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Some services resume as new PM takes charge

Kathmandu, Sept. 15 -- Nepal's vital institutions that were reduced to ashes during the Gen Z-led anti-corruption protests, have resumed services on Sunday. Two days after being appointed the interim... Read More


Prime Minister Karki takes charge, some offices resume services

Kathmandu, Sept. 14 -- Nepal's vital institutions that were reduced to ashes during the Gen Z-led anti-corruption protests, have resumed services on Sunday. Two days after being appointed the interim... Read More


How to form transitional government

Nepal, Sept. 14 -- As talks on the formation of a new transitional government continue, it is unclear how the process will unfold legally. Gen Z youths, who toppled the KP Sharma Oli government throu... Read More


Truth commission lacks tools to act amid rising war-era complaints

Kathmandu, Sept. 8 -- Despite receiving an encouraging number of new complaints from insurgency-era victims, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission still lacks the necessary legal and administrative ... Read More


Nepal truth panel lacks tools to act amid rising complaints

Kathmandu, Sept. 7 -- Despite receiving an encouraging number of new complaints from insurgency-era victims, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission still lacks the necessary legal and administrative ... Read More


Federal Civil Service Bill endorsed, but exceeds its mandate

Kathmandu, Sept. 4 -- The National Assembly on Tuesday endorsed the Federal Civil Service bill that was finalised following intense discussions amid differences between the government and opposition. ... Read More


Nepal's birth registration denial leaves children stateless. Here are five key points you should know.

Kathmandu, Sept. 2 -- 1. Administrative and bureaucratic hurdles block access Thousands of children in Nepal are denied birth registration because officials insist on documents their parents never ha... Read More


Transitional justice complaints soar but victims sceptical

Kathmandu, Aug. 29 -- At the end of the three-month deadline to lodge cases, the volume of complaints related to the insurgency-era atrocities have increased by around a fourth. With 63,718 complaint... Read More


Nudity in devotion is not obscenity, Nepal Supreme Court rules

Kathmandu, Aug. 27 -- The Supreme Court has refused to bar Naga Sadhus (naked ascetic monks) from entering the Pashupatinath and other Shiva temples, ruling that nudity in the name of religion cannot ... Read More


Birth registration denial robs Nepali children of their future

Kathmandu, Aug. 24 -- The sight of students going to school is painful to Rabindra. Not because he is envious of them, but because he regrets not being one of them. Rabindra, 17, was a sharp student,... Read More