Youth
attempts suicide amid police torture over Facebook
comments against home minister, by Tapendra Karki
(rep 26/04/2024)
Former
Minister Aftab Alam gets life imprisonment for Rajapur
bomb incident (kh 25/04/2024), District
Court Rautahat sentences four individuals including
Aftab Alam to life imprisonment, by Madan Thakur
(rep 26/04/2024), Aftab
Alam, three others get life terms over 2008 killings :
Rautahat Court convicts them of killing at least two
people in Rajpur of the district on the eve of 2008 CA
elections, by Shiva Puri (kp)
Dilapidated
Rolpa district prison housing inmates twice its
capacity : Prisoners, especially those in
judicial custody, face frequent attacks from
older inmates, by Kashiram Dangi (kp
20/04/2024)
Former
JSP parliamentarian assaulted in Sarlahi, three arrested,
by Madan Thakur (rep 15/04/2024)
Judge
Giri jailed on marital rape charges (rep 15/04/2024)
'Victim
blaming'- Nepali society's response to sexual violence,
by Aastha Pokharel (rep 14/04/2024)
Ward
Chairman ties service recipient to tree, beats him
indiscriminately in Parsa's Jagarnathpur, by Bimala
Gupta (rep 13/04/2024)
Man
arrested for allegedly murdering grandmother in land
dispute (kh 11/04/2024)
Little-known
armed group detonates 'pressure cooker bomb' at Ncell
tower in Sindhuli (rep 11/04/2024))
Woman
accuses CPN-UML leader Mahesh Basnet of rape (rep
08/04/2024)
Young
man fatally stabbed in Janakpur, two arrested (rep
08/04/2024)
Departmental
action taken against police personnel involved in
abusing monks (rep 08/04/2024) [No
police officer has the right to treat people in this
way! It may have been normal under the royal regime,
e.g. also during Gyanendra's coup and Jana Andolan II!]
NC
protests against UML leader Adhikari’s appointment as
Gandaki CM (kh 04/04/2024) [Nepalese
politicians obviously do not understand that they have
to abide by court decisions!], UML
defies top court precedent to form government in Gandaki
: Nepali Congress, the largest party in the assembly, is
set to challenge the province head’s decision to appoint
Khagaraj Adhikari the chief minister, by Binod
Ghimire (kp 08/04/2024)
Indian
side vows to combat cross-border drug trafficking
(kh 07/04/2024)
Robbers
loot Rs 1.5 million in Siraha (kh 07/04/2024)
Analyzing
Marital Rape Laws in Nepal, by Ruchi Dhital (rep
07/04/2024)
Supreme
Court orders detention of suspended Judge Giri
in marital rape case (kh 03/04/2024)
MC
warns to take action if institutional schools
fail to adopt names reflecting Nepali identity
(rep) [Yes, and people
whose parents have given them a non-Nepali first
name must change their name within a week! What
nonsense and a blatant violation of personal
freedoms! But then the English names of
political parties must also be changed
immediately!! Even the word "Party" should not
be allowed! And what about "Kathmandu
Metropolitan City"?]
Fortifying
Nepal's Cybersecurity: Analyzing Legislative Initiatives
(rep 02/4/2024)
Maoist
Center leader Kali Bahadur Kham arrested (rep
02/04/2024), Ex
Maoist commander Kham arrested for 2008 murder : Kham
was taken into custody from Thamel, Kathmandu (kp
03/04/2024), District
Court sends Maoist leader Kham to pretrial detention
(kh 05/04/2024)
After
16 years on the run, two fugitives arrested for
trafficking three Nepali women to Indian brothels
(rep 01/04/2024)
Nepal
Police announces progress: Successfully investigates 23
major cases in a year (kh 28/03/2024)
Young
girl found dead in Palpa with throat slit (kh
27/03/2024)
Five
Bangladeshi nationals apprehended for visa overstay in
Nepal (kh 26/03/2024)
Two
killed in a “gang fight” in Lalitpur’s Dholahiti : Over
a dozen arrested: Police (kh 25/03/2024), Police
identify suspects in Lalitpur Holi incident, murder
charges against five accused (kh 26/03/2024)
Cybercrime
Threats Loom Large, by Narayan Upadhyay (rn
22/03/2024)
Campaigner
Durga Prasai’s bodyguards arrested with pistol inside SC
premises (kh 18/03/2024), Trigger
warning : Lethal weapons in Durga Prasai’s possession
should make the state rethink its firearms licensing
policy (kp 21/03/2024), SC
orders release of Durga Prasai’s bodyguards (kh
26/03/2024)
NRB
Director Acharya suspended amidst allegations of sexual
abuse (kh 18/03/2024)
Police
reveal suspect in Tare Bhir murder case : Love proposal
rejection suspected as motive for murder (kh
17/03/2024), Shiva
Shankar, suspect in nurse’s murder, found dead (kh
18/03/2024)
‘Pressure
cooker bomb’ exploded at Nepal Telecom tower in
Sindhuli’s Dumja Danda (rep 15/03/2024)
‘Safety
Pin Campaign’ launched to control sexual harassment
(kh 15/03/2024)
Cybercrime
cases up by six folds in last five years (rep
10/03/2024)
Top
court cautions executive against arbitrary pardons:
Recommends assessing convict’s jail time, remorse and
health status for presidential pardon eligibility,
by Binod Ghimire (kp 09/03/2024), Politics
of pardon : Arbitrary pardons and commutation of jail
terms are part of a long trend of criminalisation of
Nepali politics (kp 11/03/2024)
Wife
killed, husband found unconscious in Siraha (rep
09/03/2024)
Fugitive
GB Rai arrested in cooperative fraud case (kh
07/03/2024), GB
Rai has not been arrested yet; we are searching for him
through INTERPOL : IGP Kunwar (rep 07/03/2024)
Teenage
girl killed in Morang (kh 05/03/2024)
Balendra
Shah treading authoritarian path, say rights activists :
They are ‘troubled’ by City police’s use of force on
Wednesday against street vendors (kp 04/03/2024)
Salin’s
family demands fair probe into her ‘suspicious’ death at
school hostel : Salin, 14, was found hanging in a room
on February 24. Her family says the victim might have
been raped and murdered, by Ramesh Kumar Paudel (kp
03/03/2024), Shalin’s
post-mortem report shows no sign of rape, by Basanta
Dhungana (rep 03/03/2024), Family
and supporters march to TU Teaching Hospital following
dispatch of Pokharel’s postmortem report without consent
(In Pictures) (rep 03/03/2024), Salin
Pokharel Death Case: Three suspects detained, no
evidence of murder found yet (kh 08/03/2024)
Suspect
arrested in connection with Gopal Dhakal’s murder
(kh 03/03/2024)
Taxi
driver arrested for raping young woman working in night
club (rep 02/03/2024)
Can
there be peace, love and harmony between the couples?
Intimate partner violence has taken a toll on many
families in Nepal. Here is a story of how positive
interventions can change the situation (nlt
01/03/2024)
Online
violence escalates due to lack of proper legislation,
by Bhasa Sharma (rep 01/03/2024)
60-year-old
man arrested for allegedly raping a 14-year-old girl
(kh 29/02/2024)
Case
filed against Indreni director Krishna Kandel over
alleged sexual misconduct (kh 26/02/2024)
Child
missing from Paropakar Hospital found in Kandaghari
Kathmandu (kh 24/02/2024), Three
apprehended for baby abduction from Paropakar Hospital
(kh 24/02/2024), Woman
arrested in connection with the child theft case
admitted to the hospital (rep 24/02/2024)
‘Gyapu’
founder files complaint against Ganesh Lama for alleged
kidnapping (rep 22/02/2024)
Conflict-era
rape victims’ trauma compounds : Records at the Truth
and Reconciliation Commission show that among the 63,700
cases it received, 314 are related to rape or sexual
violence from the insurgency, by Binod Ghimire (kp
19/02/2024)
Tragic
Incident in Jhapa: Daughter dies, mother critically
injured in self-immolation attempt (kh 17/02/2024)
Man
nabbed on allegation of raping 30-year-old woman in
Kanchanpur (kh 17/02/2024)
Female
police constable shot dead in Ghorahi (rep
16/02/2024)
Nine
arrested for holding Indian nationals hostage in
Kathmandu with false promises of sending them to the US
(rep 15/02/2024)
Valentine’s
Day celebration turns tragic: Girl gang-raped in Siraha,
suspect arrested (kh 15/02/2024)
Eight-month-old
toddler slammed onto floor, dies, by Bishnu Prasad
Pokharel (rn 14/02/2024)
Nepal
police arrests 89 individuals on human trafficking
charges in six months (kh 14/02/2024)
Kathmandu
District Court official arrested on rape charges (kh
14/02/2024)
Two
arrested on charge of assaulting teacher in Arghakhanchi,
by Laxman Ghimire (rep 12/02/2024)
Person
arrested for banking crime (kh 12/02/2024)
Birgunj
Mayor Singh admits during interrogation of having two
wives, by Bimala Gupta (rep 11/02/2024)
Banking
fraud convict Thapa arrested after a decade (kh
11/02/2024)
As
online shopping takes off, cases of fraud tick up : Fake
social networking accounts are scamming customers in the
absence of measures to control the anomalies, by
Sarahna Khadka (kp 11/02/2024)
Woman
found dead in a hotel in Kathmandu (rep 11/02/2024)
DoRI
investigation reveals garment merchant Agarwal as
official agent of illegal transactions in gold smuggling
cases, by Tapendra Karki (rep 10/02/2024)
Nepal
Police arrests 5,364 fugitives in six months, collects
Rs 1.19 billion in fines, by Arun Bam (rep
10/02/2024)
Police
raid house of former DIG Joshi (rep 08/02/2024)
Immigration
Officer Khadka sent to jail on human trafficking
allegation (kh 07/02/2024)
Two
minors involved in attacking elderly woman with sharp
weapon in police custody (kh 07/02/2024)
Managing
Director of Hotel Square arrested on charge of attempt
of murder (rep 06/02/2024)
Police
arrest 3045 drug peddlers in six months (nlt
06/02/2024)
Unidentified
group targets goldsmith in Nawalparasi gunshot attack
(kh 04/02/2024)
Former
police officer arrested on rape charges (rep
04/02/2024)
Police
constable kills his wife and son in Ghorahi (rep
04/02/2024)
Locals
block postal highway demanding arrest of driver in
child's fatal accident (rep 03/02/2024)
Salyan
and Surkhet report highest number of rape cases among 10
Karnali districts : In most rape cases, the perpetrators
of the crime are usually the victims’ family members,
according to police, by Biplab Maharjan (kp
03/02/2024)
'VIPs'
get admitted to the hospital to evade detention, by
Tapendra Karki (rep 03/02/2024)
Man
held for duping over 600 foreign job aspirants (kh
01/02/2024)
Three
arrested for attempted assault on BPKIHS Acting
Vice-chancellor (rep 30/01/2024)
Interpol
issues Red Notice against Dhorpatan Municipality mayor
Nepali : This means police of 192 member countries of
Interpol will be searching for Nepali, by Prakash
Baral (kp 27/01/2024)
DGAO
registers case against 17 including businessman Bimal
Poddar (rep 23/01/2024)
Arrest
warrant issued against ANNFSU (Revolutionary) Chair
Pancha Singh (kh 21/01/2024)
Man
murders wife in Dang (kh 21/01/2024)
Businessman
Naresh Agrawal arrested for alleged tax evasion in
Kathmandu (kh 19/01/2024), Garment
trader Agarwal arrested on charge of running hundi and
illegal gold trading (rep 19/01/2024)
Assets
of 32 companies worth 370 million rupees linked to GB
Rai frozen (kh 19/01/2024)
Four
arrested with Rs 23 mln unsourced money (rn
19/01/2024)
Three
arrested for demanding ransom (kh 18/01/2024)
New-born
baby found dead in garbage pile (rep 18/01/2024)
Boxer
Gosain found dead in Bhaktapur (rep 18/01/2024)
Attempt
of assault on Durga Prasain in Baglung (rep
18/01/2024) [Such anti-social
and anti-democratic demagogues must be fought with
powerful arguments and upright democratic action and not
through crime!]
Five,
including police personnel, accused of gang-raping
14-year-old girl in Mugu (kh 16/01/2024)
Dharan
Mayor Harka Sampang locks Deputy Vice-Chancellor’s
Office at BPKIHS (kh 15/01/2024) [On
the basis of which law is the mayor taking this action?
Do such measures not require a court order?], Dharan
Mayor writes to Health Minister regarding controversial
activities at BPKIHS (kh kh 16/01/2024)
Ex-NC
minister Aftab Alam’s trial resumes from today (kh
14/01/2024), Hearing
on Aftab Alam case postponed (kh 14/01/2024) [It's always the same!]
One
dies in assault in Dohori in Attariya (kh kh
13/01/2024)
Resham
Chaudhary elected party chair. Does the law allow it?
Constitutional lawyer says presidential pardon doesn’t
mean Chaudhary got a clean chit on the 2015 killings
(kh 13/01/2024) [Murder trials
against other politicians have been delayed for many
years. Can Nepal still be described as a state governed
by the rule of law?]
Victim’s
cry for justice met with disbelief and
counteraccusations, by Sita Neupane (kh 12/01/2024)
Health
workers manning Covid desks on Nepal-India border unpaid
for six months : Amidst the increased workload and
health risk following a resurgence of coronavirus cases,
the health workers feel cheated, by Bhawani Bhatta
(kp 11/01/2024)
Four
rhino horn smugglers arrested (kh 11/01/2024)
Teenage
girls in Rukum East live in terror of outdated
traditions : Deep-rooted customs where young girls are
forcibly hauled away and abducted by men for marriage
persist in several areas of the western Nepal district,
by Durgalal KC (kp 10/01/2024)
Police
confiscate Rs 30 million in raid on ascetic Ram Bahadur
Bamjan’s Kathmandu residence (kh 10/01/2024), CIB
makes Ram Bahadur Bamjan public after arrest in
Kathmandu (kh 10/01/2024), Ram
Bahadur Bamjan to be taken to Sarlahi for District Court
proceedings (kh 10/01/2024), Bamjan’s
arrest unveils irony: mockery of devotees’ sentiments,
by Sara Pahari (rep 10/01/2024), Hearing
against rape and murder-accused Bamjan begins in Sarlahi
(kh 11/01/2024), ‘Buddha
Boy’ Bomjan to face rape trial at Sarlahi district court
: Before taking him to Malangawa on Wednesday, police
made him public in Kathmandu along with Rs33.43 million
in confiscated cash, by Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp
11/01/2024),
Of
bogus 'babas' : Someone’s
public legitimacy, however big, should not come in
the way of the criminal justice system (kp
11/01/2024), Sarlahi
District Court orders judicial custody for Ram
Bahadur Bamjan (kh 11/01/2024), From
meditation to controversy: Ram Bahadur Bamjan
grapples with multiple accusations (kh
16/01/2024)
Police
nab woman for fraudulent activities promising people job
in Portugal (kh 10/01/2024)
Silence
and shame in Ajit Mijar’s killing : Caste hatred often
precipitates caste violence, and hardly any criminal is
sentenced to jail , by Mitra Pariyar (kp 09/01/2024)
Specialized
bureau to be established to investigate banking frauds
and financial crimes (rep 07/01/2024)
Sarlahi’s
Barahathwa tense as hotel owner dies in police firing
(rep 05/01/2024) [Once again!]
Tootle
founder Shikshit Bhatta arrested in Kathmandu (kh
05/01/2024), Kathmandu
District Court issues order to release Sixit Bhatta on
bail (rep 07/01/2024)
Travel
agency operators apprehended for trafficking into
Russian Army (kh 05/01/2024)
Who
is accountable for Balkumari shooting?, by Kamal Dev
Bhattarai (ae 02/01/2024)
21
percent of pregnant women in Karnali are children,
by Govinda KC (rep 31/12/2023)
Girl
murdered in Rupandehi (rep 30/12/2023)
Youth
set ablaze vehicle of Minister Prakash Jwala (nlt
29/12/2023), Protester
injured in Balkumari dies (nlt 29/12/2023), Fatal
clashes unfold at Balkumari : Protester succumbs to
Police gunshot, many arrested (kh 29/12/2023), Another
injured protestor dies, death toll in Balkumari incident
reaches two (rep 29/12/2023)
Nepali
women sexually abused abroad face hurdles returning home,
by Sita Neupane (kh 28/12/2023)
Bara
Principal murder case: Key suspect arrested, suffers
gunshot wounds (kh 27/12/2023)
Aarti
Sah death case: Husband arrested in Janakpur (kh
25/12/2023), Aarati
Sah’s husband Motibabu arrested : The accused had been
on the run since the Supreme Court ordered his arrest on
December 6, by Ajit Tiwari (kp 26/12/2023)
Travel
operator arrested for assisting human trafficking on
'visit visa' (rep 23/12/2023)
RSP
Chairman Lamichhane struck with corn cub in Pokhara
(rep 23/12/2023)
Man
arrested for coercing girls into sex trade (kh
22/12/2023), Man
held for luring and forcing girls into sex trade
(rep 23/12/2023)
Unrest
in Dhanusha as individual dies in police custody (kh
22/12/2023)
Salyan
sees surge in violent crimes against family members :
Despite consolidated efforts by the authorities,
controlling domestic violence and violent crimes has
become a challenge in the Karnali district, by
Biplab Maharjan (kp 21/12/2023)
Rising
cases of dollar exchange fraud: Kathmandu Valley faces
wave of looting incidents : Police arrest eight
individuals with connection to the case (kh
20/12/2023)
Teacher
arrested on charges of sexually abusing girl student
(rep 19/12/2023)
Two
men arrested on charges of raping minors (rep
19/12/2023)
14-year-old
girl raped in Siraha (kh 18/12/2023)
CPN
(Maoist Center) leader arrested on charges of rape
(kh 17/12/2023)
Massive
marijuana haul at TIA: 55 kg seized in international
smuggling (kh 16/12/2023)
Body
of missing 6-year-old girl found in pond, suspicions of
rape and murder (kh 15/12/2023)
Goods
worth Rs 3.2 million imported illegally seized (kh
15/12/2023)
Former
Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli assaulted in Dhankuta
(nlt 14/12/2023), UML
chair Oli manhandled in Dhankuta : An ‘inebriated’ man
tries to attack the former prime minister as he walks
through a crowd of his party’s supporters (kp
15/12/2023), Violent
Expression Of Frustration, by Narayan Upadhyay (rn
19/12/2023)
Police
bust racket of DoI and NAC staff involved in human
trafficking through visit visas, by Tapendra Karki
(rep 14/12/2023)
Man
dies after police fire at people protesting over unpaid
salaries : Municipal staff and government school
teachers were protesting outside the municipal office in
Simraungadh, by Laxmi Sah (kp 14/12/2023), Relatives
of youth killed in police firing obstruct vehicular
movement in Nijgadh (rep 16/12/2023)
Yellowing
repute : The dysfunction in the detection system for
contrabands like smuggled gold makes one wonder if this
is done on purpose (kp 14/12/2023)
14
kg gold smuggling case: TIA’s sanitation supervisor
arrested (rep 14/12/2023), Five
arrests made in connection with 14 kg gold smuggling so
far (kh 15/12/2023)
Chinese
gangs exploit Nepali youths in 'online scamming'
operations, by Sabita Khadka (rep 13/12/2023)
62
cases of violence occurred during 16 Days of Activism
against VAW: INSEC (kh 12/12/2023)
Attack
on Koshi Province Chief Minister as group targets
vehicle (kh 12/12/2023)
Govt
employee accused of domestic violence (rep
11/12/2023)
Curb
Rising Gold Smuggling, by Ballav Dahal (rn
11/12/2023)
Egyptian
nabbed at TIA with 6.5 kg of illegally smuggled gold (kh
10/12/2023)
Two
arrested with more than 29 tolas of gold in Bardiya
(kh 10/12/2023)
Police
arrest three on charge of extorting Rs 10 million
(rn 10/12/2023)
Despite
occasional seizures, no let-up in gold smuggling : Man
carrying 14 kg of the precious metal was held from
Kathmandu airport on Thursday night. Government
announces six-member investigation panel (kp
09/12/2023)
Police
confiscate two kg of gold at Nagdhunga, three arrested
(kh 08/12/2023)
Two
arrested at Tribhuvan Int’l Airport with 14 kg of gold
(kh 08/12/2023), How
the 14 kg gold illegally being smuggled into Nepal was
seized (kh 08/12/2023)
Woman
arrested for husband's murder, son also detained, by
Maheshwor Chamling Rai (rep 07/12/2023)
65
percent of sexual abuse victims are minor girls, by
Ajabi Poudel (ae 05/12/2023)
Senior
advocate seeks transparency in property confiscation
issue (rep 05/12/2023)
Attempt
to kill ward chairman by setting his house on fire
(rep 04/12/2023)
Doctor
beaten again: Medical Superintendent of Siddhartha
Children and Women Hospital assaulted after death of
postpartum mother : Medical superintendent Basyal being
treated in ICU, hospital services stopped (rep
29/11/2023)
Fatal
assault over cigarettes: 14 apprehended in Kailali after
young man’s death (kh 29/11/2023)
Police
nab fraud for making false
promises of employment in
Portugal (kh 26/11/2023)
Dream
of going to UK shattered as
unscrupulous agent deceives more
than 50 people, by Sabita
Khadka (rep 26/11/2023)
167
cases of domestic violence registered in four months in
Chitwan (rep 26/11/2023)
80
percent of GBV includes domestic violence in Nepal:
Police (kh 26/11/2023)
6
student leaders convicted for beating and injuring TU
teacher Chalaune : Nepal Student Union leaders slapped
two-year jail (kp 24/11/2023)
Dhankuta
man kills self after murdering wife and son: Police :
Neighbours attribute the deaths as the tragic outcome of
frequent domestic violence that plagued the family,
by Ramesh Chandra Adhikari (kp 24/11/2023)
Crimes
related to extra-marital affairs on the rise, by
Ajabi Poudel (ae 22/11/2023)
Act
To End Violence Against Women, by Namrata Sharma (rn
22/11/2023)
14
arrested following clash between locals and police in
Lapsiphedi (kh 18/11/2023), Lapsephedi
clashes snapshot of hassles in building power lines : At
least three police personnel were injured as locals
hurled stones and over a dozen people allegedly behind
the attack were held, Kathmandu district administration
says, by Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp 19/11/2023)
Newborn
baby found abandoned with umbilical cord still attached
(rep 17/11/2023)
No
significant rise in criminal incidents during Tihar:
Nepal Police (rep 16/11/2023)
Young
man succumbs to stab wounds in Rautahat, by Madan
Thakur (rep 13/11/2023)
Police
arrest murderer after 20 years! (rep 09/11/2023)
GBV
cases have decreased: Minister Alemagar (kh
08/11/2023), CARE
Nepal draws attention to GBV, disease outbreak post
earthquake in Jajarkot, pledges psychological counseling
(rep 08/11/2023)
Prisoner
pardoned by President arrested for extortion : The
accused, with a lengthy criminal history, had served
four and a half years in prison before being pardoned by
President Paudel on Republic Day, by Ramesh Kumar
Paudel (kp 02/11/2023) [What is
the background for pardoning convicted criminals? Always
a political one?]
