Kathmandu, March 14 -- For months, opposition lawmakers have been critical of Rishikesh Pokharel, chairperson of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of the lower house, for his alleged reluctance to c... Read More
Kathmandu, March 10 -- Seventeen months after retaining its global 'A' ranking, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) is set for another review next week in Geneva, Switzerland. NHRC representa... Read More
Kathmandu, March 9 -- Despite the prime minister's deadline and ultimatum from the Kathmandu University Professors' Association (KUPA), the committee to recommend vice-chair candidates at the universi... Read More
Kathmandu, March 5 -- The government is pushing ordinances other than one to amend the Land Act, after two Madhesh-based parties refused to support the "controversial" ordinance. Five of the six ordi... Read More
Kathmandu, March 3 -- The Constitution of Nepal makes it mandatory to nominate office bearers in the constitutional bodies a month before any position becomes vacant. Six positions, including the cha... Read More
Kathmandu, March 2 -- The ruling alliance had not expected the endorsement of the ordinances to be a Herculean task. Though not in government, the Upendra Yadav-led Janata Samajbadi Party-Nepal (JSP-... Read More
Kathmandu, Feb. 23 -- As Nepali students continue to return from the Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT) in Odisha, Nepal's domestic universities have offered the returnees a chance to c... Read More
Kathmandu, Feb. 19 -- Devi Sunar, mother of Maina, who was raped and murdered by security forces during the Maoists insurgency, has written to the United Nations requesting it to halt support to Biren... Read More
Kathmandu, Feb. 19 -- The Supreme Court has said that the imprisonment and hefty fines provisioned in the Electronic Transaction Act are not against the Constitution of Nepal. Passing a verdict on a ... Read More
Kathmandu, Feb. 18 -- Devi Sunuwar, mother of Maina, a victim of rape and murder by security forces during the Maoists insurgency period, has written to the United Nations urging to halt support to Bi... Read More