Report in The Kathmandu Post, Dec 31, 2023The Central Working Committee meeting of the Nepali Congress has entrusted its parliamentary board to select the candidates for the upcoming National Assembly elections. This decision came as the three-day central meet of the ruling party concluded on Saturday. The party will follow the candidate selection criteria that are almost final, said Min Bishwakarma, head of the party’s publicity department. The criteria will prefer Congress members who have…
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Post Report in The Kathmandu Post, Dec 27, 2023It was a valiant effort at damage control. After failing on several fronts in the past one year, from combating corruption to service delivery to good governance, Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal announced a slew of promises in his televised address to the nation on Tuesday. Dahal, who marked his year in office on the day, addressed the nation, while admitting he is not satisfied with the…
report in The The Daily Star’, Oct 4, 2023Rab is not thinking about the new US visa policy, but rather working to create a militant- and terror-free society, an official of the force said yesterday. Commander Khandaker Al Moin, director of the legal and media wing of Rab, made the remarks while addressing reporters’ queries at the capital’s Karwan Bazar. When asked whether there was any unease within Rab about the visa curbs, Moin said…
By Binod Ghimire in The Kathmandu Post, July 30, 2023The need to revise the existing electoral system came up in the recent Central Working Committee meeting of the Nepali Congress. A number of central members demanded a complete direct election to the House of Representatives by scrapping the provision for proportional representation of ethnic populations, while making the National Assembly fully representative of the country’s diverse groups. Though the party made no decision on the…
by Nishan Khatiwada in The Kathmandu Post, June 13, 2023The Rastriya Swatantra Party has been focusing on organisation building after it decided to pull out support for the government. By this, the party aims to strengthen its base at the grassroots level for the next local elections, say party leaders. Kabindra Burlakoti, the party’s joint general secretary, said as many as 30,438 members have been verified with their memberships renewed for the next five years.…
AFP report, April 5, 2023KABUL: Afghan women who are United Nations employees have been blocked from work in eastern Nangarhar province, the UN mission said on Tuesday, warning Taliban authorities its aid programmes are impossible without its staff. In December, Taliban officials ordered all foreign and domestic NGOs to stop women personnel working across the crisis-stricken nation. Several suspended their entire operations in protest, piling further misery on Afghanistan’s 38 million citizens, half of whom…
by Patrick Wintour, Diplomatic editor, in The Guardian, Jan 7, 2023The UN’s lead humanitarian coordinator has said UN-supplied aid cannot continue if the Taliban do not lift their ban on women working for humanitarian aid agencies in Afghanistan. Martin Griffiths, the head of the UN’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, is due to visit Kabul shortly to discuss the impasse. Although he said he did not want to pre-empt talks and was willing…