Nepali
woman accused of defrauding Rs 2.5 million using
Guterres’s falsified signature (kh 01/11/2023)
Police
take to firing to apprehend drug traffickers in
Kathmandu (kh 01/11/2023)
School
principal shot dead in Kalaiya : The victim succumbed to
his injuries while undergoing treatment at Vayodha
Hospital in Birgunj (kp 31/10/2023), Bara
Principal murder case: Police nab five accused (kh
01/11/2023)
Five
arrested for stealing millions through eSewa (ht
30/10/2023)
Kathmandu
Valley witnesses 103 incidents of crime during Dashain
(rep 208/10/2023)
DSP
Tiwari stabbed while rescuing hostage infant from
deranged father in Kohalpur (kh 27/10/2023)
Wife
dies after husband hits her with firewood (rep
27/10/2023)
Four
members of the same family murdered in Mugu (kh
27/10/2023), Three
children along with mother found dead in Mugu, by
Golden Buda (rep 27/10/2023), Mugu
murder: Brother-in-law and uncle arrested (kh
10/11/2023)
Woman
killed in hotel, suspect arrested (rep 18/10/2023),
Man
pardoned by President arrested for alleged murder of
woman in Rukum West (kh 19/10/2023)
Amendment
to Banking Offenses and Punishment Act proposes two-year
jail term for check bouncers (rep 18/10/2023)
Chhaupadi
still persists in remote Achham, by Gita Kunwar (ae
17/10/2023)
Gang
rape of girl in Biratnagar, 3 transport workers
including a minor arrested (kh 16/10/2023)
Way
too young: All girls must enjoy their full
childhood, by Bashir Najeeb (ht 16/10/2023)
Police
in Karnali launch campaign against drugs : Cases of drug
abuse and smuggling have seen a steady rise in Karnali
Province in recent years, by Tripti Shahi (kp
15/10/2023)
Two
jailed for manhandling doctors (kh 14/10/2023)
Bauddha
shootout: ‘Police forced open fire in self-defense’
(rep 12/10/2023)
Widow
struggles to raise three sons after losing husband,
by Prem Raj Simkhada (rn 09/10/2023)
Un-Regal
justice : The pardon of a murder convict hints at how
little our political class cares about people’s concerns
(kp 06/10/2023), Supreme
Court demands original documents related to decision of
paroling ‘Rigal’ : Bharati Manandhar, the spouse of
Chetan Manandhar, whom Rigal had murdered in Banke, is
in hunger strike demanding justice (nlt 06/10/2023),
Supreme
Court seeks explanation for pardon granted to murder
convict : President on the Constitution Day had commuted
the jail terms of 670 convicts, by Binod Ghimire (kp
06/10/2023)
Police
arrest three individuals, including Chinese in 11 kg
gold smuggling case (kh 03/10/2023)
Unidentified
assailants kill young man in New Road (kh
03/10/2023)
RSP
leaders seek President’s attention to reconsider
immunity granted to murder convict (kh 02/10/2023),
President
Paudel acknowledges RSP's concerns on amnesty issue
(rep 02/10/2023), Parliamentary
committee to call home minister for discussion on
amnesty issue (rep 02/10/2023)
KMC
doctors assaulted within 24 hours of
govt-medical professionals agreement (rep
01/10/2023), Doctors
beaten up in KMC hospital, two arrested (kh
01/10/2023)
Turmoil
continues in Birendranagar following death of two
children (rep 01/10/2023)
Cyber
Defense for Nepal: Do we need a specialized police force
or national authority in Nepal?, by Bivek Chaudhary
(rep 28/09/2023)
Man
arrested for abducting and raping minor in Surkhet
(kh 26/09/2023)
Incidents
of thefts rising as festive season approaches (rep
25/09/2023)
Woman
arrested for online fraud through Fifia App (kh
22/09/2023)
Police
arrest four people in Dadeldhura on gang rape charges
(kh 21/09/2023)
One
more arrested in connection with Hetauda doctor assault
case (rep 21/09/2023)
Man
arrested on charge of murdering wife over dowry : The
couple was married 21 months ago and have an
11-month-old son, by Binod Bhandari (kp 20/09/2023)
Mahendra
Morang Campus students torch Exam Controller's car in
protest against answer-sheet exchange (rep
20/09/2023)
Four
individuals connected to Tikapur incident to be released
today (rep 20/09/2023)
One
dead, three injured in Rupandehi clash (kh
19/09/2023)
Four
people found dead in Kathmandu’s Gairigaon (kh
16/09/2023), Gairigaon
murder case: One suspect arrested _ Four people found
murdered in Gaurigaon, Tinkune in Kathmandu (kh
16/09/2023), One
more individual arrested in connection with Gairigaun
murder case (rep 17/09/2023), Police
publicly identify suspect in Tinkune Gairigaon mass
murder case (kh 17/09/2023), Police
reveal the identity of accused in Gairigaun quadruple
murder case (rep 18/09/2023), Police
release Dipendra Rai, earlier arrested in connection
with Tinkune murder case (rep 18/09/2023)
All
15 murder accused sent to judicial custody (ht
15/09/2023)
Youth
clash leads to attack on deputy mayor's residence in
Dharan (rep 14/09/2023)
Japan
Embassy expresses grave concern over stone pelting
incident targeting JICA Nepal Chief's vehicle, deems it
a criminal offense (rep 14/09/2023)
Four
arrested for assaulting doctors in Hetauda (kh
14/09/2023), Mass
resignation of doctors paralyzes Hetauda hospital
services (kh 15/09/2023), Four
persons involved in assaulting doctors arrested (rep
15/09/2023)
Police
arrest 8 people, including Dharan Deputy Mayor’s brother
(kh 13/09/2023)
Chinese
gang operated 7 companies for gold smuggling in Nepal:
CIB (kh 13/09/2023), CIB
reveals additional 302 kg gold was smuggled into Nepal
prior to 60 kg gold smuggling episode (kh
13/09/2023)
Caste-based
discrimination rife in Doti : Dalit rights activists say
non-Dalits refuse to interact with them, extend
services, rent rooms or even sell them milk, by
Mohan Shahi (kp 12/09/2023)
US
job promise turns nightmare for many. Nepali agent
arrested : Victims say they paid between Rs2.5 million
and 7.5 million to Hasta Gautam and his agents to be
smuggled, by Anup Ojha (kp 12/09/2023)
Unknown
group attacks police, loots weapons and ammunition in
Sunsari (kh 09/09/2023)
US
national with Nepali origin arrested on charge of human
trafficking (rep 09/09/2023)
Estranged
husband, two others, arrested after mother and son go
missing in Kalikot, by Tularam Pandey (kp
09/09/2023), Mother,
son missing from Kalikot found in Nepalgunjm : The woman
claims a gang of three people abducted them at around
3am on Friday, by Tularam Pandey (kp 10/09/2023)
One
arrested on charge of online fraud (rep 08/09/2023)
Unidentified
person assaults Janaki Temple priest in Rautahat (kh
08/09/2023)
Nepal
Police says it has so far issued 139 red notices :
Speakers at an event held in Kathmandu to mark
Interpol’s centenary highlighted the importance of its
coordination, by Anup Ojha (kp 08/09/2023)
Youth
attacks NC Joint General Secretary Mahendra Yadav with
Khukuri at Reporters Club (rep 06/09/2023) [A
47-year-old man is definitely no longer a youth!],
Congress
leader injured in khukuri-attack in Kathmandu : Police
have arrested the alleged assailant, Shyam Sapkota, who
styled himself as a pro-royalist and anti-MCC activist,
by Anup Ojha (kp 07/09/2023)
‘Sticker
campaign’ promoting crime reporting in Karnali : Under
the campaign, stickers with police phone numbers are
pasted on houses in the province. Criminal complaints
have increased markedly, say police, by Jyotee
Katuwal (kp 06/09/2023)
Custodial
deaths go on as perpetrators are left unpunished :
Advocacy Forum’s 2022 report documents 39 deaths since
2018 when the new Penal Code came into force, by
Binod Ghimire (kp 04/09/2023) [see 2022
report by Advocacy Forum; see INSEC
study (in Nepali)]
Concerns
arise over dubious networking business ‘Indian Vestige’
in Western Nepal, by Nirmal Ghimire (rep 04/09/2023)
One
held with homemade pistols in Bhaktapur (kh
31/08/2023)
Pipeline
damage compels residents of a Salyan village to drink
untreated water : Around 60 households in Namra village
are drinking muddy water from the Bheri river and many
people are falling ill, by Biplab Maharjan (kp
29/08/2023)
Police
expected to exercise caution while arresting foreigners
for visa overstay : Supreme Court recently said foreign
detainees should be provided legal and language support,
by Anup Ojha (kp 29/08/2023)
KMC
fines grocer 150 thousand rupees for selling
contaminated Coke (kh 27/08/2023)
Proposal
to extend terms of two TJ bodies presented in National
Assembly (rep 27/08/2023) [???]
Growing
cybersecurity threats: Laws needed to tackle them,
by Narayan Adhikari (ht 25/08/2023)
Man
arrested for character assassination of a woman (kh
23/08/2023)
Chinese
criminals involved in illicit activities acquire Nepali
citizenship and passports (kh 23/08/2023)
SC
orders release of foreigner detained ‘arbitrarily’
(rep 23/08/2023)
Gyanaecologist
accused of selling newborn : A 26-year-old woman who
gave birth to a baby at Green Cross Hospital has accused
the doctor of selling her baby, by Binod Bhandari
(kp 22/08/2023), Biratnagar
gynaecologist accused of selling newborn for Rs500,000 :
Police investigation reveals that Tapeshwar Lal Karn
sold the infant to a couple through a staffer of Green
Cross Hospital, by Binod Bhandari (kp 23/08/2023), Gynaecologist
to be charged with organised crime, human trafficking
and forced disappearance : On August 18, police detained
Dr Tapeshwar Lal Karn from Green Cross Hospital in
Biratnagar on charge of selling a newborn to a childless
couple for Rs500,000 (kp 28/08/2023)
Indian
national arrested for kidnapping children : The arrested
individual had kidnapped two children–aged 9 months and
two years–from Devtaal Rural Municipality along the
Nepal-India border and was taking them to the Indian
side on a sack, by Laxmi Sah (kp 21/08/2023)
1,275
cases registered at Kathmandu police in a month (kh
19/08/2023)
Two
inmates tortured to death: Probe report, by Ram
Kumar Kamat (ht 18/08/2023)
Illegal
abortions continue killing women : Nepal legalised
abortion in 2002. Every year about 100,000 women undergo
the procedure at government-authorised clinics, by
Arjun Poudel (kp 15/08/2023)
Five
Bangladeshis, two Nepalis arrested for kidnapping,
extortion : Police have rescued four Bangladeshis who
were held hostage in a guest house in Kathmandu (nlt
13/08/2023)
Govt
looks to enforce new laws related to banking offense and
punishment : Police reports filing 7,101 cases of
banking fraud in FY 2022/23, which was almost double of
the number in FY 2021/22 (rep 10/08/2023)
Deal
with kin of Gaur victims puts coalition at risk : 27
Maoists died in a clash with cadres of Upendra Yadav’s
Madheshi Janadhikar Forum in March 2007 in Rautahat,
by Anil Giri (kp 10/08/2023)
'Nexus
between foreign employment, trafficking' (ht
09/08/2023)
Two
arrested on charge of their involvement in online sexual
abuse (rep 09/08/2023)
Nepalis
are increasingly being duped by fake offers of iPhones :
Cyber bureau says victims should file cases of fraud at
the Crime Investigation Bureau, by Anup Ojha (kp
08/08/2023)
131
foreign nationals arrested in Nepal in one year: Chinese
nationals top list with 42 arrests (kh 06/08/2023)
Congress
top leaders against prosecution in ‘non-cruel’ murder :
Party takes a stance against demands of conflict victims
that there must be no amnesty for serious rights
violations, by Binod Ghimire (kp 03/08/2023) [Sher Bahadur Deuba and his NC are
strictly against justice for victims! Every murder is
cruel, both for those directly involved as well as for
their families and friends! Human rights defenders are
stunned!]
Five
arrested for intimidating people in Kathmandu (kh
03/08/2023)
Bara
villagers attack police to free a poaching suspect :
Tangiya Basti, a squatter settlement located inside
national forest in Bara, poses a significant challenge
to wildlife conservation, officials say, by Aakash
Chaudhary (kp 02/08/2023)
Husband
guns down his wife in Byas (kh 02/08/2023)
Uptick
in incidents of crime in the country in past two years:
Nepal Police (kh 02/08/2023)
Land
dispute leads to abduction, murder of woman (ht
01/08/2023)
Human
trafficking : The desperation seen among women in going
abroad puts them at risk of being trafficked (ht
01/08/2023)
State
of impunity wrecking our university system : There is a
criminal gang that benefits by extorting the university.
They work for the mafia in education, interview with
Prem Chalaune, assistant professor at the Department of
Sociology of Tribhuvan University (kp 31/07/2023) [Once
again political parties have their fingers in the pie
and cover up crime!]
Unauthorised
translation and piracy of foreign books thrive in Nepal
: The phenomenon has not just hurt creativity but also
caused losses to authorised translators and publishers.
There is law but implementation remains lax, by
Upendra Raj Pandey (kp 31/07/2023)
The
Golden Triangle, by Narayan Manandhar (rep
28/07/2023)
Director
of Mid-hill Highway arrested on rape charge (rep
28/07/2023)
Caste-based
discrimination persists despite being outlawed in Nepali
society : Dalit activists say lax legal provisions pose
a significant challenge to swift justice delivery for
cases of discrimination, by Rupa Gahatraj (kp
28/07/2023)
One
youth killed in Saptari, another injured (kh
28/07/2023)
One
arrested over NBM looting, search for others intensified
(kh 27/07/2023)
Kathmandu
reports steady rise in crimes (rep 25/07/2023)
Chinese
gangs engage in lucrative smuggling operations in Nepal,
by Krishna Timalsina (kh 25/07/2023)
A
university professor was brutally attacked by student
union members. Political parties made all-out efforts to
deny him justice, by Abhyudaya Upreti (nlt
23/07/2023) [Nepal's politicians stand for the
perpetuation of the unjust state!]
Woman
shot dead at Nepal-India border (kh 23/07/2023)
Unidentified
group sets seven houses on fire in Jumla, by Golden
Buda (rep 22/07/2023)
Combating
money laundering in Nepal, by Anil Karki (rep
21/07/2023)
Gold
worth more than one billion rupees recovered from TIA
(kh 19/07/2023)
Failing
on money laundering : For the last 15 years, Nepal has
faced the constant risk of slipping into the FTAF’s grey
or black list, by Achyut Wagle (kp 18/07/2023)
Minor
gang-raped in Saptari (rep 18/07/2023)
Impunity
by law: Government bent on amending law to withdraw
criminal cases against political parties and groups :
This is not the first time the government has tried to
ram a faulty legal provision to withdraw criminal cases
against political parties, groups, leaders and cadres
(nlt 17/07/2023)
Cases
filed against 15 individuals for unlawful operation of
pharmacies (kh 17/07/2023)
Former
Agriculture Minister of Lumbini Province Yadav arrested
for banking offense (kh 17/07/2023)
Pregnant
woman murdered in Bardiya for refusing abortion, suspect
arrested, by Ganesh Bisu and Nirmal Ghimire (rep
16/07/2023)
A
troubling nexus between crime and politics, by
Devendra J. Subedi (rep 15/07/2023)
As
looting cases rise, people warned to be alert during
walks, temple visits : Last week, police made public
eight cases of serial robbery of gold chains when people
were on their morning walk, by Anup Ojha (kp
14/07/2023)
Police
forms probe committee on Siraha police constable abuse
case (kh 12/07/2023) [This
should no longer be a matter for the police, but for the
public prosecutor's office and an independent court!],
Investigation
launched after controversial video of torturing police
constable goes viral in social media, by Mithilesh
Yadav (rep 13/07/2023)
Police
hunt for two youths over brutal attack on a cyclist : A
19-year-old has been arrested on charge of attempted
murder for an unprovoked attack on 27-year-old Sah,
by Binod Bhandari (kp 12/07/2023)
Man
slapped with 33 yrs prison sentence for raping daughter
(kh 11/07/2023)
Man
kills self after murdering wife in Ilam (kh
07/07/2023)
Night
clubs and dance bars in Kathmandu becoming crime hubs,
by Tapendra Karkdi (rep 07/07/2023)
NA
defuses grenade bomb found in Kailali (kh
07/07/2023)
Poaching,
smuggling go unchecked in Dhorpatan due to security
lapse : Taking advantage of the poor security situation,
poachers and smugglers hunt animals and birds illegally
and smuggle timber as well as medicinal herbs, by
Prakash Baral (kp 06/07/2023)
One
arrested for raping a minor in Lalitpur : Arrest warrant
issued against LOD owners as well (kh 06/07/2023), LOD
owner Raju Singh Suwal arrested from Baluwatar (kh
06/07/2023), Another
owner of LOD, Shrestha, arrested (rn 07/07/2023)
3
injured, one critically, as gunshots fired in Mahottari
after motorcycle collides with dog, by Surendra
Yadav (rep 06/07/2023)
How
Prithvi Shah scams US $4 million from US citizens with
false FDI promises : Sher Bahadur Deuba-led government
suspended governor instead of investigating Shah’s scam,
by Pramodh Raj Sedhain (kh 05/07/2023)
Dalit’s
house torched for eloping with ‘upper-caste’ girl in
Jumla : Police have arrested the girl’s brother on
charges of criminal arson and caste-based discrimination,
by DB Budha (kp 04/07/2023)
'Time-bound
programme needed to abolish dowry', by Ram Kumar
Kamat (ht 02/07/2023), Woman
and daughter found dead in Rautahat (ht 02/07/2023)
Lawyer
arrested for thrashing Lalitpur District Court female
employee (kh 29/06/2023)
Top
court orders relief for conflict-era victims of torture
and sexual violence : 17 years since Peace Accord,
torture victims lack adequate means to seek justice and
hold perpetrators to account, by Binod Ghimire (kh
28/06/2023) [The next step
should be to punish all those who have been deliberately
preventing justice for the victims by hook or by crook
for 17 years!]
Rise
in flesh trade in Karnali Province due to poverty,
by Lalit Bista (rep 25/06/2023)
12,
including 5 foreigners, arrested for alleged illegal
drug trade worth Rs 23.3 million (rep 23/06/2023)
Emerging
cybersecurity concerns: Make security consolidationa
priority, by Kumar Pudashine (ht 22/06/2023)
Kin
demand justice as woman’s death raises suspicion :
Father of 22-year-old Aarati Sah accuses her husband’s
family of killing her over dowry issues. Her husband and
father-in-law are in police custody, by Santosh
Singh (kp 21/06/2023)
Man
arrested for allegedly killing spouse (kh
21/06/2023)
Police
arrest 225 people involved in drug smuggling in 11
months in Kanchanpur (rep 21/06/2023)
Eight
including actor Marichman Shrestha arrested on charge of
promoting online betting platforms (rep 15/06/2023)
Nepal
Medical College temporarily suspends OPD service : The
hospital administration stated that all services, except
for emergencies, will remain closed until action is
taken against those involved in the act of vandalism
(nlt 14/06/2023)
Police
arrest five individuals involved in illegal online
gambling and cryptocurrency trading , by Narayan
Adhikari (nlt 14/06/2023)
Two
women allegedly killed for dowry in Sarlahi (rn
11/06/2023)
Man
arrested for repeatedly raping a minor (rep
10/06/2023)
Nepal
not doing enough to tackle online child abuse :
According to police cyber bureau, 110 cases of sexual
abuse against children were reported in the past 11
months, by Anup Ojha (kp 09/06/2023)
Experts
decry new budget’s ‘wrong approach’ to tackling cyber
crimes : It plans to scrap National Information
Technology Centre, which keeps government data, by
Anup Ojha (kp 05/06/2023)
Hackers
cause Nepali travels companies to incur a huge loss
(rep 05/06/2023)
Dalit
lives must matter, by Shristi Karki (nt 02/06/2023)
Comparing
Maina Sunwar and Resham Chaudhary cases : Both are cases
of criminal political violence, but the security forces
are perpetrators in one and victims in the other, by
Aastha Dahal (nt 02/06/2023) [Politically
motivated murder must not be excused, whether it is
committed by security forces or by revolutionaries, even
if their cause is justified.]
Pardon
to Resham Chaudhary comes under question : On Monday,
the President pardoned 19 prisoners, including Resham
Chaudhary, the convicted mastermind of 2015 Tikapur
incident, by Nishan Khatiwada (kp 01/06/2023)
Resham
Chaudhary, the convict of Tikapur carnage, walks free :
Chaudhary, who was convicted by district court, high
court and supreme court and given life sentence, was
given pardon on Sunday by President Ram Chandra Paudel
(nlt 29/05/2023) [The families
of the victims will be delighted in view of this
principle of justice! Is this now a pattern for not
punishing the crimes of the time of the insurgency?],
President
pardons Tikapur killings convict Resham
Chaudhary : Rights activists decry the
decision while Tharu campaigners hail
the freedom from life imprisonment as
justice for the community, by Binod
Ghimire (kp 29/05/2023)
Bus
driver deceives adolescent, offers safety, and takes her
to guest house, where she was raped
The driver had manipulated her into remaining on the bus
for two hours, claiming it was unsafe for her to leave
late at night. He then took her to a hotel, where he
raped her (nlt 26/05/2023)
Girl
hacked to death in Khandbari (rep 26/05/2023)
Govt
starts preparations to grant clemency to Resham
Chaudhary (kh 25/05/2023) [Article
276 of the Constitution opens the door to the
arbitrariness of the political elite. Will we soon see
something similar with regard to the accused in the
current corruption scandal? Article 276 sets convicts
free, but does not change their guilt. If Chaudhary is
indeed innocent, this must be determined by a court.
Then he would be entitled to adequate compensation for
the injustice he has suffered! Now the procedure once
again smacks of the manipulation of political power.],
President’s
Office sends back proposal to pardon Resham Chaudhary to
Home Ministry (kh 26/05/2023), Government
urges President to authenticate Citizenship Bill (kh
26/05/2023) [Why isn't a law passed that excludes
politicians from any punishment for all time to come?
Then the current corruption scandal would not have to be
pursued any further as well. Politicians could go about
their dirty business in complete openness and the
cumbersome annulment of court rulings by the executive
would be superfluous!]
Senior
citizen shot dead in Rautahat, by Madan Thakur (rep
25/05/2023)
1,700
complaints lodged against loan sharks in Mahottari
(ae 24/05/2023)
Police
disrupt ‘psychic healing’ event in Tulsipur : The event
was organised by alleged conman Bharat Bhattarai aka
Simanta KC, who identifies himself as astrologer and
claims to possess magical powers to cure serious
diseases, by Durgalal KC (kp 24/05/2023)
Over
5,000 cases of banking fraud, financial crimes
registered in Kathmandu Valley in the first 10 months of
current FY (rep 23/02/0223)
Lal
Commission report: Truth and lies : Shelving a report
that could speak of security personnel’s wrongdoing will
give rise to impunity, by Dipendra Jha (kp
23/05/2023) [Anything that contradicts the interests of the
ruling elite must not be published. People's fundamental
right to information is being disregarded. This has been
similar with regard to the social and cultural data of
the latest population census.]
Two
Biratnagar firms accused of evading Rs3.72 billion in
taxes : The revelation came following a dispute between
business partners Ashok Kumar Murarka and Krishna Prasad
Prasai, by Binod Bhandari (kp 23/05/2023)
Man
accused of swindling dozens by promising Japan jobs
arrested : Ajay Kumar Rajbanshi of Sunabarshi-6, Morang
allegedly collected millions of rupees from dozens of
individuals, by Binod Bhandari (kp 22/05/2023)
22-year-old
woman killed for rejecting love proposal (rep
21/05/2023)
Law
amendment aims to drop conflict-era cases, human rights
commission claims : High possibility of the draft aiming
at withdrawing cases by giving them a political colour,
says Top Bahadur Magar, commission chair, by Binod
Ghimire (kp 18/05/2023)
Police
not to submit report on Wednesday : Preparing deadline
extension for 14 in custody (kh 17/05/2023)
Four
arrested for their alleged involvement in Arghakhanchi
fire (kh 17/0,5/2023)
Fake
Refugee Scam : Fraud Exposes Organised Crime, by
Narayan Upadhyay (rn 16/05/2023)
Supreme
Court sentences Resham Chaudhary to life imprisonment
(kh 16/05/2023), Top
court upholds Resham Chaudhary’s life sentence :
He was handed life term by lower courts for
links to the Tikapur lynchings in which 8 people
were killed in 2015, by Binod Ghimire (kp
17/05/2023), Resham
Chaudhary is a revolutionary: Baburam Bhattarai (kh
17/05/2023) [??? When
revolutionaries kill, it is a heroic act, when state
forces do the same, it is a crime? By the way, dastardly
crimes from the time of the insurgency, both those of
the Maoists and those of the security forces, must be
punished at all costs if the rule of law is to be
secured!]
Rape
accused vandalizes the victim's house (rep
14/05/2023)
Three
held for fraud of over Rs 2.2 million (kh
14/05/2023)
How
Nepalis’ vulnerability grows amid changing nature of
cyber crimes : While the organised sector is impacted by
cyber attacks, the effect of hackers on individuals is
no less significant, by Anup Ojha (kp 14/05/2023)
Madan
Rai, founder of Subhadra Madan Foundation, arrested on
child sexual abuse charge : On Thursday, Setopati, a
Nepali language news portal, published a story exposing
how Rai has been sexually harassing children who are in
the shelter of the foundation run by himself (nlt
12/05/2023), Madan Rai arrested over sexually harassing
girls studying at his foundation, by Shova Sharma
(Setopati 12/05/2023) [see also बालिकामाथि
यौन दुर्व्यवहार गरेको आरोप लागेका मदन राई पक्राउ
(Setopati 11/05/2023)]
Police
get beaten while trying to arrest rape-accused (rep
08/05/2023)
Rape
offense is not just rape offense, do not normalize it :
Our society tends to demotivate and defame the victims
and further victimize the victims if the perpetrators
are powerful people, by Shreena Nepal (nlt
08/05/2023)
Manufacturing
refugees : The fake documentation case highlights the
criminalisation of politics and bureaucracy in Nepal
(kp 05/05/2023)
Dalit
Network objects demolition of Badi people’s huts (kh
04/05/2023)
ACC
Men’s Premier Cup: Sandeep Lamichhane declared
best player of tournament (kh 02/05/2023) [And what about his still
unresolved rape allegations? What about the
potential victim? A sportsman should only be
reinstated and celebrated after he has been
cleared of the charges!]
Police
make public the suspect in Nira Acharya’s murder :
Investigating officers allege professional bouncer Binod
Bishwakarma committed the crime with a motive to rob the
victim (kp 01/05/2023)
Police
arrests one accused involved in the murder of Nira
Pandey (rep 30/04/2023)
Madhes
districts developing into hubs for fake currency (ht
28/04/2023)
Lure
of easy money leads Nepalis into traps of online
fraudsters : The scams mainly take place through social
media outlets like Facebook, Twitter and Instagram or
through websites such as Google and Yahoo!, by Anup
Ojha (kp 25/04/2023)
Teachers
miss out on Chaitra pension as pay for ex-combatants
gets priority : Around 18,000 retired teachers failed to
receive monthly pay owing to budget shortfall, by
Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp 22/04/2023)
Vehicle
of Dr. Swarnim Wagle’s father vandalized in Damauli
(kh 21/04/2023)
Fake
Bhutanese refugee scam: 10 victims contact police
claiming they were conned (rep 20/04/2023)
Woman’s
body found buried in Dang, husband on the run (rep
20/04/2023)
Rabi
Lamichhane’s supporters becoming increasingly anarchic,
by Arun Bam (rep 17/04/2023)
Cybercrime-related
cases see an alarming rise : The data showed that this
year, IT-related financial frauds were the most common
cybercrime followed by cases of revenge porn, by
Anup Ojha (kp 16/04/2023)
One
killed, two hurt in Rautahat shooting (kh
16/04/2023), Rautahat
shooting incident: 16 suspects arrested (rep
16/04/2023)
Youth
murdered in Dogdakedar of Baitadi (kh 16/04/2023)
Police
arrest Constable Pun for firing at Barshaman Pun’s
mother (kh 15/04/2023)
Dahal
backtracks on responsibility for 5,000 conflict deaths :
In a statement to court, the prime minister says his
remark was political, and cannot be an issue of judicial
concern, by Binod Ghimire (kp 14/04/2023) [Deciding this is the exclusive task of a court of
law and not that of a possibly responsible perpetrator!]
Police
arrest a woman from Nuwakot for forcing Nepali girls
into flesh trade in India (nlt 12/04/2023)
Opium
poppy farming destroyed in Rolpa (kh 12/04/2023)
AK-47
security to Chakre Milan in Nepalgunj, by Tapendra
Karki (rep 11/04/2023)
Rape-accused
judge Giri arrested (kh 11/04/2023)
Court
asks police to produce doctor who examined girl
allegedly raped by Lamichhane : Court issued the order
after finding that the statement produced in the court
wasn’t from the doctor who had physically examined the
minor (kp 10/04/2023)
Two
teenagers arrested for killing two minors in greed of
gold, by Devendra Basnet (rep 09/04/2023)
Drug
trade becoming difficult to control in Sarlahi : Sarlahi
has become a major transit point for drug supply to the
country’s hill districts, by Om Prakash Thakur (kp
09/04/2023)
Gender
Violence: A Problem In Nepal : Numerous young girls
describe hearing similar tales. Both within and outside
of the house, strangers might engage in sexual
harassment, by Malena Villa (sp 07/04/2023)
District
court orders arrest of judge accused in marital rape :
Judge Bhuwan Giri’s wife has also charged him with
domestic violence, by Manoj Paudel (kp 06/04/2023)
TikTok
Live being used to lure clients for sex massage : Spa
operators say just around three dozens of around 400
centres in Kathmandu Valley offer ethical services for
mental and physical wellness. The rest are into shady
business, by Anup Ojha (kp 05/04/2023)
Janamat
Party’s central member arrested on charge of loan
sharking (krep 03/04/2023)
Dalit
man insulted for joining feast for ‘upper-caste’ guests
: Various political parties, their sister organisations
and several social organisations deplored the incident
and demanded legal action against the guilty, by
Deepak Pariyar (kp 03/04/2023)
Dozen
school bus drivers booked for rules violation :
Since August last year, over five dozen school
drivers have been punished for drink-driving, an
‘unforgivable’ crime (kp 03/04/2023)
Behind
births of fewer girls than boys : Preference for sons,
which leads to female foeticide, is among the suspected
reasons, by Arjun Poudel (kp 02/04/2023) [Only
males are full Nepalis. This is what is written in the
constitution and laws and especially in the minds of the
patriarchal machos!]
