Thursday , 18th October 2018
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) said its central, provincial and sub-regional offices would remain open during Dashain, Tihar and Chhath holidays. In a statement on Monday, NHRC Secretary Bed Prasad Bhattarai said that the commission has made arrangements to keep the offices open from 11 am to 2 pm during the holidays so as to allow the people to reg....
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has directed the government to keep safe the evidence on Nirmala rape and murder case. The sample of 'vaginal swab' extracted from the late Pant for the investigation at Nepal Police's forensic laboratory must be kept safe, the NHRC underscored. Officiating Secre....
National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has directed the government to conduct a fair and scientific investigation into the rape and murder of 13-year-old Nirmala Panta in Kanchanpur district, and book the culprit(s). A joint team of the national human rights body’s central office and provincial office Dhangadi had conducted a ....
The Accountability Watch Committee (AWC) has released a press statement on September 30 and objected the commitment shown by the Home Minister Ram Bahadur Thapa to initiate on putting the provision of death penalty by amending the law while meeting with some Women leaders on September 28. The committee said that its serious attention has been drawn on this issue. "Advocating for death penalty i....
The rights activists and campaigners have demanded the justice for Ganga Maya of Gorkha Phujel on September while marking fourth death anniversary of Nanda Prasad Adhikari who died during the hunger strike after 334 days on September 22, 2014. Indra Prasad Aryal, chairperson of HURON complained that state is plotting conspiracy d....
President Bidhya Devi Bhandari has approved 16 laws related to fundamental rights issued by the federal parliament on September 16. As per the clause (2) of the act 113 of Nepal’s constitution, the law has been enforced from September 18. House of Representatives Speaker Krishna Bahadur Mahara and National Assembly (NA) Chairman Ganesh Timilsina organised a joint press meet at Singha Dur....
Informal Sector Service Centre (INSEC) has organized an interaction program in Kathmandu on issues of civil society and good governance on September 18. Speaking at the program INSEC executive director Bijaya Raj Gautam said that INSEC has been raising the issues of good governance within the organization since its establishment.....
The political dialogue committee constituted by the government to hold talks with the political parties that have announced protests against the state has called on such parties to come to the talks table quoting RSS. Speaking in a news conference organised here today, coordinator of the government talks team Som Prasad Pandeya, said that the government was com....
Police have arrested 25 years Hem Khatri of Kritipur Municipality-7, Hanumanghat on September 9 on charge of raping two girls after taking them into hostile. Both victims were taken into control by the accused in the evening of September 6 and were taken to his rented room and were raped after taking them into hostile. The accuse....
A morning procession has been organized in Kathmandu on the occasion of the 12th National Day against Trafficking in Persons. ....
Informal Sector Service Centre (INSEC) has released a press statement on September 3 and urged Nepal Medical Association to protect the health rights of the citizen. It has also urged the government and Nepal Medical Association to find out the solution with the me....
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has said its attention was drawn seriously towards the death of a prisoner quoting RSS. Releasing a statement on Sunday, Spokesperson at the NHRC Mohana Ansari said that the NHRC's attention was seriously drawn towards the death of 30-year-old Ram Manohar Yadav of Banke district, who di....
The 22nd General Assembly of INSEC is held in Kathmandu on August 30Informal Sector Service Centre (INSEC). During the assembly INSEC general secretary Ramesh Chandra Paudel presented the progress report and treasurer Geeta Baral presented the financial report which was passed unanimously according to chairperson Subodh Raj Pyakurel. ....
The armed conflict victims have complained that CIEDP has failed to work to give positive results to the victims’ families. After the comprehensive peace accord in 2006 November 21, it was committed that the whereabouts of the loved ones will be informed to the family within 60 days. However, it has already been 12 years and th....
Informal Sector Service Centre (INSEC) has released a press statement on August 27 and demanded to publicize the fact on the killing of Nirmala Panta after rape. The statement signed by the INSEC chairperson Subodh Raj Pyakurel says "There is an increasing trend in violence against women and children and especially the incidents of rape and sexual abuse are increasi....
The Accountability Watch Committee has drawn its attention on the news of Nepali immigration under home ministry restricting former Maoist combatant Lenin Bista to travel to Bangkok to participate in a youth program stating "not having recommendation of permission from the government's body". "The life of democracy lies in the personnel freedom of the citizen. So, it is the right of the person ....
Lenin Bista, a former Maoist child combatant, was stopped by immigration officers from flying to Bangkok today ‘for not seeking permission from any government agency for his travel’. Bista, whose trip and accommodation were sponsored by Bangkok-based Asian Resource Centre, was going to participate in a seminar titled ‘Youth....
The Home Ministry has formed an investigation committee led by assistant secretary Hari Prasad Mainali to investigate the killing of Nirmala Pant, 13 of Kanchanpur after rape. The meeting held on August 23 has decided to form 5-member committee. According to spokesperson Ram Krishna Subedi of Home Ministry, DIG, internal affairs ....
Explaining re-arrest as illegal, the apex court has issued order to free Netra Bikram Chand-led Communist Party of Nepal (CPN) Spok....
The stakeholders in a program held in Kathmandu said that local representatives and Civil society are synonymous and there is no alternatives other than working together. The dialogue program between the local representative and civil organization was organized by INSEC on August 20. Member of Parliament and representatives of ci....
Police have re-arrested spokesperson Khadga Bahadur BK of Netra Bikram Chand led Nepal Communist Party from the apex court premises immediately after his release ordered by the court on August 17. "He was arrested by the police on charge of setting fire at Ncell tower in Kavre" said DSP Mohan Thapa. Prior to this his son Narendra....
Noor Prasad Adhikari ,Son of Gangamaya Adhikari, has been controlled by the police from Sanepa of Lalitpur on August 5. He had been in hiding since his father died while on hunger strike demanding the arrest of his other son’s killers. He was searched by the police by the request from his mother Gangamaya. ....
Informal Sector Service Centre (INSEC) has established a provincial level office in Janakpurdham on July 31. INSEC was established in 1989 and has its offices in all seven provinces along with the district representatives in all 77 districts from where it monitors and documents the incidents of human rights violations. INSEC is m....
The Informal Sector Service Centre (INSEC) has decided to honor Mr. Mahammad Maqusud Rankey of Yamunamai Rural Municipality-5, Rautahat, a campaigner against Dowry practice, with 24th "Prakash Human Rights Award 2018". The INSEC Executive Committee meeting held on July 26, 2018 has decided to honor Mr Ranki with “Prakash Human Rights Award 2018” for ....
The stakeholders speaking at the program organized by INSEC in Kathmandu on “Stakeholders views on policy and law relating to civil organization” stressed on one door system for NGOs to perform their activities. The discussion program was organized on July 29. While speaking at the program, INSEC chairperson Subodh Raj Pyakur....
A nine point agreement has been reached between the government and Dr KC on July 26 by ending 27th day long hunger strike of Dr KC at Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital (TUTH) quoting RSS source. After the government agreed to his major demand of putting a moratorium (embargo) on opening new medical colleges in Kathmandu Valley for 10 years, Dr KC end....
The informal talks between government and agitating Dr Govinda KC's has begun according to RSS source. The talks held between the teams at Ministry of Education, Science and Technology on Tuesday took a positive direction, said a press release issued by the Ministry, adding that both sides were directed towards agreements on most....
Informal Sector Service Center (INSEC) has released a press statement on July 24 and stressed for the dialogue with Dr KC as there is no alternative than this for the meaningful result. The statement states” On the third day of his hunger strike in Karnali Health and Scien....
More than 48 people were injured in a clash with police in a rally organized by Tarun Dal to support Dr KC and demanding to save hislife. According to RSS, The main opposition Nepali Congress (NC) has expressed sorrow over the use of force by police in a peaceful demonstration staged by its youth wing, Tarun Dal. In a press st....
Informal Sector Service Center (INSEC) has released a press statement on 20 July and urged government and agitating orthopedic surgeon Dr Govinda KC to sit in a meaningful and accountable dialogue without having any biasness respecting the ru....
Dr Govinda KC, who had been staging a hunger strike in Karnali Institute of Medical Sciences in Jumla, has been brought to Kathmand....
The House meeting scheduled for July 17 has been postponed due to the obstruction by the major opposition party Nepali Congress accusing government of not being able to address the demand of Dr Govinda KC who is in hunger strike demanding for the reformation of health sector. As soon as the meeting begun, the MP’s of Nepali Con....
The Government has formed a three-member committee to hold talks with agitating doctor Govinda KC. The committee led by Secretary at the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology Khagaraj Baral includes the Joint Secretary at the Ministry of Health and Population and Joint Secretary at the Ministry of ....
Ganga Maya Adhikari, who had been staging a fast-on-to death strike demanding justice for the murder of her son Krishna Prasad Adhikari, has agreed to postponed her fast-unto-death for ten days on July 13. She broke her fast on the 46th day after the government pledged in writing to implement the past agreements reached with her. She drank the juice offered by Natio....
Informal Sector Service Centre(INSEC) had released a press statement on July 7 and urged government for meaningful dialogue to solve the issue of Dr Govenda KC who is in hunger strike for the last 13 days demanding the reformation of medical sector. The press statement signed by the INSEC chair Subodh Raj Pyakurel says “Dr Go....
Ganga Maya Adhikari has denied to stop her hunger strike despite of government’s urge. After the surrender and arrest of major accused Chabi lal Paudel, government officials were in Bir Hospital to meet Ganga Maya. But, Ganga Maya rejected their request and thanked government for the arrest ....
Chhabilal Poudel, the murder convict of Krishna Prasad Adhikari of Phujel, Gorkha, has appeared himself before the Supreme Court on....
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has urged government and drawn its attention to take necessary step to save life of Ganga Maya. She is in a fast-on-to death strike from a long time in a Bir Hospital Kathmandu and her condition is deteriorating according to the hospital source. The commission has released a press state....
Police have arrested 12 rights activists from Maitighar on July 5 on charge of demonstrating, demanding to address the issues of Gangamaya and Govinda KC along with declaring Maitighar Mandela as a restricted zone. The activists have also demanded to withdraw the government decision to make Maitoghar Madala as a restricted zone.....
The Accountability Watch Committee has showed its concern on draft relating to the transitional justice that was made public to replace the previous act of CIEDP and TRC. Releasing a press statement on July 2, the AWC said that publicizing the draft for discussion and counselling prior to the registration in parliament is a posit....
INSEC executive director Bijay Raj Gautam said that INSEC is documenting the incidents of human rights violation and atrocities for the protection and promotion of overall human rights of the country by making the state accountable. Speaking at the interaction program organized by INSEC Kathmandu on June 20, he stressed on docume....
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has urged the government again to be sensitive to save the life of Gangamaya, who has b....
The Human Rights Defender’s and conflict victims have issued a press statement on June 26 demanding to save life of Gangamaya Adhikari who has been staging a hunger strike for the last 29 days demanding an arrest of Chhabilal Poudel, one of the main accused of the murder of her son Krishna Prasad Adhikari, as per the verdict of the Supreme Court made on 21st....
Informal Sector Service Center (INSEC) has organized half yearly review of Human Rights Year Book in various district. According to the INSEC district representative Santosh Ruchal, half yearly review of Human Rights Year Book has been organized in Kushma of Parbat on June 25. While speaking at the program, CDO Guru Datta Dhakal ....
The Amnesty International Nepal has shown its solidarity with the NHRCN, civil society and victims group who have been continuously raising voices for the justice to Gangamaya. The amnesty international released a press statement on June 19 and showed its solidarity and support for justice to Gangamaya Adhikari and other conflict victims of Nepal. ....
Human Rights activists have staged a sit-in-protest in front of the Prime Minister's Office in Balwataar on June 17 demanding to save the life of Ganga Maya Adhikari who is in fast-on-to death since May 29. Her health condition is deteriorating as she is in hunger strike since 19 days demanding the action against the murderer of her son Krishna Prasad Adhikari. Her Husband Nanda Prasad Adhik....
A book named Nyayako Abasan (Death of Justice) has been released in the capital city on Friday. The book is about the reflection of Gangamaya Adhikari, who is on hunger strike for justice. The book published by the Save Gangamaya Campai....
Police have arrested 66 years old Dutch national Peter Hen Van Terbisga from the hotel in Satghumti on June 15 on charge of sexual abuse on a child. Police DSP Buddhi Raj Gurung said that he is taken into control for the investigation. CIB has found that he is being involved in a child sex luring them for support. Police have also rescued one boy from the hotel that he was living. He will be....
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has urged the government to save the life of Ganga Maya, who is currently on a fast-onto-death, demanding investigation and action against the culprits on the murder of her son, Krishna Prasad Adhikari quoting RSS. Issuing a press release Friday, Officiating Secr....
Informal Sector Service Centre (INSEC) has drawn its attention regarding the government's apathy on delivering justice to the victim of Badarmude . The incident of Badarmude has completed 13 years today. During the armed conflict, 38 people including three security personnel were killed along with serious injuries to 72 people when Maoist cadres detonated ambush i....
Informal Sector Service Center (INSEC) has organized a half yearly review on Human Rights Promotion in Kavre of Dhulikhel on June 5. The review was based on a promotion of victim’s rights on human rights violation and atrocities. Speaking at the program INSEC coordinator Krishna Gautam said that INSEC is not the competitor of the state so state must support on the promotion of human rights. H....
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has urged all concerned sides to protect the life of Gangamaya, who has been on fast-unto-death demanding fair investigation and legal action against the murder of her son Krishna Prasad Adhikari, quoting RSS. The human rights constitutional body called for all s....
The Accountability Watch Committee (AWC) has drawn its serious attention on government’s apathy on deteriorating health condition of Ganga Maya Adhikari of Gorkha Phujel who has resumed fast-un-to death since seven days demanding justice by taking action against the murderer of her son. The press statement released by the commi....
The civil society of Nepal has drawn a serious attention of the government regarding the deteriorating health condition of Ganga Maya Adhikari of Gorkha Phujel who has resumed fast-on-to death strike from May 29. She is in a passive resistance for a long ti....
Supreme Court has denied issuing any interim order in a writ filed against the government proposal to grant amnesty to murder-convict leader Bal Krishna Dhungel quoting RSS source. A division bench of Justices Meera Khadka and Tanka Bahadur Moktan has denied issuing the interim order on Tuesday. ....
Ganga Maya Adhikari ,62 of Phujelhas begin her fast-un-to death strike from the day the country is celebrating a Republican day. Ganga Maya is struggling for the justice since 14 years demanding the action against murderer of her 17 years son Krishna Prasad Adhikari . From the last few years she was just taking liquefied food and....
Cyber Bureau and Human Trafficking Bureau are to be established under Nepal Police in view of changing form of cyber crime and human trafficking quoting RSS source. The budget presented by Finance Minister Dr Yubraj Khatiwada at Federal Parliament on Tuesday mentioned that national identity card distributi....
The conflict victims and human rights activists have demonstrated in Maitighar Mandela on May 27 against the recommendation of giving amnesty to murder convict Bal Krishna Dhungel. He was convicted of murdering Ujjan Shrestha during Maoist insurgency. The program was organized by the conflict victim society and the human rights a....
The Accountability Watch Committee (AWC) has drawn the attention of government recommendation on giving amnesty to former Maoist leader Bal Krishna Basnet who is doing his jail term after he was convicted of murdering Ujjan Kumar Shrestha. The committee while releasing a press statement has said that its attention has been draw....
The Informal Sector Service Centre (INSEC) has drawn its attention on the news published regarding the recommendation by District Administration Office giving amnesty to 800 convicts along with former Maoist leader Bal Krishna Dhungel who is convicted of killing Ujjan Kumar Shrestha of Okhaldhunga. The press released on May 24 by....
INSEC chairperson Subodh Raj Pyakurel said that the activities of civil society must always be transparent. He said that civil society organizations must be accountable on each and every activities that they perform. He expressed his view while speaking at the two days workshop program organized by INSEC in Kathmandu in coordination with USAID and FHI 360 on “Anal....
Vice-mayor Muna Adhikari of Godawari Municipality in Lalitpur district who was injured in a beating by her husband settles the case in an agreement. The victim who went to lodge complaint against her husband settles the case in police office. Muna is also a coordinator of judicial committee and she was injured in a beating by her husband on May 1 over a domesti....
Police have arrested 30 years old Lal Bahadur Tamang of Kakani Rural Municipality-3, currently living at Boharataar in Kathmandu Metropolitan-16 on charge of raping 13 years old girl. A complaint against the accused was lodged at metropolitan police circle on May 1 by the victim's family and based on a complaint, the accused was ....
On the occasion of international Labor day the government has commitment to fully implementing Labour Act, 2074 (2017) and disclosed preparations for minimal wage increment to guarantee disciplined work under an appropriate wage system quoting RSS. While addressing citizens on the occasion of the international labor day, PM Oli said that the government remains sensitive towards the plight of....
Dilip Yadav, currently living in Sukumbasi Basti in the bank of Bagmati River at Baneshwor, Kathmandu has killed his two step sons on April 29. According to DSP Mohan Kumar Thapa of Metropolita Police Circle, Kathmandu, the accused has killed eight years old Sujal and sic years old Sujan. Poli....
President Bidya Devi Bhandari has today issued four different ordinances quoting RSS. The ordinances issued by President Bhandari are the Ordinance on the Commission of Investigation on Enforced Disappeared Persons, the Ordinance on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (first amendment), the Ordinance on Election of National Assembly Member-2075 BS, the National Medical Educat....
Chairperson Subodh Raj Pyakurel of Informal Sector Service Centre (INSEC) said that documentation of human rights violation must be linked with the sensitivity of the citizens. He expressed his view while speaking at the program on Human Rights Year Book Manual reformation workshop held in Dhulikhel of Kavre on April 25 and 26. H....
