KATHMANDU, March 24 -- The government has appointed Basanta Bahadur Kunwar as the new Inspector General (IG) of Nepal Police.

A meeting of the Council of Ministers took the decision at 4 PM on Friday. Kunwar was appointed as the new IGP after Inspector General of Police Dhiraj Pratap Singh retired today.

The Council of Ministers on Friday appointed Kunwar, who is number one among the five AIGs who were recently promoted from the post of DIG, as the IG of Nepal Police.

Kunwar, Tekprasad Rai, Deepak Thapa, Shyam Lal Gyawali and Kiran Bajracharya are the high police officials who were promoted to AIG from DIG recently. All these were contenders for the post of IG of Nepal Police.

Former AIGs Sahakul Bahadur Thapa, Uttam Subedi and Dibesh...