Police
arrest 19 including 9 Chinese nationals for online fraud
(kh 29/03/2023)
Nine
trafficked women rescued, three allegedly involved in
trafficking arrested (rep 28/03/2023)
Efforts
on to criminalise loan sharking : Six months after the
government’s last commitment, a fresh promise is made to
take action against loan sharks and ease the woes of
their victims, by Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp
28/03/2023) [What do the
statements and assurances of the government and other
politicians mean? Absolutely nothing!]
Dahal
accused of trying to appease conflict victims : The
government recently announced a new cohort of martyrs
and cash relief for former child combatants, by
Binod Ghimire (kp 22/03/2023)
Assault
attempts on Maoist Center leader Angbo in Taplejung
(kh 21/03/2023)
Crime
and politics: How politics shapes criminal activity :
Nexus between politics and crime is evident in the way
criminal gangs operate in Nepal. Many criminal gangs
have links to political parties and they use their
political connections to expand their criminal
activities, by Bikash Yadav (nlt 19/03/2023)
Should
Deepak Manange be in jail?, by Bhasa Sharma (rep
17/03/2023) [Also a case of the
great proximity of politics and crime!]
Interpol
arrests Nepali national who fled to Dubai after
murdering an elderly in Nepal (kh 16/03/2023)
Women
survivors silenced : The transitional justice mechanisms
cannot make the survivors of sexual violence invisible,
by Binita Poudel (kp 16/03/2023)
A
polygamist in Saptari sent to jail (rep 16/03/2023)
Violence
against women on the rise : Experts working in women’s
rights point out the patriarchal mindset of people,
taking the woman as second class citizen, rise in
reporting of the incidences and use of various social
media as some of the causes for a rise in the number of
cases of violence against women, by Sabitri Dhakal
(ae 15/03/2023)
Once
sold in Kuwait, she still lives in pain back home :
Sanimaya’s tale represents countless Nepali women who
are taken to various Gulf countries on visit visas and
then are made to work in virtual slavery, by Anup
Ojha (kp 15/03/2023)
Conflict
victims complain of not getting justice yet (kh
14/03/2023)
The
Meaningless Maoist Attack on Judiciary (rep
14/03/2023)
Fighting
Sexual Abuse In Public Transport, by Writika Rijal
(rn 14/03/2023)
Six
including Prithvi Bahadur Shah sent to custody for fraud
(rn 14/03/2023), Prithvi
Bahadur Shah and associates sent to judicial custody for
fraud : Nepal Police had received 24 complaints from 56
victims—all American citizens—through the US Federal
Investigation Bureau (kp 15/03/2023)
Amendment
of TRC bill becoming controversial again, by Devesh
Jha (kh 13/03/2023), ‘Regular
justice system in play when transitional justice bodies
are defunct’, Human rights and constitutional lawyer
Raju Prasad Chapagain on ways to take the transitional
justice process forward (interview) (kp 13/03/2023)
8th
century Buddha idols stolen (kh 13/03/2023)
14-year-old
typhoid victim dies from alleged torture by faith healer
in Rupandehi : Girl died on March 4. Police have
arrested 17 people, including the faith healer named
Soniya Reshmi for investigation, by Sanju Paudel (kp
13/03/2023)
Indians
top list of foreigners arrested in Nepal, followed by
Chinese : Most common crimes involving foreigners are
drugs smuggling, gold smuggling, forgery, sexual abuses,
paedophilia and human trafficking, police data show,
by Anup Ojha (kp 11/03/2023)
Nepal
bill says murder is not serious rights violation : The
government registers the new bill at the Parliament
Secretariat to amend controversial transitional justice
law, by Binod Ghimire (kp 10/03/2023)
Long
fight against culture of rape and impunity : Women know
the battle for justice won’t be easily won but refuse to
give up. They vow to speak up louder, by Anshrica
Dewan (kp 08/03/2023)
Supreme
Court to begin hearing petitions against Dahal tomorrow
: NHRC expresses concern over unresolved issues, 16
years after the peace accord, by Binod Ghimire (kp
08/03/2023), Eight
Maoist groups close ranks as judiciary takes up war-era
cases : Vow to counter ‘any attempt by court to go
against peace process and political change’, by Tika
R Pradhan (kp 08/03/2023) [17
years of empty promises by politicians are enough! It is
high time that justice is done for the victims!]
Don’t
stay silent about harassment and overcharging in public
transport : Dial 103 to complain. In the past seven
months, traffic police have fined 189 vehicle operators
for misbehaviour with passengers, by Anup Ojha (kp
07/03/2023)
Nepal
Police’s Cyber bureau busy tackling petty personal
issues : Of about 70 complaints the cyber bureau gets on
a daily basis, 50 are unrelated to it, say police
officials, by Anup Ojha (kp 05/03/2023), Growing
menace : Cyber Bureau should be enhanced so that it can
combat complex and planned cyber attacks (kp
06/03/2023)
Orphanage
administrator sentenced for child sexual abuse : Among
the victims, is a 14-year-old girl suffering from mental
illness, who was fed medicines to forcibly terminate her
pregnancy, by Bhawani Bhatta (kp 04/03/2023)
SC
orders to register writ against PM Dahal (kh
03/03/2023)
Anti-money
laundering: Nepal at risk of slipping into gray list
(ae 03/03/2023)
Covid
drugs of Indian origin destined for China seized at
Kathmandu airport : Officials say smuggling of
unauthorised medicines from India has emerged as a
threat, by Arjun Poudel (kp 02/03/2023)
Police
bureau recommends prosecution of Prithvi Bahadur Shah
and associates : Calls grow to make former finance
minister Sharma accountable for trying to offer
political protection to Shah, by Prithvi Man
Shrestha (kp 02/03/2023), Two
more high-ranking army officers arrested in connection
with Major General Shahi’s case (rep 02/03/2023), Prithivi
Shah to be prosecuted on four charges (ht
02/03/2023)
In
Geneva, Nepal pledges justice for the atrocities
committed during conflict : Fed up with repeated
promises, insurgency victims say, by Binod Ghimire
(kp 01/03/2023) [Nothing but
hollow promises! The former perpetrators sit partly in
highest state offices and have no interest in justice
for the victims!]
Above
the law? Former Prez and PM receive millions from the
state coffer : Nepal’s Public Health Service Act
explicitly prohibits financial assistance for treatment
of political leaders. In practice, successive
governments have been providing millions for treatment
of some powerful politicians without formulating
guidelines (nlt 01/03/2023)
Chinese
national arrested on charge of kidnapping and raping
teenagers : Liming lured the girls into coming to
Kathmandu from Pokhara and Jhapa and kept them captive
in his house (nlt 26/02/2023), Mother
shares harrowing account of daughter’s abduction, abuse
: Police searching for a missing 13-year-old girl from
Jhapa have arrested a 49-year-old Chinese businessman
from Bungamati, Lalitpur. Seven girls have been rescued,
by Anup Ojha (kp 01/03/2023)
Insurgency-era
victims of sexual crimes still unheard : Most victims
are from marginalised communities and lack of faith in
the system deters them from coming forward, by Binod
Ghimire (kp 25/02/2023)
Parents
wait for missing son, two decades since his
disappearance : In November 2000, Maoist rebels took a
grade five student and several other young boys from
their school. That was the last the parents saw their
13-year-old son, by Prakash Baral (kp 25/02/2023)
Police
constable found dead with bullet injuries in Surkhet
(kh 23/02/2023)
Two
children injured in IED explosion in Pokhara, by
Sandesh Shrestha (rep 22/02/2023)
Of
the arrestees in Gongabu riot, three are regular
thieves, police say : Transport operators say the
Gongabu incident should be taken seriously by law
enforcement authorities, by Anup Ojha (kp
21/02/2023)
Police
arrest 40 people for vandalizing Lotse Mall, torching
police vehicles : A total of 29 people were arrested on
the charge of their involvement in arson and vandalism,
and 11 for their involvement in looting mobile sets
(nlt 18/02/2023)
Murder
hearing against Maoist leader Sapkota deferred for 45th
time : Victims and rights activists say the top court’s
deferrals are deliberate attempts aimed at protecting
the accused, by Binod Ghimire (kp 16/02/2023) [A case that raises reasonable doubts about the
Nepali legal system and gives impetus to the suspicion
of unconditional impunity for well-known politicians!
The fact that people who have been on trial for capital
crimes for many years run for elections and are
repeatedly appointed to high state offices is evidence
of a non-existent political morality!]
Govt
presents bill in parliament that, if passed, will help
legalize illegal wealth, by Dilip Poudel (rep
16/02/2023) [Hurray for the
arch-corrupt politicians!]
Three
convicted in murder of environment activist Dilip Mahato
: Dhanusha District Court Judge Chitra Bahadur Gurung
found Bipin Mahato, Jitendra Mahato, and Munindra Mahato
guilty of the crime (kp 16/02/2023)
Home
ministry orders probe into Gongabu vandalism and
looting : Observers blame lawlessness, link the
incident to a frail security situation,
by Anup Ojha (kp 15/02/2023), Hooliganism
in Balaju: An incident that exposes
lapses in security strategies : On 13
February, violence erupted in Balaju
during a protest by transport workers in
which over 41 security personnel were
injured while public and private
properties were set on fire. Who is
responsible?, by Narayan Adhikari
(nlt 15/02/2023), Six
people arrested on charge of torching
police vehicles (nlt 15/02/2023), Police
arrest 15 more people in connection with
Lhotse Mall robbery (kh 16/02/2023)
Police
nab a youth for defrauding US-based Nepali national
online : In the past six months, 560 complaints of
hacking social media accounts have been reported. Nearly
80 percent of them involve Facebook users, by Anup
Ojha (kp 11/02/2023)
Money
laundering: Cooperatives on watch : The absence of a
regulatory body and clear legal framework has made
co-ops a risky place for people to deposit their
savings, insiders say, by Subin Adhikari (kp
11/02/2023)
Police
baton-charge a doctor during President’s
motorcade : The Nepal Medical
Association (NMA) has given a 24-hour
ultimatum to the government to take
action against the police responsible
for the incident (nlt 10/02/2023) [This has something
to do with the fact that politicians see
themselves as heirs to the monarchy and
want to be courted as such, instead of
serving the people as their
representatives!], Police
beat up doctor for walking during presidential escort
(rep 11/02/2023), President
should apologize: Gyanendra Shahi (rep 11/02/2023),
Police
constable involved in beating up Dr Singh suspended
(rep) [Suspension is not enough!
What is needed is appropriate punishment and
compensation and, above all, the eradication of the
attitude of politicians and security forces that
underlies this crime!]
15
arrested on charge of smuggling rhino horn (kh
10/02/2023)
Government
starts probe into Lamichhane’s Nepali passport : If
found guilty, the RSP chief could face a jail term of
three years and Rs30,000 fine, by Tika R Pradhan (kp
10/02/2023)
The
troubling rise of ‘revenge porn’ in Nepal : In the past
six months, 680 such cases have already been registered
with the police, by Anup Ojha (kp 09/02/2023)
Covid-19
pandemic has disproportionately affected trafficking
survivors: Report. The report recommended the local
governments address the impacts of Covid-19 on the
livelihoods and physical and mental well-being of the
trafficked survivors and returnee migrants (kp
08/02/2023)
Man
arrested for raping his daughter-in-law (rep
08/02/2023)
Plugging
digital holes : Mitigating cybercrime risks is a shared
responsibility that calls for collaboration with the
private sector (kp 0802/2023)
Electrocution
new security threat in rhino conservation :
Electrocution of pachyderms was hardly reported in the
past, but a recent incident shows that it has emerged as
a tactic for poaching, by Ramesh Kumar Paudel (kp
08/02/2023)
Nepal
Police suspect a girl was being smuggled into India for
‘human sacrifice’. Here is a horrifying tale : In what
police suspect is an attempt of human sacrifice, a
racket of traffickers in Nepal took a young girl to
India, holding her hostage for a month in Kathmandu,
by Narayan Adhikari (nlt 07/02/2023)
Cases
of banking offenses on the rise (kh 05/02/2023)
12
women rescued from India in two months (kh
04/02/2023)
Wildlife
smuggling case filed against 47 people including two
province assembly members, by Gobinda Prasad
Pokharel (kp 04/02/2023) [The
closeness of politics and crime is frightening!]
Teenage
girl trafficked to India for 'sacrifice' rescued (rn
03/02/2023), Trafficked
teenage girl rescued from India : According to police,
tantriks in India are demanding young girls—5.4 feet
high and without scars or tattoos, by Anup Ojha (kp
04/02/2023)
Police
nab eight allegedly involved in bank accounts-hacking
(kh 03/02/2023), Eight
persons held for internet banking fraud (ht
04/02/2023)
Nagarik
Unmukti Party MP Arun Kumar Chaudhary arrested (kh
02/02/2023), Nagarik
Unmukti Party’s Arun Kumar Chaudhary sent to custody :
Kailali District Court had convicted Chaudhary in 2013
on charges of setting a tractor on fire. The party has
warned of protests against his arrest (nlt
03/02/2023), Nagarik
Unmukti Party lawmaker Arun Chaudhary arrested over
12-year-old arson : Party says it is shocked by the
arrest and may withdraw support to government, by
Binod Ghimire (kp 03/02/2023)
Attorney
general challenges high court on cricketer’s release :
Demands ex-captain be investigated in judicial custody
(kp 01/02/2023), CAN
lifts suspension of rape-accused cricketer Sandeep
Lamichhane : The executive committee meeting of the
nation’s cricket governing body held in Pokhara on
Tuesday decided to lift the suspension on Lamichhane,
by Pratiksha Kafle (kp 01/02/2023) [Another
example of disregard for the rule of law!], What
about ‘Gaushala 26’? The survivor has been rendered
invisible ever since she filed the case against Sandeep
Lamichhane (kp 02/02/2023), Lamichhane’s
place in cricket training camp sparks outrage : The
22-year-old was included in the 20-member closed camp
for ICC World Cup League 2 Triangular Series, by
Prajwal Oli (kp 04/02/2023)
SC
receives petition against rape accused Sandeep
Lamichhane’s bail (kh 31/01/2023), Attorney
general challenges high court on cricketer’s release :
Demands ex-captain be investigated in judicial custody
(kp 01/02/2023), CAN
lifts suspension of rape-accused cricketer Sandeep
Lamichhane : The executive committee meeting of the
nation’s cricket governing body held in Pokhara on
Tuesday decided to lift the suspension on Lamichhane,
by Pratiksha Kafle (kp 01/02/2023) [Another
example of disregard for the rule of law!]
Fresh
bid to withhold information draws flak : Calls grow for
revoking decision of chief secretary-led panel that
could curtail people’s right to information, by Tika
R Pradhan (kp 30/01/2023), Govt's
decision to repeal RTI Act condemned (ht
30/01/2023)
Trap
of trafficking: How women and girls are lured into
trafficking by their own relatives : According to
police, a significant number of girls sold into brothels
are trafficked by their own family members or
acquaintances, by Sushmita Aryal (nlt 30/01/2023)
Man
kills son, injures wife by setting fire sprinkling
petrol (kh 30/01/2023), Condition
of woman allegedly burnt by husband remains stable
(kh 31/01/2023)
Hackers
obstruct govt sites for four hours (ht 29/01/2023),
Singha
Durbar server continues to face cyberattacks : About
1,500 government websites were shut down, raising
questions over the cybersecurity infrastructure of Nepal,
by Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp 30/01/2023), Stop
that hacker : Nepal is ill-prepared to handle
cyberattacks because of inadequate institutional
arrangements, by Achyut Wagle (kp 31/01/2023)
Man
arrested on charges of trafficking four Nepali women to
Kuwait : They were allegedly sold for 900 dinar for two
years and were made to work without pay for 20 hours
daily (kp 27/01/2023)
Crackdown
on Dubai Property Show: A case that exposes Nepal’s
massive capital flight situation : On 22 January, Nepal
Police raided the Dubai Property Show that was being
organized at Soaltee Hotel. Nepal can get the clue of
illicit capital flights if a thorough and transparent
investigation is done, by Narayan Adhikari (nlt
27/01/2023)
End
Corporal Punishment In Schools, by Bijaya Karki (rn
26/01/2023)
Corruption
fuelling Nepal’s aviation disaster; probe committees
mere hoodwink, by Pramod Raj Sedhain (kh 26/01/2023)
re
Police Defying Home Minister’s Orders? (rep
25/01/2023)
Rape
convict arrested after 23 years (rep 25/01/2023)
Street
drama performed to demand justice for Nirmala Kurmi
(Photo feature), by Prasan Gurung (rep 23/01/2023), Rights
activists staging street drama demanding justice for
Nirmala Kurmi arrested, by Upendra Lamichhane (rep
23/01/2023),
Activists
demanding justice for Nirmala Kurmi in police net : Days
after Home Minister Rabi Lamichhane promised
investigation, police arrest Ruby Khan and her friends
demanding justice for the disappeared Banke woman
(nepalminute 23/01/2023)
Home
Ministry draws attention of Police Headquarters why UML
lawmaker Koiri was not arrested (kh 20/01/2023) [What can be expected from a
government whose recently elected Prime Minister has
long admitted to being responsible for the premature
deaths of 5,000 people? Crime and politics have a
symbiotic relationship in many parties!]
Delayed
bill: Crash victims’ kin miss out on millions : As per
the proposed law, domestic airlines must pay a minimum
of $100,000 for injury or death of a passenger, by
Sangam Prasain and Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp 20/01/2023) [Obviously, since then, Messrs. Oli, Dahal and
Deuba have been more concerned with their political
intrigues than with the ratification of this bill!]
77%
financial crimes in Valley (rn 20/01/2023)
Police
arrest three persons with 713 passports (kh
19/01/2023)
Judge
Bhuwan Giri’s wife stages protest, demanding action
against him (rep 17/01/2023)
“We
trust journalist Rabi Lamichhane but not Home Minister
Rabi Lamichhane”, by Upendra Lamichhane (rep
17/01/2023)
Journalists
who perished in the Maoist armed conflict in Nepal,
by Nagendra Upadhyaya (rep 14/01/2023) [The one
who claimed responsibility for many of these crimes has
just become PM for the third time!] Resolve
transitional justice at the earliest (rep
14/01/2023)
Space
of exclusion: No women, no Dalits, no Janajatis in chief
ministers of Nepal’s provinces : Experts say the
tendency of the political parties to repeatedly
undermine constitutional obligation to proportional
inclusion could pose a threat to federalism itself,
by Dhanu Bishwakarma (nlt 14/01/2023)
KMC
bans selling goods in bicycles and carts in Kathmandu
(kp 11/01/2023) [Another
ill-conceived blow to the poorest sections of society!
Should Balen Shah, at his young age, still lack
political and social foresight?], Street
vending ban a kick in the belly of urban poor : Urban
planners accuse municipal officials of not keeping the
poor people in mind while formulating policies, by
Anup Ojha (kp 13/01/2023)
Ward
chair accused of committing racial discrimination
(kh 11/01/2023)
Police
recover over 4000 kg red sandalwood in Sindhupalcowk
(kh 11/01/2023)
I
have given instructions to arrest ‘fugitive’ MP Mahato:
Home Minister Lamichhane (rep 11/01/2023), Home
Minister Rabi Lamichhane directs police to arrest
lawmaker Laxmi Mahato Koiri : On Tuesday, Home Minister
was criticized for his indifference to arrest the
murder-accused lawmaker Laxmi Mahato Koiri though the
latter was present in the parliament (nlt
11/01/2023)
Police
nab a man for killing wife (kh 11/01/2023)
Oli
defends HoR dissolution as new session begins,
by Ram Kumar Kamat (ht 10/01/2023) [This
is a clear contempt of court! Oli continues to
claim that he interprets the constitution
correctly and not the SC! This is a criminal
offence and should be punished accordingly. Why
was this intransigent politician even allowed
back into the elections?]
NHRC
recommends investigation against 130, including Upendra
Yadav in 2007 Gaur carnage (kh 07/01/2023), Rights
body recommends Yadav, others be probed for 2007 Gaur
killings : As many as 27 individuals linked with the
Maoists were killed and 115 others left injured, by
Binod Ghimire (kp 08/01/2023)
Man
who put ex-finance minister and governor on a collision
course arrested for fraud : Police bureau says Prithvi
Bahadur S
hah
and associates were caught for defrauding foreigners of
millions of dollars, by Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp
07/01/2023)
Human
trafficking case filed against two women allegedly
running sex trade, by Maheshwor Chamling Rai (rep
07/01/2023)
Nirmala
Kurmi disappearance: A probe going nowhere : The woman
was in her 40s when she went missing, but an Indian
death certificate obtained by police as hers shows the
deceased was in her mid-30s, by Pinki Sris Rana (kp
07/01/2023)
Court
clears six people of rape charge, by Khagendra
Adhikari (rep 06/01/2023)
Two
Indians arrested in connection with Nirmala Panta rape
and murder case (rep 06/01/2023)
Govt
directs to shut down all illegally operated crusher
plants (rep 05/01/2023), Govt
starts shutting down power lines of illegal crushers and
sand processing centers, by Upendra Yadav (rep
07/01/2023)
Smuggling
rife in Tarai district in collusion with customs
officials, by Mithilesh Yadav (rep 05/01/2023)
15
absconding criminals busted (kh 04/01/2023)
Rural
Municipality Chair faces three years’ imprisonment
(kh 03/01/2023)
Man
absconding after ‘rape attempt’, by Yogesh Rawal
(rep 01/01/2022)
444
women, girls from western Nepal go out of contact after
reaching India, third countries (rep 01/01/2023)
Rape-accused
Tolangi sent to jail for investigation (rep
30/12/2022)
Women
in Madhesh are being murdered over dowry : Justice
remains elusive, complain victim’s relatives, by
Rupa Gahatraj (kp 29/12/2022)
How
Nepali society silences gender-based violence survivors
: Breaking the silence against abuse has been a
challenge, especially for ‘urban’ women. Their hesitance
can mostly be attributed to lack of support in their
immediate circles, by Pinki Sris Rana (kp
24/12/2022)
At
least five women were killed in Nepal by partners or
family members over the period of “16 days of activism”
: Horrific incidents demand an urgent need of meaningful
interventions by all concerned stakeholders to end the
violence against women (nlt 23/12/2022)
Two
Chinese charged with trafficking Nepali girls to Laos
sent to judicial custody (ht 23/12/2022)
One
arrested from TIA with 19 kg gold (kh 23/12/2022)
Indian
gang of smugglers beat Nepalis (rep 21/12/2022)
Nimsdai
accused of refusing to pay for damages : Nimsdai accused
of refusing to pay for damages (ht 20/12/2022)
Priest
Vaishnav arrested on forgery charge (kh 18/12/2022)
School
DI’s ‘insensitive’ behavior incites a minor girl to take
her own life, by Sara Pahari (rep 16/12/2022)
Lal
commission report gathers dust as coalition plans to
free Tikapur convict : Authorities have snubbed the top
court and parliament to keep the report secret, by
Binod Ghimire (kp 14/12/2022), Rage
against impunity: Why is the ordinance to amend National
Criminal Procedure being opposed? The government's move
to introduce the ordinance to secure release of the
convicts in the heinous crimes has met with widespread
opposition across the party lines (nlt 14/12/2022)
Neha
Chaudhary's husband arrested, family members absconding
(rep 14/12/2022), Doctor
accused of domestic violence and demanding dowry
arrested : Neha Chaudhary has accused Pankaj Chaudhary,
her husband of nine months, of physical and mental abuse
for not bringing enough dowry (kp 15/12/2022), Police,
locals clash in Mahottari (kh 16/12/2022)
Combating
violence against women in politics : We should realise
that a threat to women in politics is a threat to our
entire democracy, by Sagoon Bhetwal (kp 13/12/2022)
Elderly
woman beaten to death over land dispute (kh
13/12/2022)
Parents
face hassles in birth registration of children (rep
12/12/2022)
Govt
introduces ordinance to grant amnesty to Resham
Chaudhary (kh 11/12/2022) [Ordinances
to create majorities capable of governing are
democratically questionable. An amnesty does not absolve
Chaudhary of possible guilt. He is entitled to justice!
Only a court should decide on this, not power-hungry
failed politicians.], NC
General Secretary Sharma opposes ordinance brought to
free Resham Chaudhary (kh 12/12/2022)
Locals
vandalize hydropower project amid fear that it will dry
up water in their fields, by Narhari Sapkota (rep
11/12/2022)
Petition
demands removal of polygamous PR candidates : Lawyer
registers a writ petition at the Supreme Court after
appealing the Election Commission that candidates
practising polygamy be denied election (kp
10/12/2022)
Three
people sent to prison for caste-based
discrimination : The Kaski District Court on
Monday issued an order in favour of the
plaintiff sending the culprits to one year in
prison and a fine of Rs 50,000 each (kp
06/12/2022)
Kapilvastu
judge Giri alleged of rape (kh 06/12/2022)
Row
in Duduwa Rural Municipality deprives staff of
pay of 4 months (rn 06/12/2022)
Man
beaten to death in Dhanusha (rep 02/12/2022)
Dhangadhi
administration issues curfew order (kh 01/12/2022),
Police
choose firing after demonstrators invade prohibited area
in Dhangadhi (kh 02/11/2022), Dhangadhi
tense following girl's death, students protest violating
prohibitory orders, by Dil Bahadur Chhatyal (rep
02/12/2022))
Accused
of caste-based discrimination, ward chair
arrested in Chetan Ayadi murder case (rep
01/12/2022)
Most
women journalists face online violence: Study.
Facebook Messenger is the most commonly used
platform for online abuse, according to the
report prepared by Media Advocacy Group, by
Anup Ojha (kp 01/12/2022)
Acting
together to end gender-based violence : Crimes against
women and girls have increased in Nepal, with 21,568
cases reported between July 2021 to July 2022 (kp
25/11/2022)
Two
injured in IED explosion in Banke (rep
17/11/2022), Treatment
of Chand-led party cadres injured in bomb blast under
police supervision (rep 17/11/2022)
Bomb
blasts near Prachanda’s election event venue in Bhojpur
(kh 16/11/2022)
Apex
court seeks reasons after petitions against Dahal
rejected : The petitioners have demanded action against
Chairman Dahal saying that he, speaking at a public
function on January 15, 2020, had admitted to having
taken responsibility for the death of 5,000 people among
the around 17,000 who lost their lives during the
decade-long insurgency (kp 15/11/2022)
Dowry
Still Killing Dreams in Nepal’s Terai, by Sajira
Shrestha (rep 13/11/2022)
Women’s
share in House likely to shrink : With few women FPTP
candidates, more of them may need to be elected to the
upper house to meet the requirement, by Binod
Ghimire (kp 13/11/2022) [The
continued and even increased non-inclusive policies of
high-caste male politicians must be criminalised and
punished as a matter of urgency!]
