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Children misused in electioneering despite promises, study finds

Kathmandu, March 22 -- Despite political commitments and initiatives from multiple sectors to end the use of children in political activities, the practice continued widely during the March 5 House of... Read More


Children misused in electioneering despite promises

Kathmandu, March 21 -- Despite political commitments and initiatives from multiple sectors to end the use of children in political activities, the practice continued widely during the March 5 House of... Read More


NHRC implicates Oli, Lekhak, officials over protest crackdown

Kathmandu, March 21 -- The National Human Rights Commission has held then-prime minister KP Sharma Oli, concerned ministers and officials as well as the organisers of the Gen Z uprising accountable fo... Read More


President to receive election report today

Kathmandu, March 19 -- The Election Commission is set to submit its election report to President Ram Chandra Paudel on Thursday, marking the formal conclusion of the March 5 snap parliamentary polls. ... Read More


Supreme Court orders probe into 2019 killing of Paudel

Kathmandu, March 14 -- The Supreme Court has directed the Nepal Police to start criminal investigations against 12 individuals, including the then home minister Ram Bahadur Thapa and then inspector ge... Read More


Voter turnout revised to 60 percent, lowest since 1991

Kathmandu, March 12 -- The Election Commission has revised the voter turnout in the March 5 parliamentary elections to around 60 percent as it completes the count under both the first-past-the-post an... Read More


58.07% turnout in peaceful polls as Nepal seeks stability after political upheaval

Kathmandu, March 6 -- Over 58 percent of eligible voters cast their ballots in the House of Representatives elections that concluded largely peacefully across the country. Except for a few incidents ... Read More


Court asks Centre not to encroach on provinces' rights during lawmaking

Kathmandu, Feb. 27 -- In one of the first verdicts issued to resolve the long-pending row over jurisdictions between different tiers of government, the Supreme Court has ruled that the federal governm... Read More


Election Commission under fire for inaction on code violations

Kathmadu, Feb. 24 -- Hundreds of complaints. Seventy-nine clarifications. And zero action. This is the Election Commission's one-month report card on implementing the election code of conduct aimed at... Read More


Transitional justice regulations set for endorsement

Kathmandu, Feb. 19 -- Over a year and a half after amendments to the Enforced Disappearances Enquiry, Truth and Reconciliation Commission Act, the Ministry of Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs ha... Read More