Police have arrested 22 years old Gopal Sharma of Sharada Municipality-1 and made his name public on April 5 on charge of killing 22 years old Riyana Adhikari of Chitwan Sauraha currently living at Kathmandu Bus Park. The accused said that the he and the deceased woman were jintly living at New Bhumeshwor Guest House at Tokha Mun....
The Accountability Watch Committee (AWC) had shown its serious concern on delaying the process of transitional justice process and its lack of transparency. The committee has also demanded for the immediate address of the past issues. The committee while releasing a press statement on April 10 has drawn the attention of the conce....
Informal Sector Service Center (INSEC) has handed over a computer and education materials to Gyaneshwor Secondary School in Kavre on March 30 during a program. ....
The Ncell tower situated at Rupakot Majhuwagadhi Municipality-13 has been set into fire by the cadres of Nepal Communist Party (NCP) led by Biplov on the night of March 30 according to the INSEC district representative Sunita Magar. The party said that the action was against the company for not paying tax to the government. The....
There was a clash between the protestors and policein Naya Baneshwor of Kathmandu on March 28. Locals were agitated after the decision of the government to extend of road. The Road Extension Struggling Committee has called on the agitation against the decision. Police used water force and few cells of tear gas to control the mob after the agitators started to pelt s....
The meeting held by the ministry cabinet has decided to bear the cost of women violence victims during the incident of explosions in local level, federal and parliamentary elections. The meeting held on March 26 has decided to bear the cost of the injured according to the information and technology state minister Gokul Baskota.....
The Informal Sector Service Center (INSEC) has issued a press statement on March 23 and welcomed the step taken by the Prime Minister K.P Sharma Oli in the meeting held on March 21 with federal government and provincial ministers regarding the withd....
The earthquake victims said that they are facing difficulties on getting compensation due to the long beurocratic process and policies enforced by the government. He further urged government to make the process smooth and easy. The victims put their difficulties in the public hearing program organized by INSEC at ward number 17....
The Election Commission has rejected a report prepared by the European Union’s election observation mission to Nepal urging the government to scrap reservation for members of the Khas/Aryan community. “The EU report and its press statement are misleading, baseless and against the international election observation code of c....
The nation has observed 53rd international caste discrimination eradication day by organizing various awareness and interaction program. In remote district of Dolpa, for the first time, the international caste discrimination eradication day has been celebrated according to Dolpa district representative Bishnu Prasad De....
Incumbent President Bidya Devi Bhandari has been re-elected as the head of state for the second time, securing nearly three-fourths of the total vote strength of the Electoral College. Elected as the first woman president of the country in 2015, she had presented her candidacy for the second time with the backing of the left alli....
Mayor Mamata Prasad Chaudhary of Ghodaghodi Municipality in Kailai was injured after he was shot bullet by an unidentified group of people on the evening of March 12. Three people who came in a motorbike fired at him and attacked with khukuri according to DSP Sagar Bohara of District Police Office of Kailali. The injured is undergoing treatment at Ghodaghodi Hospital and his situation is said t....
The silence period in view of the election to the post of President set for March 13 is commencing from midnight today quoting RSS. According to the Election Commission, the election code of conduct to be followed during the silence period does not allow any candidate and political party to engage in election publicity campaign o....
Women , children and social welfare minister Tham Maya Thapa said that the guilty on serious crime like rape will be taken a serious action. She said that while addressing the assembly to mark 108th international women day. She added that solidarity is needed to end the violence against the women. She committed to take severe action against those conducting women violence and adde....
108th International labor women rights day has been observed nationwide on 8th March according to the information received from INSEC district representatives. According to INSEC Dhangadhi Office, a rally was organized in Dhangadhi from Dhangadgi Chok and converted into assembly after reaching Dhangadhi sub-....
President Bidya Devi Bhandari is set to register her candidacy for the March 13 presidential election, today. President Bhandari has reached the liaison office of the Election Commission (EC) located at International Convention Centre in New Baneshwor to file her candidacy, said President’s Chief Personal Secretary Bhesh Raj Ad....
The 11th Asian NGO Network on Human Rights Institution (ANNI) conference is held in Kathmandu from 6th March. The program was participated by ANNI members from Nepal, Srilanka, India, Bangaladesh, Indonesia, Philippines, Mangolia, Tiwan, South Korea, Myanmar, Thailand, Pakistan and Timor-Leste. The program will be held from 6th to 7....
The National Human Rights Commission has urged to make human rights friendly laws and policies in all provinces. The commission has corresponded the provinces and urged to include human rights issues in a top priority while formulating laws and policies as per the constitution provision.....
Informal Sector Service Centre (INSEC) has expressed its grief on untimely demise of former NHRC member and SC justice Ram Nagina Singh on March 4. The press statement released and signed by INSEC chairperson Subodh Raj Pyakurel said has expressed his condolence to the bereaved family members and tribute to the departed soul. The....
The Accountability Watch Committee (AWC) has condemned the unimaginable loss of civilians in Syria and violence against them in power tussle. The committee while releasing a press statement on February 28 has appealed all concerned party and Syrian government to immediately stop human loss and enforce seizure of war issued by United Nations. Since 2011, more than 400,000 civilians have lost ....
INSEC district representative Man Bahadur Chaudhary of Bardiya said that the discussion program on the situation of Human Rights Defenders (HRDs) and their issues has been organized on February 27. The discussion with human rights defenders were held in Bardiya district by INSEC , NHRC, COCAP, Blue Diamond Society Nepal and a tea....
A joint press statement has been released by Amnesty International, International Commission for Jurists (ICJ) and Human Rights Watch on February 13 stated that the one-year extensions of Nepal’s two transitional justice mechanisms without necessary....
Inmate and detainees in Nakkhu jail have continued their formal education. Prior to this , they were not able to continue it. Jailer Tek Bahadur KC said that most of the inmates and detainees are studying in various level. The one who was studying before have given continuity on their studies and some of them have started their s....
The Accountability Watch Committee (AWC) expressed its serious concern on the government decision to extend the tenure of Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) and Commission of Investigation on Enforced Disappearance (CIEDP) on 6 February 2018 by Ordinance, ignoring the legitimate demands of the conflict-victims and the human rights community. The Committee rel....
The voting of National Assembly election is commencing from 10 am to 3 pm today under the election to the quoting RSS. Chief Election Commissioner Dr Ayodhee Prasad Yadav has urged the voters to participate in the election without any inhibitions as the government has made reliable security arrangements for the same. The electio....
The Election Commission (EC) has directed the Ministry of Home Affairs to not distribute financial aid until the conclusion of National Assembly (NA) election. The commission said that the election code of conduct has already come into effect, the election body has also sent a letter to the Ministry of Finance requesting it to not release any fund as financial aid. A meeting of the EC held o....
Martyrs Day is being observed across the country today by paying tributes and respects to those who sacrificed their lives for the sake of the country and people, quoting RSS. Magh 16 in the Nepali lunar calendar every year is marked as the National Martyrs Day, commemorating those who were executed by the....
The Election Commission is to allocate election symbols to candidates contesting the election to the member of National Assembly on January 29. The National Assembly election is taking place on February 7 according to RSS. The final list of candidates would be published on January 29 at 4 pm and the same d....
A total of 83 persons have filed their candidacy for the member of the National Assembly, to which the election is being held on February 7 quoting RSS source. According to the Election Commission, there are 26 women, 14 Dalit, 15 disabled/minority and 28 from other categories fielding themselves in the election. Similarly, Prov....
The newly elected provincial members were administered oath on January 21 in all 7 province of the nation. The oath taking ceremony was held in Biratnagar of province number 1, Janakpur of 2, Hetauda of 3, Pokhara of 4, Butwal of 5, Surkhet of 6 and Dhangadhi of 7. According to the INSEC distr....
President Bidya Devi Bhandari is scheduled to administer the oath of office and secrecy to the newly-appointed Province Chiefs at a special ceremony at the President House, Shital Niwas, at 4pm today, the Office of the President has stated. A meeting of the Council of Ministers on Wednesday had fixed....
President Bidya Devi Bhandary has issued the ordinance on TRC and CIEDP (first amendment) on January 19 according to RSS. The ordinance was issued based on the recommendation by the ministry cabinet meeting held on January 5 according to the office of the president. The ordinance was issued af....
Dr Govinda KC, orthopaedic surgeon at the Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital who has staged a series of hunger strikes demanding reforms in the country’s medical education sector, broke his fourteenth fast on Saturday on the basis of an agreement reached with the government on Friday evening. Health Minister Deepak Bohara h....
The human rights activists including Accountability Watch Committee (AWC) have condemned the arrest of Dr Govinda KC on January 8 on contempt of court charge. "Court is the center of faith and support of civilians. The arrest of Govinda KC has made the mockery of court', the press released by AWC on January 10 states. The committee has urged for immediate release of Dr KC without any conditi....
Informal Sector Service Centre (INSEC) has released a press statement on January 8 and said that its attention has been drawn on the decision made by cabinet ministry on January 5 regarding issuing ordinance to extend the time period of TRC and CIEDP. The statement signed by INSEC chairperson Subodh Raj Pyakurel stated that the major responsibilities of both the com....
Some students were injured when students affiliated to All Nepal National Free Students Union (ANNFSU), the student wing of main opposition CPN-UML, clashed with police outside Tri Chandra Multiple Campus in the Capital on Tuesday afternoon. The clash ensued after the police intervened the peaceful demonstration organised by the ....
The FNJ has drawn the attention through a press release on December 31 regarding the incident of threatening received for publicizing news of Chaudhary Group on TibraKhabar.com. The federation had released a press statement on December 31 and drawn the serious attention. General secretary Ramesh Bista of the federation said that ....
The human rights activists in the program said that ending of impunity is necessary for the protection of human rights in the country. They expressed their views while speaking at an interaction program on human rights situation organized by INSEC in Kathmandu on December 31. The speakers stre....
President Bidya Devi Bhandari has finally enacted the National Assembly Ordinance, paving the way for National Assembly elections and subsequent new government formation. Just before issuing the ordinance, the President had consulted Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba and CPN-UML leader Subas Chandra Nembang. The ordinance was put on hold for months as major political parties had sharp differ....
The Accountability Watch Committee (AWC) has drawn the special attention of Truth and Reconciliation Commission and CIEDP in context of approaching expiring date of their tenure on February 8 without accomplishing their task. "Transitional Justice is the special part of peace process and both commissions were formed to address th....
The pre-review of Human Rights Year book has been held in various districts based on the incidents collected regarding human rights violation and atrocities. According to INSEC district representative of Dailekh, the assistant CDO Hari Prasad Devkota said that the reporting on incidents of human rights violation has helped to rai....
Chief Justice Gopal Prasad Parajuli has expressed the confidence that the upcoming government would pay attention to making....
The International Human Rights organization "Human Rights Watch" has demanded the government to publicize the report of the commission formed to investigate the incident of Madhes Movement. The commission was coordinated by former justice Girish Chandra Lal and the commission had already presented the report to the government how....
INSEC chairperson Subodh Raj Pyakurel stressed that the NGOs engaged in social sector must be transparent and accountable. He added that the NGOs engaged in the development of society must be aware on transparency of what they do. He expressed his views while speaking at the interaction program organized in joint collaboration by....
The Ministry of Labour and Employment organised a rally here this morning to mark the International Migrants Day Quoting RSS. On the occasion, Minister for labour and Employment Farmullah Mansur said the government is sensitive towards the rights of Nepali migrant workers who were obliged to leave the coun....
Nepal, in line with the global suit, is marking the International Migrants Day on Monday at a time while the news are rife that Nepali migrant workers are facing hard time to get due payment and facilities as per their backbreaking jobs including other administrative hurdles and hassles as per RSS. ....
Vote counting under the proportional representation has concluded in 75 districts where the first and second phase of the November ....
A High-level Probe Commission on Terai-Madhes unrest led by former justice of the apex court Girish Chandra Lal on Friday has submi....
Police have arrested 45 years old Santosh Gurung of Okhaldhunga Ragani Rural Municipality-8 on December 12 on charge of raping six years old girl. The accused was arrested based on a complaint lodged by the victim's family accusing him of raping a girl on the night of December 11. The victim u....
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has called for amending the Foreign Employment Act criminalizing exploitation, forced l....
Ministry of Labour and Employment has decided to mark the International Migrants' Day by organizing various programmes according to RSS source. The Ministry has formed a 19-member programme organizing committee led by Foreign Employment Promotion Board Executive Director Raghuraj Kafle. The committee comprises Ministry official....
On the occasion of 69th Human Rights Day various program was organized nationwide. Morning rally was organized in Kathmandu led by NGO federation. The rally started from Bhadrakali of Kathmandu and changed into triangle assembly after reaching Ratna Park. With a slogan of ”Base of....
With the successful conduct of the elections to the House of Representatives and Provincial parliament, the Legislature-Parliament Secretariat has informed that preparation was in full swing to hold their meetings according RSS. Secretariat Spokesperson Dr Bharatraj Gautam told the National News Agency (RSS) that as per the constitutional provision, a federal parl....
President Bidya Devi Bhandari has said the status of human rights in the country was still not strong due to the protracted transition quoting RSS source. ....
The voters of Pataura Tole in Kalaiya sub-metropolis of Kalaiya have boycotted the polling process for about two hours. Total of 394 voters have protested and boycotted the polling process in irrigation building polling centers protesting against the wrong name written as “Pathara” instead of “Pataura” by the election commission. After the agreement has been reached to cor....
The second phase of polling has begun from 7 am today in 45 districts of the country. In all districts, the polling has begun with exuberant participation of voters according to the information received from INSEC district representatives and observers. According to INSEC district representative Top Lal Aryal of Gulmi, in Baletaksar Secondary school polling center of RuRu rural municipality, tw....
Voters armed with their voter identity cards started streaming into polling stations early in the morning, as voting started at 7 am today. It will continue until 5 pm today. ....
Any government document with a photo identifying a voter like a citizenship card, driving license and passport can be used to cast vote in the tomorrow's House of Representatives and State Assemblies elections, the Election Commission (EC) said according to RSS. This will benefit those registered voters failing to the acquire voter identity card due to various reasons or getting....
The Supreme Court today has upheld the Election Commission's decision to invalidate the candidacy of Shiba Pujan Yadav registered from Saptari for the House of Representatives election. Yadav filed his candidacy from the leftist alliance quoting RSS source. A division bench comprising judges Deepak Raj Jos....
The Informal Sector Service Centre (INSEC) has released a press statement on December 5 and urged government to pay special attention on security as the incidents of explosions targeting the candidate is becoming rampant in the district. " The Government of Nepal has claimed that it has mobilized all security body for the elect....
INSEC district representative Bhupendra Bista of Dadeldhura said that a bomb has been detonated targeting the HoR candidate Khag Raj Bhatta of left alliance. The District Police Office of Dadeldhura said that the bomb was detonated at around 8:30 Pm at Alital Rural Municipality-8 while candidate Bhatta was returning back after fi....
Nepali Congress parliamentary candidate Gagan Kumar Thapa was injured in an explosion at Chapali of Budhanilkantha Municipality-2 in Kathmandu today according to RSS source. An unidentified group detonated an improvised explosive device targeting an election publicity campaign involving NC leader Thapa, leaving six other NC cadres injured, three serio....
Chief Election Commissioner Ayodhi Prasad Yadav on Sunday asked political parties, candidates, mass media and other stakeholders to stop campaigning after midnight on Tuesday, as the silence period would begin 48 hours before polling day quoting RSS source. The EC said the silence period would start after 12:00am on Tuesday in al....
The political parties and candidates are disseminating election in their respective constituencies by violating election code of conduct. According to INSEC district representative Manohar Kumar Pokhrel of Saptari, left alliance candidate Umesh Yadav has violated the election code of conduct by miking since the morning in constit....
Chief Election Commissioner, Dr Ayodhee Prasad Yadav, has said the harmonious relations among the political leaders and candidates from different parties have helped positively for ensuring election security quoting RSS source. During a news conference at the EC Sunday, CEC Dr Yadav informed all preparatio....
INSEC district representative Nanda Ram Paudel of Kapilvastu said that a bomb has been detonated at Bhagwanpur of Shiva Raj Municipality-9 on December 1 targeting candidate. At about 1 pm an unidentified people detonated bomb targeting Naya Shakti Party candidate Ilias Mohamed while canvassing voters. ....
The Election Commission (EC) has urged the election campaigners to not use the photos of martyrs to seek votes. The EC also directed the respective District Administration Offices, security agencies and election observers to remove any photos of martyrs, and take actions against those screening videos and posting audios of movements for vote. "The move of usin....
The government has decided to provide Rs 1 million to the family of temporary police personnel Binod Chaudhary as relief support. Chaudhary, who was seriously injured in the bomb explosion in Tulsipur of Dang on Tuesday, died while receiving treatment today according to RSS source. A meeting of the central....
A complaint against CPN UML has been lodged at election commission on November 28 on charge of violating election code of conduct. The complaint has been lodged by Amrit Karki of ward number 32 of Kathmandu Metropolis against the party for violating code of conduct demanding the action against the party. ....
The Informal Sector Service Centre (INSEC) has handed over its election preliminary observation report to the Election commission on November 26. The report is based on the information received from its observers in 32 districts for the first phase parliamentary and provincial election held on November 26. ....
In Ramechhap, Dolakha, Dhading, Sindhupalchok, Nuwakot and Rasuwa districs under the province number 3, the election commenced peacefully. The information have been received from INSEC district representatives from various districts. According to the information received, in Dolakha and Dhading districts the democratic alliance....