HPCIDBC
warns of demolishing riverside slums if they do not
leave within 10 days (rep 12/11/2022) [Without
alternative accommodation? The poorest of the poor live
here out of necessity. Now you want to destroy the last
things they own?]
Parties
coming up with stale agendas in fresh elections
(kh), Parties
regularly mention transitional justice in manifesto but
progress dismal : Conflict victims say they are fed up
with unfulfilled promises, by Binod Ghimire (kp
11/11/2022)
Unified
Socialist leader Khatiwada manhandled in Makawanpur
election gathering (kp 08/11/2022)
Over
17 tons of illegal sugar seized in Surkhet, by
Govinda KC (rep 05/11/2022)
Three
arrested for vandalizing ATM machines in Lalitpur
(kh 02/11/2022)
Inspector
imprisoned for attempting to rape female policewoman
(rep 02/11/2022)
A
16-year-old girl raped in Kathmandu (kh 01/11/2022)
Govt
prosecutor files case against Sandeep Lamichhane at
Kathmandu District Court (kh 31/10/2022), Chargesheet
filed against Sandeep Lamichhane in rape case :
Kathmandu district court is likely to decide whether he
will be freed on bail, without bail or kept in custody
(kp 01/11/2022), Rape
case against Lamichhane : Ten to 12 years of
imprisonment sought for suspended captain of National
cricket squad (ht 01/11/2022)
One
dies and four get injured in bomb blast in Kalikot
(kh 29/10/2022), Two
die in Kalikot Bomblast (kh 29/10/2022),
Two
girls, both aged four, killed as IED goes off in Kalikot
: Three other children seriously injured in the blast
are undergoing treatment, by Tularam Pandey (kp
30/10/2022)
Youth
arrested on charge of raping a minor girl in Bara
(kh 29/10/2022)
Nepali
trekkers feel inferior treatment in MBC (kh
29/10/2022)
Police
recommend up to 12 years in jail for cricketer Sandeep
Lamichhane : Investigators say Lamichhane ‘indeed raped
the minor’, by Matrika Dahal (kp 24/10/2022)
Woman
allegedly tortured in custody : The victim says officers
physically abused her to extract confession, by
Bharat Jargha Magar (kp 19/10/2022)
Dead
body of abducted youth found in a guest house in
Biratnagar (rep 15/10/2022)
Rescued
from a hotel’s room in Kathmandu with serious burn
injuries, girl dies in ‘suspicious circumstances’
(rep 12/10/2022), Two
arrested in connection with death of a girl in Kathmandu
: The victim was likely set on fire before being taken
to hospital for treatment, police say. She died on
Monday while undergoing treatment (kp 13/10/2022)
Change
in sexual offence related acts stressed (ht
12/10/2022)
Three
held in connection with vandalism at Chitwan Medical
College (kh 11/10/2022)
One
arrested on charge of raping girl (rep 11/10/2022)
In
remote west, campaigners tore down chhau sheds. They
have sprung up again : Despite costly campaigns, the
practice of banishing women to period sheds still
prevails in many districts of Sudurpaschim and Karnali
provinces, by Basanta Pratap Singh and Bidya Rai (kp
10/10/2022) [Another option
would be to send the men to these chau sheds when the
women in their family have their periods. Then they
would finally be "safe".], Whack-a-mole
: The practice of Chhaupadi won’t be removed with the
current top-down approach (kp 12/10/2022)
Number
of serious crimes fell this Dashain, police say : Police
data show 21 minor incidents of crime were registered in
the past two weeks in contrast to 773 in 2019 and 568 in
2018 during the festival, by Anup Ojha (kp
10/10/2022)
Ward
chairman who beat up a Dalit man for entering
temple lands in police custody, by Krishna
Oli (rep 29/09/2022), Dalit
man beaten up for entering temple : Police have detained
three people, including ward chair, in connection with
the incident, by Arjun Shah (kp 30/09/2022)
Drones
to keep an eye on crowded places during the festivals :
Police ask Valley residents not to share their travel
plans on social media. Say such information could give
ideas to criminals, by Anup Ojha (kp 26/09/2022)
Municipality
office vandalised, damage estimated at Rs 40 million
(ht 26/09/2022)
Man
is jailed in a landmark caste-based discrimnation ruling
: District courts rarely punished the accused in such
cases. Ramechhap court was exception, by Tika R
Pradhan (kp 25/09/2022)
Scores
of rape and sexual violence cases pending in Dhanusha
court, by Manika Jha (ae 22/09/2022)
One
arrested on charge of raping mentally-challenged minor
girl (rep 22/09/2022)
Three
held in connection with murder of Bhutanese refugee
(rep 22/09/2022)
Ex-MP
facing life imprisonment freed on Constitution Day
(ht 22/09/2022)
Minor
rape victim's mother seeks security assurance after
release of accused in Saptari (ht 20/09/2022)
Shoot-out
at Gothatar in Kathmandu, one injured (kh
19/09/2022), Gothatar
shooting victim dies (kh 19/09/2022)
One
arrested for raping minor girl (kh 19/09/2022)
Minors
in no position to give consent to sex : Lowering the age
of consent will leave children vulnerable to child sex
abuse, grooming and sexual violence, experts say, by
Aakriti Ghimire (kp 16/09/2022)
Teacher
thrashes student for being absent (ht 14/09/2022)
Chinese
distributor of Oppo mobile phones in Nepal absconds
without paying rent (kh 13/09/2022)
Murderer
arrested after 16 years (kh 12/09/2022)
Three
idols of the same temple stolen in Bhaktapur, by
Krishna Kisi (rep 12/09/2022)
31
school bus drivers booked for drink-driving in valley
(ht 10/09/2022)
15-year-old
girl 'gang-raped' in Kailali (rep 09/09/2022)
Evidence
builds against Sandeep Lamichhane, CAN reluctant to act
: A 17-year-old girl, in the presence of her guardian,
filed a complaint against the national cricket team
captain at Gaushala Police Circle on Tuesday accusing
him of rape, by Purushottam Poudel (kp 08/09/2022),
Arrest
warrant issued against Nepal’s cricket team captain
Lamichhane (kh 08/09/2022),
I will return to Nepal at an appropriate time: Cricketer
Lamichhane (kh 26/09/2022), Interpol
issues diffusion notice against Nepali cricketer Sandip
Lamichhane (kh 26/09/2022), Sandeep
Lamichhane arrested from TIA (nlt 06/10/2022)
Actor
Paul Shah sentenced to two and a half years in jail :
The Nawalparasi district court also ordered Shah to pay
Rs1 million to the victim as compensation, by
Narayan Sharma (kp 07/09/2022)
Conclude
Protracted Peace Process, by Uttam Maharjan (rn
06/09/2022)
Police
arrest security guard for asking a sitting minister to
wait in queue : A Chhaya Centre security guard asks
Tourism Minister Shrestha, who was at the visa centre in
a personal capacity, to wait for his turn, by
Matrika Dahal (kp 05/09/2022) [Ministers
are no better at doing private things. The security
officer deserves an award and compensation!], Security
Guard Gurung tells Lamichhane from police custody, “I
did not misbehave with tourism minister” (rep
05/09/2022), Guard
arrested for doing his duty : Asked minister to come in
queue for visa biometrics (ht 05/09/2022) [The
cocky arrogance of some politicians can hardly be
surpassed!], Security
guard who asked a minister to wait in queue freed : Home
minister orders Gurung’s release after Minister Shrestha
pardoned him (kp 06/09/2022) [The
security guard needs no pardon from the failing
minister, but justice and compensation.]
Crime-accused
can contest polls but they may be barred from performing
duty : Experts say flawed laws can create a situation
where the electorate may not have their representative
in the House, by Tika R Pradhan (kp 05/09/2022), Crime
and politics : By legitimising criminality, political
parties have turned politics into a transactional
enterprise (kp 06/09/2022) [No
democratic party should nominate persons as candidates
or appoint them to positions such as Speaker of
Parliament while they are subject to criminal
proceedings. This then quickly leads to the stalling of
juridical processes.]
Police,
bandits exchange fire in Bara; two arrested, by
Mithilesh Yadav (rep 04/09/2022)
Couple
found brutally murdered in Talawang, Rolpa (kh
01/09/2022)
Police
starts surveillance after complaints of human
trafficking (kh 01/09/2022)
Nepal’s
human rights defenders, conflict victims seek UN support
to correct flaws in transitional justice bill : Rights
activists and conflict victims' organizations wrote to
the UN Secretary General drawing the attention of the
latter toward the flawed transitional justice bill
(nlt 29/08/2022)
Nobel
College teacher arrested on charge of sexually abusing
female student (kh 29/08/2022)
TU
demands security from the government (nlt
28/08/2022)
Kathmandu
police arrested 88 criminals in first month of this
fiscal (kh 24/08/2022)
Police,
smugglers clash in Saptari; three shots fired in air
(nlt 23/08/2022)
At
least 35 bandh enforcers arrested from different parts
of country (nlt 23/08/2022) [Every
bandh is a crime against the citizens, especially when
it turns into militancy!], Bandh
enforcers vandalize bus at Thapagaon (kh
23/08/2022), Police
arrest 17 for forcibly imposing bandh in Kathmandu
(kh), 523
cases against then Maoist leaders have been cleared: Law
Minister (kh 23/08/2022)
Int'l
communities wish for success of Nepal's unique model of
peace process (rep 20/08/2022) [The
world community should know that Nepal's peace process
is anything but unique. Since 2006, justice for the
victims from the time of the Maoist insurgency and thus
the conclusion of the peace process has been
deliberately denied by the political elite!], International
community expresses concern over transitional justice
process : Diplomats during their meetings urge Deuba and
Dahal to address victims’ grievances, as the government
prepares to table the amendment bill in Parliament,
by Anil Giri (kp 21/08/2022)
Victims
protest planned changes to transitional justice law :
During a demonstration on Monday, conflict victims and
civil society members said the current bill drafted to
amend the law favours the perpetrators and is
unacceptable, by Binod Ghimire (kp 16/08/2022)
Kathmandu
school bus drivers handling steering wheels under the
influence of alcohol : In the last 20 days, traffic
police impounded 22 school buses as drivers were under
the influence of alcohol, by Shrutika Raut (nlt
16/08/2022)
Head
constable jailed to cover up SP’s misdeeds, by
Tapendra Karki (rep 16/08/2022)
Eight
police personnel injured in clash with locals (nlt
15/08/2022)
Twenty
three years after being lost, Nil Barahi statue found in
Singapore museum (nlt 14/08/2022) [The
perpetrators of that time must be found and punished!]
Bajura
woman living in cave for yrs rescued (ht 14/08/2022)
Man
arrested for murdering wife (kh 13/08/2022)
Smugglers
have a ball in Madhesh Province, by Upendra Yadav
and Mithilesh Yadav (rep 12/08/2022)
Teacher
beats his daughter's lover black and blue (rep
11/08/2022)
Unidentified
group vandalizes garbage-laden tippers in Banchare Danda
(nlt 09/08/2022), 14
vehicles carrying garbage from Kathmandu to
Bancharedanda vandalized (rep 09/08/2022)
Man
attempts to burn wife, mother-in-law to death : The
mother sustained serious burn injuries on her back, arms
and leg while her daughter sustained injuries on her
chest, arms and legs, by Santosh Singh (kp
08/08/2022), Woman
set on fire by spouse dies, mother-in-law under
treatment (kh 15/08/2022)
Police
detain single mother Niharika Rajput (rep
05/08/2022) ["Justice" or what
the government and leading politicians mean by it!],
Niharika
Rajput arrested yet again : Rajput, a single mother from
Jaleshwar Municipality 9 Mahottari, has been staging a
series of hunger strikes for the past few months
demanding justice for herself and her young son (nlt
05/08/2022), Niharika
Rajput and her ‘rapist’ to tie the knot, thanks to their
son’s phone call!, by Sara Pahari (rep 07/02/2023)
Drivers
of five school buses caught drink-driving with students
on board : Last week also drivers of four schools were
caught. Stakeholders say drivers’ wrongdoing is
inexcusable. Schools promise stern action, by Anup
Ojha (kp 01/08/2022)
Four
members of a family killed brutally in Kavresthali
(kh 01/08/2022), Four
of a family found dead in Kathmandu : Man suspected of
killing self after killing wife, children (ht
02/08/2022)
Man
thrashed two weeks ago dies (ht 01/08/2022)
Federalized
Approach to Transitional Justice Process, by Preeti
Mittal (kh 31/07/2022)
Govt
to provide free of cost treatment to acid attack
survivors (rep 30/07/2022) [It
is the government's duty to prevent acid attacks. This
includes, first of all, a strict control of the sale of
acid!]
Two
people arrested on charge of rape in Itahari (rep
30/07/2022)
Six
held for killing man to claim Rs 25 million life
insurance (ht 30/07/2022)
Wife
killed for stealing Rs 1,000 (rep 29/07/2022)
Kidney
racket found active in Kathmandu Valley : Street
children and homeless people are among those extremely
vulnerable, by Arun Bam (rep 29/07/2022)
Police
in an inebriated state attempts to rape a woman in
custody, by Ganesh Bishu (rep 29/07/2022)
Husbands
kills wife with an axe (rep 29/07/2022)
Son
kills his father with an axe (rep 29/07/2022
How
patriarchy promotes violence against women, by Cilla
Khatry (ae 28/07/2022)
Uncertainty
looms over transitional justice amid delays in tabling
bill : As conflict victims, rights activists and
international rights bodies cry foul at some provisions,
those involved in drafting the bill say there’s a lack
of political will, by Binod Ghimire (kp 28/07/2022)
Chitwan
sees increased number of sexual violence cases (kh
26/07/2022), Sexual
violence on the rise in Chitwan (rep 26/07/2022)
Two
karate coaches arrested on gang rape charge in
Biratnagar (kh 26/07/2022)
Husband
kills wife, dies while trying to run away, by
Basanta Dhungana (rep 25/07/2022)
Three
boys arrested for raping a minor (rep 25/07/2022)
Police
raid Chinese national-run call center in Tinkune,
Kathmandu (kh 25/07/2022)
Three
teenage girls found dead hanging from tree in Jhapa :
The trio had left their home on Saturday afternoon
together to go for a walk, according to family sources,
by Parbat Portel (kp 25/07/2022)
Over
150 youths arrested on charge of fraud in Butwal (kh
24/07/2022)
Father
and son arrested for murdering daughter in law (rep
23/07/2022)
Husband
stabs wife to death in Taplejung (kh 23/07/2022)
No
closure after Nepal’s insurgency : Sixteen years after
the conflict ended, families still struggle for
transitional justice, by Mandira Sharma and Mohna
Ansari (nt 22/07/2022), Impunity
through immunity : The Bill to amend the transitional
justice act exempts perpetrators of war crimes committed
during the Maoist insurgency, by Raju Prasad
Chapagai (nt 22/07/2022)
Criminalised
politics, politicised institutions : Leaders need money
to finance elections to secure victory for their
cronies, relatives and sycophants, by Achyut Wagle
(kp 19/07/2022)
480
kg of gold recovered from TIA in 7 months (rep
17/07/2022)
Five
arrested for human trafficking (kh 17/07/2022), Five
arrested on charge of organ trafficking of street
children (nlt 17/07/2022), How
two kidney racketeers lured street children of Kathmandu
to sell kidneys in India : Recently, a team of police
from the Anti-Human Trafficking Bureau busted an organ
trafficking racket in Kathmandu, by Shrutika Raut
(nlt 18/07/2022)
RSS
journalist Acharya gets allegedly beaten up by NEA
employees (kh 16/07/2022)
Four
including a headmaster nabbed for raping a child (kh
12/07/2022)
Body
of a young woman found on river bank in Rupandehi
(kh 11/07/2022)
Woman
found hanging in Butwal hotel room (kh 10/07/2022)
House
committee agrees to increase statute of limitation for
rape cases to two years (rep 08/07/2022) [There
should be no limitation at all in such cases!], House
panel for extending statute of limitations on rape by up
to three years : Observers say that’s not enough and
doesn’t match Nepal’s rights commitments made in
international forums, by Aakriti Ghimire (kp
09/07/2022)
Three
arrested for raping girl in Sukute (kh 05/07/2022)
Mayor
of local unit in Achham arrested in connection to
youth’s death : A 15-year-old boy from Panchadewal
Binayak Municipality had gone missing on April 30. His
body was found on May 3 (kp 03/07/2022), Mangalsen
tense following protest over death of local youth :
Police fired 12 tear gas shells to bring the situation
under control; 12 police officers injured, by Menuka
Dhungana (kp 04/07/2022), 14
injured in clash between protesters and police (kh
04/07/2022)
Morang
husband burns wife to death (kh 02/07/2022)
Smugglers
expanding drug network via Nepal, by Arun Bam (rep
02/07/2022)
Police
retrieve 14-yr-old girl’s body from funeral pyre,
suspecting 'honor killing' (rep 01/07/2022)
Container
with 250 sacks of opium under police control (kh
01/07/2022)
'Migration
ban on women counterproductive' (ht 30/06/2022)
Most
perpetrators being relatives or neighbors, challenges
galore for rape survivors : Activists and stakeholders
say it diminishes the survivors’ chance of justice,
leaving them in perpetual trauma, by Sakshi
Srivastav (nlt 29/06/2022)
DRI
files a Rs 443.8 million fraud case against 27 people
(kh 29/06/2022)
Torture
at the hands of authorities continues with little action
: The Criminal Code that came into force in 2018 has
criminalised torture but the cases are seldom
investigated and no perpetrators have been brought to
book so far., by Binod Ghimire (kp 29/06/2022), Power
sans responsibility : Rather than a sense of security,
the presence of the police strikes fear in people’s
hearts (kp 30/06/2022)
Ward
Chairperson arrested on rape charge in Baitadi (kh
29/06/2022)
17-year-old
girl raped in Dang (kh 29/06/2022)
Voluntary
sex work should not be criminalised: Activists (ht
29/06/2022)
Cop
beats doctor black and blue because he was ‘walking at
night’ : The doctor was heading home after his duty at
Arogya Foundation in Pulchowk when the police constable
started to verbally and physically abuse him, by
Anup Ojha (kp 28/06/2022) [The
police continue to claim that it is their right to
brutally beat up civilians whenever they please!]
Dozens
of civil servants caught on the wrong side of the law
(ht 27/06/2022)
Chhaupadi
practice puts women with disabilities at higher risk :
Disabled girls and women are more prone to getting
sexually violated while staying away in chhau sheds,
by Basanta Pratap Singh (kp 26/06/2022)
School
principal misbehaved at parents-teachers meeting
(rep 26/06/2022)
17
cooperatives put in blacklist on charge of banking
frauds in the past 11 months (rep 26/06/2022)
Husband
kills wife luring her to forest to cut grass (rep
25/06/2022)
Breaching
laws, govt released Rs 9m for Jhalanath Khanal’s abroad
medical treatment : The amount was released illegally as
Section 30 of the ‘Public Health Service Act 2018’
states that expenses should not be provided for foreign
treatment (nlt 24/06/2022)
Fugitive
Ghimire arrested on banking offense (kh 22/06/2022)
VAW
cases continue unabated (kh 21/06/2022)
Teachers
charged of sexual abuse sent to jail (kh 21/06/2022)
Three
die due to rape within six months in Chitwan (rep
20/06/2022)
Probe
shows prison officials’ role in events leading to
youth’s jail death : CCTV not functioning when Harijan
‘committed suicide’. Detailed probe by police sought,
by Tika R Pradhan (kp 19/06/2022), Sublimation
of the subaltern : Chasing the chimaera of emancipation
through political ideologies is exhausting and
meaningless, by CK Lal (kp 22/06/2022)
Mentally-ill
girl gang-raped in Dang, by Devendra Basnet (rep
18/06/2022)
NAC
Chairman Adhikari, who was mistreated by Tourism
Minister Ale, demands security (rep 18/06/2022), No
employee has been mistreated, people can check CCTV
footage: Minister Ale (rep 18/06/2022)
Cases
filed against Manoj Pandey seeking 18 years imprisonment
(nlt 15/06/2022), Attorney’s
office files case against Manoj Pandey : Faces human
trafficking, child sexual abuse charges (kp
16/06/2022)
Sexual
assault victim dies in Chitwan (kh 15/06/2022)
Four
students of Trinity College arrested for attacking
security guard with khukuri (kh 15/06/2022)
281
arrested on charges of tax fraud and foreign exchange
irregularities (rep 15/06/2022)
Woman
gang-raped in Bouddha, four rapists held (kh
14/06/2022)
‘Truth-seeking
should be the first priority of the transitional
justice process’, interview with Minister
for Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Govinda
Bandi (kp 14/06/2022)
Late
as usual : Delayed delivery of textbooks infringes the
right to education of Nepali students, by Karuna
Parajuli and Timothy Fish Hodgson (kp 12/06/2022)
Woman
killed after rape bid, daughter flees to safety (ht
12/06/2022)
Police
personnel trained to combat TIP (kh 11/06/2022)
Ward
chairman jailed on charge of murder, by Dinesh
Subedi (rep 10/06/2022)
Flexible
Time Limit Succur To Rape Victims, by Sangita Subedi
(rn 09/06/2022)
Two
arrested for allegedly burning single woman to death,
by Prem Chunara (rep 08/06/2022)
Woman
arrested for alleged role in murder of spouse (kh
08/06/2022)
Four
Chinese carrying NRs 40 million undeclared cash arrested
in Kathmandu check-point : Police investigating on money
laundering case (kh 07/06/2022)
Seven-year-old
girl murdered after rape (rep 07/06/2022)
Woman
dies as police open fire in Bardiya, five-member
committee formed to probe incident (nlt 07/06/2022),
Bardiya
locals continue protest following death of teenager in
clash with police : An 18-year-old girl died of bullet
wounds on Monday when police opened fire at protestors
seeking protection from wildlife attacks (kp
07/06/2022), Bardiya
residents continue protest following death of teenager
in clash with police : An 18-year-old girl died of
bullet wounds on Monday when police opened fire at
protesters seeking protection from wildlife attacks,
by Kamal Panthi (kp 08/06/2022), Why
are police so quick to shoot during protests in
the Tarai? Eighteen-year-old Nabina Tharu died
on Monday of bullet wounds from a police
shooting, just one of at least 16 who’ve died
from being shot during protests in the last five
years, by Bhrikuti Rai and Shristi Shakya
(rec 08/06/2022) [The
Nepali police have not yet learned to respect
basic human rights. They beat, shoot, kill,
torture whenever they want!]
Body
of 6-year-old boy found at Mahottari border (rep
07/06/2022)
Minor,
abducted and raped, in critical condition (rep
02/06/2022)
Killing
by other means : The criminal system that takes in
young, healthy humans and returns dead bodies must stop
(kp 01/06/2022)
86
persons arrested on rape charges in Jhapa in last 10
months (rep 01/06/2022)
Custodial
deaths continue with little being done towards
investigation : Most of those dying in custody under
suspicious conditions are from marginalised groups,
by Binod Ghimire (kp 31/05/2022)
Woman
tortured by her husband dies (rep 31/05/2022)
22-year-old
woman raped in Rupandehi (kh 30/05/2022)
Court
extends Manoj Pandey’s custody : Kathmandu District
Court on Monday granted the Metropolitan Crime Division
permission to extend the custody of the rape accused by
seven more days (kp 30/05/2022)
Police
torture a minor who killed a man for allegedly trying to
rape her , by Upendra Yadav (rep 29/05/2022)
Panel
to investigate youth’s death in prison : Legal experts
say the probe team must be independent. Sundar Harijan,
who was behind bars instead of a real criminal, died in
Rolpa jail under suspicious circumstances, by Tika R
Pradhan (kp 29/05/2022)
Resolution
motion calls for ending statute of limitations on child
rape : The motion registered in the National Assembly
also demands review of the statute of limitations on
rape cases other than rape of children (kp
28/05/2022)
Police
recover IRs 2.568 mln along with gold (kh
27/05/2022)
The
state of sexual crimes in Nepal : In the past fiscal
year alone, a total of 2,532 complaints of rape, 735 of
attempts to rape, 36 of unnatural intercourse, and 281
complaints of child sexual abuse were filed across the
country, by Pratik Ghimire (ae 26/05/2022)
Supreme
Court annuls decision to commute former APF DIG
Ranjan Koirala’s life sentence (nlt
26/05/2022), Top
court full bench quashes decision to reduce life
sentence of Ranjan Koirala : Koirala’s sentence was
reduced to 8 years, 6 months. He was released on July
23, 2020, by Tika R Pradhan and Binod Ghimire (kp
27/05/2022), Ranjan
Koirala arrested : Arrest follows overturning of an
earlier top court decision to reduce his sentence
(kp 28/05/2022)
Accused
Khadka arrested on charge of raping a student five years
ago (rep 26/05/2022)
Petition
filed at the top court seeking removal of statute of
limitations on rape : Six female lawyers who registered
the petition claim the time limit is in violation of
constitution, by Aakriti Ghimire (kp 25/05/2022)
A
teenage girl was raped, and killed extrajudicially
during insurgency, UN says : The girl, 16, was arrested
by a squad of 20 army personnel from her house in Kavre
on February 13, 2004 (kp 24/05/2022)
Kin
of Dalit youths killed in Rukum (West) two years ago
demonstrate at Maitighar demanding justice : Nabaraj BK,
along with five of his friends, was killed on May 23,
2020, for allegedly trying to elope with a girl from the
so-called ‘upper caste’ (kp 24/05/2022)
Teacher
at St. Lawrence College arrested on charge of
sexual harassment (24/05/2022),
Teacher
at St. Lawrence College arrested on charge of
sexual harassment (24/05/2022), Tension
erupts at St Lawrence College in Chabahil as a
teacher is accused of molesting a girl student
and asking her to be his sex partner, by
Puja Giri (rep 24/05/2022), St
Lawrence College teacher arrested for allegedly
molesting a girl student (rep 24/05/2022)
Suffering
in silence: Why young girls find it difficult to
speak up against rape : Why do the survivors of
sexual violence fail to report the case on time?
