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Six people have died of AIDS in Nepal in the month of Jestha (May 14-June 14), a government report states.The Cumulative HIV/AIDS Situation report on ...
The government may table a supplementary Bill in the Constituent Assembly along with the Fifth Amendment Bill to amend the interim constitution if the three ...
DANG, July 2 - Ruling party Nepali Congress (NC) affiliated Tarun Dal said the government headed by the CPN-Maoist without the participation of the NC ...
KATHMANDU, July 2 - Tharu Welfare Assembly, an organisation representing Tharu community, has expressed dissatisfaction over the three largest political parties' decision to address the ...
A spokesman for Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe Tuesday ruled out a Kenya-style unity government with the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), South African radio ...
The bomb exploded as soon as the group hurled it from the main gate of the house, said Jha, who is also the chief of Small and Medium Cottage Industry Office in Gaur....
KATHMANDU, June 23 - One of India's main political parties on Monday requested Nepal to allow the water of the Gandaki River to flow through India's Uttar Pradesh (UP) and Bihar for irrigation purposes.The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) drew the attention of India's central government to the problem stating that some lands in UP and Bihar have gone dry since the Nepal government has stopped the water flow.Land cultivation in UP and Bihar has been affected since the water flow has been blocked, Chairman of BJP's UP division Ramapati Ram Tripathi told reporters in Lucknow today.The BJP leader claimed that the central government of India has disregarded Nepal's welfare due to pressure from leftist parties....
Agitating police personnel of the Armed Police Forces Bageshwori battalion at Shamshergunj today agreed to shelve their agitation for a month and released 25 senior officers who had been taken hostage by them. The APF personnel had started agitation on Saturday night to protest physical and mental torture at the hands of high-ranking officers and distribution of low-quality food.APF AIG Pandey said the authorities had agreed to provide same kind of ration to all ranks of the battalion, pay medical expenses of the personnel, pay poll allowances to APF personnel concerned and punish those who misappropriated the funds meant for the APF personnel....
After justice Shresthas order, advocate Bhupendra Prasad Pokhrel had filed the writ petition on Friday.In his petition, the lawyer claimed that it is inappropriate to let the former king and his mother and grandmother Ratna and Sarala to stay in Mahendra Manzil of the Narayanhiti palace as the royals have become commoners after the abolition of monarchy.The cabinet decision to provide palaces to the former royals is unconstitutional, the petitioner claimed and sought the apex court stay order to the government to revoke the decision through mandamus and certiorari orders....
But we are in the final phase of the process for her release," Education Adviser of the caretaker government Hossain Zillur Rahman said.The 62-year-old Zia was detained last September under graft charges, days after her archrival Sheikh Hasina was freed for treatment abroad.Zia was arrested along with her two sons Tarique Rahman and Arafat Rahman Koko under the massive anti-graft drive launched last year by the caretaker government.The caretaker government was installed with military supports in January 2007 after President Iajuddin Ahmed imposed a state of emergency.The military-backed government claimed that it released Hasina, after 11 months of detention, on humanitarian grounds.But Zia's party expects the government to free her without attaching any strings.Hasina's Awami League and BNP had earlier declined to join a crucial political dialogue with the government ahead of the planned December elections unless their leaders were released."No petition should be needed for her (Zia's) release....