The first phase of parliamentary and provincial election has commenced in all 32 district from the morning 7 am according to RSS. Seven district under province number 1, six of province 3, six of province 4, two of province 5, seven of province 6 and four of province number 7 has already begun.....
The Election Commission has refused to approve the request of the Tribhuvan University (TU) for allocating additional posts on contract quoting RSS source. TU had applied to the EC for its consent for adding 1,420 posts for appointing the part-time teachers at the university on contract basis. The meeting....
The Election Commission (EC) has barred two international election observers from monitoring the upcoming elections quoting BBC Nepali service and RSS. The decision to restrict them from poll observation follows after the complaint from chief election officer of Kanchanpur on Tuesday stating that the two European Union (EU) repre....
Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Dr Ayodhee Prasad Yadav has again called on political parties, candidates, voters, and media to fully abide by the election silent period quoting RSS source. Speaking at a face-to-face programme organised by the Reporters' Club today, the CEC said, "The election silent per....
Police have arrested cadres of NCP from various parts of the country on charge of anti-election activities. According to INSEC district representative Kokila Dhakal of Ilam, police have arrested teacher Khin Maya Pariyar on charge of her involvement in anti-election activities. Khin Maya is ar....
The INSEC district representatives throughout the nation have reported that the violation of election code of conduct is rampant along with the approaching date of election. According to the Banke District representative Binod Pandey, the human rights network of the district has drawn the attention regarding the rampant violation....
Police have arrested cadres of Nepal Communist Party led by Netra Bikram Chand from various parts of the nation on charge of their involvement in anti-election activities. According to INSEC district representative from Nuwakot, police have arrested 46 years old teacher Madhusudan Paudel of Mahendra Secondary School at Shivapuri ....
Police have arrested cadres of Nepal Communist Party from various part of the nation on charge of operating anti-election activities. According to Udayapur district representative Bharat Khadka, District committee member of NCP ,30 years old Januka Maya Tamang of Triyuga Municipality-3 was arrested by the police on November 20 ....
The Informal Sector Service Center (INSEC) while releasing a press statement on November 21 on the occasion of completing 11 years on signing of Comprehensive Peace Accord (CPA) has demanded to follow ordinance issued by Supreme Court on 2 January 2014 along with the amendment as per the norms of international law. " On this day ....
The Accountability Watch Committee has released a press statement and condemned the series of bomb explosion throughout the nation targeting candidates and citizens. “ Such activities are completely criminal and it is making mockery of basic norms of democracy and fundamental rights of civilians. This is against the rights of citizens to live peacefully,” the statement says. Coordinator ....
Police have arrested the cadres of Nepal Communist Party from various part of the country on charge of operating ant-election activities according to our district representatives. According to Chitwan District representative Deependra Adhikari, Nepal Communist party’s District in charge Lal Bahadur BC was arres....
Police have arrested cadres of Nepal Communist Party led by Netra Bikram Chand from various district on charge of operating anti-election activities. According to INSEC district representative Man Datta Rawal from Jumla, two NCP cadres were arrested by the police. Bua Police post at Hima rural municipality have arrested the cadres of NCP on November 17. The arrested were Hait Buda of Hima ....
The Election Commission (EC) has condemned the incidents of bomb attacks taking place in various places by targeting the candidates according to RSS source.....
Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Dr Ayodhee Prasad Yadav has said that the Election Commission has total focus on the elections taking place in 32 districts on coming November 26 quoting RSS source. Taking part in a dialogue on 'mass media and elections' organised by the Federation of Nepali Journalists (....
The Human Rights Community has condemned the repeated incident of attack and ambush on Maoist Center candidate in various places of the nation during their election campaign. “Election is the backbone of democracy. Disrupting the rights to vote of citizens and obstructing the election campaign of candidate by terrifying them is....
The Election Commission (EC) has sought a 24-hour clarification from CPN (UML) candidate of House of Representatives from Doti district Prem Bahadur Alemagar according to RSS. The EC sought clarification from Alemagar based on information that he was distributing cash to the voters by violating election co....
The Offices of Chief Election Officer and Election Officers in 45 districts allocated election symbols on Sunday to the candidates for the second round of House of Representatives and State Assemblies elections. The twin elections (second phase) are taking place in 45 districts on coming December 7 quoting RSS. According to Election Commission spokesperson Nawaraj....
Chief Election Commissioner Dr Ayodhi Prasad Yadav has directed the election monitors to adopt all-type of positive rule and process to make the upcoming election free, fearless and cost-effective quoting RSS. Inaugurating the orientation programme launched for secretaries and joint-secretaries of the gove....
INSEC district representatives have reported that there have been medicine shortages in various health organizations in Darchula and Baitadi. According to INSEC district representative Narendra Singh Karki of Darchula, the shortages in medicine came after the local levels failed to purchase the medicine. The health organizations ....
The Election Commission (EC) today released the closed lists of the proportional electoral system submitted by political parties fo....
The election Commissioner Dr Ayodhee Prasad Yadav has warned to void the candidacy of the candidate who violates the election code of conduct. Speaking at the election training program for the youth of political parties in Kathmandu on November 3, Yadav said that the commission is adopting zero tolerance policy on CoC violation.....
Filing of nominations by candidates to contest the second round of the elections to the House of Representatives and State Assemblies was peaceful manner in 45 districts quoting RSS source. Spokesperson at the Election Commission, Nawaraj Dhakal, said that the candidates have filed their nominations reaching at the office of the Chief Election Officer or the Elect....
The candidacy nomination for the House of Representative (HoR) and State Assembly election went peacefully nationwide according to our district representatives. The registration of candidacy nomination by the political parties have been peacefully conducted in Tanahu, Kaski, Syangja and Parbat and Nawalparasi (Bardghat Susta Eastern) under the province number 4 with....
The Supreme Court (SC) on Wednesday asked the government and Election Commission to furnish written clarification within 15 days on failure to arrange the civil servants to cast their vote in the upcoming House of Representatives and State Assemblies elections according to RSS. A single bench of Justice Dr....
Informal Sector Service Center (INSEC) has welcomed and supported the step taken by the government on arresting Bal Krishna Dhungel who is convicted as a murderer by the Supreme Court eight years ago. At the same time INSEC has demanded that this arrest should be the step of following judicial decision and process along with the respect of rule of law not the coinci....
The union of former commissioners and former commissioner society has urged political parties to include human rights commitment, its protection and promotion in their manifesto. After two days meeting in Kathmandu, the political parties were corresponded regarding the issue on October 31 according to the society. ....
Chief Election Commissioner Dr Ayodhee Prasad Yadav has directed the security bodies to make reliable security arrangement to hold the upcoming elections in a p....
Chief Election Commissioner Dr Ayodhee Prasad Yadav has furnished a written response to the Supreme Court (SC) on Monday stating that the EC has started to print separate ballot papers for the purpose of elections to the House of Representatives and State Assemblies according to RSS. Furnishing the respons....
The Election Commission will send its details to the apex court on Monday about the progress in printing separate ballot papers for elections to parliament and the provincial assemblies quoting RSS source. A single bench of Justice Dambar Bahadur Shahi sought details in writing from the EC, responding to a contempt of court case filed by Sarvendra Nath Shukla, a leader of Rastriya Janata P....
Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Dr Ayodhee Prasad Yadav has said it would be impractical to have doubts and raise questions regar....
As the process of giving candidacy is expediting, the Human Rights activists have demanded to void the candidacy of those candidates who have been charged of human rights violation in past. INSEC, Advocacy Forum Nepal and Nepal Human Rights Organization (HURON) have jointly organized a program in Anamnagar in Kathmandu and demand....
The conflict victims and Human Rights community have demanded the government not to give ticket of candidacy to those who have been accused or been proved of serious human rights violation. Chairperson Suman Adhikari of conflict victim's forum said that the community is very concerned about the political parties nominating candid....
The Election Commission said that there has been an exuberant participation in the nomination of candidacy in 32 districts for the first phase federal and provincial elections. Meanwhile, INSEC had published a report and said that the registration of candidacy was successfully held in all 32 districts exuberantly. Election commission while organizing a press meet said that more than 450 cand....
The Election Commission has prohibited the production, distribution and use of cap, sticker, t-shirt, bag and shawl bearing election symbol of any political parties in upcoming elections to House of Representatives and State Assemblies according to RSS source. EC Spokesperson Nabaraj Dhakal said that the E....
The filing of nominations by candidates representing various political parties or contesting as independent candidates in the upcom....
The registration of nomination papers of candidates for the election to the members of the House of Representatives and State Assem....
Chief Election Commissioner Dr Ayodhee Prasad Yadav has said that it was difficult to print separate two ballot papers for the first-past-the-post election syst....
Chief Election Commissioner Dr Ayodhee Prasad Yadav has urged all voters not to doubt on the scheduled date of the elections. During a press meet organized Wednesday, CEC Dr Yadav said, "EC is confirm the elections of the House of Representatives and of provincial parliament will be held on the slated date....
After a 14th day ,professor Dr Govinda KC broke fast-unto-death after signing the 10-point agreement with the government Wednesday evening. Dr KC broke the 14-day strike after the government agreed on issuing the medical education act through the ordinance quoting RSS source. One of the points in the agreement mentioned that the forthcoming meetin....
National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has expressed its gratitude and greetings after Nepal is elected as a member in United Nation’s Human Rights Council. The commission while releasing a press statement on October 17 expressed its gratitude on government diplomatic initiation and all supporting members of United Nations.....
Informal Sector Service Center (INSEC) has expressed its greetings to Nepal Government and its people for the success on being elected on Human Rights Council as a member and said that it is confident that the commitment on human rights will be full filled along with this success. The press released by INSEC stated that“Along w....
Nepal has been elected as a member of the United Nations Human Rights Council for the term 2018-2020 according to RSS source. Nepal will be serving in that capacity for the first time since Human Rights Council ( HRC)'s creation in 2006. Nepal secured 166 votes, the highest in the Asia-Pacific group. Together, Qatar, Pakistan and Afghanistan were elected from t....
President Bidya Devi Bhandari has urged the top leaders of major political parties to complete the upcoming polls in a peaceful manner quoting RSS source. At a greetings exchange programme organized at Office of the President today on the occasion of Tihar and Chhath, President Bhandari said that all the p....
The election commission said that the votes of those party not handing over the list will be void during the provincial and federal election. The commission’s spokesperson Nawa Raj Dhakal said that only the list of 55 parties out of 88 has been handed over for the proportional representation purpose and remaining 33 party’s votes will be void in the election. Th....
Various 49 political parties have submitted the closed list of their candidates for the proportional representation (PR) seats in the election to the House of Representatives. The parties had submitted their PR list on Sunday for the election to the HoR and state assemblies being held on November 26 and December 7. The list was submitted at the central office of t....
As many as 52 parties submitted closed list for the proportional representation in the elections of House of Representatives and State Assemblies at the Office of the Election Commission in the capital city Sunday according to RSS. Leaders of these parties reached the EC Office to submit the list. The EC h....
President Bidya Devi Bhandari today authenticated 10 various bills in accordance with Article 113 of the Constitution of Nepal quoting RSS. The bills authenticated thus are the National Dalit Commission Bill, 2074; the Bill on the Rights of People with Disabilities, 2074; the Local Government Operation Bil....
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has urged various political parties to include issues of Human Rights in their manifesto for the upcoming federal and provincial election. The press release issues by the commission has urged all the political parties to include the fundamental rights in their manifesto provided by the constitution. ....
The Election Commission has decided to issue a 27-point directive to the Government of Nepal to make necessary arrangement in connection with the House of Representatives and Provincial Assembly election scheduled for coming November 26 and Decemb....
The Election Commission has urged one and all not to create any untoward activities in view of the reshuffle of the government to the atmosphere of the coming elections quoting RSS. The EC drew again the attention of the government, political parties and other concerned stakeholders to keep intact the atmo....
Various political parties have shown their commitment to follow the election code of conduct in upcoming provincial and federal election. The Election Commission had organized a discussion program with the political parties with the objective of making election fair and fearless. The commitment of political parties states that th....
Professor Dr Govinda KC of TUTH , who is in a hunger strike, has urged speaker of the parliament, Onsari Gharti Magar to use special power to pass Health Profession Education (HPE) Bill before the parliament dissolves in about a week. Dr KC is on his 13th hunger strike demanding the passing of HPE bill. Dr KC has accus....
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has drawn the serious attention of the government towards the murder of Sharad Kumar Ga....
The Federation of Contractor’s Association has demanded the action against the murder of the chairperson Sharad Kumar Gauchan. The federation has demanded the Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba to takeaction against those involved in his murder. A team of federation had reached the Prime Minister’s quarter in Balwataar and pre....
President of Federation of Contractor’s Association Sharad Kumar Gauchan was shot dead on day light of October 9 at Kharibot,New Baneshwor by an unidentified group of people. According to the metropolis police department of Shantinagar, Gauchan was fired a bullet whle he was in his vehicle with registration number Ba13Cha4948.....
Chairperson of the National Human Rights Commission Anupraj Sharma has said that the state will not witness progress unless improvement in the human rights sector according to RSS. Speaking at a-three-day seminar on Asian Human Rights Charter and Rights on Democracy and Justice organized by the Democratic Freedom and Human Rights Inst....
The Human Rights and Peace Society has urged concerned authority to put the national dignity, human rights, peace, democracy, non-violence and environment conservation at the centre during the House of Representatives and State Assemblies elections slated for November 26 and December 7 quoting the RSS source. ....
The Legislature-Parliament has unanimously passed the 'Bill related to election of the President and the Vice-President-2074 BS' according to RSS source. The Bill, which was not passed due to lack of quorum on October 6, has been passed today. At the meeting, Minister for Law, Justice and Parliamentary Af....
In Nuwakot, fifty four polling stations are tagged as very sensitive for the upcoming election of House of Representative and Province. Similarly, 50 polling stations are tagged as sensitive and 25 as normal according to CDO Jagdis Baral. The polling stations are tagged sensitive and too sen....
Chief Election Commissioner Dr Ayodhee Prasad Yadav has urged all not to suspect over the timely elections according to the RSS source. Speaking at an orientation on the constitutional and legal provisions relating to proportion representation (PR) election system here today, CEC Yadav said that the federa....
Senior orthopedic surgeon at the Maharajgunj-based Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital (TUTH) Dr Govinda KC, who has already staged 12 rounds of hunger strike demanding reforms in medical education sector, began his fast-unto-death for the 13th time with four-point demand on Thursday. Dr KC had staged 12th hunger strike on September 25 after the government tried to endorse the Health Profess....
The Election Commission has directed Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation minister Jitendra Narayan Dev to present letter of clarification by presenting at office within 24 hours on October 5. The minister has transferred the deputy general of the corporation without the agreement of the commission at the time where the election c....
National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has monitored the condition of Dr Mahesh Kumar Gajurel who has been staging hunger strike since eight days demanding the contract service of the part time professors. The monitoring team had met with the concerned members of dialogue team and Dr Gajurel according to the press released by th....
The human rights activists and members and representative of civil society have staged a demonstration in Maitighar Mandala on October 3 with the objective of exerting pressure on government to initiate early release of Dev Narayan Yadav of Saptari without any condition who was arrested by the Indian security force. During the d....
A total of 15.4 million voters will be eligible to vote in the upcoming elections to the House of Representatives and the Provincial Assemblies. The final count of the voters in the voters roll was approved and made public by the Election Commission on Tuesday. Accordingly, there are 7.76 million male vo....
The printing of sample ballot papers for the upcoming elections to the House of Representatives and State Assemblies under proportional representation system has started from Tuesday, said the Election Commission. The polls are scheduled for November 26 and December 7 respectively. The Janak Shiksha Samagri Kendra Limited (JSSKL) has been tasked with ....
The Election Commission has started orientation for the human resources to be assigned on election duty for the elections to the Ho....
President Bidya Devi Bhandari has urged one and all to honour and revere the senior citizens as well as to emulate their good values and works, arguing that they are repositories of experience and wisdom. In press statement issued by Office of the President on the occasion of the International Day of Older....
Chief Election Commissioner Dr Ayodhee Prasad Yadav has said the Election Commission feels honoured to give the message to the Nepali people that the election of the total 753 local levels in 77 districts of seven provinces as per the new federal set-up has been successfully completed quoting RSS . ....
Chief Election Commissioner Dr. Ayodhee Prasad Yadav has said the Election Commission was already engaged in the managerial prepara....
The Election Commission (EC) has taken the topic of recall of the Director General of the Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal (CAAN) ....
Informal Sector Service Center (INSEC) has drawn its serious attention on the incident of disruption of health services as a result of an agitation by doctors stating that their demands are not addressed by the government. “The nationwide indefinite strike called on by Nepal Medical Association (NMA) protesti....
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has said that its serious attention has been drawn on the situation of violation of health rights of people due to the ongoing strike by the health professionals nationwide against the government's decision of compensating doctor if found guilty on death of the patient that they are treating due to their negligence. ....
The Human Rights activists have urged government and judicial body to provide justice to victim Ganga Maya Adhikari of Gorkha Phujel who has been fighting for justice since long time demanding the action against the murderer of her son Krishna Prasad Adhikari by Maoist cadres during the armed conflict. The activists demanded and ....
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has drawn the attention of the government to make arrangement for the final rites of Nanda Prasad Adhikari of Fujel, Gorkha quoting RSS source. Issuing a press statement Friday, NHRC Spokesperson Mohana Ansari has drawn government's attention to p....
The Election Commission (EC) has asked those individuals and organisations wanting to observe the elections to the House of Representatives and State Assemblies slated for November 26 and December 7 to submit application for the same within 15 days. Issuing a notice today, the EC said any individual or organisation working in promoting democracy....