What factors actually force the survivors and
victims of sexual violence to suffer in silence?,
by Shrutika Raut (nlt 24/05/2022)
Two
cases of human trafficking and sexual abuse
registered against Pandey (kh 23/05/2022), Court
allows police to keep Manoj Pandey in custody
for five days (rep 23/05/2022)
#MeToo
in Nepal: Yet another case of sexual assault
allegation comes to the surface : A victim makes
public the details of how the perpetrator, her
school principal, raped and blackmailed her for
two years and yet nobody believed her (nlt
22/05/2022), Another
minor accuses Pandey of sexually abusing her,
by Arun Bam (rep 23/05/2022)
Protesters
demand justice and extension of statute of limitation in
cases of sexual violence (With Photos) (rep
20/05/2022), A
howl for justice : Galvanized by a series of videos
detailing one woman’s harrowing experiences of being
raped as a minor, Nepali women and men take to the
streets in protest, by Nishi Rungta (rec
20/05/2022), Stop
blaming the rape survivors, speak up for justice, by
Shreena Nepal (nlt 20/05/2022), Youths
demonstrate demanding justice for victim, action against
perpetrator (In pics) (kh 21/05/2022), Home
Ministry urges for help in investigating video clip told
incident related to VAW (kh 21/05/2022), Rape
accused Manoj Pandey arrested (nlt 21/05/2022), Manoj
Pandey, a beauty pageant organiser accused of rape, in
police custody : Crime Division of Nepal Police says the
alleged rapist has been arrested for an investigation,
by Shuvam Dhungana (kp 22/05/2022), Statute
of limitation related to rape comes under fire,
by Ram Kumar Kamat (ht 22/05/2022)
‘I
was just crying and feeling helpless’: Alleged rape
victim reveals horrifying series of incidents : In a
series of videos made public, a girl provides details of
offstage sexual abuse and violence against her and how
the incident ruined her life, by Shrutika Raut (nlt
19/05/2022)
Sexual
assaults on blind women go unreported : Several blind
women have fallen prey to sexual assaulters in Bajhang
but the families’ apathy and society’s behaviour towards
sexual assault victims have kept many of them from
claiming justice, by Basanta Pratap Singh (kp
17/05/2022)
Bomb
goes off in Butwal : Leaflet of CPN-Bahumat Party found
near the incident site (kh 11/05/2022)
NC
cadres attacked with Khukuri in Rolpa (rep
10/05/2022)
A
49-year-old woman raped in Banke (kh 08/05/2022)
Unidentified
person attacks election candidate with khukuri (kh
08/05/2022)
Arzu
under fire for her remarks to stop grants where Congress
loses : Analysts say her remarks reflect a lack of
understanding of how the state functions, by Tika R
Pradhan (kp 07/05/2022) [This is
not only offensive, it is criminal and corrupt!]
Unknown
group tries to torch two vehicles in Birendranagar
(rep 07/05/2022)
20-yr-old
held for raping a minor girl (kh 03/05/2022)
As
alliance parties threaten rebel candidates, Election
Commission says that’s criminal act : The election body
states that the threats violate citizens’ legal and
constitutional right to take part in elections, by
Tika R Pradhan (kp 30/04/2022) [When
will the so-called top politicians finally be punished
appropriately for their constant high-handed behaviour?
Non-election of such persons and their protégés would be
an appropriate response!]
RPP
expresses concern over death threat issued against the
party’s candidate (rep 30/04/2022)
Woman
tortured for dowry, despite court order (ht
29/04/2022)
Dalit
youth thrashed to death over dispute (ht 28/04/2022)
Keshav
Sthapit’s candidacy for Kathmandu mayor sparks furore :
Sthapit has been accused of sexual harassment by at
least two women, by Aakriti Ghimire (kp 26/04/2022)
[He should not run for any political
office until a court has certified his innocence!]
Nepal
shuts down online gambling, crypto sites and apps
(rep 26/04/2022)
Police
seize seven kg of cocaine smuggled into Nepal from
Africa : Zambian and Indian nationals arrested (kh
24/04/2022)
Patriarchy
plagues the lives of young girls in Siraha : When one
girl acts beyond the traditional norms, all other girls
in the village face the consequences—their education is
discontinued and they are married off, by Aakriti
Ghimire (kp 18/04/2022)
Girl
who accused Paul Shah of rape changes her statement :
She had filed complaints against the actor in February
accusing him of raping her with false promise of
marriage, by Samjhana Rasaili (kp 18/04/2022) [??? One of them is lying and must be
held accountable, both to protect raped women and to
avoid false accusations.]
Makawanpur
police nabs teachers accused of sexual misconduct
(kh 16/04/2022)
Inebriated
hubby kills wife in Morang (kh 15/04/2022)
Arjun
Das murder case: Four arrested from Nepal-India border
(nlt 15/04/2022)
Son
kills father in cold blood (kh 15/04/2022)
Father
nabbed father-daughter incest allegation (kh
13/04/2022)
Office
Of Nagdhunga Tunnel Project Vandalised (rn
11/04/2022)
Man
strikes wife to death, arrested (kh 11/04/2022)
Three
teachers of a school accused of sexual abuse (ht
09/04/2022)
Around
500 women and children rescued from Nepalgunj border
point (rep 08/04/2022)
Child
murdered after abduction in Sarlahi, seven arrested
(rep 07/04/2022)
Teenager
found murdered on her way to school, by Maheshwor
Chamling Rai (rep 06/04/2022), Kabita’s
murderers unveiled (kh 07/04/2022)
Minister
Manange assaults govt official (kh 06/04/2022)
Police
seize two trucks carrying goods worth Rs 15 million
(kh 06/04/2022)
DoMLI
receives 95 complaints against money laundering in the
first eight months of the current FY (rep
05/04/2022)
Action
against victim of rape creates furore : Achham District
Court judge in the dock. Questions raised over his
competence as well as Nepal’s judicial system, by
Tika R Pradhan (kp 03/04/2022)
Doctor
found dead in front of Nobel Hospital in Biratnagar
(rep 02/04/2022)
Violence
against girls goes unabated : Seventy-nine rape cases
reported in Morang this fiscal year; nearly two-thirds
of the victims are children, by Binod Bhandari (kp
31/03/2022)
Scars
of Maoist Insurgency: ‘Dear PM, first save the
victims!’, by Guna Raj Luitel (rep
31/03/2022)
New-born
baby’s body found on garbage pile in Kathmandu
(rep 31/03/2022)
Two
injured as IED goes off in Itahari (kh 29/03/2022),
Two
injured in explosion in Itahari (rep 29/03/2022)
Two
elderly men held for raping minor girls (kh
28/03/2022)
39
cases of caste-based discrimination (ht 28/03/2022)
Abducted
girl child rescued; 4 suspects held (kh 26/03/2022)
Two
held for attacking a woman with acid (kh 26/03/2022)
JSP
Chief Whip Pramod Sah attacked; guard’s pistol snatched
away (kh 26/03/2022), Federal
MP Shah seriously injured in clash over land dispute,
by Madan Thakur (rep 26/03/2022)
Ward
Chairman Jaiswal arrested for banking offense (rep
26/03/2022)
Commission
to dig up sites in search of missing persons :
Disappearance commission set to excavate possible places
where victims could have been buried after being killed
by either the state or rebel forces, by Binod
Ghimire (kp 25/03/2022)
Hubby
strikes wife to death (kh 25/03/2022)
Addressing
gender violence in cyberspace, by Prasansha Rimal
(rec 24/03/2022)
12-year-old
girl allegedly raped by her own elder brother in Bajhang
(rep 23/03/2022)
Prachanda
asks PM Deuba to provide subsistence allowance to the
injured and disabled of armed conflict, others (kh
22/03/2022) [And what about all those people who were killed,
wounded or disappeared in the course of the atrocities
committed by the insurgent Maoists or the army? What
about justice for the victims, regardless of which side
they were on?]
CPN-Biplav
leader Manik Lama nabbed in allegation of planting
explosives (kh 22/03/2022)
Rape
cases continue unabated despite harsher laws (ht
21/03/2022)
School
teacher arrested on sexual harassment allegation (kh
21/03/2022)
Curfew
clamped in Letang after police killed in clash (kh
21/03/2022), Curfew
in Letang following death of police constable in a clash,
by Binod Bhandari (kp 21/03/2022), Curfew
continues in Letang over police personnel’s murder
(kh 22/03/2022), Curfew
in Letang following death of police constable in a clash
: The constable was stabbed in the neck as a mob of
locals, gathered at a school in Morang where a girl
student had accused a teacher of sexual harassment,
clashed with police, by Binod Bhandari (kp
22/03/2022), Letang
Incident: Nine arrested for investigation, curfew still
in place (rep 22/03/2022), Curfew
lifted in Letang after three days (kh 24/03/2022), Police
constable Urmila Shrestha died of gunshot wounds,
post-mortem reveals : The 26-year-old police constable
was killed in a violent mob attack in Letang, Morang, on
March 20 (kp 14/04/2022)
17-year-old
girl raped in Tehrathum, one arrested (kh
20/03/2022)
CIB
releases actress Karki on bail after recording her
statement (kh 208/03/2022)
Man
allegedly beats spouse to death (kh 18/03/2022)
42
tolas of gold, Rs 1.2 million robbed (kh 15/03/2022)
18-month-old
toddler murdered allegedly after rape (rep
14/03/2022)
Revenue
fraud lawsuit claiming over Rs 7 bln filed against
Coca-Cola Nepal (kh 11/03/2022), Rs
7.43 billion tax evasion case filed against Bottlers
Nepal : The Department of Revenue Investigation has
accused Bottlers Nepal of evading capital gain tax while
transferring its ownership (nlt 11/03/2022), Bottlers
Nepal faces tax evasion case of Rs3.71 billion : Company
faces charge of not paying capital gains tax when
majority ownership was transferred in October 2014,
by Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp 12/03/2022)
Harsh
toll on visit visa: Govt likely to ask citizens to hold
on their travel dreams : Ironically, only rich Nepalis
can travel abroad, by Eak Raj Bastola (kh
08/03/2022), Visit
visa for all? No, terms and conditions apply, by
Anjila Shrestha (nlt 11/03/2022), MoHA
asks DoI to regulate visit visa (kh 11/03/2022)
Misinformation,
disinformation, false news and trial by social media :
Unchecked false and fake news and videos are rife online
and they can affect investigations as well as harm the
victims, experts say, by Shuvam Dhungana (kp
07/03/2022)
Man
arrested for attacking wife with acid (kh
07/03/2022)
CPN
(UML) lawmaker Mohan Baniya suspended : Police had
arrested Baniya from Nepalgunj Airport on February 28
after a rape charge was lodged against him. The Banke
District Court remanded him into custody for
investigation (kp 06/03/2022), Rape
accused UML lawmaker Baniya released on bail (kh
17/03/2022)
Woman’s
body found in hotel, man on the run (rep 01/03/2022)
Suspicious
object found in Banepa, defused (kh 28/02/2022), Suspicious
object found in front of parliament building (kh
28/02/2022), Banda
keeps public vehicles off the streets; most schools,
colleges remain closed (rep 28/02/2022) [Every
bandh is a fundamental crime against people, especially
against children. ! Nepal is not the property of
autocratic politicians!]
Rape
charge against an actor by a minor exposes rampant
culture of grooming : Minors are often unaware of what
constitutes grooming and are unable to share their
experiences. Many fear stigmatisation and face threats
from their abusers, by Aakriti Ghimire (kp
28/02/2022), Rape
accused actor Shah in remand for 12 days (kh
06/03/2022), Paul Shah’s remand extended by five days (kh
18/03/2022), Rape
allegation case filed against actor Paul Shah (kh
22/03/2022)
Man
sentenced to 36 years in prison for raping and killing
11-yr-old girl (rep 28/02/2022)
They
Hate MCC And Destroy Public Property, by Aashish
Mishra (rn 26/02/2022)
Report
On Cyber Security Challenges Submitted To Home Minister
(rn 26/02/2022)
Second
wife arrested along with boyfriend for murdering husband
(rep 23/02/2022)
Saptakoshi
municipality’s office vandalized (kh 21/02/2022)
Greenline
Centre CEO Amit Agrawal arrested (rep 21/02/2022)
Charges
Filed At CIAA Against 5 UML Leaders (rn 17/02/2022)
Murder
accused arrested after 37 years (kh 17/02/2022)
Minor
impact of bandh; 18 arrested (kh 16/02/2022)
Industrialist
Agrawal attacked in Biratnagar (kh 13/02/2022)
Minor
arrested for rape (kh 13/02/2022)
Husband
kills wife with sickle (rep 12/02/2022)
Nepal’s
unpunished war crimes : On the 20th anniversary of
Muktinath Adhikari’s murder by the Maoists, his daughter
pleads for justice, by Sabita Adhikari (nt
11/02/2022)
Rape
compalint registered against lawmaker Mohan Baniya in
Banke (rep 11/02/2022)
Open
prison rule : Those who have been convicted of heinous
crimes by the court of law should not be sent to the
open prison (ht 11/02/2022)
Alcohol
use a driving cause behind domestic violence in
Makawanpur : Although most victims of domestic violence
choose to settle their cases out of court, more women
are coming forward with complaints against their
perpetrators these days, police say, by Pratap Bista
(kp 09/02/2022)
Electronic
Device Smuggling A New Challenge At TIA (rn
09/02/2022)
Citizens
demand investigation on murder case against House
Speaker, say he is not fit to remain in post : “The
major political parties must immediately take action
against Agni Sapkota in order to protect the values and
principles of the parliamentary system." (nlt
08/02/2022) [He should never
have been elected to that office until a court confirmed
his innocence. What kind of constitutional state is
this?]
Over
two quintals of gold jewellery seized at TIA customs in
the last two months : Government may tighten imports of
the yellow metal further to stem forex reserve depletion,
by Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp 08/02/2022)
Police
arrests man on charge of raping teenager (rep
08/02/2022)
27-year-old
woman burnt to death in Saptari : Raj Kumari Sah was set
on fire by her brother-in-law while preparing a meal on
Friday. She died of burn injuries on Saturday, by
Abdesh Kumar Jha (kp 07/02/2022)
Sex
trade flourishing in and around Nepalgunj (rep
04/02/2022)
NHRC
reprimands Minister Renu Yadav for issuing threat to
Raut (ht 04/02/2022)
Complaints
against theft of 579 archeological objects lodged in 52
years (rep 03/02/2022)
14-year-old
arrested for raping 4-year-old girl (kh 30/01/2022)
Supreme
Court orders release of a man languishing in jail for no
apparent crime : Uma Shankar Rayabhar’s release order
comes after continuous reporting on how the poor man was
framed. Legal experts say the case shows many problems
in the system, by Tika R Pradhan (kp 29/01/2022)
Complaint
lodged with Rautahat police against Minister Yadav
(kh 27/01/2022)
CK
Raut’s cadres attack a doctor in Janakpur (nlt
26/01/2022), Madhes
Province issues order to book violent Janamat Party
cadres (kh 27/01/2022)
Rapist
sent to 18 years in prison (rep 26/01/2022)
Pashupati
Campus student activist among four people accused of
misappropriating foreign currency worth Rs 376.41
million (rep 25/01/2022)
Lichchhavi-era
idol stolen from Balkumari Temple (rep 23/01/2022)
Two
policemen suspended for stealing mobile gallery (kh
22/01/2022)
Minister
Renu Yadav gives provocative statement; threatens to
kill CK Raut (kh 20/01/2022) [If
the minister has really expressed this in such a way,
she is no longer sustainable for a minute and should be
dismissed immediately!], Nepal’s
sitting minister threatens to repeat the ‘Gaur
massacre’: Here’s the story of the 2007 carnage and
impunity that followed : Since 2007, victims of the
carnage have been demanding justice but to no avail,
by Nishan Khatiwada (nlt 20/01/2022)
Major
Shahi relieved of his post for violating military
discipline (kh 20/01/2022)
The
lasting scars of war: sexual violence during the
conflict : Fifteen years since the 10-year conflict
ended, there is no justice and little peace for victims
of rape and sexual violence, by Ameesha Rayamajhi
and Deepesh Shrestha (rec 18/01/2022)
NC
leader arrested for attempted rape (rep 17/01/2022)
Suspended
NTB CEO Regmi found guilty in gold smuggling (kh
16/01/2022)
Three
Held On Charge Of Murdering Woman, by Janarjan
Khatri (rn 16/01/2022)
Five
held on charge of murdering rickshaw puller (kh
14/01/2022)
He
was murdered for his fight to save environment. Justice
eludes his family two years on : Justice has not been
served in Omprakash (Dilip) Mahato’s murder. Instead,
the victim’s family faces false allegations, by
Tufan Neupane (kp 10/01/2022)
Ward
member, teacher arrested for settling rape case
involving 77-year-old woman (rep 09/01/2022)
Agitating
students vandalize Nobel Medical College as they clash
with security guards (rep 09/01/2022)
Ruby
Khan calls off hunger strike following agreement with
government : The strike was called off after the
government signed a four-point agreement, which includes
launching another round of probe into the case of
Nirmala Kurmi, by Anushka Nepal (nlt 05/01/2022)
Government
admits sugar mills still owe Rs80 million to farmers :
Himalayan Sugar Mill, Annapurna Sugar Mill, Lumbini
Sugar Mill and Indira Sugar Mill have not paid sugarcane
farmers for their crops, officials say, by Krishana
Prasain (kp 05/01/2022)
300
accused face charges in Lalita Niwas land grab scam
(ht 05/01/2022), Baluwatar
land scam: Arrest warrants issued against 300
individuals for document forgery : Central Investigation
Bureau of Nepal Police must file forgery cases against
them by January 21, by Prithvi Man Shrestha and
Shuvam Dhungana (kp 06/01/2022)
Ramesh
Upreti arrested for his involvement in smuggling 33 kg
gold (rep 05/01/2022)
More
girls becoming victims of revenge porn, by Ujjwal
Satyal (ht 04/01/2022)
Nirmala
Pant rape and murder Case: Indian national arrested for
investigation : DNA sent for test (kh 03/01/2022), Detained
Indian national released on bail (ht 08/01/2022)
Over
9,000 crimes against women in five months (ht
02/01/2022)
Police
open fire on CK Raut’s party cadres, five injured
(kh 02/01/2022) [The
police shot at these people just because they were
demonstrating? Not even in the case of damage to
property would the use of firearms have been
appropriate!], At
least 16 injured as Janamat Party cadres clash with
security personnel in Dhanusa : Eight security personnel
and eight party cadres have been injured so far.
Authorities are still trying to bring the situation
under control, said police (kp 02/01/2021)
Saurya
Airlines employee nabbed with Rs 5 million from TIA
(kh 02/01/2022), Bag
containing Rs 5 million without legal source found at
TIA (rep 02/012022), Saurya
Airlines Chairman Pokharel claims Rs 5 million found at
TIA is his money (rep 06/01/2022)
Extrajudicial
killings and the wait for justice : Unlawful executions
by police, especially in the Tarai, have continued
despite rights organisations including the United
Nations calling on Nepal to act to stop them, by
Tufan Neupane (kp 01/01/2022)
Woman
gang-raped in New Bus Park; eight arrested (kh
29/12/2021), New
bus park gangrape case: Nine accused arrested (rep
30/12/2021)
Anti-Chhaupadi
campaign in Achham losing steam : Neither the police
administration nor the local units and local people are
showing interest in effectively implementing the
campaign, women say, by Menuka Dhungana (kp
29/12/2021)
Who
is nurturing violence in Nepal’s public campuses? Acts
of violence against teachers in Nepal’s public campuses
continue unabated despite student unions’ assurances to
control them, by Prasun Sangroula (nlt 27/12/2021)
Hubby
strikes wife to death (kh 27/12/2021)
Sugarcane
farmers to launch fresh protest from mid-Jan after
failing to receive previous years’ dues (rep
27/12/2021) [There is obviously
still no state interest in finally putting an end to the
criminal practices of the sugar mills!]
Janamat
party members vandalise private vehicles on East-West
Highway (rep 26/12/2021), [So
this is what you call "non-violent", Mr Raut?], CK
Raut cadres block highway in Siraha : Vandalize trucks
and other vehicles (kh 26/12/2021)
Truth
Commission wraps up 29 war-era cases of atrocities,
victims unhappy : Commission says it has prioritised
complaints that don’t need prosecution, by Binod
Ghimire (kp 25/12/2021)
Authorities
sit on probe report as Banke activists’ sit-in nears
month : One of the accused, former Constituent Assembly
member Badshah Kurmi is contesting for Banke district
president of the ruling Nepali Congress, by Binod
Ghimire (kp 24/12/2021) [Politics
and crime continue to be close and politics likes to
prevent necessary legal investigations. Persons accused
of crimes should not hold public office until a legal
clarification has been made! This also applies, by the
way, to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, as
well!]
