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Parties busy working on proportional lists for March election

Kathmandu, Dec. 25 -- With just five days to the deadline to submit the closed list under the proportional representation (PR) system, political parties are busy finalising the names of their candidat... Read More


Students allege British College misled them on 'overseas courses'

Kathmandu, Dec. 24 -- The British College, which offers courses in affiliation with foreign universities in Nepal, has been accused of duping students, prompting the Ministry of Education, Science and... Read More


Nepal presents glowing human rights report in UN as rights defenders raise questions

Kathmandu, Dec. 21 -- While civil society organisations reckon Nepal has made dismal progress in implementing the recommendations from the previous Universal Periodic Review, the government in its rep... Read More


Transitional justice panels stuck in red tape now cite March polls for delay

Kathmandu, Dec. 14 -- The teams in the two transitional justice commissions appointed on May 14 should already have been conducting full-fledged probes into thousands of complaints lodged with them. W... Read More


Supreme Court races to recover case files lost in Gen Z protest vandalism

Kathmandu, Dec. 13 -- Over a month after the Supreme Court began recovering the case files destroyed during the deadly Gen Z movement, it has so far managed to restore under a quarter of the files los... Read More


Case against then TIA immigration chief in visa scam

Kathmandu, Dec. 12 -- The Commission for Investigation of Abuse of Authority on Thursday filed corruption charges against then Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA) chief immigration officer Tirtha Ra... Read More


Sushila Karki government beset by court decisions

Kathmandu, Dec. 10 -- The interim government led by former chief justice Sushila Karki has faced repeated setbacks from the Supreme Court over its legally questionable decisions, the latest seeing the... Read More


Old feud at National Human Rights Commission simmers

Kathmandu, Dec. 7 -- A rift in the National Human Rights Commission has deepened to the point that one member has threatened to resign if the commission's secretary continues to overstep his authority... Read More


Prime minister, education minister set to lose university posts

Kathmandu, Dec. 5 -- A draft bill that would replace political figures with academics as university chancellors is being prepared as the government pushes ahead with the reform. A taskforce led by De... Read More


PM, education minister set to lose university posts

Kathmandu, Dec. 5 -- A draft bill that would replace political figures with academics as university chancellors is being prepared as the government pushes ahead with the reform. A taskforce led by De... Read More