Election Commission has urged the political parties and organisations associated with political parties not to organise tea reception and other gatherings on the occasion of Bijaya Dashami, Tihar and Chhath festivals quoting RSS source. Different programmes like tea reception to be organise....
The vote counting process started in two places of Siraha and one in Rautahat has been postponed on September 19 after the dispute. According to INSEC district representative Durga Pariyar of Siraha, the vote counting process in Lahan Municipality and Karjanha Municipality has been postponed. ....
Jay Shankar Mandal of Rastriya Janata Party-Nepal (RJPN) has filed his candidacy to the post of chairman of Rajbiraj Municipality, Ward No 15 on Tuesday quoting RSS source. Mandal filed his candidacy after Mahanthi Thakur, 65, who was contesting to the post in local-level election scheduled for September 18, passed away last Saturday. Voting process at Rajbiraj Mu....
Today marks the third year of the promulgation of the Constitution of Nepal, the first-ever document that was drafted by the people....
The third phase of local level election was held in a peaceful environment on September 18 in eight districts under province number 2. The preliminary observation report of the election is handed over to the Election Commission's secretary Begendra Raj Sharma Paudel. The observation was done in various polling centers of 136 loca....
The third phase of Local Level Election has commenced in eight district of Terai region under province number 2 in the morning of September 18. The voting will be until 5 PM. INSEC district representatives of eight districts have informed that voters were in a queue from the morning to cast their votes. The weather is bit favorab....
Chief Election Commissioner Dr Ayodhee Prasad Yadav has called on the voters of Province No. 2 to confidently take part in the third phase of local level election taking place tomorrow, as full security arrangement was in place towards that end. At a press meet organised at the EC's media c....
All preparations necessary for security arrangement of the local-level elections scheduled for September 18 in Province No. 2 have been completed, the Home Ministry said quoting RSS source. Spokesperson of the Home Ministry, Ram Krishna Subedi, said that all the required security preparatio....
The Accountability Watch Committee (AWC) has drawn its serious attention over the decision made by the ministry cabinet on August 15 to promote Kumar Lama as a Brigadier General in Nepal army. The committee through a press release on September 14 has stated that the Kapilvastu Court has convicted him of Human Rights violation and....
The CPN (UML) has condemned manhandle of its woman candidate for local level election at Saptakoshi municipality-4 in Saptari district Wednesday night quoting RSS source Although police had arrested Roshan Lekhi, Nasib lekhi and Kaushal Lekhi for their involvement in manhandle same night, t....
Ganga Maya Adhikari of Gorkha Phujel has lodged an application at Patan high court on September 13 demanding to shift the case to Kathmandu regarding the of murder of her son. The case is being heard Chitwan District Court. The victim lodged an application saying that there is very little chance of getting justice from Chitwan Di....
The local authorities are tightening the security in the district in view of the forthcoming 3rd phase of local polls the governm....
The Election Commission on September 12 has publicized the working list for the upcoming provincial and house of representative elections on November 26 and December 7. The commission has publicized the table stating that in first phase, the registration of candidacy nomination will be held on October 22 and for the second phase,....
The Election Commission said that the extension of ministry cabinet after the enforcement of election code of conduct is a violation of code of conduct. The Commission said that it has already enforced the election code of conduct for the scheduled provincial and house of representative election in November and extension of minister’s cabinet is violation of CoC.....
The Election Commission has called for applications from the international organizations, community and individuals interested in observing the election to the House of Representatives and the State Assemblies slated for November 26 and December 7 quoting RSS. In a notice it published today....
The Election Commission has said that the registration of candidacy nomination process for 136 local levels went peacefully in all eight districts under province number 2 apart from few incidents. For the third phase of local level election in province number 2 on September 18, the registration of nomination was completed on Sept....
INSEC district representatives have reported that apart from few incidents, the registration of candidacy for the third phase of election in province number 2 went peacefully and exuberantly. In province number 2, election is scheduled for 136 local level on September 18. The registration of candidacy nomination was peaceful howe....
To mark 11th National Day Against Human Trafficking, various activities and programs were organized through out the country. According to Ramechhap district representative Nawa Raj Pathik, the 11th National day against human trafficking has been observed with various awareness raising programs. A rally....
Speaker of the parliament of legislative parliament, Onsari Gharti Magar said everyone’s support is necessary to prevent human trafficking as it is a heinous crime. She expressed her views while addressing the program in Kathmandu to mark 11th National day against human trafficking. ....
Informal Sector Service Center(INSEC) has drawn its attention on the case lodged by Gopal Khadka, General Manger of Nepal Oil Corporation, against Nagarik Daily demanding the compensation of Rs 80 million for publishing abusive and insulting news related to corruption in the corporation. General Manager Khadka had lodged complain....
The Supreme Court (SC) has issued a mandamus order in the name of the government to immediately formulate laws required for the conduction of the polls related to the President, Vice-President and the National Assembly. A divisional bench of Justice duo Deepak Raj Joshi and Hari Krishna Karki issued the order to formulate all elections related law....
The Election Commission has urged all political parties and stakeholders to follow the code of conduct for province assembly and house of representative scheduled for September 18 and November. The commission has requested Government of Nepal, all political parties, person and officials to follow the code of conduct according to ....
The Election Commission said that it is preparing to give permission to 2,000 observers for the third phase of local level election scheduled for September 18 in eight districts under province number 2 for136 local levels. According to the commission, the most of the observers will be of the same organizations that did observatio....
The election Commission is to be strict on the implementation of the election code of conducts in the upcoming federal and provincial elections. The EC decided to be strict as code of conduct violation issues were largely reported during the first and second phase local polls quoting RSS source. Earl....
Chairperson Anup Raj Sharma of National Human Rights Commission has said that pressure must be exerted to the government jointly by the commission, victim’s family and right activists for the investigation and publicizing the whereabouts of the disappeared people along with the delivery of justice to the victims. The program was organized jointly by INSEC , confli....
Chief Election Commissioner Dr Ayodhee Prasad Yadav has said that the preparations for the polls of House of Representatives and province level polls can be proceeded ahead after receiving the report of the Constituency Delineation Commission according to RSS. Dr Yadav said so while receiving the records a....
Candle Light vigil program was organized at Baneshwor, Kathmandu on August 30 in memory of disappeared people during the conflict era and to mark 34th International Disappearance Day. The day was marked with a motto of “ Peace without fact and justice and reconciliation without accountability is not acceptable”. Th....
The Election Commission has determined the polling centers for the third phase of election scheduled for province number 2 on September 18. According to the commission, the polling centers will be 3578 in province number 2. The assistant secretary and commission’s spokesperson Surya Prasad Sharma said that 2166 polling stations....
The meeting held in Ministry cabinet on August 30 in Singhadurbar has decided to hold provincial and House of Representative election on November 26 and December 7. Prior to this, the meeting held on August 21 by the ministry cabinet had decided to hold both election in one phase on November 26. ....
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has showed its concern on state failing to make public the whereabouts of the people enforcedly disappeared during the armed conflict by state and conflicting party. The commission said that complaints have been lodged at the commission for the whereabouts of their loved ones and commis....
Chairperson Lokendra Mallik of Commission on Investigation of Disappearance People said that there is a lack of essential act and law to bring those involved in disappearing people during conflict era. Mallik said that the commission is not being able to perform well due to the lack of laws, acts, manpower and time frame. ....
The main opposition party—CPN (UML) today has condemned the untoward activities that reportedly took place against the party's assembly in Janakapur quoting RSS source. A press statement issued by party secretary Yogesh Bhattarai reads that the activities like throwing stones and bricks....
Food grains at Nepal Food Corporation (NFC) warehouse have been adulterated with sands and small pieces of pebbles, a government monitoring team has found. The Minister for Supplies Shiva Kumar Mandal found inedible stuff in the packages of beans and buckwheat during his inspection at NFC storage and distribution outlet based a....
The National Human Rights Commission is preparing to blacklist people guilty of serious human rights violations for barring them from traveling abroad and enjoying state benefits quoting the source of RSS. The commission is working on the procedure and guidelines as mandated by the Constitution of Nepal and the Human Rights Act-1....
President Bidya Devi Bhandary has given permission to mobilize army focusing the third phase of local level election scheduled for province number 2 on September 18. The president has given permission based on sub-section (2) of section 66 of Nepal’s Constitution according to the office of the President. ....
The agitating TU's professor union has locked up VC, rector and registrar of the University for About Five hours inside the office. The agitating professors have locked up the officials inside the Public Administration Campus in Balkhu. The part time professors are agitating since four months demanding to void partial service and....
Chief election commissioner Ayodhi Prasad Yadav said that provincial and CA election scheduled for November 26 can be held in two phases. Chief Commissioner Yadav said that due to the geographical location and preparation for the election, it is possible to hold election in two phases. He adde....
The much-awaited Constitution Amendment Bill (second amendment) failed to get through the Legislature-Parliament on Monday, after falling short of 48 votes. In the 592-member House, 395 votes are required to pass the amendment bill quoting RSS. During the voting in the Parliament on Monday evening, 347 lawmakers voted in favour....
The government has decided to hold both provincial and federal parliamentary elections in a single phase on November 26. A Cabinet meeting held on Monday morning made the decision to this effect. Earlier, the Election Commission had urged the government to conduct elections in two phases sayin....
The Ministry of Home Affairs has said that the flood, landslides and inundations occurred in the country claimed lives of 143 people according to RSS source. Issuing a press statement this evening, the Ministry said that a total of 30 persons were still missing while 43 got injuries. Likew....
The Supreme Court on Friday issued an interim order directing the government to not implement its earlier decision to adopt one-door policy in relief distribution for flood victims quoting RSS source. Responding to a writ petition filed by advocate Sunil Ranjan Singh, a single bench of Justice Om Prakash Mishra issued the order t....
The Election Commission (EC) has directed the Home Ministry to make special arrangement for security during election to hold the third-round of local level election in Province No. 2 in a free, fair and peaceful manner quoting RSS source. The third round of the local level election is takin....
National Human Rights Commission has sent letter to the government for the effective commencement of relief and rescue operation in flood affected areas. The commission has expressed its grief on a loss of lives due to the flood in various parts of the nation followed by the incessant rainfall and sent letter to Prime Minister's ....
The Annual General Meeting of INSEC has been held on August 16 in Kathmandu. While speaking at the meeting, INSEC chairperson Subodh Raj Pyakurel said that there has been a drastic change in the nation especially after the promulgation of the constitution and the regulation of the organization must be adopted or amended accordingly. He further stressed on debate a....
The Constitution Amendment Bill (second amendment)-2073 is being tabled in the Legislature-Parliament today quoting RSS source. Minster for Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Yagya Bahadur Thapa is scheduled to table the bill in a bid to bring on board the disgruntled Madhesh-centric po....
A writ petition has been filed at Supreme Court demanding the announcement of a state of emergency in the flood-hit areas in view of huge loss of lives and properties due to landslides, flood and inundation according to RSS. Advocate Sunil Ranjan Singh filed writ petition demanding that t....
Dr Govinda KC, who has been staging indefinite hunger strike for the past 23 days at the Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital, ended his fast on the 23rd day on Tuesday according to RSS source. He warned that he would stage another hunger strike if the government did not address his demands at the earliest. ....
The Supreme Court has issued an order in the name of Bhawani Baral not to work as Chairman of Nepal Press Council, while asking the....
The Informal Sector Service Center (INSEC) has expressed its grief on a loss of lives and property of the people due to the incessant rainfall followed by the flood in various parts of the nation. INSEC through its press statement on August 15, signed b....
The Election Commission has said that the election code of conduct (CoC) for the third phase of local level election in province number 2 will be effective from August 17. The third phase of local level election is scheduled for September 18. The election code of conduct will be enforced to Nepal government, its ministers, local ....
The Ministry of Home Affairs (MoHA) said that the death toll from the floods and landslides triggered by torrential rains across the country for the past few days has reached 91 quoting RSS source. According to the data at least 38 are unaccountable. According to the data provided by the Ministry, 25 people are injured, 2,847 houses were fully destroyed and 3,727 other structures like schools....
Various parts of the districts especially the parts of Terai region has been severely affected due to the incessant rain fall for the last four days. The rivers and cannels of the district were flooded resulting a disaster in the area. The regional office said that the flood has claimed lives of many people along with the destruction of property. ....
The National Human Rights Commission has shown its serious attention on a situation created in various parts of the nation due to the flood after the incessant rainfall over the past four days. The commission quoting the source of Home Ministry said that 64 people have lost their lives, 44 are injured, 36 are unaccountable, 19,00....
President Bidya Devi Bhandari has called for increased investment in empowerment of the youth, who are the medium of socio-economic and political change of the society according to RSS source. Speaking at a program organized by the Ministry of Youth and Sports to mark the International Youth Day here today, she also appealed to t....
France has welcomed the unanimous approval by the Nepali government on August 9 of a law aimed at putting an end to the practice of exiling menstruating women (chhaupadi). This practice involves banishing women from their homes during their menstrual period. Stating that this new legislati....
The Legislature-Parliament meeting has passed the long-awaited Criminal Code 2074 on Wednesday according to the source from RSS. The Parliament brought the new code in order to update the criminal law which was earlier based on the amendment of Civil Code-2021. After the Code is certified by t....
The National Human Rights Commission former commissioner’s society has urged government to save Dr KC’s life who has been staging hunger strike for the 11th time demanding the reformation of medical sector. “His deteriorating health is the concern of us”- the statement signed by society’s chairperson Kedar Na....
The Parliament brought the new code in order to update the criminal law which was earlier based on the amendment of Civil Code-2021. The Legislature Parliament passed the Criminal Code 2074 on August 9 quoting the RSS source. After the Code is certified by the President, it would come in....
Doctors involving in a treatment of Dr KC have said that his health condition is deteriorating day by day. Dr KC is in a hunger strike for the 11th time in a row from July 24 demanding the reformation of medial sectors. Professor Dibya Singh Shah said that Dr KC’s condition is getting serious and level of oxygen in h....
Informal Sector Service Center (INSEC) has published a preliminary election observation report of the re-polling in Bharatpur Metropolitan-19. The report was published based on the information gathered by the observation team led by INSEC mid-regional coordinator Krishna Gautam. The preliminar....
The National Human Rights Commission on Nepal(NHRCN) has urged government to save life of Dr KC who has been staging 11th hunger strike since July 24 demanding the reformation of medical sector of Nepal. The commission said that it has been monitoring the health deteriorating health condition of Dr KC. In this context,....
INSEC has expressed its grief on a demise of Bal Dev Ram,67 a leader of Dalit and Haruwa Charuwa movement of Surunga Municipality-4, Madhupatti, Saptari on August 1. INSEC released a press statement on August 2 and expressed its grief on a demise of Bal Dev Ram. The statement further expressed its tribute to him and condolence ....
The meeting today of the Legislature-Parliament endorsed three bills related to the National Dalit Commission, the National Inclusion Commission and the Indigenous Nationalities Commission according to RSS source. The bills along with a report on it received from the social justice and human rights committee were unanimously passed by today's meeting. Also today....
The Accountability Watch Committee (AWC) has shown its serious concern on hunger strike staged by Dr Govinda KC for the 11th time in a row for the transformation of health sector and urged government to save his life. “ The staging of hunger strike by Dr KC is not for his personel interest but for the transformation ....
Senior citizen campaigner and former member of National Human Rights Commission Dr Gauri Shankar lal Das was presented with a 23rd Prakash Human Rights award In 25th memorial day of INSEC founder general secretary and Human Rights activist late Prakash Kafle. ....
The meeting held by the working committee of INSEC on July 26 has decided to honor Dr Gauri Shankar Lal Das by "Prakash Human Rights Award 2017" for his contribution on Human rights and social justice area. The press statement released and signed by INSEC chairperson Subodh Raj Pyakurel stated that the honor program will be organized on July 31 in chairmanship of former Prime Minister and CPN....
The Right activists have demanded to operate the program by exactly following the Code of Conduct on ill practice against Chaupadi and verdict of Supreme Court. The right activists have drawn the attention of Women and Children wale fare Secretary Khag Raj Baral on July 27 and demanded to operate awareness program to end Chaupadi....
Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba has urged the office-bearers of the Election Commission of Nepal (ECN) to make preparations for holding the province and federal level elections on the same day quoting RSS source. At a meeting between the Ministers and office-bearers of the ECN at the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) on Thursday, PM Deuba urged the ....
Police have arrested 30 years old Ram Kumar Yadav of Koshi Village Council on July 26 on charge of killing his 27 years old wife Sangeeta Yadav quoting the source of RSS. According to the police the dead body was recovered from Rajapokhari of Koshi village council-1. The accused has confessed ....
Professor Govinda KC, an orthopedist in the Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital (TUTH), has begun his fast-unto-death from Monday quoting RSS source This is the 11th time that Dr KC is on hunger strike, demanding reforms in the medical sector including passing Act on Medical Education ....
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has said that its attention was drawn seriously towards the government's move of promoting and awarding those involved in human right violation. Holding a discussion with Nepal Police Chief and Joint-Secretary of the Home Ministry on Thursday, the NHRC said that its attention was drawn toward such move of the government. ....
The Election Commission of Nepal (ECN) has approved the election program going to be held in province number 2 on September 18 quoting RSS source. The meeting of the commission has confirmed that the election in all 127 local levels under eight districts of province number 2 will be held on September 18 from the morning 7 till th....
The participants in one program organized in Kathmandu on the occasion of International Justice Day stressed that approval of Rome Statute of International Criminal Court is essential for ending impunity in the country. The program was organized by INSEC and International Commission Of Justice (ICJ) on " Struggle for Justice: Possibilities of Legal and Institution....
The Accountability Watch Committee (AWC) on July 16 has released a press statement and drawn its serious attention on the use of excessive power by the Indian Security Force in Darjeeling area in West Bengal, India. The committee urges Indian....