Chandre
Kami found after a week rep 22/12/2021)
Embezzlement
by employees at Hulak Bachat Bank has snatched
vulnerable groups of their savings, by Basanta
Pratap Singh (kp 22/12/2021)
Two
main accused in Lalita Niwas land grab case arrested :
They were on the run after a graft case was filed at the
Special Court (nlt 22/12/2021)
Police
arrest priests, witch doctor on charge of ill-treating
woman (kh 22/12/2021)
Two
arrested for killing a minor in Morang, by Chuman Basnet
(rep 21/12/2021)
Not
allowed to cheat in exam, student beats up teacher
(rep 21/12/2021), Blackboard
jungle : Educational institutions should nurture mutual
respect between teachers and students (kp
23/12/2021)
Cases
of sexual abuse of women go unreported in Banke : The
cases of sexual abuse are weak and the accused are
usually let free because the victims withdraw their
complaints on their own accord or under pressure from
family, police say, by Madhu Shahi (kp 20/12/2021)
Irate
locals pelt stones at police office accusing police of
sheltering guilty : Police fire thrice to take situation
under control (kh 20/12/2021)
Food
adulteration offences rise even during lockdown : As
long as consumers consider food adulteration a minor
problem and the government plays down its impact, such
offences will keep growing, rights activists say, by
Krishana Prasain (kp 19/12/2021)
Four
years on, government keeps Lal Commission report secret
: Governments have defied calls, including a court
order, to make the report public, by Binod Ghimire
(kp 17/12/2021)
The
long arm of the law : The victims have found a new ray
of hope with the courts stepping in to solve
insurgency-era crimes (kp 15/12/2021)
Incidents
of domestic violence go unchecked in Achham : As many as
86 cases of domestic violence were reported at the
District Police Office in the past 20 months, by
Menuka Dhungana (kp 14/12/2021)
Three
main accused of murdering journalist Dekendra sentenced
to life (rep 13/12/2021)
‘Alcohol
Causing 80% Of Criminal Incidents In Salyan’ (rn
13/12/2021)
Sexagenarian
man held for raping minor girl (kh 10/12/2021)
For
the women, by the women : On the occasion of '16 Days of
Activism against Gender-based Violence', four women
across Nepal, who have been relentlessly fighting to end
gender violence, share their experiences, by Pinki
Sris Rana (kp 10/12/2021)
CPN-UML
cadre killed in cold blood (ht 09/12/2021)
High
courts intervene after police refuse to register
conflict-era disappearance complaints : The Penal Code
introduced three years ago lists enforced disappearance
as a criminal offence, by Binod Ghimire (kp
09/12/2021)
How
menstrual stigma intersects with violence against women
: Confining women and young girls to small sheds for
three or more days and keeping surveillance on their
daily mobility is a form of violence against women,
by Jyotika Rimal (nlt 08/12/2021)
Dalits
living in rented homes hesitant to reveal caste during
census : Enumerators say they found many families who
were not keen to disclose their last names fearing
eviction, by Prakriti Dahal (kp 08/12/2021)
Dhanusha
attorney office says no need to probe Musahar’s
custodial death : District attorney’s office claims
Musahar committed suicide. Family members say he was
tortured to death, by Binod Ghimire (kp 08/12/2021)
Online
harassment rife but largely ignored as system fails to
recognise it : Nepal Police has a bureau to deal with
the cases, but a lack of sensitisation among officials
is leading to victimisation, by Aakriti Ghimire (kp
06/12/2021)
A
death foretold : Nakunni Dhobi and the 20-day march to
Kathmandu: How many women have returned to private cages
of violence, never to reach out again?, by Reshma
Thapa (rec 06/12/2021)
12
culprits behind Baduwal’s murder publicized (rep
06/12/2021)
43
people including Ichchha Raj Tamang sued in fraud case :
Tamang denies his responsibility to return money to the
savers (kh 04/12/2021)
Vow
against VAW : As Nepal marks 16 days of activism against
gender-based violence, Ruby Khan makes an impassioned
plea for justice from her sit-in near Singha Darbar,
by Ruby Khan (nt 03/12/2021)
Youth
gone for friend’s birthday found dead : 12 friends
nabbed for investigation (kh 03/12/2021)
Naikes
running Gaur Prison : Security guards and naikes are
tormenting inmates at Gaur Prison (ht 03/12/2021)
What
constitutes sexual harassment at the workplace? An
explainer on what sexual harassment is, the legal
frameworks that aim to prevent and eliminate it, and
what else can be done, by Prakritee Yonzon (rec
02/12/2021)
Prostitution
taking place secretly in Bhaktapur: Police (rep
02/12/2021)
Mindset
Change A Must To Curb VAW, by Namrata Sharma (rn
01/12/2021)
Shuklaphanta
National Park Displaced Ones Await For Justice For
Nearly Two Decades, by Sher Bahadur Singh (rn
01/12/2021)
Mother
beats son to death (rep 29/11/2021)
Custodial
deaths probe : Independent mechanism sought, by Ram
Kumar Mamat (ht 28/11/2021)
Banke
activists resume sit-in in Capital alleging government
dishonesty : Protesters led by Ruby Khan demand
immediate arrest of ex-CA member Badshah Kurmi over a
woman’s disappearance and release of probe report,
by Binod Ghimire (kp 27/11/2021)
Eradicate
Caste-Based Crimes, by Shreya Joshi and Rakshya
Singh (rn 25/11/2021)
Amnesty
International Nepal calls for urgent and concerted
action to prevent custodial deaths : The human rights
organisation raises concerns about the increasing number
of custodial deaths despite earlier calls to the Nepal
government for responsibility and accountability of the
lives of detainees (kp 23/11/2021) [see AI appeal
in Nepali], End
deaths in police custody, says Amnesty International
(ht 24/11/2021)
Transitional
justice bodies spar over who should look into which
cases : Truth commission and disappearance commission
say they have received many complaints that they cannot
investigate given their nature, by Binod Ghimire (kp
23/11/2021)
Government
warns Nepali returnees against bringing gold bullion :
Officials say migrant workers are being used as carriers
by gold dealers to avoid taxes, by Prithvi Man
Shrestha (kp 22/11/2021)
“15
years since CPA, Nepal’s pledges to TJ remain unmet”
(kh 21/11/2021)
Five
held with over Rs 65,000 fake currency notes in Valley
(kh 18/11/2021)
Charimaya
Tamang: ‘Who will wipe out the tears of trafficking
survivors if I start crying myself?’ From survivor to
savior: Charimaya Tamang continues to turn around the
lives of trafficking survivors in Nepal, by Anushka
Nepal (nlt 15/11/2021)
Parents
of two deceased children stage protest by placing dead
bodies in the street, by Madan Thakur (kh
15/11/2021)
Teenager
raped in Lahan, accused on the run (rep 13/11/2021)
Insurance
claims through counterfeit documents on the rise: IB
(rep 10/11/2021)
Four
arrested for Rs 190 million fraud (rep 10/11/2021)
Seven-year-old
girl killed in Surkhet (kh 09/11/2021), Seven-year-old
girl found dead with her throat slit (rep
09/11/2021)
Three
accused of gang rape arrested (kh 09/11/2021)
Woman
beaten to death by her husband (rep 07/11/2021)
Media
Action Nepal calls on government to end impunity for
crimes against journalists (ht 03/11/2021)
Woman
beaten on charges of witchcraft, by Binod Subedi
(rep 29/10/2021)
Nine
persons including ward chairman arrested for gambling
(kh 29/10/2021)
Misogyny
in Nepal: Little acts, big consequences, by Cilla
Khatry (ae 28/10/2021)
Nine
persons sentenced to life for killing two cops (kh
27/10/2021)
Man
bites wife and daughter to death (rep 26/10/2021)
Police
arrest eight youths involved in gang-raping three young
women, by Anil Bhandari (rep 25/10/2021)
What
led to the violence in Motipur that left four people
dead? The clash between squatters and police on October
10 was the culmination of years of back-and-forth
between the two sides but also at hand are wider issues
of development and displacement, by Abha Lal (rec
25/10/2021)
Protest
held denouncing killing of Bharatpur’s Bhim Bahadur BK
(kh 23/10/2021)
Lowest
cases of cybercrime in three years (ht 23/10/2021)
Drinking
water office chief mistreated by Janmat Party cadres
(rep 21/10/2021)
In
Mahottari, two women are abused physically on witchcraft
charges, one of them murdered : In a span of two days,
two women in Mahottari were accused and physically
abused for ‘practicing witchcraft’. One of them was
killed, the other rendered emotionally traumatized,
by Anushka Nepal (nlt 20/10/2021)
In
Bharatpur, a Dalit man gets brutally assaulted and
killed for reportedly arguing for Dalits’ right to enter
a temple : While Nepal Police say an investigation into
the incident is ongoing, many locals, witnesses and
rights activists have said that caste-based
discrimination was what led to the incident, by
Anushka Nepal (nlt 18/10/2021)
Government
is ignoring Nepalgunj protesters’ demands, activists
sayProtest leader Ruby Khan, who is on a hunger strike,
was taken to TU Teaching Hospital after condition
worsened, by Binod Ghimire (kp 18/10/2021)
Seven
cops injured in clash with locals in Rukum West (kh
16/10/2021)
Shooting
takes place in Karsia Bazar of Rangeli in Morang (kh
11/10/2021)
Three
held for hanging woman to death in bid to earn millions
(ht 11810/2021)
Sunsari
tense after youth ‘commits suicide’ in police custody
(rep 10/10/2021)
Police
open fire during clash with squatters in Motipur
Industrial Area (kh 10/10/2021), Six
injured as police, land encroachers clash in Motipur
Industrial Area : Locals from Butwal and neighbouring
areas have encroached around 200 bigha of land in the
industrial area, said police (kp 10/10/2021), Curfew
imposed in Motipur Industrial Area of Butwal (kh
10/10/2021), Four
people killed in clash between police and squatters
(kh 10/10/2021), ]Trespassers
on govt land will be punished: MoHA (kh 11/10/2021)
[???? But this does not justify
the murder of desperate and homeless people! You are
responsible for police actions!], Four
deaths in Rupandehi put spotlight on Nepal’s
trigger-happy cops : Law enforcement agencies tend to
show discriminatory behaviour against protests and
crowds in the Tarai and by the underprivileged,
rights activists say, by Shuvam Dhungana and Tika R
Pradhan (kp 12/10/2021)
Garment
factory office near a police post looted in broad
daylight, by Chuman Basnet (rep 09/10/2021)
A
long and arduous walk for justice : The 20-day journey
by 14 people, including 11 women, to Kathmandu from
Nepalgunj on foot reflects the labyrinthine red tape
inhibiting the Nepali justice system and exposes how the
state is failing its citizens, by Anup Ojha (kp
08/10/2021), Police
round up protesters from NepalgunjA group of 14 people,
including 11 women, had walked all the way to Kathmandu
from Nepalgunj demanding justice for Nakunni Dhobi and
Nirmala Kurmi (kp 09/10/2021), Politicians,
who rose through protests, loathe citizens on streets :
Detaining Banke justice seekers from Maitighar for
agitation shows Deuba government’s double standards,
observers say, by Binod Ghimire (kp 10/10/2021)
Body
of teenager girl recovered from the cemetery on
suspicion of rape and murder (rep 08/10/2021)
Sexual
exploitation of minors unabated in capital, authorities
mum, by Ujjwal Satyal (ht 06/10/2021)
A
country where victimization of vulnerable women in the
name of practicing witchcraft is still rampant : In
Nepal, there’s still no let up in cases of violence
based on witchcraft accusations, despite the fact that
the country’s law has criminalized it, by Anushka
Nepal (nlt 04/10/2021)
Woman
found dead in Salyan, Police nab three in murder
allegation (kh 04/10/2021)
Worker
murdered in Khukuri attack in Rupandehi (kh
04/10/2021)
Sixteen
Nepalis have illegally invested in offshore companies in
overseas tax havens : An international investigation has
revealed how many Nepali business persons and companies
have used tax havens to stash wealth and avoid taxes,
by Krishna Acharya and Ramu Sapkota (rec 03/10/2021)
Man
arrested on charge of raping elderly woman, by
Maheshwor Chamling Rai (rep 02/10/2021)
Girl
killed for rejecting marriage proposal (rep
28/09/2021)
Child
goes missing in a drain in Kathmandu : Who is
responsible?, by Smriti Dhungana (rep 24/09/2021), Watch
your step : Neglected open sewers in the city should be
a matter of criminal negligence (kp 24/09/2021)
Youths
serving jail terms for murdering seven youths from
Gorkha granted amnesty (rep 20/09/2021)
3,284
foreigners arrested in five years for committing various
crimes in Nepal (rep 16/09/2021)
Two
held with over Rs 3.8 mln for ‘hundi transaction’
(kh 16/09/2021)
Two
held for raping a minor (kh 15/09/2021)
Journo
Dixit files FIR against defamation circulated via fake
‘MCC’ document (kh 14/09/2021)
Nepali
girl sold to Indian brothel returns home after seven
years, by Nagendra Upadhyaya (rep 14/09/2021)
Firing
as police clash with timber smugglers in Birgunj (kh
13/09/2021)
Three
arrested on gang-rape charge (kh 11/09/2021)
Two
woman involved in human trafficking held in Siraha
(kh 11/09/2021)
Fraud
promising permanent govt job to public falls in police
net (kh 10/09/2021)
Crime
and turpitude : A series of murders points to
lawlessness and the degeneration of society (kp
09/09/2021)
Dozens
of people registered as disappeared during Maoist
insurgency found alive : In the last six years, the
Commission of Investigation on Enforced Disappeared
Persons has received 3,223 complaints of enforced
disappearances implicating either security forces or the
rebel Maoists.Commission has found 2,494 cases that fall
under its jurisdiction for investigation, by Binod
Ghimire (kp 08/09/2021)
Six
members of a family killed in cold blood in
Sankhuwasabha : Mutilated bodies of the victims were
found scattered near the house on Monday, police say,
by Dipendra Shakya (kp 07/09/2021), Police
nab an accused in Sankhuwasabha massacre case (kh
11/09/2021), Sankhuwasabha
carnage: Deep seated feeling of vengeance behind killing
en masse (kh 13/09/2021), Police
make public suspect of Sankhuwasabha mass murder : The
25-year-old man committed the crime because of personal
vendetta, police said, by Dipendra Shakya (kp
13/09/2021), Police
make four more arrests in Sankhuwasbha mass murder case
: Six members of the same family, including two children
aged 11 and three, were found murdered on September 6 at
Kholagaun of Madi Municipality, by Dipendra Shakya
(kp 20/09/2021)
Tackle
Human Trafficking, by Aashish Mishra (rn 04/09/2021)
Rape-accused
Minister Shahi levels multiple allegations against
victim’s husband (rep 04/09/2021)
The
systemic silencing of stories of harassment :
Stories of abuse and harassment at educational
institutions continue to emerge but there are few
consequences for the perpetrators, by Kabita
Bahing (rec 03/09/2021)
Teenage
girl gang-raped in Rautahat (rep 02/09/2021)
Hearing
on murder case against Speaker Sapkota deferred again
(rep 01/09/2021)
Nepal
becoming transit hub for drug peddlers (ht
30/08/2021)
7,390
fugitives arrested in fiscal year 2020-21, says police
(kp 26/08/2021)
Six
years on, Tikapur carnage victims still worried about
justice (ht 24/08/2021)
Man
arrested on charge of murdering his father, wife in
Dhanusha : Dead bodies were found buried some 100 meters
away from their house (rep 24/08/2021)
Government
yet to pay Nepal Airlines for last year’s Omni chartered
flights : Payment remains stalled while the carrier
faces acute financial problems due to flight suspensions,
by Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp 23/08/2021)
Karnali
Province Minister Shahi accused of rape (rep
23/08/2021), Youth
activists demand dismissal of rape-accused Karnali
minister within 24 hours (rep 27/08/2021)
Three
arrested for collecting donations illegally (kh
21/08/2021)
People’s
representative from Dalit community tied to a pole and
beaten : Police nab 8 on assault allegation (kh
21/08/2021)
The
Plights Of Rape Survivors And Criminal Investigation,
by Govind Prasad Thapa (sp 20/08/2021)
Two
arrested with fake Nepali currency notes (kh
20/08/2021)
18
years on, justice still a far cry for people killed by
Nepali Army in Doramba (ht 18/08/2021)
Govt
preparing to impose five-year imprisonment for selling
substandard food items (rep 18/08/2021)
Protesters
demand justice for Krisala Chaudhary (rep
15/08/2021), Police
nab two on Krishala Chaudhary murder allegation (kh
16/08/2021)
Women
still face witchcraft charges in Sunsari : Rights
activists say most of the victims of such allegations
are women from marginalised communities, by Sumnima
Chamling (kp 14/08/2021)
Murder
accused freed on general date; victim's family left
distraught (ht 14/08/2021)
Nepali
fraudster under Interpol’s radar nabbed from Portual,
brought to Nepal (kh 14/08/2021)
A
26-year-old man sentenced to life imprisonment for
killing his wife (kh 14/08/2021)
Police
nab a rapist in Sunsari (kh 13/08/2021)
SC’s
division bench refuses to hear Aftab’s pleading citing
conflict of interest (kh 13/08/2021)
Ward
chair accused of murder freed on bail (ht
13/08/2021) [???]
Hubby
strangles wife to death (kh 12/08/2021)
Rapist
sentenced to 12 years in jail (kh 11/08/2021)
Madhyapaschim
University VC’s vehicle vandalized (kh 11/08/2021)
Gorkha:
21 children fell victim to rape in one year (rep
10/08/2021)
11-year-old
in Gorkha raped by her father and uncle (rep
09/08/2021), Two
men held on charge of incest rape (kh 11/08/2021)
Grenade
found and defused in Itahari (kh 08/08/2021)
Man
dies in Police custody in Sindhupalchok (kh
08/08/2021)
Cases
of violence against women on the rise (rep
07/08/2021)
Cops
not probing properly, allege kin of murdered woman and
her children (ht 06/08/2021)
What
if... rapes were punishable by death? Experts ApEx spoke
to say if Nepal had the provision of death for rape, it
would not only be a regressive step for the judicial
system and the society but it would most certainly be
misused, by Cilla Khatry (ae 05/08/2021)
Firearm
smuggling thriving in country, police say, by Shuvam
Dhungana (kp 04/08/2021)
Ward
chair tied a teenager to a pillar and beat him up
ruthlessly : A video of the incident that took place in
Jajarkot on July 30 came to light on Wednesday. A man
can be seen beating a boy ruthlessly after tying him up
to a pillar, by Bhim Bahadur Singh (kp 04/08/2021)
Woman
held for trafficking 25 victims (ht 04/08/2021)
Two
Nepali nationals arrested on charges of trafficking
women to India (kh 04/08/2021)
Instances
of VAW far from declining yet, by Sabina Karki (kh
04/08/2021)
Three
more persons, including victim’s father, held in
connection with Sujita’s murder (kh 02/08/2021)
Police
nab two on rape allegations of three girls (kh
01/08/2021)
No
let up in criminal activities of foreigners, by
Shuvam Dhungana (kp 01/08/2021)
Government
must up its efforts to prevent human trafficking,
stakeholders sayChanging forms of human trafficking and
gap in existing laws have made things worse for the
victims as well as authorities working to prevent them,
by Chandan Kumar Mandal (kp 27/07/2021), Trafficking
laws incompatible with Palermo Protocol (ht
27/07/2021)
NC
ward member arrested on charge of attempted rape
(rep 27/07/2021)
Government
promotes police officer involved in extrajudicial
killings : Sub-inspector Dipendra Chand is promoted
despite the national rights body recommending action
against him, by Binod Ghimire (kp 25/07/2021)
Dalit
woman, son thrashed in Siraha (ht 25/07/2021)
Nirmala
murder case remains a mystery even after three years
(re 25/07/2021)
Two
arrested on charges of rape (kh 25/07/2021)
Five-month-old
child murdered by cousin (kh 25/07/2021)
Women
in remote Baglung village are sent to animal sheds to
give birth : Many women die for want of treatment and
maternity care in Dhiri since they do not go to
hospitals for delivery, by Prakash Baral (kp
20/07/2021)
Two
rape cases in two weeks in Rautahat (ht 18/07/2021)
Illegal
activities unabated in prison (ht 18/07/2021)
Rapist
arrested after seven months (kh 17/07/2021)
Transitional
justice bodies get new term but conflict victims have
little hope : Rights activists say the Congress and
Maoist Centre have got another chance to complete the
peace deal by settling insurgency-era cases, but
progress remains dismal, by Binod Ghimire (kp
16/07/2021) [There
is not much to expect. Dahal, by his own admission, was
responsible for the Maoists' crimes, and Deuba was at
times responsible for the actions of the state security
forces. In particular, Deuba was responsible for the
mobilisation of the army and the resulting escalation of
the conflict!]
Caste
discrimination case : SC tells police to book
ex-minister Shrestha (ht 16/07/2021)
Rs
3.9 million of social security allowance stolen (kh
15/07/2021)
Army
officer convicted in death of man inside Chitwan
parkSergeant Chiran Kumar Budha was arrested last
September. He was released from prison on Monday
on account of completing nine-month jail term handed
down by court, by Rajesh Kumar Paudel (kp
14/07/2021)
31
enforced disappeared during conflict come to family
contacts (kh 14/07/2021)
Sunsari
police investigating over a suspicious death of a young
woman : Tracker dog Laila being used for investigation
(kh 12/07/2021)
Is
Nepal becoming a haven for Chinese criminals? Chinese
nationals involved in wildlife smuggling, hacking, and
operating mini-casinos in Nepal, by Gajendra Basnet
(kh 08/07/2021)
Nepali
woman reportedly sold off in Cambodia (kh
08/07/2021)
No
end in sight for survivors of domestic abuse : As cases
of domestic violence escalate in Ramechhap, survivors
remain economically and legally deprived, by Sonam
Lama (rec 06/07/2021)
27
rhino poachers arrested in the current fiscal year :
Many poachers who were on the run are coming forward to
surrender, Chitwan park administration says, by
Ramesh Kumar Paudel (kp 06/07/2021)
Abducted
Sujata found dead in Chitwan jungle (kh 05/07/2021),
Woman
missing for 10 days found dead in forest : The body was
discovered in Ghamile forest of Bhandara Piple area on
Sunday evening by the local people, by Ramesh Kumar
Paudel (kp 06/07/2021), Piple
under curfew following protests over woman’s death in
suspicious circumstances : The body of 23-year-old
Sujita Bhandari, who had gone missing on June 25, was
recovered in a nearby forest on Sunday, by Ramesh
Kumar Paudel (kp 07/07/2021), Sujita
Thakur’s body found a month after murder (kh
11/07/2021)
Two
arrested for withdrawing Rs 3.4 million from ATM using
expired debit card (kh 05/07/2021)
Rupa
Sunar files writ petition against Minister Shrestha on
caste-based discrimination allegation (kh
04/07/2021)
Man
arrested for allegedly raping his own daughter, by
Krishna KC (rep 03/07/2021)
Police
nab husband for killing wife (kh 03/07/2021)
Woman
found dead, in-laws blamed (ht 28/06/2021)
Student
Unions vandalize, arson Patan Multiple Campus (kh
28/06/2021)
Health
workers attacked at Dolakha Covid-19 hospital : Three
assailants in police custody, search for the fourth
underway, police say, by Kedar Shiwakoti (kp
28/06/2021)
Nepal
hasn’t seen a single conviction for torture and
custodial deaths in the past three years : Police cannot
be trusted to conduct impartial investigation into cases
where own officers are involved, says a 2020 Supreme
Court ruling, by Binod Ghimire (kp 28/06/2021)
Arun
III Hydropower worker succumbs to beating injuries
(kh 27/06/2021)
Police
nab 29-yr-old Timalsina behind murder of Santoshi
(kh 24/06/2021), Mystery
shrouds gruesome murder of animal mimic Santoshi Subba
(ht 24/06/2021)
Domestic
violence against newly married women on the rise amid
(ht 24/06/2021)
Robbers
loot properties worth 1 million at gun point (kh
17/06/2021)
Two
transitional justice commissions getting another term
extension : But conflict victims say the commissions
have done very little to deserve added tenure, by
Binod Ghimire (kp 17/06/2021)
No
safe space : Women who faced sexual violence during the
10 years of the Maoist armed conflict continue to suffer,
by Susan Risal (kp 16/06/2021)
No
let-up in cases of violence against women and children
during lockdown : On average 53 cases of violence
against women and children are reported daily across the
country, according to records maintained by police.,
by Shuvam Dhungana (kp 15/06/2021)
Newly-wed
spouse ruthlessly battered for not bringing dowry
(kh 13/06/2021)
Man
arrested for attacking wife with acid (kh
13/06/2021)
PM’s
Advisor claims Baidya swore to take PM’s life :
Bhattarai demands Baidya be booked by law (kh
12/06/2021), Baidya’s
statement is unacceptable: NC leader Gagan Thapa (kh
12/06/2021), NC
Spokesperson Sharma directs Baidya to apologize for his
statement : 'NC has no tradition to cover
objectionable statements' (kh 12/06/2021), Baidya’s
statement highy objectionable and criminal in nature:
UML (kh 12/06/2021), NC
Bagmati Province member Baidya self-criticizes,
withdraws his controversial statement (rep
12/06/2021), Representatives
of UML-affiliated organizations demand NC Bagmati
lawmaker Vaidya’s arrest (kh 14/06/2021)
Social
activist Gyanendra Shahi assaulted (kh 12/06/2021)
19-yr-old
girl gang-raped in Kanchanpur (kh 11/06/2021)
Chitwan
reports 37 VAW cases during COVID-19 prohibitory period
(kh 11/06/2021)
Fear
grips locals as human body part found in Bouddha (kh
08/06/2021)
Police
warn against social media misuse (kh 07/06/2021)
Three
arrested for sexually abusing Raute women (rep
06/06/2021), Three
men arrested on charge of sexually assaulting two Raute
girlsThe suspects took the victims to a local hotel, got
them drunk and sexually assaulted them, according to
police; Police made the arrests after video of the
incident went viral on social media, by
Chandan Kathayat (kp 07/06/2021), District
court orders media to remove contents regarding rape
case of Raute women (rep 12/06/2021)
Fact
Check: Is this elderly woman applauding the increase in
old-age allowance? (kh 04/06/2021)
Who
Nepal’s political parties represent anyway : None seem
to be concerned about the people hit by the virus, as
they deal with crises of their own, paying little
attention to their electorate, by Anil Giri (kp
03/06/2021)
Youth
charged with rape, hostage-taking in Sarlahi (ht
03/06/2021)
Strike
ban on areas of essential goods and services expanded
(ht 02/06/2021)
Burnt
Doti woman to be taken to Kathmandu : An unknown group
set her ablaze when she was asleep (ht 01/06/2021),
Doti
burn vicitm to get Rs 2 lakh for treatment (ht
03/06/2021)
Online
crimes like sexual exploitation and blackmailing spike
amid lockdown : Since the prohibitory orders were
enforced, police have been getting about half a dozen
complaints every day. In a reverse to earlier trends, it
is men who are the victims, by Anup Ojha (kp
01/06/2021) [husband on the run!]
People
found using ambulances, essential goods vehicles to
smuggle drugs, by Shuvam Dhungana (kp 31/05/2021)
Health
workers at Bheri Hospital attacked by relatives of
deceased patient, by Arjun Oli (rep 28/05/2021), Health
ministry expresses concern over physical assault on
health workers at Bheri Hospital (rep 28/05/2021), “There
was no option but to jump off the window to save our
lives” (rep 28/05/2021), Two
cases filed against main accused in attack of health
wokers in Bheri Hospital (kh 28/05/2021)
Five
police officials injured after armed gang attacks police
post in Dharan (kh 28/05/2021)
Police
officer is caught in film assaulting civilian in Birgunj,
by Bhusan Yadav (kp 28/05/2021)
Journo
threatened over news (ht 28/05/2021)
Domestic
violence: Lessons from Nepal’s first nationwide lockdown
: Risks have increased due to restrictions on movement,
confinement with perpetrators, constant surveillance,
and disconnect from social support systems, by
Simran Shrestha, Sagun Bhetwal and Dikshya Khadgi (ae
27/05/2021)
Devkota
reveals he was intimidated to back out from NA
by-election (kh 23/05/2021)
Scars
of the Maoist conflict : Resetting the truth commission
now is a priority if citizens are to get closure, by
Anttoni James Numminem (kp 20/05/2021)
Maoist
Center leader Pandey shot at in Kapilvastu
(kh20/05/2021), Maoist
Center leader Pandey shot at in Kapilvastu dies (kh
25/05/2021)
Youth
dies in APF firing in Nawalparasi (rep 19/05/2021)
Girl
found dead inside a house in Tanahun, youth arrested
(kh 19/05/2021)
Teacher
arrested for raping student (ht 06/05/2021)
Two
held for murder attempt in Bajura (ht 06/05/2021)
As
if there’s no pandemic : Oli and his clique’s seeming
indifference to the raging coronavirus and unfolding
tragedy is stark. Even as virus cases hit a new record
of 7,137 and death toll clocks 3,325, political games
continue, by Tika R Pradhan and Binod Ghimire (kp
03/05/2021)
Three
minors found dead inside a car in Dang (rep
02/05/2021)
More
than 900 women go missing in Morang (ht 27/04/2021)
Justice
eludes rape victims in six South Asian countries,
including Nepal : Rape survivors and their families face
pressure to withdraw complain (ht 22/04/2021)
Police
bust a racket involved in producing fake PCR reports
(rep 21/04/2021), 122
passengers barred from boarding flights at TIA for
carrying ‘fake’ Covid-19 test reports (kh
21/04/2021), Fake
negative test reports cause for concern : 172 passengers
were turned away from Tribhuvan International Airport
for furnishing Covid-19 negative results from the
labs that were caught issuing test reports to foreign
job aspirants without testing them, by Chandan Kumar
Mandal (kp 22/04/2021)
Siraha
woman accused of practicing witchcraft, tortured (ht
19/04/2021)
Woman
raped, killed in Udayapur (ht 19/04/2021)
Siraha
residents feel insecure after spate of violent crimes :
Residents and bullion traders of Lahan have been
protesting on the streets demanding justice for the
deceased and other victims of arson and robbery for the
past one week, by Bharat Jargha Magar (kp
16/04/2021)
How
a conversation around the length of one’s hair exposed
the toxic environment of a Kathmandu school: A number of
former and current students at St Mary’s School say the
institution reeks of toxicity, with many suffering
through years of harassment, queerphobia, and
humiliation, by Ankit Khadgi and Samiksha Baral (kp
13/04/2021)
Armed
robbers kill jeweller in Siraha : Assailants shot the
jewellery shop owner and attacked his wife on Sunday.
The man succumbed to his injuries at hospital, by
Bharat Jargha Magar (kp 12/04/2021)
Man
arrested with nearly 1 kg gold from Kathmandu airport,
by Shuvam Dhungana (kp 08/04/2021)
Nepali
state, organizations remain highly vulnerable to cyber
attacks, by Nishan Khariwada (ae 08/04/2021)
VAW
On Rise, Seven Rape Cases Reported Daily In Nepal,
by Deepa Chaudhary (rn 07/04/2021)
Nepal’s
security forces used excessive force in peaceful
protests : Amnesty International (kh 07/04/2021)
Four
held in Thamel house robbery case, by Shuvam
Dhungana (kp 05/04/2021)
Judge's
daughter-in-law complains of torture (ht 03/04/2021)
One
dead, another severely injured in Baglung bomb explosion
(rep 02/04/2021)
Regulate
acid sale : The most important thing in controlling the
misuse of acids is to regulate the sale and distribution
of harmful chemicals (ht 31/03/2021)
Two
women arrested for forcing girls into prostitution,
eight rescued (rep 31/03/2021)
Families
of two youths who died in a Holi fair demand
investigation : A clash broke out during Holi
celebratrions in Baglung on Sunday, leaving two dead and
six injured, by Prakash Baral (kp 30/03/2021)
NC
urges govt to probe killing of party cadres in Baglung
and arrest guilty (rep 29/03/2021)
Cases
filed against nine firms for dodging nearly Rs3 billion
in taxes : Four of these firms, with involvement of the
same person, were found to be selling goods that they
had not procured legally. The racket involves purchase
of fake VAT bills (kp 27/03/2021)
Doctor
arrested on charge of sexual harassment in Saptari,
by Mithilesh Yadav (kp 27/03/2021)
Nepali
man kills his differently-abled son in India for failing
to meet his medical expenses (rep 27/03/2021)
Give
business to HoR : Some of the bills are sensitive and
require cautious deliberation before they are passed by
the parliament (ht), Break
the cycle of impunity for rape : Repeal statute of
limitations, by Laxmi Pokharel and Boram Jang
(ht 26/03/2021)
17
Dalits killed after introduction of act against
untouchability (ht 25/03/2021)
Marriage
is no license to rape : Sexual violence by intimate
partner is largely unreported due to social stigma as
well as the belief that forced sexual relation by a
husband without the consent of the wife doesn’t
constitute violence, by Roshani Giri (rep
25/03/2021)
Missing
Jha couple found buried on roadside in Mahottari (kh
25/03/202)
Girl
injured after boyfriend sets her on fire by dousing her
with kerosene in capital (rep 23/03/2021), Man
sets girlfriend ablaze, tries to kill self (ht
24/03/2021)
Police
tend to make public suspects too quickly and that’s
wrong, experts sayThe practice came to light once again
when four people were paraded without ascertaining what
they possessed was actually uranium, a material used for
making nuclear bombs, by Shuvam Dhungana (kp
22/03/2021), Guilty
until proven innocent? The practice of making suspects
public too quickly is wrong (kp 23/03/2021)
Young
man stoned to death at Kalanki in capital, one arrested
(rep 21/03/2021)
Culprits
of two homicide cases made public in Kathmandu (ht
18/03/2021)
56-year-old
man lands in jail for raping granddaughter (rep
18/03/2021)
Three
software developers arrested for source code theft
(ht 16/03/2021)
Bomb
blast at Lahan’s Land Revenue Office, three injured,
by Mithilesh Yadav (rep 14/03/2021), Lahan
Blast: Pamphlets of Jay Krishna Goit-led Janatantrik
Tarai Mukti Morcha recovered from incident site, by
Mithilesh Yadav (rep 14/03/2021), Tarai
Janatantrik Mukti Morcha’s leaflet found in Lahan blast,
by Kamalesh Thakur (kh 14/03/2021), Eight
injured, two critically, in a blast at a government
office in SirahaThe explosion, for which Jaya Krishna
Goit-led group has taken responsibility, shows radical
forces continue to exist and they should be brought to
the talks table, analysts say, by Bharat Jarghamagar
and Tika R Pradhan (kp 15/03/2021) [Only
a few days ago, PM Oli claimed that there was no
militancy left in Nepal, except for the one he had
started. That was probably a false statement!], Shun
violence : Let us hope Nepal is not witnessing a
resurgence of those violent activities that brought the
country to a standstill (ht) 16/03/2021)
Two
companies blacklisted for a year for failure to deliver
chemical fertilisers last year : It was the first
time domestic firms had been awarded contracts to supply
fertilisers but their failure meant that fertiliser was
not available during paddy cultivation season, by
Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp 14/03/2021)
Police
in Kapilvastu develop school curriculum to raise
awareness on cybercrime : The courses have been launched
in 80 schools of two local units in the district, by
Manoj Paudel (kp 11/03/2021)
Itahari
takes initiatives to end gender, sexual violence in
community schools : The sub-metropolis has arranged for
a gender focal person in each community school, by
Pradeep Menyangbo (kp 11/03/2021)
A
woman commits suicide jumping into Karnali River along
with her four children, by Nagendra Upadhyaya (rep
09/03/2021) [caused by domestic violence], Mother
and her three children found dead in Karnali river;
fourth missingPolice and local residents suspect that
Suki Baduwal jumped into the river with her children,
by Jyotee Katuwal and Klendra Sejuwal (kp)
Politicians
influencing constitutional body decisions comes to light
once again : As a minister implicitly admits the
Election Commission was ‘pressured’, analysts say
independent bodies are increasingly being brought under
the control of the executive, by Prithvi Man
Shrestha (kp 09/03/2021)
Memories
of house demolition haunt us every day, Balaju Bypass
residents say : Eviction of 39 families has left deep
mental scars on members of Newa community, by Anup
Ojha (kp 06/03/2021) [Court
decisions do not apply to Oli and his henchmen!]
