, 2023Opposition and SJB leader Sajith Premadasa told Parliament yesterday that his party would abide by the instructions issued by Pope Francis to continue the struggle in seeking the truth about the Easter Sunday terror attacks. “I give an undertaking that our party stands by the Pope’s statement, and will not give up the struggle until we find the truth pertaining to the Easter Sunday terror attacks,” Premadasa…
Report in TOLOnews Online, Nov 12, 2023 at 10:04 PMThe Afghans who were deported from Pakistan following Islamabad’s deadline for undocumented refugees, said that they are struggling with cold weather. The deportees said that they were forced to leave everything behind in Pakistan and that they are now facing dire conditions. Pari Gul, 80, was living in Pakistan for 40 years. “We have spent 40 years in Pakistan. We have done farming. They have forcefully…
report in Pakistan Today, Sept 27, 2023ISLAMABAD: Caretaker Prime Minister Anwaarul Haq Kakar affirmed on Tuesday that the military will continue to play a significant role in the country’s politics unless civil institutions bolster their organisational capabilities. This persistent imbalance prompts military interventions in the daily affairs of the government, Kakar stated during an interview with TRT World. Kakar attributed this lopsided civil-military relationship to the long-standing deficiencies in civilian institutions over the past four…
Report in The Kathmandu Post, July 24, 2023 Updated at 22:25 hrsNepal Media Society and Advertising Association of Nepal have said that their attention has been drawn to the protests being organised in the name of Kantipur Joint Struggle Committee on the premises of Kantipur Publications. Issuing a joint press statement on Monday, the two umbrella organisations said that although it is natural for workers and employees to present their demands to the company management,…
By Nawid Samadi in TOLOnews, July 13, 2023 at 4:01 PMResidents of the capital are concerned about the lack of drinking water in Kabul these days. They said that they do not have access to city water supply services and the price of the drinking water from private companies has also increased. “People’s problems are many. If you ring the bell, three days or four days later it will be your turn to get water.…
report in Daily Mirror online, 1 May 2023Civil rights groups, Trade Unions and members of political parties gathering under one banner yesterday warned the government to face a massive people’s struggle in the future if the punitive Prevention of Terrorism Act is not abolished and the Anti-Terrorism Act is not torn up. A large group of civil rights activists, trade unions, student movements and representatives of the opposition political parties gathering along with the Inter-University…
report in Daily FT, Apr 3, 2023—TNA MP M.A. Sumanthiran calls on political parties and leaders to launch mass struggle against new anti-terror legislation —-Prof. G.L. Peiris says new law is ten times more dangerous than existing PTA —-NPP MP Harini Amarasuriya accuses Govt. of attempting to suppress people’s liberties through it —-SJB says will bring together all political parties to launch joint Opposition campaign against proposed Anti-Terrorism Act and will also take legal action…
by Nishan Khatiwada in The Kathmandu Post, Feb 20, 2023On Falgun 7, 2007BS, the 104-year-long Rana regime ended in Nepal as the 1950 movement ushered in democracy. Next year, the Interim Government of Nepal Act 1951 was promulgated. It was a landmark achievement. But since then, Nepal’s democracy has experienced many trials and tribulations. Lok Raj Baral, a political analyst, says the establishment of democracy in 1951 opened “our door to light from darkness—of our…