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has drawn the attention regarding the news on a topic “Violence due to the competition on Power Demonstration” published in Kantipur Daily on July 14. The commission through the press release on July 16 said that a high level commission was formed to investigate the incident of Maleth , Saptari on April 13 along w....
A delegation from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) called on Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba Wednesday evening and apprised him of the need to amend the TRC Act according to RSS source. On the occasion, the delegation also brief the Prime Minister about the office activities. ....
National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) while publishing a report on July 4 said that in the financial year 2016/17, six thousand and one hundred women and children were victimized from trafficking and among those , 98% were women. The report said that 13,600 were at risk of trafficking and 3,900 women do not have any records and among them 98% are women according to the commission. The comm....
A preliminary report on second phase of local level election was handed over to the Election Commission's secretary Mahesh Neupane by INSEC executive director Bijaya Raj Gautam on behalf of Citizen's campaign. While receiving the report, secretary Neupane committed to enforce the issues raised in report in future. Commissioner Surya Prasad Sharma thanked INSEC for b....
Updated at 4:30 According to Dang district representative J.N Sagar 17 years old boy was controlled by the police after he came to cast vote at Gadhawa village council-4 in the name of his brother. Meanwhile Rishi Khanal of same vi....
The Supreme Court is to conduct hearing on July 7 into the case regarding the dispute over the torn ballot papers in Bharatpur Metropolitan City, Ward No. 19 under the first phase of the local level elections as the required documents including the torn ballot papers have already reached the Supreme Court as per RSS source. ....
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has s....
A silent period will begin from the mid night of June 25 in context of second phase of election that will be held on June 28 in 35 districts under the province number 1,4 and 7. The Local Level Election Code of Conduct, 2017, restricts the dissemination or campaigning of any election activities after the beginning of silent per....
A discussion program was held in Kathmandu on June 25 by National Human Rights Organizations (NHRC) with Home Ministry and chief from securities bodies regarding the security and human rights situation for the second phase of election on June 28. Attention was drawn by the commission on the issues on first phase of local level el....
A half yearly review of Human Rights Year Book has been concluded in various districts . The incidents has been documented for the publication of Human Rights Year Book 2018. INSEC District Representative Prakash BK of Bajhang presented 15 incidents of human right violation within the last 6 months of which, 9 incidents were ....
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) will be monitoring overall election process with Human Rights point of view on June 28. The commission said that a team led by human rights officers has been mobilized for election monitoring in 35 district under province number 1,5 and 7. The commis....
The stakeholders in a program on “ the proposed bill 2073, for the operation of local level and governance and order regarding the service operation of local level, 2074” held in Kathmandu have accused that the rights of local level is being curtailed unknowingly. The program was organized by INSEC and speaking at the ....
A memorandum has been handed over to the Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba by a team of Human Rights activists and intellectuals on June 18. The team met the prime minister in Singha Darbar and handed over the memorandum containing Terai-Madhes situation. The m....
According to RSS the filing of nominations by candidates representing various political parties in the country for the second phase of local level election to be held on June 28 has been held in an enthusiastic and peaceful manner, according to the Election Commission of Nepal (ECN) . The e....
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has drawn the attention regarding the incidents of using extra force and arrest of RJP cadres who are agitating against the local level election. The commission has drawn the attention of the government on June 18 for not doing arbitrary arrest and misbehavior to those in a peaceful ral....
The nomination of candidacy at province number seven has been concluded on June 18. According to the INSEC district representative Bhupendra Sista, in all seven local levels, the nomination of candidacy has been registered exuberantly according to election office. According to INSEC District r....
The Accountability Watch Committee (AWC) has condemned the incident of excessive use of power by the security personnel in Janakpur, Parasi and bomb explosion is Kapilvastu on June 17 and 18. “ If such incident increases, there are possibility of human loss and we would like to urge security bodies to be aware and adopt patienc....
The speakers in one program have given stress on publicizing the name of people who were disappeared during a decade long armed conflict. Speaking at the program organized by the society of disappeared fighters by the state on June 17 in memory of disappeared fighter Bipin Bhandari and Dil Bahadur Rai, the speakers stressed that the state must publicize the name of those disappeared during the ....
Nawalparasi, June 17: Five people were injured in a clash ensued between the police and cadres of Rastriya Janata Party (RJP) Nepal in Nawalparasi Saturday. Among the injured, four are RJP cadres while the remaining one is Police Assistant Sub Inspector quoting RSS. The scuffle occurred whi....
In the context of scheduled local level election scheduled for June 28, CCCE has drawn the attention of the concerned stakeholders. The CCCE secretariat has released a press statement signed by duo co-chair Subodh Raj Pyakurel and Indra Prasad Aryal demanding to expedite the treatment of those injured during the Madhes agitation.....
Rastriya Janta Party (RaJaPa) has organized a torch rally protesting against the election and demanding the amendment of constitution. The cadres have demonstrated in Mahottari, Dhanusha and Sarlahi including many other district of Terai and Madhes on June 12 according to INSEC regional Office, Kathmandu. The leaders of the party....
Chief Election Commissioner Dr Ayodhee Prasad Yadav has appealed to the Rastriya Janata Party (RaJaPa) and other agitating political parties not to deprive the rights of their leaders and cadres to file their candidacy and campaign for the upcoming election quoting RSS source. The second ph....
A morning rally has been organized in Kathmandu on the occasion of 16th world child labor day. The rally was led by Labor department and it was started from Tikune Kathmandu before converting into the triangle assembly in Maitighar Madala. The participants chanted slogan holding the....
The Federal Alliance led by Rastriya Janta Party (RJP) publicizes their schedule for the general strike on June 11. The federal alliance organizing a press conference on June 11 released a press statement and made public about their general strike program of torch rally, Lathi demonstration and other program with the objective of....
The Parliament on Thursday endorsed the first amendment bill of the Local Level Elections Act. A meeting of the Legislature Parliament held today passed the first amendment bill through fast track. The passing of the bill paves way for Madhes-centric parties including the Rastriya Janata Party Nepal (RJPN) to take part in the second phase of the local polls slated for June 28. In a meetin....
Conflict victim Ganga Maya Adhikari of Gorkha Phujel ,who is already in hunger strike demanding for the action against the murderer of her son, has announced that she will intensify her hunger strike from June 7 by not even drinking a drop of water. She repeated her stand while speaking at the program in front of Bir Hospital gat....
The chairpersons of the two transitional justice mechanisms – the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and the Commission of Investigation on Enforced Disappeared Persons (CIEDP) – have said that the adjudication of post-conflict justice has been delayed as the related Acts of the two bodies await amendment from parliament according to RSS. ....
Senior-most justice Gopal Prasad Parajuli has assumed the responsibility of acting Chief Justice of the Supreme Court from today as per RSS source. Parajuli assumed the work after Chief Justice Sushila Karki on Tuesday retired from service on the ground of age limit. Acting CJ Parajuli has started designating benches ....
The Local Level Election (First Amendment) Bill-2074 BS was presented at today's meeting of the Legislature-Parliament according to RSS. Tabling the Bill, Deputy Prime Minister and Home Minister Bimalendra Nidhi stressed the need for all political parties to lay emphasis on the implementati....
The Supreme Court (SC) on Monday issued an interim order not to implement the decision of the Election Commission to conduct re-election in Bharatpur Metropolitan City-19 quoting RSS source. A single bench of Justice Choldendra Shumsher JBR issued the order not to implement the Commission's....
The Dalit Citizen Society has appealed to all to end the prevalence of caste-based discrimination and untouchability in practice according to RSS. Issuing a press statement today, the Society has urged all stakeholders to hold the government accountable and answerable to ensure human rights....
The Election Commission has announced its decision to hold a re-election in Bharatpur Metropolitan City, Ward Number 19 in Chitwan, a week after the ballot papers of this Ward under the first-phase local level election were torn in course of vote counting quoting the RSS source. The meeting....
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has drawn its attention through the press release regarding the tearing of ballot papers in Bharatpur Metropolitan city in Chitwan on May 28. "Everyone must respect the people's verdict and it must be respected by all. The process of voting and its counting must be trustworthy," the sta....
Citizen’s Campaign for Clean Election (CCCE) has been formed in various districts in western regions in an initiation of INSEC according to the INSEC western regional office of Pokhara. According to the Gulmi District representative Top Lal Aryal, CCCE committee has been formed in Gulmi in coordination of District good governance chairperson Shyam Kumar Pandey. The c....
The mayor candidate Hari Krishna Byanjankar from CPN UML for Lalitpur Metropolitan City has filed a case at Patan High Court saying that he was defeated in Local Level Election intentionally. The filed case states that his application during the vote counting process was not heard and he further accused of irregularities during....
With the objective of making the campaign success for the second phase of election by making it clean and fearless along with effective monitoring and observation, CCCE has been formed in 14 districts of the eastern region in an initiation of INSEC. According to Ilam district representative Kokila Dhakal....
The Citizen’s Campaign for Clean Election secretariat (CCCE) has drawn its attention regarding the incident of vote tearing in Bharatpur Metropolitan city on the night of May 28 affecting the overall vote-counting process. “ Police officials and eye-witnesses said that the cadres of Maoist centre have torn the ballot papers....
The investigation team formed by the Election Commission to investigate into the ballot paper tearing incident in course of the vot....
The Election Commission today published a new election schedule for second round of local-level election according to RSS source. Today's meeting of the EC published the new election schedule as per government decision of holding the second round of local-level election on June 28. Earlier, the government had decided to hold the second round f e....
The meeting held in Palpa by the active Human rights affiliated organizations has formed a District monitoring committee for local level election. According to INSEC district representative Yagya Murti Timilsina of Palpa, the committee consists of coordinator as district representative Yagay Murti Timilsena and Trilochan Paudel....
Kathmandu-based high-level election observation team on Tuesday left for Chitwan to launch an investigation into the incident of tearing up ballot papers with votes in Bharatpur Metropolitan City according to RSS source. Cadres of Young Communist League, youth wing of CPN (Maoist Centre) ....
The Election Commission has formed a three-member monitoring team to carry out investigation into the incident related to tearing of ballot papers by CPN (Maoist Centre) cadres in course of counting votes of ward no 19 of Bharatpur Metropolitan City under the first round of local-level election. ....
The second-phase of local election which was slated for June 14 has been rescheduled for June 23, Friday according to RSS source. A meeting of the Council of Ministers held at the Office of the Prime Minister and Council of Ministers at Singha Durbar today has decided to postpone the second-phase local election for June 23 with the objective of ma....
The impeachment motion filed against Chief Justice Sushila Karki has been withdrawn according to RSS source. Proposer of the motion Min Bahadur Bishwokarma and supporter Tek Bahadur Basnet withdrew the impeachment motion and provided written information about it to Speaker Onsari Gharti. L....
The Election Commission is to make the voter education for the second-phase of local election more effective and profound according to RSS source Joint Secretary of the Election Commission Nawaraj Dhakal said that learning from the first-phase election, voter education on the process and way of voting would be impart....
Rastriya Janata Party Nepal has staged a lathi rally in Rajbiraj on May 28 against the government announcement of second phase of election on June 14. The party has warned that they will retaliate the second phase of election. The rally started from the local Harinandeshwor Mahadev Mandir and was converted into triangle rally aft....
President Bidya Devi Bhandari has made a call to the political parties to form a consensus government according to the RSS source. President Bhandari on Thursday made such call to elect a new prime minister after Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal 'Prachanda' tendered his resignation from his post on Wednesday. The P....
Chief election commissioner Ayodhi Prasad Yadav said that the commission is committed to conduct second phase of election on June 14 in 461 local levels. While interacting with chief monitoring team and micro monitors of the first phase of election, he added that the commission is working in a full fledge to successfully conduct the second phase of election in clean....
A writ petition was filed at the Supreme Court today challenging the appointment of Bhawani Baral as the Chair of Press Council Nepal according to RSS source. Arguing that the appointment was a violation of Clause 6 (1) of the Press Council Act, Baikuntha Prasad Bhandari of Gokarneswar municipality-2 has filed the writ....
The Government has decided to add 22 local level units in 12 districts in the plains of the country according to RSS. ....
The Supreme Court has issued a show cause notice in the name of the government over its decision to withdraw cases against the accused of the Tikapur, Kalali incident according to RSS. A single bench of Acting Chief Justice Gopal Parajuli issued the order Monday, while also sending the case to the constitutional be....
The Offices of the Chief Election Officers in 43 districts would come into operation from tomorrow for the second phase of local polls according to RSS. Spokesperson of the Election Commission Surya Prasad Sharma said that the offices of the chief election offices would open next day. He sa....
Informal Sector Service Centre (INSEC) has condemned the decision of government to withdraw the cases of about five hundred people involved in a serious crime during Tharuhat/Madhes agitation. While releasing a press statement on May 19, it has condemned the government decision. The press statement released by INSEC chairperson....
The Election commission of Nepal has urged all the political parties and candidates to remove all the banners, posters, wall writings and digital displays during their election campaign according to RSS. While releasing a press statement on May 18, the commission has urged all the political parties to make the environment of ci....
The vote counting has been expedited up after forming three counting teams as per the Election Commission's directions and public pressure in Kathmandu Metropolitan City under the first phase local poll according to RSS. The EC sources have stated that the counting has begun from differ....
A team of election observer have requested the Election Commission to increase the numbers of vote counting places.The team has requested the commission after monitoring the counting places in Lalitpur and Kathmandu district on May 15. "The vote counting station has been found very congested and process is very slow. If the proce....
One hundred fifteen news stories from various 62 media were found breaching journalist code of conduct and election code of conduct during the period from April 28 to May 11 according to RSS source. According to the media content oversight body, Press Council Nepal, 34 print media were found violating the election code of condu....
The political parties are asked not to make publicity of their election candidates once the silent period begins. The silent period begins from Thursday night for the first round of local level election being held on May 14 according to RSS source. Issuing a press release on Wednesday, the Election Commission, made aware the ....
The major political parties have collectively committed to implementing the election code and making the election management smooth as per RSS source The main leaders of the big political parties signed on a commitment paper after attending the Election Commission's discussion on election preparations, security arrangement, code ....
The secretariat of Civil Campaign for Clean Election(CCCE) said that its serious attention has been drawn by the incident of killing of 33 years old Kul Bahadur Tamang of Gaurishankar Village council-1 in Dolakha district by the cadres of CPN Mapoist (Centre) on the night of May 9. The press statement released by duo co-chairman ....
INSEC chairperson Subodh Raj Pyakurel said that if the voters are aware the election will be successful for about 75 percent. He further urged observers to go for voter's education. While speaking at the program on "local level election-observation facilitation" organized by CCCE in Kathmandu on May 9, Pyakurel said that the majo....
The Election Commission has said the media are not allowed to make publicity of any political party/candidate when the silent period begins as per RSS source. During the silent period, election campaigning is prohibited. Similarly, before the beginning of the silent period, the publicity materials of any political party around 300 meter the po....
In the first phase of local level election, there are 39 percentage of women candidacy out of 49,337 candidates according to RSS source. According to the spokesperson Surya Prasad Sharma of Election Commission there are total of 19,332 female candidates which includes posts for chairman, chief, vice-chairman, vice-chief, ward c....
The Election Commission (EC) has asked joint Mayoral candidate of Federal Socialist Forum-Nepal and Naya Shakti Party-Nepal at Mahalaxmi Municipality, Lalitpur, Janak Thapa, to furnish clarification within 24 hours for organising motorcycle rally against EC-enforced election code of conduct according to RSS source. ....
The Supreme Court has issued an interim order to keep the impeachment motion registered in the Legislature-Parliament against Chief Justice Sushila Karki in status quo and let her carry out her office functions from today itself according to RSS source. A single bench of Justice Cholend....
A writ has been filed at the Supreme Court today against the impeachment proposal registered in the Legislature-Parliament against Chief Justice Sushila Karki, contending that it was against the constitution according to RSS. The writ petitioners have sought a stay order not allowing any works related to the impeachment to be c....
The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) has urged the government of Nepal and political parties to reject the impeachment motion against chief justice Sushila Karki according to RSS. The commission’s chief Mat....
The Accountability Watch Committee (AWC) has released a press statement on May 2 and condemned the incident of impeachment motion registered against CJ Sushila Karki by Major political parties. The statement said that the impeachment proposal is a painful and condemn-able step in the judicial history of Nepal. “ The AWC condemns the step of impeachment proposal....
Out of 744 local levels nationwide, the registration of nomination has been commenced in 283 local levels of three provinces of 34 districts for the upcoming election on May 14 as per RSS. The election commission has given time from 10 to 5 pm today, for the registration of candidacy. Various political parties have begun to regis....
The leaders of civil society have said that their attention has been drawn by the political changes in the eve of local level election. The press released by the by the leaders of civil society stated that the recent political condition has added crisis over the democratic system, judicial supremacy and national independence on t....
Former Chief Justices urge to roll back impeachment motion Former Chief Justices have urged the political parties to immediately withdraw the impeachment motion registered against Chief Justice Sushila Karki and create an environment for the judiciary to discharge its responsibilities with dignity according to the RSS source. Issuing a joint state....
INSEC chairperson Subodh Raj Pyakurel said that civil society can play an important role on providing people's right within their access and it is playing its role through "Civil Campaign for Clean Election (CCCE)". He expressed his view while speaking at the press meet on April 30 organized by CCCE in Kathmandu. ....
An impeachment motion against Chief Justice Sushila Karki has been filed at the Legislature-Parliament Secretariat today according to RSS. Nepali Congress lawmaker Min Bahadur Bishwokarma is the proposer of the impeachment motion while it was seconded by Chief Whip of the CPN (Maoist Centre), Tek Bahadur Basnet. The impeachment motion was regis....