Ill
practices, society's attitude root causes for sexual
violence (ht 06/03/2021)
Girl
held captive for a week and raped in Gorkha, by
Narahari Sapkota (rep 01/03/2021)
Fault
lines of anti-trafficking discourse in Nepal :
Anti-trafficking community has failed to truly empower
young girls and women and has instead added to their
insecurity by holding them responsible for a situation
which is out of their control, by Vaishally Shah
(rep 01/03/2021)
Three
cadres of Biplav outfit nabbed for extortion (kh
27/02/2021)
Huge
price differential triggers cross-border fuel smuggling
: Nepal and India share an 1,800-km open border with
more than three dozen motorable crossing points, by
Krishana Prasain (kp 27/02/2021)
Police
file murder case against six for killing a youth in
Morang two months ago, by Binod Subedi and Chuman
Basnet (rep 25/02/2021)
Addressing
HR violations : Nepal Police needs to reform, by
Mohna Ansari (ht 23/02/2021)
Nepal
needs to amend human trafficking laws to fully enforce
Palermo Protocol, experts say : Existing laws define the
crime in a narrow sense and fail to protect the victims,
they argue, by Chandan Kumar Mandal (kp 21/02/2021)
Police
arrest 374 runaway criminals in past three months,
by Anup Ojha (kp 17/02/2021)
Police
arrest one from Kanchanpur in Bhagarathi murder
allegation (kh 16/02/2021), Police
make public prime accused of Bhagarathi Bhatta's murder
in Baitadi (rep 17/02/2021), Police
make public a boy accused in alleged rape and murder of
Baitadi teenagerThe suspect went to the same school as
the victim, police say, by Tripti Shahi (kp
18/02/2021), Accused
of rape and murder of Bhatta confesses to the crime
(rep 19/02/2021), Bhatta’s
final rites are being performed today, 17 days after her
murder (rep 19/02/2021)
PM
Oli faction assaults NC leader NP Saud in Baitadi
(kp 16/02/2021)
NC
cadres arrested for chanting vulgar slogans against PM
Oli (kh 16/02/2021)
Abduction
and murder case filed against 42 members of the
Communist Party of Nepal, including its leader Chand :
They have been charged with kidnapping and killing a
teacher in Morang on December 4 (kp 16/02/2021), 42
CPN activists charged with abduction, murder of
Miklajung school principal : Police have arrested
party’s Morang district in-charge Dhan Bahadur BK while
the remaining 41 are at large (kp 17/02/2021), Chand
party leader accused in principal murder case being
probed for firearms possession : Dhan Bahadur BK was
sent to judicial custody for arms possession. He is due
to present his statement to the court on abduction and
murder of Rajendra Shrestha from Sunday, by Deo
Narayan Shah (kp 18/02/2021)
Three
students injured in a clash between two factions of NCP
in Kathmandu (kh 16/02/2021)
Family
of Baitadi victim still clueless about perpetrator’s
identity : Police claim that they will make public the
culprits soon, by Tripti Shahi (kp 14/02/2021), Someone
familiar involved in Bhagrathi rape and murder case:
Police (rep 14/02/2021)
Bardiya
municipalities unite to keep memories of war victims
alive : Local and provincial governments can now do
their bit to provide relief for victims of the
conflict, experts say, by Binod Ghimire (kp
14/02/2021)
Man
arrested for raping 14-year-old girl (kh 14/02/2021)
Fear
looms the fate of Nirmala Pant case might recur, by
Gajendra Basnet (kh 13/02/2021)
Nepal’s
‘inferior’ women : Nepal is still a highly patriarchal
society that looks upon women as second-class citizens
(ae 12/02/2021), ‘Women’s
March’ in Kathmandu to demand an end to violence against
women and impunity : People from various walks of life
are participating in the march from Basantapur to Singha
Durbar gate (kp 12/02/2021), ‘Justice,
justice, justice’ : Fed up with inaction, women march to
demand end to impunity, by Samiksha Baral (kp
13/02/2021), Hundreds
rally in capital for women’s rights (ht 13/02/2021)
Girl
abducted and raped in Morang, by Chuman Basnet (rep
11/02/2021)
Standard
for expanding GBV Prevention Fund developed (ht
10/02/2021)
Eliminating
gender based violence : The way political leadership is
working to end gender-based violence in our country is
not inspiring enough. There should be greater commitment
and more actions, by Mandip Lamichhane (rep
10/02/2021), Smash
rape culture : Impunity is one of the reasons why sexual
violence continues to thrive (kp 11/02/2021) [The Oli government and political
parties care more about their sympathisers, even if they
are perpetrators! They also regard women as inferior
creatures, subordinate to men in every way!]
Lactating
mothers, newborns in the far-west forced to stay in
cowsheds after childbirth, by Prakash Singh (ht
10/02/2021)
A
pall of gloom and fear hangs over Baitadi village since
teenage girl found deadSchools remain closed as calls
grow louder that culprit(s) should be booked. Police
say, based on the post-mortem report, someone killed the
17-year-old after rape, by Tripti Shahi (kp
10/02/2021)
Three
incidents of rape and attempted rape reported in five
days in Gorkha (rep 09/02/2021)
Locals
worried that culprits of Bhagrathi rape and murder case
may escape (rep 09/02/2021)
Post-mortem
report reveals Baitadi teenager was raped and murdered :
There were wounds in her head, legs, mouth, hands and
private parts, police say, by Tripti Shahi (kp
09/02/2021)
Four
years old girl raped in school, by Narahari Sapkota
(rep 08/02/2021)
Nepali
girl gang raped and murdered in Bihar (rep
08/02/2021)
48-yr-old
woman murdered in cold blood in Bara (kh 08/02/2021)
NHRC
to monitor probe into Baitadi rape, murder (ht
08/02/2021), ‘Bhagarathi
raped and choked to death’, by Bira Gadal (rep
08/02/2021), Bhagarathi
rape and murder case: Vaginal swab sent to Kathmandu for
lab test (rep 08/02/2021)
Baitadi
father shoots daughter, torches house and flees, by
Tekendra Deuba (ht 07/02/2021)
Human
trafficking laws need to be amended, by Ram Kumar
Kamat (ht 07/02/2021)
Teenage
girl found dead in Baitadi forest : The girl’s family
suspects that she was murdered and have demanded
authorities to arrest the perpetrators, by Tripti
Shahi (kp 06/02/2021), Bhagirathi
Bhatta murder case: Six arrested for interrogation
(kh 06/02/2021), Bhagirathi
Murder Case: Preliminary investigation suggests rape
before murder, by Tekendra Deuba (ht 07/02/2021)
Home
minister announces ‘third people’s movement’, but many
wonder what it means : In a bid to win Oli’s favour,
Thapa warns his former comrade Dahal that if his
agitation turns violent he, as home minister, will lock
up the former rebel leader in the zoo, by Anil Giri
(kp 06/02/2021) [Sick mind??
This statement alone is a proof!]
General
strike affects life nationwide : Five trucks were
vandalised in Chitwan on Thursday; vehicular movement
disrupted in many other places, by Ramesh Kumar
Poudel (kp 05/02/2021) [Since
1991, the cadres of the political parties do not
understand what the fundamental right to strike and
demonstrate entails. In any case, vandalism and coercive
methods against civil society are not part of it!],
As
citizens bear the brunt of strikes, they ask who
politicians are servingSix vehicles were vandalised in
the Capital during Thursday’s general strike called by
the Dahal-Nepal faction. Their fault—going about their
lives to feed their families, by Anup Ojha (kp
05/02/2021), Banda
for what? People are not going to tolerate it when any
political group declares shutdowns and restricts their
mobility (rep 05/02/2021)
Dahal-Nepal
faction supporters hold protests in major cities across
the country : Five trucks were vandalised in Chitwan on
Thursday; vehicular movement disrupted in many other
cities, by Ramesh Kumar Paudel (kp 04/02/2021), Taxi
set on fire, vehicles vandalised; over 70 arrested in
Kathmandu during Dahal-Nepal faction general strike :
The Dahal-Nepal faction is protesting against
Wednesday’s appointments and House dissolution (kp
04/02/2021) [Demonstrations and
strikes against Oli's coup are necessary, but vandalism
is a crime for which the organisers must be accountable!]
Dahal-Nepal
faction cadres vandalize vehicle in which DPM Ishwar
Pokharel was traveling to Nuwakot, by Tapendra Karki
(rep 01/02/2021)
Let’s
raise our voice : This is a time to unite and educate
every person to speak out against gender violence,
by Sachina Paudel (kp 31/01/2021)
Five
arrested with Rs 3.8 million illegal money and bank
checks (rep 29/01/2021)
Youth
hacked to death over school committee election dispute
in Bajhang : Ward chairman and three others arrested in
connection with the murder, by Basanta Pratap Singh
(kp 28/01/2021)
Campaigners
decry use of force by police on peaceful civic protest
against the House dissolution move : Unwarned,
protesters were hit by water cannons and beaten up
as they marched towards Baluwatar. Earlier in the day,
rights activists were rounded up from same area, by
Anup Ojha (kp 26/01/2021), [The
police action as now ordered by the Oli government is
criminal and a serious violation of basic human rights.
The behaviour of the police has not changed since the
end of the authoritarian royal Panchayat system!]
In
mocking lawyers and judiciary, Oli is making a mockery
of rule of law : Legal experts say ever since he
dissolved the House, the prime minister has been making
attempts to justify his move and in doing so he has
turned the whole situation into a farce, by Tika R.
Pradhan (kp 25/01/2021)
Indian
national arrested on charge of rape in Birgunj (kh
24/01/2021)
90pc
VAW cases settled thru reconciliation (ht
18/01/2021) [This cannot be
called justice. It overwhelmingly proves the unequal
legal position of women. VAW is a serious crime and must
be dealt with and punished by public courts. In case of
legal loopholes, the courts must bindingly oblige the
legislator to adjust the laws immediately!]
Over
2,000 absconding convicts nabbed (ht 17/01/2021)
One
dead, three injured at the hands of faith healers in
Gulmi district : A 64-year-old man was fatally burned
and beaten in the name of treatment, by Madhav Aryal
(kp 15/01/2021)
Cops
thrash man black and blue (ht 12/01/2021)
Murders
on the rise in Kathmandu; three murders of same nature
in a year, by Gajendra Basnet (kh 11/01/2021)
Millions
worth of expired goods that were still being sold in
market destroyed, 512 firms fined : Market flooded with
expired products, says Department of Commerce, Supplies
and Consumer Protection. Consumers urged to exercise
caution, by Krishana Prasain (kp 10/01/2021)
Over
4,000 arrested for drug crime last fiscal (ht
10/01/2021)
Nepali
investors make millions from opaque share deals, by
Rudra Pangeni, Deepak Adhikari and Diarmid O'Sullivan (kp
10/01/2021)
Youths
demanding justice to Nirmala Pant arrested from PM Oli’s
mass assembly (kh 08/01/2021), Seven
held from Oli’s event for wearing t-shirts with slogans
demanding justice for Nirmala Pant : People who attended
the function say they were not allowed to wear anything
black, even caps or masks, by Mohan Budhaair (kp
09/01/2021) [Many authoritarian
politicians are prone to such misbehaviour. Moreover, he
must once again put up with the question of whether he
personally is deliberately trying to prevent the crime
against Nirmala Pant from being solved!]
Man
on the run after murdering wife found dead (rep
07/01/2021)
Discrimination
against Bajura elderly with leprosy; forced to live in
cow-shed (ht 06/01/2021)
Hubby
‘hacks wife to death’ in Ilam (kh 05/01/2021)
Man
arrested while trafficking woman to UAE (kh
04/01/2021)
Minister’s
car flees after hitting a man, by Om Prakash Thakur
(kp 03/01/2020)
Nirmala
Panta's Case Revisited : Apathy delays justice (rep
02/01/2021)
Protests
called for release of eight people convicted in 2015
Tikapur incident : The individuals who have been jailed
for life are ‘political’ prisoners, struggle committee
says, by Tika R Pradhan (kp 02/01/2021)
With
no House, amendment to transitional justice law, as per
court order, remains uncertain : The government is
preparing to extend the terms of the commissioners
assigned to look into conflict-era cases once again. Why
not bring an ordinance to amend the law as ordered by
the Supreme Court in 2015 instead, victims say, by
Binod Ghimire (kp 01/01/2021)
Online
scammers still active in Kathmandu (ht 01/01/2021)
Violence
against women on the rise in Province 2, by Kamalesh
Thakur (kh 31/12/2020)
Ganga
Maya staging hunger strike for last six days, by
Ujjwal Satyal (ht 27/12/2020)
Alleged
mastermind behind honey trap case lands in police net
after five months : The man allegedly lured a
motorcyclist to Chobhar using a woman and robbed him
of valuables worth Rs635,000, by Anup Ojha (kp
25/12/2020)
Hubby
strikes wife to death in Panchthar (kh 24/12/2020)
Inmates
being mistreated in Gaur prison (ht 23/12/2020)
Man
from Palpa village charged with raping sister for seven
years (ht 23/12/2020)
Rapist
father sentenced to life in prison (kh 23/12/2020)
Rapist
sentenced to 10 years in Jail (kh 22/12/2020)
Dissolution
of parliament was not my wish: PM Oli (rep
21/12/2020) [A no-confidence
vote in parliament would have been a normal democratic
procedure. Dissolving the parliament to prevent it is an
attack on the fundamentals of democracy and both PM and
President must stand trial for this crime! The long
overdue resignation of the PM would have been another
democratic option!]
Extrajudicial
killings : Court order to form mechanism could provide
justice to victims’ kin; Such crimes have so far been
investigated by Nepal Police or a task force, but
perpetrators are hardly ever punished as investigations
are not honest, human rights activists say, by Binod
Ghimire (kp 19/12/2020) [In a
state where even those in the highest offices do not
feel bound by the constitution and laws, and where
supposedly binding statements constantly turn out to be
lies, the close links between politics and crime prevent
any justice for victims!]
Police
arrest one on charge of sex extortion : The arrested
allegedly demanded Rs 7 million from the victim not to
disclose her nude pictures (rep 19/12/2020)
Cases
Of Women Trafficking In Name Of Foreign Employment On
The Rise, by Mukunda Gaure (rn 18/12/2020)
Resham
Chaudhary and Laxman Tharu convicted in Tikapur incident
receive life imprisonment (rep 18/12/2020), High
court upholds life sentences of seven individuals in
Tikapur incident : Court commuted life sentences of four
persons to five years; raised three-year jail term of
Laxman Tharu to life, by Mohan Shahi (kp 19/12/2020)
Supreme
Court not hearing case against Speaker Sapkota (kh
18/12/2020) [A typical case of
denial of justice! Without clarification of this case,
Sapkota should never have been appointed Speaker of
Parliament in a democratic state! However, it has only
been 15 years since the crime was committed...]
Four
arrested on charge of sexual abuse in Bhaktapur (rep
17/12/2020)
Old
lady found abandoned in Tinkune dies (rep
17/12/2020)
Police
Inspector held for performing forceful abortion (kh
17/12/2020)
Minister
Gyawali yet again says amendment to transitional justice
law soon : Conflict victims and experts doubt the
amendment will be presented before Parliament anytime
soon and it will do away with provisions of amnesty for
perpetrators of rights abuse, by Binod Ghimire (kp
16/12/2020)
Rape
cases increasing in Banke (ht 16/12/2020)
Smuggling
of wildlife parts rampant in Butwal, by Amrita Anmol
(kp 16/12/2020)
Alam
brother remanded in judicial custody in connection with
Rautahat killingsSecurity personnel detained Mahatab
Alam from Bihar in India and brought him to Rautahat
last week, by Shiva Puri (14/12/2020)
The
bitter story of sweet sugarcane: Farmers not paid for
past seven years (rep 13/12/2020)
Case
filed against a judge offering clean chit to ‘Siddha
Baba’ (kh 13/12/2020)
Ordinance
amends law on rape but fails to recognise rape of boy
child and sexual minorities : Provision to legally
recognise rape of only a woman or a girl child retained
despite authorities wanting to change that provision to
‘person’. That could have had other implications, by
Binod Ghimire (kp 11/12/2020)
Contain
Chand-led party’s activities before they get out of
hand, analysts say : Observers say the more the
incumbent government fails, the more it will create
space for anti-democratic forces, by Tika R Pradhan
(kp 11/12/2020), Chand
cadres often visited slain teacher : Villagers say the
activists of Communist Party of Nepal used to come to
their homes asking for food and money, by Binod
Bhandari (kp 11/12/2020)
Chand
party’s killing of school principal is a grim reminder
of the Maoist conflict : Analysts say the government
appears to be failing in its approach to deal with the
Communist Party of Nepal, which has been involved in
violent activities for long, by Binod Ghimire (kp
10/12/2020), Chand-led
Communist Party of Nepal claims responsibility for
murder of school principal : The party said it took
action against Rajendra Kumar Shrestha for being an
informant to police and helping them arrest its cadres,
by Madhav Ghimire and Binod Bhandari (kp 10/12/2020) [It is indeed brazen that the people
whom the CPN wants to "liberate" through murder,
extortion and destruction of public and private property
are defending themselves against these crimes! There is
a great deal wrong in Nepal, but Dahal and other leaders
of his former Maoist party have already amply
demonstrated how quickly dear targets are replaced by
personal power interests!], Govt
intensifies surveillance on Biplav activities following
Miklajung murder (kh 10/12/2020), Let’s
rage against Biplav’s barbarism (rep 10/12/2020), Nepal
Police Headquarters directs its units to be aggressive
against Chand outfit (rep 10/12/2020), Entrepreneurs
are being threatened to either pay extortion amount or
close businesses: FNCCI (rep 10/12/2020)
AI
Nepal Starts Campaign Urging PM Oli To Probe Incidents
Of 'Custodial Deaths' (rn 10/12/2020), AI
Nepal starts campaign urging PM Oli to probe incidents
of ‘custodial deaths’ (kh 10/12/2020)
“I
am not angry at what happened to Nabaraj. I am scared
that it will happen to me”, by Binayak Sundas (rep
09/12/2020)
Rape-convict
lands in police net after 11 years (kh 09/12/2020)
Teacher
shot dead by Biplav cadres in Morang (kh
08/12/2020), CPN
cadres abduct, kill school principal (ht
09/12/2020), Govt
intensifies surveillance on Biplav activities following
Miklajung murder (kh 10/12/2020)
Ex-Minister
Aftab Alam's Brother Mahatab Detained, by Krishna
Tiwari (rn 07/12/2020)
One
arrested on charge of human trafficking (rep
05/12/2020)
Powerful
bomb blast at limestone mine of Saurya Cement, five
laborers injured, by Maheshwor Chamling Rai (rep
04/12/2020)
Women
commission defunct as cases of violence against women
continues : Since it was elevated to a constitutional
body in the new constitution, it has not had full quota
of commissioners, and since 2017 it hasn’t had any
office bearers, by Binod Ghimire (kp 01/12/2020)
Murdered
by caste : We have become accomplices to crimes against
humanity and brought dishonour upon ourselves (kp
01/12/2020)
Six
people arrested in connection with ‘honour killing’ of
17-year-old in Rautahat : The victim was living with her
parents after divorcing her husband, police say, by
Shiva Puri (kp 30/11/2020), Parents
mastermind daughter’s murder to ‘save family honour’
(ht 30/11/2020)
Siblings
arrested for faking abduction (ht 30/11/2020)
Six
including ward chairperson arrested for settling rape
case in Baitadi (rep 29/11/2020)
Two
women thrashed in Saptari district (ht 28/11/2020)
Father
arrested on charge of raping 13-year-old daughter in
Pokhara (rep 27/11/2020)
Teenager
raped while out for fetching water from well : Village
elders try to influence case tempting victim with 10gram
gold (kh 27/11/2020)
Two
suspected detonators arrested (kh 27/11/2020)
Seven
including ex-lawmaker not charge-sheeted in Chaurasiya
murder case (kh 27/11/2020)
Act
now to address shadow pandemic of VAW, says WHO (ht
26/11/2020), End
to gender-based violence sought (ht 26/11/2020)
Rapist
father gets 37 years in prison (kh 26/11/2020)
14
rape cases in Gorkha in just four months; 10 girls under
16 years are among victims, by Narhari Sapkota (rep
26/11/2020)
Government
strategy against VAW confined in papers, VAW cases
increasing : 16-day campaign against VAW starts today,
by Sabina Karki (kh 25/11/2020)
Never-ending
road to justice : In the absence of political
will, the process has been derailed systematically,
by Susan Risal (kp 24/11/2020)
Six-year-old
girl murdered after ‘rape’ in Mahottari, enraged locals
torch house of accused (rep 24/11/2020), Six-year-old
missing girl found dead; rape and subsequent murder
suspected : Three persons injured on Tuesday as police
opened fire at demonstrators demanding action against
the guilty, by Sunita Baral (kp 25/11/2020), Situation
tense in Bardibas as protests against rape, murder of
minor continue : Demonstrators took to streets despite
prohibitory order imposed by local administration,
by Sunita Baral (kp 26/11/2020)
Three
injured as police open fire on locals protesting against
murder of minor in Mahottari (rep 24/11/2020)
Mediators
in rape cases will also face jail term, as per a new
ordinance (kp 23/11/2020), Three-year
jail for forcing reconciliation on rape victims (ht
23/11/2020), Combating
rape culture : The latest ordinance is a positive step
towards providing justice to victims of sexual violence
(kp 24/11/2020), Rape
is unreconcilable : The new provision in the ordinance
will discourage village leaders from settling rape cases
outside the court of law (ht 24/11/2020)
Murder
investigation an excuse for police to harass locals,
Dudawa residents say : Police have detained 18 people in
connection with the murder of a 12-year-old boy, by
Thakur Singh Tharu (kp 23/11/2020)
Decades
and still no justice : Not a single victim has realised
any form of justice or acknowledgement in the 14 years
since the peace deal, by Suman Adhikari (kp
22/11/2020) [But the
perpetrators and those responsible live in luxury and
leading positions through which they know how to prevent
any justice!]
