Category: Politics

At a time when different ethnic groups have intensified their agitations demanding ethnicity-based federal system, linguists have said that federal structure based on linguistic identity could be a better option. Senior linguist Prof. Nobal Kishor Rai says that as political system, social behaviour and psyche of the people is...

While signing the peace agreement, the government and the Maoist had expressed commitment to rehabilitate the conflict-affected children back into their families and the society. However, months have passed but no practical efforts have been made to identify, rescue and integrate the children who were used by the Maoists...

Even as the peace process in the country moves ahead quite smoothly, the government and the Maoists seem to have overlooked the problem caused by landmines and other explosives left carelessly by the rebels and the security forces. There have been calls from several national and international groups in...

While the leaders at the Baluwatar summit were knuckling down to determine the course of Nepalese politics Thursday, ordinary people and pressure groups were on the streets to pressure the leaders to bring the talks to a logical conclusion without further delay. On Thursday, streets around the Prime Minister’s...

As Maoist leaders were making fiery speeches from the Open Air Theatre (Tundikhel) on Monday, Nepalnews spoke to some of the students — brought in packed buses to take part in the 17 th national convention of the Maoist-affiliated All Nepal National Independent Student Union (Revolutionary)—on what did they...

Three days after armed soldiers – led by a Nepali Army (NA) captain—surrounded a police post at the heart of Nepali capital, abducted three policemen, and tortured for nearly two hours, the role of army in the changed context continues to be debated. Parliamentarians, media, human rights activists and...