Chief election commissioner Ayodhee Prasad Yadav recommended all the observers to fulfill their role in free and fair manner in the election without being bias. Speaking at the program on "Facilitation with National Organizations on Observation and interaction" held in election office on April 29, commissioner Yadav urged to fulf....
The Election Commission today has drawn the attention of the government stating that bringing an annual policy, programme and budget in-between the local poll will be against the election code of conduct according to RSS. A meeting held under the chairmanship of the chief election commiss....
The Election Commission has given approval to 49 organizations to observe the local level election. Among 65 organizations applying for approval of election observation, 49 were accepted in line with the Election Observation Directive -2073 according to RSS. With this, 49,947 persons would act as observers in the local level elections slated for May 1....
The election commissioner Dr Ayodhi Prasad Yadav said that NGOs role can be essential for conducting clean and fair election. While speaking at the interaction program with the representative in Kathmandu on April 27, Dr Yadav said that NGOs can play important role for effective voter's education in city, ward and local level.....
President Bidhya Devi Bhandry has given approval for the mobilization of Nepal Army during local level election according to RSS. The office of the president said that the mobilization of army is for the operation of election in a fearless environment as per the provision in constitution. ....
The National Human Rights Commission has decided to conduct pre-election, election and post-election monitoring regarding the context of upcoming local level election. The team led by the officers from NHRC will be deployed for the election monitoring from this week. “The team will be monitoring the issues such as right to asse....
The Council of Ministers today decided to make changes to some areas of existing Rukum and Nawalparasi districts according to RSS source. The cabinet that met at Singha Durbar this evening decided to include 11 then VDCs including Sisne and Uttarganga of Rukum in Province No. 5 and the remaining VDCs in Province no. 6, accordin....
The cadres of Biplov led Maoist party have organized anti-election demonstration in Shanti-Batika, Kathmandu demanding against the election and parliamentary system. Party bureau in-charge Santosh Budhamagar while addressing the program accused government of intervening the peaceful demonstration in the district. ....
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has drawn the attention of the government to expedite their process on providing relief to the victims of devastating earthquake two years ago. The commission has urged government for the proper settlement of the victims as there has been apathetic situation by the government side in re....
The Government has tabled the Constitution of Nepal (second amendment), 2073 proposal at the meeting today of the Legislature-Parliament according to RSS. Tabling the amendment bill, Minister for Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Ajay Shanker Nayak said the amendment was introduced in ....
The Election Commission (EC) has endorsed the schedule for the first and second rounds of local level elections slated for coming May 14 and June 14 respectively according to RSS. At a press meet organized by EC in the capital on Monday, Chief Election Co....
The United Democratic Madhesi Morcha has staged a demonstration in various districts on April 20 as a part of their agitation according to the INSEC district representatives. According to regional office of Kathmandu, the Morcha have organized Rally with batons in Morang and Dhanusha District. ....
The child rights monitoring district committee has been formed in Kathmandu district for the upcoming local level election. The committee was formed in chairmanship of Chief District Officer (CDO) and District child welfare chairman Him Nath Dawadi on April 19. The committee consists of five members from District Child Welfare Committee, District Coordination Committee, Kathmandu metropolitan, ....
The major political leaders committed not to use children during local level election and include the issue of child protection in their manifesto according to RSS. The leaders from various political parties have shown their group solidarity on not using children during their election campaign. They show their commitment while sp....
The chief election commissioner Dr Ayodhi Prasad Yadav said that there is no doubt about the election as the nation is heading towards the path of the election. Speaking at the interaction program with editors of various media, the commissioner said that the process of printing ballot papers, voter's name lists and voter's ID c....
Chief Election Commissioner Dr Ayodhi Prasad Yadav has urged all not to doubts about the local-level elections as the political parties are ready to participate in the elections and the Election Commission (CE) has completed most of the preparations for the May 14 polls according to RSS. ....
The Supreme Court has directed the government to arrest Maoist leader and convict murderer Bal Krishna Dhungel with in seven days according to RSS. A single bench of Justice Ananda Mohan Bhattarai handed down the verdict after hearing a contempt of court writ filed by advocate Dinesh Tripathi against the CPN Maoist Centre leader....
The Accountability Watch Committee (AWC) has condemned on the apathy shown by the government and police on a very controversial public statement by "absconding convict" Bal Krishna Dhungel during a program in Saipu of Ramechhap district on March 12. " It is a mockery of democracy and rule of law not to bring Dhungel in to legal b....
A federal commission has been proposed in the constitution amendment bill that the government registered at the Legislature-Parliament secretariat on Tuesday according to RSS. The proposal for the federal commission has been made as per Article 287 of the Constitution. It replaces the provision in the previous bill to make change....
The Election Commission said that the description of polling centre from all 75 districts has been received. The election commission’s spokesperson Surya Prasad Sharma said that on April 11, the polling centre description from Siraha and Saptari have been received. According to the commissio....
The Legislature-Parliament has withdrawn the second constitution amendment bill registered at the House according to RSS Minister for Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Ajaya Shankar Nayak put forth the proposal seeking permission for withdrawing the second constitution amendment bill. The proposal was endorsed by the House meeting today. The government is preparing to register a new....
The regional dialogue on "Regional Human Rights Mechanism in South Asia" has been held in Kathmandu from April 6 to 7. The program was organized by the Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA) with the participation by its South Asian members and other key civil society expert to discuss the importance of a regional human rights mechanism for south ....
Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Dr Ayodhi Prasad Yadav said that there would be support and commitment from all sides to conduct the upcoming local level election in a free and fair atmosphere according to RSS. Addressing the 19th anniversary of Reporters Club Nepal in the capital on Saturday, he shared that the Election Commis....
Government ministers are now allowed to attend the programs organised by their respective political parties. However, they will not be allowed to do so, using government vehicles according to RSS. The meeting of the Election Commission on Wednesday decided to ease the rule that earlier limited the ministers to the district headquarters only. They can now use a private vehicle to go beyond the d....
The National Reconstruction Authority (NRA) has decided to take initiative to provide grant relief to the quake survivors who have no landownership certificates according to RSS. A meeting of the NRA Executive Committee held under the chairmanship of CEO Prof Dr Govinda Raj Pokharel formed a panel to sort out the problems faced by those deprived of relief for lack ....
The Election Commission has approved voters name list for the upcoming local level elction scheduled for May 14 according to RSS. According to the Commission's spokesperson Surya Prasad Sharma, 1,40,54,482 voters have beem maintained for the election. The commission has given recognition to those person who has registered its nam....
The coordinator of "Naya Shakti Party" and also a former prime minister Babu Ram Bhattarai including many otheres were arrested by the police on April 2 while staging a sit-n-protest in front of Election Commission in Kantipath. The coordinator Bhattarai was arrested while staging sit-in-protest demanding the election sign. The a....
The participants in a program " Local Level Election and Human Rights" organized by INSEC regional office, Kathmandu on March 31 stressed that everyone must actively participate to make a local level election successful. Speaking at the program, INSEC chairperson Subodh Raj Pyakurel said that today's necessity is an election and youth are ready for it. He added that it is necessary that there....
The main opposition party CPN-UML has been dragging the attention of Election Commission since March 15, for the violation of code of conduct- RSS. A party's Parliamentary team led by second leader Subash Nembang informed the Chief Election Commissioner Dr. Ayodhis Prashad Yadav along with other commissioners about the violation ....
The FNJ has demanded to take action against the accused of petrol bomb attack targeting on photo journalist Shedhar Paudel of onlinekhabar and Keshav Thapa of The Kathmandu Post. The FNJ while releasing a press statement on March 28 drew its attention of petrol bomb attack targeting duo journalists during Free Student Union election at Ratna Rajya Laxmi Campus in Exhibition road. ....
The court in various district of the country has given a verdict in cases of rape. According to INSEC district representative Deependra Adhikari of Chitwan, the district court of Chitwan has ordered to sentence 42 years old Prakash Shrestha of Bharatpur Metropolitan city-22 for 10 years after finding him guilty on molesting seven....
A writ petition has been filed at Supreme Court against the Online Media Operation Directive the government issued recently according to RSS. The Directive was issued to make systematic the registration, renewal, operation and monitoring of the online media. Filing petition on Sunday, journalist Prabesh Subedi and advocates Baburam Aryal and Santosh Sigdel, demanded that the SC repeal the Dire....
The Election Commission is set to prepare total 21,000 voter educators in different eight places of the country as part of its voter education drive in view of civic polls according to RSS. Keeping in mind that it became a challenge to educate voters on the new structures of the local government and its associated framework with number of posts under inclusive provision, the EC has come up with....
The seventh International Day on the Right to the Truth has been observed nationwide on March 24 along with various programs. The conflict victims and rights activists in Kathmandu have staged sit-in-protest infront of the Bir Hospital gate and demanded for the right to truth. "The famalies of....
President Bidya Devi Bhandari on Friday certified two bills- Bill on Determination of Constituency -2073 and Bill on Determination of the Number of Rural Municipalities and Municipalities 2073 according to RSS . President Bhandari certified the two bills in line with the constitution. The m....
The meeting held under the Legislature-Parliament at Singha Durbar on March 22 has determined the threshold for the political parties on the basis of majority of the parliamentarians batting for the same according to RSS. The threshold, whi....
The leaders and cadres of RPP were injured during the clash with the police on March 20. The cadres were protesting against the decision of constitutional body to remove "constitutional monarchy" and " Hindu State"from the party statute. Police had fired few cells of tear gas and charged baton to control the mob. Police had inter....
Informal Sector Service Centre (INSEC) has condemned through a press release on March 20 regarding the padlocking of Human Rights Awareness and Development Centre (HURADEC) office in Dolakha on March 19 by the cadres of Young Communist League (YCL). The ....
The cadres of Madhesi morcha have warned that they will disrupt the work in local level until their demands are not addressed. According to INSEC district representative Durga Pariyar of Siraha, the cadres have pad locked the municipality and village council on March 18 saying that no election is possible before addressing their ....
The National Human Rights Commission said that it has been conducting awareness and making responsible to the concerned authority by monitoring and investigating for the protection of consumer's human rights. While releasing a press statement on March 15 signed by the commission's secretary Bed Prasad Bhattarai, it has urged all ....
The parliamentarians affiliated to United Democratic Madhesi Morcha, who have been demanding for the amendment of the constitution, have boycott the legislative meeting on March 14. Parliamentarian Laxman Lal Karna of Sadhbhabana Party accused government of lingering to issue the bill on constitution amendment and depriving Madhe....
The Local Level Restructuring Commission on Monday submitted its report to the government on special, protected and autonomous zones of the village municipal council and municipality according to RSS. Chair of the Commission, Balananda Poudel, handed over the report to Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Federal Affairs and Local Development Kamal Thapa in presence of Prime Minister Pushpa K....
The regular life is affected due to Strike called by Nepal Communist Party on March 11 accusing that Govinda Gautam, 25 of Punarbas Municipality-8, Kanchanpur, died because of the bullet fired by Indian Border Security Force (BSF) near the border at Ananda Bazaar in Kanchanpur district. ....
Sajha bus at Balaju was set on fire during the protest called off by Nepal Communist party, informed RSS. The unidentified gang set the passenger bus (Ba 4 Kha 7348) on fire by dousing it with kerosene when the driver, conductor and security guard went for lunch according to Acting Chief Ex....
Leaders of agitating United Democratic Madhesi Front (UDMF) were not present on the legislative parliamentarian meeting announced on March 11. Parliament member Ashok Rai of Federal Socialist Forum demanded to take action against those involved in the Saptari incident accusing of using unnece....
According to INSEC regional office, Biratnagar, the regular life of eastern region is affected by the strike called by United Democratic Madhesi Front on March 10. According to INSEC Morang district representative, Indira Bhattarai, Biratnagar market and Rangeli is affected m....
The government determined the number of local level informing about the dissolution of existing structure of the Village Development Committees and municipalities enforcing it from March 10, 2017. Deputy Prime Minister and Local Development Minister Kamal Thapa at a press conference organized....
The National Human Rights Commission has expressed its concern and condemned over the continued interruption by Terai-Madhes agitators on its monitoring. The incident of vehicle with number plate (Ba 7 Cha 7473) being arsoned on December 3, 2015 in Sarlahi, SUV (Ba 7 Cha 7497) and vehicle (Ba....
The Government has decided to provide a compensation of Rs. One million to the family of deceased who died in the clash that took place between Madhesi Front cadres and police Saptari on March 6. The government also decided to bear all the cost of treatment of those injured in the Saptari inc....
Upama Bhandari of Gorkarneswor Municipality-16, Arubari reached to police for being expelled from house within two weeks of marriage alleging witchcraft- informed RSS. Bhandari who got married on February 23 was expelled from home accused of practicing witchcraft and bringing less dowry. She w....
Regular life of the people in Saptari along with few other districts has been adversely affected due to the strike called byUnited Democratic Madhesi Front (UDMF) on March 7. The strike is enforced to protest against the death of 3 UDMF cadres who were killed in police firing on March 6 when the alliance of the Madhes-based parties attempted to disrupt the Mechi ....
The death of Sajjan Meheta, 23, of Maleth-2, Pitambar Mandal, 50, of Jolhari Maleth-4 and Ananda Shah, 34, of Praswani VDC currently residing in Rajbiraj -9 killed in police firing at a clash with cadres of United Democratic Madhesi Front(UDMF) on March 6 has saddened the INSEC. The press release published by the INSEC Chairperso....
The Election Commission (EC) has urged the Prime Minister to get prior approval from the Election Commission while using private helicopter in course of political activities. A meeting of the EC held on March 5 decided to issue directives to the Office of the Prime Minister and Council of Ministers for the provision not to get involved in election publicity campaig....
National Human Rights Commission has urged the United Democratic Madhesi Front (UDMF) along with other political parties to stop the disrespectful behavior to political cadres since the activities contrary to human rights was found while they were engaged in peaceful political campaign and also urged to not to announce the program that will obstruct the pre-declared....
Accountability Watch Committee to Madhesi Democratic Front has expressed its disagreement to undemocratic practice for creating barrier in peaceful activities of the political parties and alerted that they will not allow to tarnish the image of democratic freedom appealing to respect it. Chairman of the Committee, Chran Prasai on March 5 signed the appeal where Mad....
According to RSS, the 'special polio vaccination program, was not operated in four districts because of the obstruction created by health workers on March 3 and 4. The other districts where the program was conducted also could not go smoothly, said Children’s health Division. The Health workers locked the health institutions ....
According to RSS, the 'special polio vaccination program, was not operated in four districts because of the obstruction created by health workers on March 3 and 4. The other districts where the program was conducted also could not go smoothly, said Children’s health Division. The Health workers locked the health institutions ....
There has been incidents in various places regarding the issue of free student's union election on March 1. INSEC district representatives have informed that there were incidents of vandalism and arson attack among various students unions. According to Dhading distrcit representative Sita Ram Adhikari, there has been clash between Akhil revolutionary, Nepal Student's Association and ANNFSU in B....
Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal has urged one and all to actively participate in the forthcoming local elections taking place after a gap of 19 years. In an address to the nation on Tuesday, PM Dahal said the election is the essence of democracy and the announcement of local elections has created atmosphere for election. "So, involve in election without any fear,....
The government has decided to extend the term of the task force formed to suggest the government on the report of the Local Level Restructuring Commission after analyzing the complaints on the LLRC's report. Government has formed such task force under the convenorship of Minister for Federal Affairs and Local Development, Hitraj Pandey during a meeting held between....
Parliamentarians of various political parties have presented 15 amendment proposal over constitution amendment bill presented by the government few days ago. The parliamentarian secretariat had given a time limit till February 26 for the registration of amendment proposal. The parties presenting the amendment proposal includes parliamentarians from present government and other opposition politi....
United Democratic Madhesi Front has organized a torch rally in various district of terai region in the evening of February 21 against the government announcement of election date. According to INSEC district representative Manohar Kumar Pokhrel of Saptari, the front has demonstrated torch rally in major places of Rajbiraj. ....
The general assembly of Human Rights Treaty Monitoring Coordination Committee (HRTMCC) has been held in Kathmandu on February 22. Speaking at the program, chairperson Krishna Subedi said that the centre's importance will rise if its activities could be unified with coordination committee. He added that because of the centre's hypothesis, 295 human rights organizations are centred in one pla....
The government has announced to conduct all local level elections in one phase on May 14. The meeting held on the evening of February 19 by the ministry cabinet has fixed the date of election. The Nepal government’s spokesman and information and communication minister Surendra Kumar Karki sa....
The government has extended the tenure of both TRC and CIEDP for one year, The commissions were formed for the settlement of conflict related justice by investigation along with the reparation and compensation for the victims through these two transitional justice commissions. The meeting held on February 10 by the cabinet ministry has decided to extend its period for one more year. The comm....
The stakeholders accused commissions that were formed with the objective to investigate conflict era incidents of human rights violation and atrocities being inactive. They accused TRC and CIEDP of not being able to work as per mandate. While speaking at the presses meet organized by conflict victim’s common Chautari and Accoun....
The rights activists have demonstrated infront of Prime Minister’s quarter on February 2 demanding the delivery of justice to Ganga Maya of Gorkha Phujel-7. The activists while addressing the demonstration demanded to the government to deliver justice to the Ganga Maya as soon as possible as she is suffering from various infect....
The meeting of legislative parliamentarian hearing committee held on January 30 has approved the name of Tej Bahadur KC and Purushwottam Bhandari in a post for Supreme Court justice. The meeting of justice council held on January 2 had sent the names of KC and Bhandari to Parliament secretariat for the recommendation. There is a....
