The District Attorney Office Kathmandu on Wednesday filed criminal cases at District Court Kathmandu against 30 individuals including former deputy prime minister Top Bahadur Rayamajhi and former home minister Bal Krishna Khand allegedly involved in the Bhutanese refugee scam. The attorney office said that all of them have been prosecuted for four types of crimes—treason, organised crime, fraud and forgery. “We have sought additional penalties in the case of the public officials including former ministers, secretaries and the appointees in public offices and government employees,” said Mahesh Prasad Khatri, district attorney at the District Attorney Office, Kathmandu. “We have sought…
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KATHMANDU: The Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) has directed the submission of the details of the poor, helpless and abandoned people, who have received free treatment at the designated hospitals, to the KMC within 10 days of the completion of every month. The KMC has asked for the implementation of the notice issued by the Health Department under the metropolis by the respective hospital notifying about the reservation of 10 percent beds for the target group and submitting their details within 10 days of the each passing month. “According to Clause 70 (D) of Chapter 24 of the Health Institution Operation Standards,…
CPN-UML Chairman KP Sharma Oli has challenged the government to investigate him in the fake Bhutanese refugees scam. CPN-UML leader Top Bahadur Rayamajhi and Nepali Congress (NC) leader Bal Krishna Khand have already been arrested in the scam that was initiated when Oli was prime minister (PM). Speaking in the House on Sunday to comment on the government’s policies and programs, Oli has challenged the government to investigate even him. “I want to challenge—I became home minister, foreign minister and prime minister repeatedly. Let there be investigation. We are always against corruption,” Oli has said. He has warned the government…
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy arrived Saturday in Japan for talks with the leaders of the world’s most powerful democracies, a personal appearance meant to galvanize global attention as the nations ratcheted up pressure on Moscow for its 15-month invasion of Ukraine. Bolstering international support is a key priority as Ukraine prepares for what’s seen as a major push to take back territory seized by Russia in the war that began in February last year. Zelenskyy’s in-person visit to the G7 summit comes just hours after the United States agreed to allow training on potent American-made fighter jets, laying the groundwork…
KATHMANDU: Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’ has expressed the determination to work to protect national unity and bring the required changes to the country. Inaugurating the ‘Half Marathon’ organized by Kantipur Media House in the capital here this morning, he said the current government is determined to ensure that the people can be served, good governance can be provided and development can be provided through change. “I will work to build national unity, consensus, and collaboration as in the past days,” he said. Prime Minister Dahal said that the government is going to develop sports as a matter of…
A woman committed suicide by setting fire to her own body in Kathmandu. According to SP Sitaram Rijal, Information Officer of the District Police Range Kathmandu, 36-year-old Shanti Shrestha, a resident of Chandragiri Municipality-9, Machhegau, set herself on fire after dousing in petrol. He informed that she died at Kirtipur Burn Hospital at 3:20 am today (Saturday) during treatment. She is the wife of Shanti Mohan Kumar Shrestha, a resident of Manthali Municipality-6, Ramechhap. Husband Mohan Kumar is suffering from paralysis. While she was sleeping in the rented room, Shanti poured petrol on her body and set herself on fire…
KATHMANDU, MAy 17: A 16-year-old Chinese girl has ascended Mount Everest with the onset of the Spring season. The Chinese girl Sui Cho Yuan successfully reached atop Everest via the south slope at 5:42am on May 15. Organizing a press conference here Wednesday, Nepal Big Mountain Travel shared this information. The travel agency had facilitated the summit of Sui, according to Managing Director Sudarshan Nepal. The Chinese girl is said to be the youngest woman climber. On the occasion, climber Sui shared that she was inspired by her father, Lei, who had scaled Everest from the north slope in 2007.…
KATHMANDU, May 17: Nepal’s first president Dr Ram Baran Yadav has asserted that the future of democratic thought is secure as its basis, ideal and ideological foundation are strong. Addressing the inaugural programme of the 12th national convention and the 25th annual general meeting of the Democratic Thought Society in the capital on Wednesday, he however said that democracy is under threat at present as the Nepali Congress, which used to reach the villages whenever there was any crisis in the country in the past, is ‘vanishing’. He recalled that the Nepali Congress had reached the villages even when there…
KATHMANDU, May 17: The police investigation into the fake Bhutanese refugee case will continue for a few more days. Police are given a few more days to continue the investigation into the fake Bhutanese refugee case after the District Government Attorney’s Office, Kathmandu became somewhat flexible. “Police needed some time for a full investigation. So, we have asked them to finish the investigation related to this case as soon as possible. They have to submit a report on the 57th day after the investigation of the case starts,” said Achut Mani Neupane, Chief of the District Government Attorney’s Office, Kathmandu.…
LUMBINI, May 17: The Gautam Buddha International Airport (GBIA) has completed its first anniversary, but the second international airport after the Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu, going through setbacks has added to worries of the investors. The private sector has reportedly invested over Rs 60 billion targeting this project. GBIA has failed to come into full operation. So far, Jazeera Airways has been operating three Bhairahawa-Kuwait flights a week. It conducted a test flight on 16 May, 2022. But now, it has reportedly told about halting its flights to and from the airport. The private sector invested over Rs 60…