Retired SSP of the Nepal Police and renowned social worker Basanta Raj Kunwar , who has recently entered politics by registering a new party. Excerpts of an interview with Kunwar as given below:   Q. Have the Government ex-service personnel really become active in politics? Ans: Yes now the ex-national …

Around 30 passengers were killed in two separate bus accidents on Monday. Police said 26 passengers died when an overcrowded bus fell down from a steep road in Kattike Deurali in Kavre district. The bus veered off 400 metres from the road. Police said around 90 passengers were travelling by …

By Our Reporter Even a fortnight after the formation of the government, Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal has been unable to expand his cabinet. Although he inducted five ministers and four state ministers from his party this week making his cabinet 18-member in three attempts, no minister was added from …

By Our Reporter The ongoing 11th general convention of the Nepal Students Union has turned costly for the Nepali Congress, the mother party of NSU. The three-day convention inaugurated by NC President Sher Bahadur Deuba has not concluded even on the 11th day of its opening. As the students were …

By Our Reporter In the no-trust motion registered against the KP-Oli-led government, the CPN-Maoist Centre and the NC had accused Oli of not moving the reconstruction works ahead smoothly. But even after the formation of the coalition government of CPN-Maoist Centre and the Nepali Congress under Pushpa Kamal Dahal, the …

By Our Reporter Bijaya Lal Shrestha has been appointed new chief editor of The Rising Nepal, the oldest English newspaper of Nepal being published from the Gorkhapatra Corporation. Shrestha is one of the few professional journalists to lead the official English daily.  Shrestha who obtained higher study in Russia and …

By Our Reporter On occasion of the 70th Independence Day of Pakistan, the Embassy of Pakistan, and Pakistan–Nepal Friendship and Cultural Association organized a reception/talk programme on 14 August. Vice President and chief guest of the function Nanda Bahadur Pun said that Pakistan has been a true friend of Nepal. …

By Maila Baje Where does the unification effort between the two factions of the right-of-center Rastriya Prajatantra Party (RPP) stand today? RPP chairman Pashupati Shamsher Rana insists that the amalgamation announcement set for August 9 could not take place because of the parties’ failure to agree on ‘balance of power’. …

By Bhrikuti Niroula When I see and hear Baburam Bhattarai, I have trouble understanding the meaning of ‘intellectual elitist’ that he thinks he is due to his self-touted academic credentials. What an intellectual person should look and act like? Wise, broad-minded, forward-looking, empathetic, humble, brave, honest, well-mannered, self-disciplined, visionary etc.; …

By PR Pradhan The leaders of the day have already felt that the present constitution is non-functional and it has already failed. If recalled, Baburam Bhattarai and Krishna Shitaula were much active in writing the constitution. Today, Bhattarai is saying that the issue of demarcation of the boundaries of the …