The meeting held by constitution council on January 27 has recommended names of three people in vacant post for the commissioner. The recommended names are Narendra Dahal, Ishwori Prasad Paudel and Sudir Kumar Shah. Among the recommended names Dahal and Paudel are former secretaries. The recom....
The legal base for all three levels (local level, province and centre) of election until January 20 next year has been determined according to RSS. The bills on Voters name list and election commission bill was passed by the meeting of legislative parliament held on January 25 giving the legal base for election. ....
The Legislature-Parliament State Affairs Committee has passed bills relating to voters' list, and the Bill relating to the election commission's duty and responsibilities-2073 according to RSS. The bill relating to voters' list has made it mandatory the voters' ID card bearing image to cast vote any election- the federal, provincial and local, said Committee member Dr Gangadhar Tuladhar. Simila....
The Environmental Development and Conservation Law Forum has filed a writ petition at Supreme Court demanding the rights to life in a salubrious environment as guaranteed by the constitution according to Rss. Forum Chairman advocate Padam Bahadur Shrestha filed the petition reasoning that the government and the stakeholders ignored the conservation of clean environment for healthy living. Cha....
Government lawyers boycotted hearings at Supreme Court and other courts across the country on Sunday to protest what they claim the discrimination and biasness in the appointment of 80 judges in High Court recently according to RSS. Government lawyers and four trade unions including authorised Trade Union of Civil Service Emp....
The second meeting held by legislative parliament on January 9 has passed the proposal of “Local Level Election Bill, 2016” with majority. Prior to this, the bill could not be presented due to the lack of number. The meeting has passed the bill after the meeting was postponed for half an hour. Vice-prime minister and Home Min....
The apex court has disqualified Lok Man SIngh Karki as a CIAA chief on January 8. The court said that his appointment was unconstitutional. The dual bench of justice Ishwor Prasad Khatiwada and Anil Kumar Sinha on January 8 have said that his appointment was unconstitutional. Advocate Om Praka....
A regional level annual editing assembly and preparation of Human Rights year book-2017 has commenced in all five regions of the nation. The annual editing assembly has commenced in Biratnagar of eastern region, Dhulikhel of mid-region, Pokhara of Western region, Nepalgunj of mid-western region and Dhangadhi of far-western region from January 8, ....
The INSEC district representatives have informed that there has been difficulties in management part inside the prison due to the over crowd of inmates and detainees. According to INSEC Doti representative Dirgha Khatri, the district prison of Doti is getting more worst leading difficulty for the inmates. Jailer Yagya Raj Pathak said that due to the old building inmates are having var....
The Supreme Court (SC) in its landmark decision has issued order reasoning no need to stay the constitution amendment motion registered at the Legislature-Parliament according to RSS. A divisional bench of Chief Justice Sushila Karki and Justice Iswor Prasad Khatiwada issued the order ruling out the need of interim order to put on hold the constitution amendment bill registered at the parliamen....
The debate on the writ application lodged to stop constitution amendment bill registered in Legislative parliament has begun according to RSS. The debate has begun on dual bench of chief justice Sushila Karki and justice Ishwor Prasad Khatiwada of Supreme court . Advocates Shambhu Thapa, D....
A study showed that in 2016, Nepali media was in peaceful envirnoment however the impunity remained in crime against press freedom. The annual report made public by the freedom Forum on December 31 has shown that there has been a decrease in an incident of violation of press freedom this year as compared to the last. In 2015, t....
The collection of recommendations on the draft for the formation of commission to protect, promote and empower the community's rights as per Nepal constitution has begun at local level according to RSS. The social justice and human rights committee under the legislature parliament has started the campaign on the discussion session and collection of recommendations of draft on Inclusive commissi....
The federalism enforcement and Administration Restructuring Coordination Committee has presented its report on the expansion of the single and concurrent list of competencies of the federalism, province and local level to the Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal on Wednesday. The report was handed over by the Committee’s Chief Secretary Som Lal Subedi based on the l....
The project led and operated by INSEC in coordination with Nepal disability society and Dalit Service Federation to strengthen HRDs and Civil Society for the promotion of ESC rights has been formally ended. The project started from January 2015. Speaking at the program organized in lalitpur, INSEC chairperson Subodh Raj Pyakurel said that the campaign will continue even after the ending of the ....
The Supreme Court has begun hearing on the petition challenging qualifications of suspended Chief of Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) Lokman Singh Karki on Thursday according to RSS. A full bench of SC comprising Justices Ishwor Prasad Khatiwada, Ananda Mohan Bhat....
Concerned stakeholders said, the use of child soldiers during the armed conflict is a gross human rights violation. Speaking at an interaction program "Use of child soldiers, conflict justice and social economic integration: international practice" organized by Discharged people’s Liberat....
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has monitored the tragic death of Laxmi Pariyar of Sanobangthali, Kavre. The preliminary monitoring report has found that the victim Pariyar was used foul language in involvement of four locals on November 20. She was then beaten alleging of witch, fed with human excrete with degraded behavior by tying her in a pole says ....
The house body has started taking recommendations from the concerned stakeholders and expert over the bill regarding the National Dalit Commission. The legislature Parliament, Social justice and Human Rights Committee has begun to take recommendations from December 20 by organizing discussion program according to RSS.....
The INSEC district representatives have sent the news of incident collected on Human Rights Violation and atrocities for yearly pre-review of Human Rights Year Book-2017. According to INSEC district representative Rabindra Pandey of Pyuthan, a yearly preview of Human Rights Year Book has been held in the....
An investigation committee has been formed to probe the incident of murder of CPN UML affiliated Youth Association district chairperson Durga Prasad Tiwari. The four member high level investigation committee with the chairmanship of AIG Bigyan Raj Sharma has been formed to present the fact report to Home Ministry within 15 days. ....
The participants in a program organized jointly by INSEC and Jury Nepal on December 19 in Lalitpur stressed that it is important to continue campaign to get approval on International Criminal Court Rome Statute. Speaking at the program, Parliamentarian and senior advocate Radheshyam Adhikari said that the political party which has belief in violence can only be against the approval of Rome Stat....
An agreement paper has been signed between NHRC and Qatar National Human Rights Commission on December 18 to implement planning regarding the rights of migrant workers protection according to RSS. On the occasion of International Migrant day on 18th December, a paper was signed by NHRC chairman Anup Raj Sharma and Comm....
According to INSEC Jumla District Representative Man Datta Rawal, yearly pre-review of Human Rights Year Book-2017 has been held on December 18 in the district headquarters of Khalanga. A discussion was held with stakeholders on the incidents collected in a year related to human rights violations and atrocities. INSEC District representative Rawal had informed abo....
The normal life of the people has been affected by the general strike called on by joint revolutionary committee since two days in various district nationwide against the government's proposal of amending the constitution. According to INSEC district representative JN Sagar of Dang, from the morning the transportation and industries of the district have been affected by the strike. Most of the ....
In Arghakhanchi, all major political parties have shown their commitment to continue their protest till the end against the government's proposal on amending constitution and dividing province number 5. According to INSEC district representative Narayan Bhushal of Arghakhanchi, a big assembly was organiz....
A pre-review of Human Rights Year book in Sarlahi and Sindhupalchok District under mid-region has been held with the review of human rights violation incidents with in the year. According to the Sarlahi District Representative Santosh Kumar Shah, incidents on human rights violation with in the year have ....
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has organized a meeting at the commission with the secretary of Health ministry, directors of Health services department and other officials urging to ensure the right to health of the citizens. The commission has organized a discussion program in presence of the officials on the proble....
The local demonstrators in Nayabasti have hurled stones at Metropolitan Police Office on December 11 and blazed three motorcycles in front of the office. After the attack few rounds of bullets were fired by the police to control the mob and 25 people were controlled according RSS quoting SP Pradumna Karki of Metropolitan Police C....
Informal Sector Service Center (INSEC) has urged government to develop an effective legal mechanism to control the increasing incidents of gender violence. INSEC chairperson Subodh Raj Pyakurel while releasing a press statement on December 11 has urged government by publicizing the data of violence along with the conclusion of 16 days campaign against gender violence. Within these 16 days th....
According to INSEC Mid-regional Office, 68th international Human Rights day has been observed nationwide by organizing various awareness related program. According to INSEC Dhading District Representative Sita Ram Adhikari, an interaction program regarding the human rights situation of the distri....
President Bidya Devi Bhandari stressed on implementation on fundamental rights of constitution and Human Rights Protection and Promotion are for the prosperity of the country. While addressing on the occasion of Human Rights Day she said that implementation of these provision for the prosperity of the nation is the stat....
The revolutionary Committee has cordoned off the government offices on December 8 against the government's proposal on amendment of constitution with the division of five number province. According to INSEC District Representative Narayan Bhusal of Arghakhanchi, the joint revolutionary committee has organized a h....
Informal Sector Service Center (INSEC) has demanded the government to save life of Bikash Tiwari, chairperson of Nepal Sadbhawana Party (Gajendrabadi) who has been staging indefinite hunger-strike since 16 days demanding the reformation of Gajendra Narayan Singh Sagarmatha Zonal Hospital in Rajbiraj. INSEC while releasing a press statement on December 8 stated " We support the demand raised by ....
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has drawn its attention regarding the indefinite hunger strike staged by Bikash Tiwari since 15 days demanding the reformation of overall medical sector and management of Gajendra Narayan Singh Sagarmatha zonal Hospital. He has been staging a hunger strike with 26-points demand. The pre....
The agitating group in Butwal has withdrawn Band from the evening of December 6 however the agitation continues according to RSS. The groups have been protesting against the government’s proposal of constitution amendment and had called on Band since one week. CPN UML chairperson of Rupendehi district said that the structure of....
The demonstration and protests continues in some districts in western region against the government’s proposal of dividing province number 5 prior to the implementation of newly promulgated constitution. According to the INSEC district representative Narayan Bhusal of Arghakhanchi, a huge assembly was organized in the district ....
The fifth day of the agitation in some of the district in western region continue regarding the constitution amendment proposal registered in Parliament. According to INSEC district representative Reema BC of Rupendehi, various political parties including CPN UML, ML and Rastriya Janamorcha Nepal had demonstrated....
Dr Govinda KC who has been staging a hunger strike since 22 days has finally ended his strike on December 3, following 12 points agreement with the government. He ended his hunger strike by taking a juice from earthquake victim one and half year old child Marsang Tamang of Sindhupalchok in front of media and well-wishers.....
A 25th International day of people with disability has been observed nation wide with various programs. In Kathmandu a morning rally was organized with a slogan to ensure the future of person with disability. According to INSEC mid-regional office, a rally was organized in Kathmandu in the occasion of 25th International day of pe....
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has released a press statement on December 2 and urged not to close necessary health services during the protest. The commission in its statement said that the attention of the commission has been drawn regarding the disruption of regular health services nationwide by government doctors....
The hearing of the case lodged against suspended CIAA chief Lok Man SIngh Karki has been postponed even though he was presented in Supreme Court. The court had postponed the hearing after the lawyer Bal Krishna Neupane on behalf of Karki was absent due to his health condition. His hearing ha....
The opposition parties have disrupted the parliament protesting the government's move on registering the proposal of constitution amendment. The major opposition party CPN UML including CPN ML, Nepal labor and peasant party have disrupted the legislative parliament against the proposal of constitution amendment saying that it wil....
A protest has been organized in Kathmandu demanding to save life of Dr KC who has been staging hunger strike since November 13 demanding the reformation of medical sector. The protesters accused government of not listening or taking initiation to address his demand yet. Health professionals from various hospitals, students, artists and social workers came out in the protest supporting Dr KC an....
The normal lives of people in Kathmandu and various district in western region have been affected due to the protest and strike regarding the registration of constitution amendment in Legislative parliament on November 29. ....
A writ application has been lodged at Apex Court on November 30 demanding to immediately stop the bill registered at Apex court for amendment of the constitution which is unfavorable to the sentiment of the constitution of Nepal. Advocate Tikadhwoj Khadka has made Nepal Government and legislative parliament as defendant in the wr....
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has urged the government to solve the problem of Dr Govinda KC who have been staging hunger strike demanding the reformation of medical sector. The commission releasing a press statement on November 28 has urged and drawn the attention of the government to be more sensible to save life ....
The government has formed two member dialogue team in order to conduct dialogue with Dr Govinda KC who has been staging hunger strike since 14 days at TUTH Maharajgunj demanding the reformation of medical sector. The dialogue team is formed on November 26 in coordination with education ministry's secretary Shanta Bahadur Shrestha....
A 16 days campaign against gender violence with a slogan of " Home is a base for peace: gender violence free society for sustainable development" has kicked off nationwide from November 25. The national women commission said that the campaign was started with the objective of awaring people as violence incidents have been increas....
The stakeholders in a program stressed on joint effort on ending punishment and other action against children. The representatives from concerned bodies stressed against the punishment while speaking at an interaction program organized by women, children and social welfare ministry on November 22. ....
The agitating discharged people’s liberation army Nepal has organized a sit-in-protest in front of the Maoist central office in Paris Danda on November 21. They have been in agitation since November 7 with seven points demand. The chairman Lenin Bista of PLA said that the sit-in-protest is organized to draw attention of the gov....
The stakeholders in a program said that if conflict victims are denied of justice, even after 10 years of signing of CPA, the peace agreement will be in vain. They expressed their view while speaking at the press meet organized jointly by Accountability Watch Committee and Conflict Victims Chautari on November 20 at Reporters club to commemorate 10 years of CPA. Speaking at the program, INSE....
The health condition of Dr Govinda KC, who has been staging hunger strike since November 13 demanding the reformation of medical sector, is deteriorating according to the doctors involved in his treatment. Dr KC said that he has started the hunger strike again as his previous demand was not implemented by the government. He also ....
The suspended CIAA chief Lok Man SIngh Karki has attended the Supreme Court. Prior to this, the court had issued an order on his name to be present in the court however he was defying the order. He presented a written answer to the court on November 15 by attending the court. Advocate Om Prakash Aryal had lodged a case against ....
Former Maoist combatant affiliated to the discharged Peoples' Liberation Army Nepal have organized a sit-in-protest infront of Maoist Central office at Paris Danda on November 15. The discharged PLA have been protesting with seven points demand since November 6. The protest is to draw attention of the Maoist center party ....
Dr Govinda KC has begun a hunger strike from November 13 against the appointment of Professor Dr Keshav Prasad Singh as a dean of IOM. Dr KC called for a press meet at Teaching Hospital on November 13 and begin is hunger strike for the 10th time. As per Dr KC, the appointmen....
The government is preparing to amend the act of two commissions TRC and CIEDP with a provision of giving immunity to the people involved in a grave human rights violation during an armed conflict. The government is preparing to give immunity to the crime such as bomb explosion, group killing and other serious crime against humani....
The agitating federal coalition has given an ultimatum to the government to present the proposal of the constitution amendment in parliament within November 30. The coalition has given an ultimatum during a meeting with Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal on November 13. The ultimatum came out while government is doing a home work ....
The meeting held by legislative parliament on November 14, most of the parliamentarian stressed on passing the proposal of impeachment against the suspended CIAA chief Lok Man SIngh Karki. UML parliamentarian Yuv Raj Gyawali said that the proposal against Lok Man was registered as per the constitution of Nepal, legislative-pa....
Many vehicles have been blazed on fire and vandalized during a strike called on by Netra Bikram Chand (Biplab) led Maoist on November 13. The party has called on a nationwide strike demanding the government to control black marketing and price hike. There has been a minimal effect of band in the capital however vehicles have been vandalized in some districts by the ....
The government has presented the bill in the parliament regarding the formation of Madhesi Commission. The government has presented the bill in order to end ill practices and exploitation and to formulate policy and program for implementation in order to empower the community. The to be formed commission will recommend the govern....
The Discharged People’s Liberation Army Nepal has accused government of trying to suppress a peaceful agitation by conspiracy. Speaking at the press conference in Kathmandu on November 12, Lenin Bista, chairperson of DPLA accused government of suppressing the agitation and playing a conspiracy game of arresting the combatant with false charge. He added that a serious question mark on Maois....
The government has decided to take back 74 cases out of 208 filed during Terai, Madhesi and Tharuhat agitation as per the present legal provision through concerned bodies according to the Home Ministry. Home Ministry while releasing a press note on November 11 stated that 22 cases were given a clean chit and remaining five cases ....
The discharged ex-Maoist combatants have continued their sit-in-protest in front of parliament building at New Baneshwor on November 10. They have protested a whole day in front of the building today. The discharged ex-Maoist combatant have been staging protest demanding various seven points demand since November 6. ....
The stakeholders showed their concern over the increasing criminal activities especially against the journalist due to the prevailing impunity in the country. The concerned bodies have shown their concern during the program held in Kathmandu regarding “UNESCO’s analysis of security of journalists in Nepal in the point of view....
The Supreme Court has directed suspended CIAA chief Lok Man Singh Karki to appear before the court with a written answer for his obstruction in delivery of the court summons. Advocate Om Prakash Aryal had filed a writ petition against Karki along with Prabal Thapa, former secretary of Ministry of Law Pramod Karki and Sub-inspector Nakul Raj Gautam of Nepal police foabusing authority in influenc....
The signatures collected urging to vote for the impeachment proposal presented at parliament against the suspended CIAA chief Lok Man Singh Karki, was sent to legislative parliament on November 8. Dhaka Ram Paudel, chairperson of Civil Society Coalition for Peace has handed over the collected signature to the assistant CDO Jhalak....
The human rights activists have monitored the situation of discharged former Maoist combatant on November 9 after they were arrested by the police on the morning of November 9 from Maoist Central Office. The activists have found them in a normal situation however some of the ex-combatant claimed that the police have used ....
The case against suspended CIAA chief Lok Man Singh Karki was lodged at Supreme Court on November 3. Advocate Om Prakash Aryal has registered the case against Karki including other three for the legal treatment. The other included Law secretary and chairperson of Agriculture Development Bank P....
The National Human Rights Commission expresses its serious concern over the government's delay on presenting essential reports on periodic basis at United Nation Human Rights Committee. The press released by the commission on November 3 stated that Nepal government still need to present 17th and 22rd report against caste discrimi....
The UNSECO has released a report on November 2 saying that in every 4.5 days journalists are being killed worldwide. The report says that during the last decade, at least 827 journalists have been killed while the....
Padam Baidik’s name was approved as a member of justice council on a meeting held by a special parliamentary hearing committee on November 3. Baidek’s name was approved after the hearing as per ministry cabinet’s recommendation said committee’s member Bhanubhakta Dhakal. The justice council is fulfilled after his appointm....
The latest issuance of journalist's code of conduct-2073 has given a priority on a issues of women children and a senior citizens. Some areas which could not be covered by Journalist code of conduct- 2060 was included in new code of conduct- 2073. According to the point-14 of new code of c....
Police have arrested Mohan Bastola, executive editor of Pahilo News. Com, from Maitighar area and sub-editor Lok Raj Jaisi of Khabar Dabali from airport area on November 2. They were on the way to collect news regarding the visit of Indian President Pranab Mukherjee. Journo Bastola was released later after Ganesh Basnet, chairper....
The Asian Forum For Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA) has expressed its concern over the enactment of Foreign Donation Regulation Bill (FDRB) by Bangaladesh aiming to impose restriction on the activities and ability of foreign funded NGOs to access resources. While releasing a ....
In an initiation of Informal Sector Service Center (INSEC), a 26-year-old Urmila Urao of Chiyabagan VDC-5 is receiving treatment at Kritipur Hospital in Kathmandu. She is a domestic violence victim. Based on an application received from the victim’s family at INSEC mid-regional office on October 21, the initiation for the treat....
Informal Sector Service Center (INSEC) has welcomed the impeachment proposal registered against CIAA chief Lok Man Singh Karki in parliament and further demanded to end such culture completely. INSEC chirperson Subodh Raj Pyakurel while releasing a press statement on October 21 has welcomed the impeachment proposal and de....
The meeting held by CIAA on October 20 has decided to appoint Deep Basnyat as an acting chief of CIAA. He was appointed as an acting chief after the proposal of impeachment has been registered against Lok Man Singh Karki in Legislative Parliament. Khagendra Prasad Rijal, sub-spokesperson of the commission said that senior actin....
The impeachment committee under legislature- Pariament has been formed on October 19. The meeting of legislature parliament held on October 19 have passed the proposal after the CA speaker Onsari Gharti Magar presented the proposal of forming impeachment recomendation committee. The committee was formed under the Article 101 of the constitution of Nepal. According to the constitutio....
The meeting of legislative parliament held on October 18 has tabled the bill ina parliament regarding the rights of a person with disability, 2072. Law, justice and Parliamentry affair minister AJaya Shanker Nayak had presented the bill for decision in parliament on behalf of Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal. ....
The senior citizens complained of not getting security allowances even in Hindu's great festival Dashain. According to the INSEC district representative Man Datta Rawal, senior citizens at Jumal district c did not get social security allowances which has hampered their merry making and feasting celebration in a great fe....
The Human Rights Activists and members from civil society have requested Professor Dr Govinda KC to postpone his hunger strike for some time. Dr KC have been staging hunger strike from September 26 demanding reformation of medical sector and impeachment of CIAA Chief Lok Man Singh Karki. ....
Professor Dr Govinda KC has again started his hunger strike in TUTH from September 26 demanding the reformation of medical sectors. Dr KC said that he was compelled to re stage a hunger strike after his demands were neglected by the parliament. He added that there was some progress made to address his demand by the government how....
A candle light vigil was organized on September 28 to mark second international Safer Abortion Day in Kathmandu with a motto of “ Our want: wish to free women from safer abortion”. The program was organized in Maitighar mandala and representatives from various organizations had participated the candle light vigil wished for their reproductive rights and rights for safer abortion s....
The meeting of Committee on Reconstruction Authority director on September 26 has decided to provide additional Rs 1 lakh to the family of earthquake affected area. Sushil Raj Kamal, CEO of the board said to the media that the procedure of distributing grant has been changed and the family will be provided additional Rs 1....
Ganga Maya Adhikari of Phujel-7, who had been in a hunger strike at Bir Hospital while having treatment, asked Prime Minister why is it hard to catch criminals. While giving a short speech in a candle lightening program to mark a second death anniversary of her husband Nanda Prasad Adhikari on September 22, Ganga Maya expressed....
The representatives from various organizations have protested in Kathmandu on September 22 against the incident of bomb explosions and planting explosives in various schools in Kathmandu and Lalitpur District on September 20. The protestors from CJAP, NCAP, Educational Journalists Group, Child Home Network including many other organizations have staged a sit-in-protest demanding the action agai....
Informal Sector Service Center (INSEC) releasing a press statement on September 22 stated, it is very sad that Ganga Maya is still not getting justice even after the death of her husband Nana Prasad Adhikari two years ago in a process of hunger strike demanding for the justice. Today is his second anniversary of death. ....
With the main slogan of “ Sustainable Peace is Base For Building Nation”, 35th International Peace Day is being celebrated in various districts of the nation. According to INSEC regional office of Far-western, peace rally was organized in districts with joint coordination with Peace Committee of K....
Nepal Federation of Journalist Association (FNJ) has drawn its attention on intimidation and taking control of journo Sudeep Bardewa of Radio Mirmire by police on September 21 at Ekantakuna of Lalitpur while gathering information. FNJ has said that intimidating journo is the intervention press freedom and freedom of speech. ....
Informal Sector Service Center(INSEC) has a serious drawn attention on a series of bomb explosion incidents in various schools in the capital. The press release signed by INSEC chairperson Subodh Raj Pyakurel on September 20 has condemned the incidents. "This act is against the norms and sentiment of Universal Declaration of Huma....
Metropolitan Police Circle of Teku has confirmed that there was a bomb explosion in two schools in Kathmandu in the morning of September 20. SP Pradumna Karki of Metropolitan Police Circle of Teku said that cylinder bomb was exploded in Akashdeep Boarding School and Manakamana High Schools of Boudha. He confirmed that there were ....
Prez Calls for Constitution Implementation President Bidhya Devi Bhandari has called on all political parties to join hand together for the implementation of newly promulgated constitution in order to protect the democracy. She called on for the consensus among the political parties while issuing greetings on....
The District Court of Chitwan has begin to take Ganga Maya's statement from September 18 who has been staging hunger strike from time to time demanding the justice against the murder of their son. The District Court Shrestedar Gehendra Panta and Nayab Subba (NASU) Narayan Prasad Sedai of Chitwan have started to take her statement in Kathmandu. The process of taking ....
INSEC workers were given orientation to perform basic survey on seven provinces selected under the core program of INSEC which will be operated in 2016-2019 . The program which will be operated in 25 districts of seven provinces, the basic survey will be conducted in two VDCs each of selected seven districts. ....
Ganga Maya who has been staging hunger strike in Bir Hospital since one month demanding for the justice over the murder of her younger son during conflict era has finally ended her strike. She ended her strike along with the counseling from Human Rights activists and legal entrepreneurs after the district court of Chitwan had ord....
The government has sent six bills to the Parliament Secretariat regarding commission on September 13. The ministry of law, justice and the Ministry of parliamentarian provision has sent the bills regarding the provision going to be made on National Dalit Commission, National Inclusive Commission, Indigenous community Commission, Madhesi Commission, Tharu Commission ....
The meeting held by Legislative Parliament on September 11 has passed three bills on torture. The bills presented by Law, justice and parliamentary affairs minister Ajaya Shankar Nayak on Justice Service Commission 2073, Justice Council bill 2073 and justice administrative bill 2073 were passed. ....
"Save Ganga Maya" campaigners have said that they will go to the international criminal court if the government fails to initiate the process of taking action against Chabilal Paudel who has been convicted as a murderer of Krishna Prasad Adhikari. Ganga Maya is on fast unto-death strike since 32 days in Bir hospital, demanding th....
Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal while addressing parliament on September 8 said that his government first priority is to resume remaining work of peace process and implementation of constitution. He announced the priority of the government while addressing the parliament for the first time after being elected as a prime ministe....
The Supreme Court has issued a show cause reason for slowness in announcing election date of constitution assembly and making a necessary law regarding the provincial election. A single bench of Judge Dr Anandamohan Bhattarai asked for the reason of slowness in date announcement of election wit in 15 days on September 8. ....
The health condition of Ganga Maya, 59 of Phujel-7, who has been staging a hunger strike since August 11 in Bir Hospital, is deteriorating according to the health official involved in her treatment. The doctors involved in her treatment said that she is having a problem of chest pain, swelling of abdomen and leg paralysis. She ha....
The Accountability Watch Committee (AWC) has demanded to address the conflict related incident as per the international principle of transitional justice with in the country in a justiciable way. The committee releasing a ....
The British Court has acquitted colonel Lama who was facing conflict related charges during Maoist insurgency according to various media. Foreign Secretary Shankar Das Bairagi quoting Nepalese Embassy in London said that the British court denied processing his case further on September 6 due to the lack of enough evidences. ....
The Discharged People’s Liberation Army(PLA) Nepal has demanded to investigate the death of its central secretary Sanjaya Jargha Magar (Kranti) inside Dilli Bazar prison due to the negligence of the prison. The press released by Discharged People Liberation Army’s chairperson Lenin Bista ....
A case against Rabin Neupane, 19 of Nuwakot Kumari-6, currently living at Kalanki, Kathmandu Metropolitan-14 has been lodged by Metropolitan Police Circle, Kalimati on charge of raping a 16-year-old girl. Inspector Dimesh Lamichhane of Kathmandu Metropolitan circle Kalimati said that the case against hin was lodged on September 6....
A morning rally has been organized in Kathmandu on September 5 on the occasion of National day against Human Trafficking. The rally began from Bhrikutimandap with a motto of " One goal, one theme, Human Trafficking Our Concern" which ended at Kamaladi with a main program. ....
The federal alliance meeting along with Joint Democratic Madhesi Forum in coordination of Sadbhavana Party’s sub- chairperson Laxman Lal Karna has formed 11 member Constitution amendment draft committee. The committee was formed in a meeting held on September 4 at party office in Tinkune. The committee comprises of vice chairma....
Various programs have been organized in districts nationwide on September 5 on the occasion of 10th national day against Human Trafficking. According to INSEC District Representative Komal Niranjan Bhatt of Kanchanpur, a rally program was jointly organized in the district by various organizations and rights activists, whi....
The Accountability Watch Committee (AWC) and Democratic Freedom and Human Rights Organization has drawn its attention over the publication of news on bill regarding torture and inhumane behaviour which is pending from a long time and in a process of issue as an Act. Both organizations hav....
The Accountability Watch Committee and Democratic Freedom and Human Rights Organization have demanded to correct the proposed bill on torture in parliament. The demand was made during an interaction program on “Concerns of stakeholders on proposed bill against torture” held in Kathmandu on September 1. Pitting his view during....
Earthquake victims demanded the government to provide them secured shelter despite of grant amount as they are living in a pathetic situation. The victims demanded for secured shelter while speaking at the public hearing program organized in a coordination of INSEC with Human Rights Network K....
The participants of a program organised by INSEC in lalitpur on August 30, regarding experience sharing on its project on education, health and food rights to make responsible bodies accountable, stressed on claiming demand being responsible. Speaking at the program, INSEC chairperson Subodh Raj Pyakurel said that knowledge and s....
A memorandum from various districts of the country has been handed over to the Prime Minister through Chief District Officers to approve the international convention protection of people from enforced disappearance people from districts on the occasion of the International Day on protection of enforced disappearance on August 30. ....
The Social Justice and Human Rights Committee under the legislature parliament has ordered the Ministry of Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs to amend Act 2071 under CIED and TRC. The meeting of committee held on August 24 decided to direct ministry to proceed the work of both committees in an effective way by amending the ....
The Supreme Court has ordered not to implement the government’s decision to distribute Rs 200,000 to disqualified combatant. A single bench of Justice Gopal Parajuli issued the order on August 24 until other hearing. The order will be valid until August 31 to hear arguments from both sides on whether or not to continue the inte....
Nepal Government has formed an investigation committee in coordination with former judge Girish Chandralal Das to investigate agitation addressing the demand raised by the agitating federal coalition. The meeting of cabinet ministers held on August 18 has formed seven member committee in chairmanship of former judge Das in order ....
The Human Rights activists have staged a sit-in-protest in front of Bir Hospital on August 16 demanding to save life of Ganga maya Adhikari who has been in an indefinite hunger strike demanding for justice. The protestors have demanded the government to immidiately bring those involved in killing of her Son Krishna Prasad Adhikar....
The government has decided to provide Rs 5,00,000 to the victim’s family of those killed and enforcedly disappeared during armed conflict according to Prime Minister Puspa Kamal Dahal. Prime Minister Dahal while meeting with the representatives of Martyr and disappeared people said that the fund will be provided as per the ....
A writ has been registered at Supreme Court on August 16 against the government decision to provide Rs 200,000 each to disqualified Maoist combatant stating that the decision not being lawful. The writ was lodged by conflict victim Gyanendra Raj Raran of Puranagaun-5, Ramechhap along with 129 people. Prime Minister and cabinet mi....
Two days general education strike enforced by Netra Bikram Chand led CPN-Maoist on August 15 has affected nationwide study of students in a first day. The study was affected after schools were forcefully closed against the norms of international Child Rights treaties and basic rights of Nepal’s constitution. ....
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission has drawn the attention of Prime minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal stating that Human Rights violations in a serious nature of crime cannot be given amnesty. The commission’s officials met prime minister on August 15 and said that human rights violation in serious nature of crime such as murder....
The Human Rights activists have warned government to save life of Gangamaya,59 of Phujel-7 Gorkha who has been staging an indefinite hunger strike since five days. Human Rights activists Subodh Raj Pyakurel, Charan Prasain, Kapil Shrestha, Babu Ram Giri, Indra Prasad Aryal, Suman Adhikari, Ashik Ram Karki, Om Prakash Aryal includ....
Human Rights activists have organised a sit-in-protest in front of Prime Minister’s residence at Baluwatar on August 4 demanding to save a life of Ganga Maya Adhikari of Phujel-7 who has been staging an indefinite hunger strike demanding for justice. The program was organised by “save Ganga Maya campaign”. Police have intervened and arrested at least 11 human ....
Ganga Maya Adhikari of Gorkha Phujel-7 has again sit for an indefinite hunger strike for the sixth time in a row on August 11. She is on strike demanding the action against the guilt involved in murder of her 16-year-old son Krishna Prasad Adhikari during armed conflict. She has given a five days ultimatum to bring down the guilt....
Indian rights activist Irom Chanu Sharmila has ended her 16-year long hunger strike on August 9. A various international media has said that Sharmila who began her hunger strike to protest against a draconian security law- the Armed Forces Special Power Act has finally ended up her strike. The 44-year-old Sharmila who is a reside....
Most of the prisons of the district are facing difficulties in managing prisoners and detainees due to the over capacity of the prison according to the respective prison administration of the districts. The district prison of Kaski has a capacity to accommodate only 60 prisoners however there are more than 600 prisoners and detai....
The Ministry cabinet on August 5 has decided to present 1 million each to the victims’ families of those who were killed during Madhes agitation. However most of the families and injured have already been distributed millions during KP Oli led government according to the Home Ministry. As p....
Newly appointed Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal has assumed his post as a prime mister after administering oath by President Bidhya Devi Bhandari on August 4. In the oath taking ceremony, vice- president Nanda Bahadur Pun, acting Prime Minister K.P Sharma OLI, Chief Justice Shusila Karki, CA spokesperson Onsari GM and many other distinguished guests were presented. CA m....
Professor Dr Givinda KC of Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital (TUTH) has started an indefinite hunger strike for the eighth time from July 10 demanding a reform in medical sector. He announced a hunger strike from Ganesh Man ENT within TUTH premises building stating that government failed to abide by the agreement reac....
A meeting of Parliamentary Hearing Special Committee has endorsed Chief Justice nominee Sushila Karki for the post. The post was vacant for sometime. Before her name was endorsed, Karki furnished reply against queries from CA members in a meeting held in Singhadarbar on July 10. Along with the endorsement, the way has been paved to fill the post for chief justice. The endorsement....
Chief justice Sushila Karki and Election Commissioner DrAyodhi Prasad Yadav have assumed their offices after President Bidhya Devi Bhandari administered oath to CJ Karki and Karki administered oath to election commissioner Yadav in one program organised in presidential building on July 11. Chief justice Karki was appointed by the President as per sub-clause(2) of clause 129 of Nepal's constitut....
The special parliamentarian hearing committee has unanimously passed the name of Dr. Ayodhi Prasad Sharma for the post of election commissioner. The committee's meeting held on July 8 has recommended his name for the post. Along with the recommendation, the way to appoint chief election commissioner has been paved. There is a constitutional provision of appointing chief election commissioner....
The report recently published by UNICEF shows that Nepalese children are still living in inequality. It was published in report 'the state of world children'. The report states that Nepal has improved in human development index however there are still inequality between rich and poor and also among those living in cities and villages. As per report, 90 percent of the people living in urban area....
A bill on rights of people with disability made for the rights protection and promotion of disabled people has been presented in parliament on July 4. The bill was presented by deputy prime minister and women, children and social welfare minister C.P Mainali at the meeting of legislature parliament on July 4 according to the press released by Sudarshan Subedi, chairperson of National ....