Two
arrested on the charge of rape (kh 22/11/2020)
Dalit
family thrashed in Siraha; one critical (ht
22/11/2020)
Fourteen
years on, victims of the decade-long armed conflict are
still awaiting justice : On eve of the anniversary of
the signing of the peace deal, rights bodies warn that
delay in concluding transitional justice process
could be investigated by international courts, by
Binod Ghimire (kp 21/11/2020), Failure
to prosecute perpetrators promoting fresh abuses, warn
rights groups (ht 21/11/2020), Rights
bodies accuse Nepal of stalling justice for conflict-era
crimes (rep 21/11/2020)
Action
sought against Gaur massacre perpetrators (ht
20/11/2020)
Take
criminal cases seriously, DAs, cops told (kp
19/11/2020)
Three-year-old
baby girl murdered in Makawanpur (rep 19/11/2020), 3-year-old
girl raped and murdered in Makawanpur (kh
19/11/2020), Four-year-old
raped and murdered in Makwanpur, by Subash Bidari
(kp 20/11/2020)
Teenage
girl ‘hanged to death after gang rape’ in Kapilvastu,
by Kiranman Bajracharya (rep 19/11/2020)
Man
held on charge of raping 14-year-old girl in capital
(rep 18/11/2020)
बलात्कारीलाई
जन्मकैद : बलात्कारलाई जन्मकैदको सजाय गर्ने, जाहेरी
दरखास्त दर्ता नगर्ने प्रहरीलाई कारबाही गर्ने, जाहेरी
दरखास्त लिन प्रहरी पीडितको घरमा जाने, बलात्कारको घटना
मिलाउनेलाई बलात्कारीलाई हुने सजायको आधा सजाय गर्ने कानुन
बनाउनुपर्यो [Rapist is sentenced to life
imprisonment : A law had to be enacted to punish the
rapist with life imprisonment, to take action against the
police for not registering a complaint, to go to the
victim's house to file a complaint, and to punish the
rapist with half the punishment for raping the rapist.],
by Balram KC (ka 15/11/2020)
54
women missing since March lockdown (ht 13/11/2020),
247
missing from Bara (ht 13/11/2020)
Young
Woman Shot Dead In Rautahat (rn 12/11/2020)
Former
state minister, who was held on charge of gambling,
released on bail (rep 11/11/2020)
Man
arrested for raping 7-year-old in Kathmandu (kh
11/11/2020)
Smuggling
of medicinal herbs, wildlife parts rampant via Urai
border point in Bajhang : The remoteness of the area has
encouraged smugglers to use the route to carry out
illegal trade across the border, locals say, by
Basanta Pratap Singh (kp 11/11/2020)
Two
jailed, six others fined for distributing expired
products in market : Consumer protection body takes
action against representatives of Ayan Distributor and
Bishnu Laxmi Enterprises for peddling expired products
by relabelling their dates, by Krishana Prasain (kp
10/11/2020)
Murder-convict
on the run arrested after 16 years (rep 10/11/2020)
How
frequent do murders take place in Nepal?, by
Gajendra Basnet (kh 09/11/2020)
More
fugitives getting caught across country amid the
pandemic : With loss of jobs abroad, they have been
returning home only for police to catch them. But this
has added to the burden of overstretched prison system,
by Binod Ghimire (kp 08/11/2020)
Man
arrested on the charge of rape (kh 07/11/2020)
राजनीतिमा
अपराधीकरण, by Sri Prasad Prasain (Rajdhani
04/11/2020)
How
young activists are trying to reshape the movement
against sexual violence in Nepal : In a country with
alarming rape statistics, where survivors of sexual
violence fail to get justice, ‘Ajhai Kati Sahane’ hopes
to bring about social change, by Ankit Khadgi (kp
03/11/2020)
Rape,
murder attempt cases filed against police constable in
Doti (ht 03/11/2020)
Rape
cases up in Dashain (ht 03/11/2020)
Two
held for rape (ht 03/11/2020)
Transitional
justice, conflict victims and human dignity : Nepal has
failed miserably as a responsible state that is willing
to investigate war-era atrocities, by Madhav Joshi
(kp 02/11/2020)
Indian
national arrested on charge of raping 10-year-old girl
in Nepal (kh 02/11/2020)
Three
arrested on charge of stabbing a youth to death in Tokha
(rep 01/11/2020)
Social,
Financial Crimes Up During Dashain: Police (rn
30/10/2020)
Pashupatinath
Temple Trust’s Bhandari to be tried under cybercrime
charge (kh 30/10/2020)
Body
of man killed in clash remains in Narayani Hospital :
The victim had sustained serious injuries on his head
and died while undergoing treatment at Birgunj based-LS
Neuro Hospital on Friday morning, by Bhusan Yadav
(kp 29/10/2020)
Two
Persons Posed As Traditional Healers, Made Women Enter
Their Shrine Naked, Abused Them Sexually For 13 Years,
And Now They Are Arrested, by Bhakti Bilash Pokharel
(rn 29/10/2020)
10
high-profile gamblers arrested with Rs 3 million in
Nepalgunj, by Arjun Oli (rep 29/10/2020)
Shaman
arrested on the charge of rape (kh 28/10/2020)
Whereabouts
of police officer who went missing on Sunday still
unknown, by Arjun Shah (kp 20/10/2020), Seven
individuals held on charge of killing two policemenThe
smugglers killed the policemen and threw their bodies
into the Mohana river on Saturday night, police
say, by Arjun Shah (kp 21/10/2020)
Do
Rapists Deserve Death Penalty?, by Birendra Madai
(rn 20/10/2020)
Police
seize 23kg gold from Birgunj apartment : The contraband
was found in the apartment of an Indian national on
Saturday, by Bhusan Yadav (kp 18/10/2020)
Hooliganism
spreading wide; more than 250 under police vigil, by
Gajendra Basnet (kh 18/10/2020)
National
rights body probe finds yet another extra-judicial
killing : State protection for guilty giving rise to
such cases, activists say, by Binod Ghimire (kp
17/10/2020), Bhaktapur
abduction accused killed in police custody: NHRC (ht
17/10/2020), Rights
body sticks to its decision (ht 17/10/2020)
Authorities
warned against settling rape case through reconciliation
(ht 17/10/2020)
Rape
cases continue to rise in Bara district (ht
17/10/2020)
Youths
misbehave with girl, arrests sought (ht 17/10/2020)
Nepal
Police urged to adopt stringent measures against heinous
crimes (ht 17/10/2020)
Man
held for minor’s rape, killing (ht 16/10/2020)
Nepal’s
acid attack survivors find a saviour : Activist Ujjwal
Bikram Thapa says he will not rest until this crime is
eradicated, by Sabina Devkota (nt 16/10/2020)
Suspension
of DSP GC acquitted in Nirmala Pant case lifted (kh
15/10/2020)
Online
Misogynist Bullying Emerging as a Silent Pandemic in
Nepal, by Deeksha Khatiwada (kh 14/10/2020)
Two-year
project launched in Karnali and Province 2 to tackle
gender-based violence (rep 14/10/2020)
Witchcraft
violence continues unabated across Nepal (ht
12/10/2020)
Police
to intensify operation to prevent sexual harassment
(ht 12/10/2020)
Man
arrested on girl trafficking charge (rep 11/10/2020)
Victims
of crimes continue to be at the receiving end of
panchayat justice : Most of them have no knowledge of
legal proceedings while factors like lengthy legal
process and financial burden drive them to seek justice
from within the community, lawyers say, by Abdhesh
Kumar Jha (kp 11/10/2020)
Lifer
for rape of daughter (ht 11/10/2020)
eSewa
data breached! A hacker releases nearly two dozen eSewa
users’ details including passwords : Denying data
breach, eSewa blames third party sites for ‘phishing
scams’ (rep 09/10/2020)
43-year-old
man held on charge of raping seven-year-old girl in
Kathmandu (rep 08/10/2020)
Father
of Bijay Mahara claims he was forced to change complaint
: The father of Bijay, who died in police custody, was
promised monetary compensation and martyrdom for his son
if he agreed to receive his body and change his
statement, by Shiva Puri (kp 08/10/2020)
Real
estate agent beaten to death by clients (rep
08/10/(2020), Three
arrested on charge of beating real estate agent to death
(rep 13/10/2020)
Women
Alliance Calls For Stern Action Against Guilty Of VAW
(rn 07/10/2020)
People’s
representative arrested for sexual abuse (kh
06/10/2020)
TU
assistant professor attacked with iron rod (kh
06/10/2020), Two
students arrested on charge of thrashing TU asst
professor with iron rod (rep 12/10/2020)
Expect
more rape and murder unless internal security is
improved: Experts, by Anjali Subedi (rep 05/10/2020)
Women
MPs lobby for harsher penalties for rape : As cases of
sexual violence have continued to go up despite
increased jail term, women lawmakers want rapists to be
chemically castrated, by Binod Ghimire (kp
05/10/2020)
Two
arrested for rape, hostage-taking (ht 05/10/2020), Two
arrested on charge of gang-raping teenage girl in bus in
Bhaktapur (rep 05/10/2020)
Oppn
lawmakers resort to vandalism as Province 5 Assembly
meeting deliberates on proposal to name the province as
Lumbini and make Dang its capital (rep 05/10/2020) [The destruction of public property
by office bearers must be punished severely!], NCP
conflict plays out in Province 5, Congress jumps into
the fray : Provincial assembly members from the
opposition resort to vandalism amid dispute in the
ruling party over declaring name and capital of
the province, by Tika R. Pradhan (kp 06/10/2020), An
assembly of vandals : Nepali Congress must show that a
well-behaved opposition is paramount to democracy
(kp 07/10/2020) [These MPs have
disqualified themselves as representatives of the
people, now and for all future! That they personally pay
for the damage done is the least they must do! Nepal
must show that it is a democratic constitutional state!]
Police
arrest an absconding accused of Rautahat mass murder
(rep 03/10/2020), Another
suspect of Rautahat brick kiln massacre held, by
Shiva Puri (kp 04/10/2020), Man
admits to burning alive those injured in 2008 blast
(ht 05/10/2020)
Get
Tough With Rapists, by Bini Dahal (rn 02/10/2020)
Exposed!
The story of a controversial godwoman who exploited
people for years (rep 02/10/2020)
Nepal
Army soldier held on charge of assaulting Chepang youth
in Chitwan National Park in July, by Ramesh Kumar
Paudel (kp 01/10/2020)
Ward
secretary arrested on rape charge (kh 01/10/2020)
SC
allows review of verdict to acquit accused in Ram Hari
murder case (kh)
One
arrested on charge of kidnapping and extorting Nepali
migrant worker in Malaysia (rep 30/09/2020)
Father
arrested on charge of raping daughter (rep
29/09/2020)
Ex-PM
Bhattarai’s tweet on death penalty for rapists triggers
ripples (kh 29/09/2020)
Family
refuses to accept the body of 12-year-old rape and
murder victim : The accused, who is in custody, has not
admitted to the crime, raising doubts about the police
investigation, say family members, by Basanta Pratap
Singh (kp 29/09/2020), Suspect
in Bajhang girl rape, murder case confesses to crime :
The suspect says he raped the 12-year-old and murdered
her with a trident and hammer, by Basanta Pratap
Singh (kp 01/10/2020)
Youths
seek justice for 12-year-old girl killed after rape,
by Monica Malla (rep 26/09/2020), Victim’s
family does not wish to see her body before culprit is
arrested, by Jagat Khadka (rep 27/09/2020), “Don’t
let rapists walk free”, by Dipesh Shrestha (rep
28/09/2020)
How
controversial statements by lawmakers on sensitive
issues go unchecked : A debate has started on the need
for lawmakers to change their traditional mindsets,
rather than just amend the laws and policies, by
Binu Subedi (kp 25/09/2020)
Acid
attackers to face jail term of upto 20 years and fine of
Rs 1 million (rep 25/09/2020), Ordinance
moots 20-year jail term for acid attack (ht
26/09/2020) [And what about
strict control of acid selling?]
Attempts
to dismiss rape exposed, ward chair chased off (ht
23/09/2020)
Teacher
in Kapilvastu arrested after four months on rape charge
(rep 22/09/2020)
Cases
of violence against women have gone up in Achham : Many
men who have returned home from foreign jobs due to the
pandemic have taken to drinking and hitting their wives
and children, police say, by Menuka Dhungana (kp
21/09/2020)
Woman
thrashed on charge of witchcraft in Saptari (kh
21/09/2020)
New
deterrent provisions on the cards : Punishment for acid
attack perpetrators seen as too less, by Ram Kumar
Kamat (ht 20/09/2020)
Deceased
journo Pahari’s family demands investigation (ht
20/09/2020)
Policemen
who beat up civilian at Babarmahal on Thursday to be
investigated (rep 18/09/2020), Three-member
committee formed to probe police brutality in Kathmandu
(rep 19/09/2020)
Rape
victim in Saptari commits suicide after villagers stop
her from filing a case with police (rep 16/09/2020),
Teenage
rape victim in Saptari took her own life after being
forced into out-of-court settlement : The village elders
had tried to hush up the matter and threatened the
victim and her mother of consequences if they
reported the incident with the police; The four men who
raped the 17-year-old girl are still at large, police
say, by Abdhesh Kumar Jha (kp 17/09/2020)
Two
deaths in police custody within a month (ht
14/09/2020), In-custody
death of a Dalit youth in Kailali sparks protests,
by Arjun Shah (kp 15/09/2020)
Man
may have killed wife, son, in Thimi, police
investigators say, by Shuvam Dhungana (kp
13/09/2020)
Case
filed against police for alleged custody death of
Dalit youth : Bijay Mahara’s father filed the complaint
with the Office of District Attorney on Wednesday
seeking investigation into his son’s death, by Shiva
Puri (kp 10/09/2020)
A
teenage girl held captive and gang-raped for days after
being drugged in Kanchanpur (rep 09/09/2020)
3
held in connection with 17-yr-old girl’s rape in Baitadi
(kh 09/09/2020)
Despite
pandemic, drugs still being moved into Nepal, by
Shuvam Dhungana (kp 09/09/2020)
Amid
little progress, pandemic could become an excuse to
delay justice for conflict-era victims : Five years have
passed since two commissions were formed, but not a
single investigation has been started, by Binod
Ghimire (kp 09/09/2020)
Police
officials don’t accept complaints against their own
colleagues, activists say : The latest of such examples
is police in Garuda Municipality, Rautahat refusing to
register a first information report against the death in
custody of 19-year-old Bijaya Mahara, by Binod
Ghimire (kp 08/09/2020)
Police
constable arrested for “attempt to rape” (rep
07/09/2020)
Alka
Hospital staffer found dead in jungle two days after she
went missing (rep 05/09/2020)
9
alleged in attacking traffic policeman to be sued in
offenses against public order : District Administration
Office grants remand for 7 days (kh 04/09/2020)
Woman
stabbed to death in Anamnagar (kh 04/09/2020)
Two
arrested on charge of gang rape (kh 04/09/2020)
Two
former lawmakers stage hunger strike over custody
death of Dalit youth : The struggle committee has warned
of stepping up protest if its demands are not addressed,
by Shiva Puri (kp 03/09/2020)
Crime
up in Rautahat, four killed in two weeks (ht
01/09/2020)
Demonstrations
continue over custody death of Dalit youth : Family of
Bijay Kumar has refused to accept probe committee formed
by Home Ministry, by Shiva Puri(kp 01/09/2020)
Two
killers: Cities and centralism; The federal government’s
lack of support for the vulnerable is going to add to
the death toll, by Achyut Wagle (kp 01/09/2020)
Work
or perish: The state is morally bound to safeguard its
citizens working in precarious conditions abroad (kp
01/09/2020)
“Forgotten
and Forsaken”, by Nirajan Thapaliya (ht 30/08/2020),
For
the families of the hundreds of disappeared, the long
wait for justice still continues : Fourteen years have
passed since civil conflict ended and five years since
the Commission of Investigation on Enforced Disappeared
Persons was formed, but not a single family has been
told what happened to its loved one, by Binod
Ghimire (kp 30/08/2020) [Not
even those who claim to be responsible for the death of
5.000 people are removed from all offices and taken to
court!], “Forgotten
and Forsaken”, by Nirajan Thapaliya (ht 30/08/2020),
Various
organizations call for end to continue delays in justice
for Nepal's victims (rep 30/08/2020)
Perpetrators
who shot dead temple priest remain at large : Police say
the suspected shooters are hiding in India as protesters
demand they are brought to justice, by Shiva Puri
(kp 29/08/2020)
Locals
protest the death of youth held on murder charge : The
deceased’s family has accused police of torture while
authorities claim the detainee died due to prior illness,
by Shiva Puri (kp 28/08/2020), Yet
another Dalit death puts spotlight on culture of torture
police custody : Family members and rights activists
demand investigation into the death of Bijay Mahara
detained over a murder case, by Binod Ghimire (kp
29/08/2020)
Police
looking for man who sold a 14-year-old Nepali girl in
India : She was trafficked last year but had been too
traumatised to speak up about the incident, by
Shuvam Dhungana (kp 28/08/2020)
‘I’m
shocked it happened to me’. Record-breaking athlete
encounters discrimination : Chandra Kala Lamgade, who
has represented Nepal in two South Asian Games and an
Asian Championship, was allegedly attacked for standing
up against caste-based discrimination, by Parbat
Portel(kp 28/08/2020)
Man
shot in clash over ox slaughtering dies : A clash had
ensued between the locals of Kamatoli and police on
Wednesday; police personnel had fired at the crowd, says
eyewitness, by Parbat Portel (kp 27/08/2020)
Investigation
into Chepang youth’s death in Chitwan National Park yet
to conclude : The father of the deceased had filed a
complaint with the district police against Nepal
Army personnel a month ago, but no one has been booked
yet; Nepal Army has been accused of fatally
assaulting Raj Kumar Chepang, by Ramesh Kumar Paudel
(kp 27/08/2020)
Party
panel’s transitional justice proposal draws flak : The
recommendations are political and go against principles
of transitional justice, and Nepal’s commitments to
human rights, victims and activists say, by Binod
Ghimire (kp 26/08/2020)
Health
workers say they reuse disposable masks as hospitals
don’t provide enough : More health workers not involved
in treating Covid-19 patients are getting infected with
the coronavirus due to the lack of enough personal
protective equipment, by Arjun Poudel (kp
26/08/2020)
Schools
once used as quarantine centres are now damaged and
littered with garbage : Many schools in Karnali Province
have been left to pick up after the mess left behind by
quarantined villagers, by Chandan Kathayat (kp
24/08/2020)
11-year-old
girl abducted and raped in Bardiya (kh 22/08/2020)
Seven
persons charged with Dalit youth’s murder paraded
(ht 21/08/2020)
‘Provide
proper treatment to ailing pregnant woman’ (ht
21/08/2020)
The
cost of the ruling party feud: This dispute is
destructive because of its disconnect from the pressing
issues of national interest, by Achyut Wagle (kp
18/08/2020)
How
my teacher abused me, and how I got out of the
depression that followed (rep 17/08/2020)
Bharatpur
dumps waste in Narayani River banks despite having
designated land to build a landfill site: Monsoon spells
disaster for locals living in riverbank settlements with
garbage washed ashore by the overflowing river, by
Ramesh Kumar Paudel (kp 15/08/2020)
One
arrested on charge of stabbing a youth to death (rep
15/08/2020)
Another
case spotlights apathy towards rights body: Ministry of
Home Affairs asks the National Human Rights commission
to review its recommendations on alleged extra-judicial
killing of Kumar Poudel, by Binod Ghimire (kp
14/08/2020) [The authoritarian
Oli government continues to move forward on its path of
anti-democratic and unlawful action!]
The
prolonged trauma of acid attack survivors: Teenage
survivors in Nepal get together to deter future attacks
with stricter laws and ban on sale of acid, by Laxmi
Basnet (nt 14/08/2020)
Menstrual
huts: You demolish one, we’ll build another: In Surkhet
district alone, around 2,000 menstruation huts were
demolished. But with the end of the campaign,
menstruation huts are resurfacing, by Lalit Bahadur
Budha and Hiknat Bahaduur Nepali (ae 14/08/2020) [Ram,
Ram, says the PM!]
Altab
Ansari, alleged mastermind of 15 kg precious metal
smuggling scam, arrested from Bara: Two Indian nationals
are said to be the masterminds behind the smuggling
racket while Ansari assisted them in Nepal, by
Shuvam Dhungana (kp 14/08/2020)
Govt
decides to provide Rs 1 million each to the family of
those killed in Soti incident (rep 12/08/2020) [And what about the brutal killers?
When will a court finally punish them severely? The
compensation payments to the victims and their families
must be made by all those who committed the crime,
supported it or in any way incited it!]
Rape
accused APF SSP Adhikari remanded to judicial custody
(ht 12/08/2020)
Mudbari
Confesses Murdering Bohara For Blackmailing Her: Police,
by Keshab Raj Poudel (rn 11/08/2020), Gongabu
murder case: How Poudel killed Bohora (rep
11/08/2020), Woman
arrested for killing a man and dismembering the body
found in Gongabu: Police say the premeditated murder was
an act of revenge over a relationship gone sour, by
Shuvam Dhungana (kp 12/08/2020), Woman,
daughter held in Gongabu murder case (ht 12/08/2020)
Indigenous
groups feel deprived of their access to land and natural
resources: Indigenous rights activists blame the state
for its coercive approach, the latest examples being the
eviction of Chepangs in Chitwan and plans to displace
the Newars from Khokana, by Chandan Kumar Mandal (kp
10/08/2020)
Cut-up
body found in suitcase in Gongabu: A team of officials
from the Metropolitan Police Range and the Metropolitan
Crime Division has been mobilised for further
investigation, by Shuvam Dhungana (kp 10/08/2020)
Locals,
kin of deceased vandalise Narayani Hospital (ht
10/08/2020)
Young
woman dies for want of treatment (ht 09/08/2020)
Dubious
Gold Scam: Police the abettor of racketeers: Smuggling
carried out from rented apartmen, by Gajendra Basnet
(kh 09/08/2020)
Teachers
vandalise campus chief’s office (ht 08/08/2020)
Catch
the big fish: The trade in fake VAT bills is to Nepal's
revenue sector what a tick is to a dog's ears (kp
07/08/2020)
Stadium
construction continues despite the use of substandard
material, by Rajan Gaunle (ae 07/08/2020)
Isolation
centre vandalised over food quality (ht 07/08/2020)
Around
200 firms sell fake VAT bills worth Rs 15 billion
leading to huge tax evasion: Revenue probe department:
The racketeers who sold the fake VAT bills have been
found to have registered firms in the name of poor and
ignorant people from rural areas so that they can avoid
being indicted by law enforcement agencies, by
Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp 06/08/2020)
0
rape cases in 4 years in Darchula (ht 06/08/2020)
Heinous
Crime Of Acid Attack, by Namrata Sharma (rn
05/08/2020)
PM
Oli’s IT consultant Asgar Ali’s illegal activities get
government’s amnesty: Activities include 4G expansion
discard to foreign currency misappropriation and Bitcoin
operation. by Gajendra Basnet (kh 05/08/2020)
Security
lapses uncovered in last week’s gold smuggling case:
Investigations reveal two police constables let go three
smugglers who were later arrested in Nawalparasi, by
Shuvam Dhungana (kp 02/08/2020), The
chase for gold: The connivance of security officers in
yellow metal smuggling exposes the faultlines of
policing in Nepal (kp 03/08/2020)
Porous
border, poor interception and changing forms continue to
enable human trafficking to flourish: Trafficking of
Nepali girls and women remains a big challenge for the
country as traffickers use the open border–not only to
traffick them to India, but also to further smuggle them
into the Persian Gulf and Southeast Asia, by Chandan
Kumar Mandal (kp 30/07/2020)
Nirmala
Pant murder case: Eight police personnel including SP
Bista accused of destroying evidence acquitted (rep
30/07/2020), Eight
police personnel get clean chit on Nirmala rape and
murder case (kh 30/07/2020), Court
acquits eight police officers charged in connection with
Nirmala Pant rape-murder case: The officers were charged
with meting out torture and destroying evidence, by
Bhawani Bhatta (kp 31/07/2020)
Kathmandu
Police created a “fake incident site” in 14-kg yellow
metal case, by Ashim Neupane (rep 30/07/2020)
No
To Gender Based Violence, by Namrata Sharma (rn
29/07/2020)
Seventh
grader raped and threatened to keep quiet, family fears
rapist may walk away scott-free, by Anjali Subedi
(rep 29/07/2020)
Regulate
acid sale: The chemical has become a weapon for jilted
lovers to disfigure the beloved who couldn't be theirs
(kp 27/07/2020)
Sexagenarian
arrested on rape charge (rep 25/07/2020)
A
22-year old woman attacked with acid in Kathmandu
(rep 24/07/2020), Two
arrested for throwing acid on 22-year-old woman in
capital (rep 24/07/2020), Spurned,
man asks staffer to throw acid on woman (ht
25/07/2020)
Murder-convict
former DIG Koirala released from jail (rep
23/07/2020) [???], Attorney
general questions Supreme Court verdict on Koirala case:
The former DIG of the Armed Police Force convicted of
murdering his wife was released Thursday following top
court’s order, by Tika R. Pradhan (kp 24/07/2020) [Doubts about the constitutional
action of the judiciary!], Calls
grow louder to impeach Chief Justice Rana: Verdict to
commute a wife murderer’s sentence erodes people’s trust
in judiciary, legal practitioners say, by Tika R.
Pradhan (kp 25/07/2020), Investigating
officers recall Koirala case: The former DIG would not
have been connected to his wife’s murder but for one
error he made, by Shuvam Dhungana (kp 25/07/2020)
Nepal:
Authorities must stop ruthless evictions of Indigenous
peoples (Amnesty International 22/07/2020), Amnesty
International calls for halting forced eviction of
people from Chepang community in Chitwan (rep
22/07/2020), Amnesty
condemns enforced eviction of indigenous Chepang
families by Chitwan National Park authority: The rights
organisation has called on the authorities concerned to
hold the people accountable who set fire and razed down
the huts of the landless families (kp 22/07/2020), Amnesty
International calls for halt in eviction of Chepang
peoples (kh 22/07/2020), Amnesty
International Calls For Halt In Eviction Of Indigenous
Peoples (Sancharkarmi 22/07/2020), Amnesty
International calls for halt in eviction of indigenous
peoples (Ratopati 22/07/2020), ‘Halt
forced eviction of Chepang people’ (ht 22/07/2020),
Distressed
Chepangs of Kusum Khola bemoan loss of property and
await relocation: Chitwan National Park authorities on
Saturday set ablaze two huts and vandalised eight
others, asking the indigenous people to vacate Kusum
Khola, by Ramesh Kumar Paudel (kp 23/07/2020), Chepang
organisation demands inquiry into Kusum Khola incident:
Nepal Chepang Sangh has submitted a memorandum to the
chief district officer of Chitwan, demanding legal
action against the guilty, by Ramesh Kumar Paudel
(kp 24/07/2020), Nepal
Army personnel blamed for death of Chepang youth: Nepal
Army has denied allegations of beating seven youths who
had entered Chitwan National Park on July 16 without
permission, by Ramesh Kumar Paudel (kp 25/07/2020)
Valley’s
crime rate soars with the easing of lockdown
restrictions: Police data show after the lockdown was
relaxed on June 10 crime rate has risen by more than 80
percent, by Shuvam Dhungana (kp 20/07/2020)
Man
sustains bullet injuries in a clash between APF
personnel and suspected smugglers: The injured was
rushed to Dharan-based BP Koirala Institute of Health
Sciences for treatment, by Pradeep Menyangbo (kp
19/07/2020)
Man
beaten by police at quarantine facility in Surkhet has a
fractured hand, by Nagendra Upadhyaya (rep
18/07/2020)
Man
accused in fatal drunk-driving case released on bail:
Court said Malla could be released as he was unlikely to
abscond or tamper with evidence, by Shuvam Dhungana
(kp 18/07/2020)
Pandemic
has once again thrown light on plights of Nepali women
migrant workers: Blanket ban on women from migrating
overseas for employment has only encouraged labour
trafficking and exploitation, labour migration experts
and rights groups say, by Elisha Shrestha (kp
16/07/2020)
Armed
Police Force Senior Superintendent of Police held on
rape charge (ht 16/07/2020)
Blood
on the hills: Though insufficient, the parliamentary
probe committee's recommendations on the Soti killings
must be implemented to provide justice to the victims
(kp 16/07/2020)
Rukum
(West) murder of six youths was result of caste-based
discrimination, parliamentary probe says: Study finds
sheer lapses on the part of the local administration,
local government and police in handling the incident,
by Binod Ghimire (kp 15/07/2020)
21
trafficked Nepali women coming home after nine months:
Group had ended up in Manipur after falling in the trap
of traffickers planning to take them to the Gulf, by
Suresh Raj Neupane (kp 13/07/2020), Human
trafficking woes: The government must ramp up its
measures to stop the illegal trafficking of Nepali women
to the Gulf (kp 14/07/2020)
Absconding
murder suspect held after 13 years (ht 14/07/2020)
Government
attorneys’ negligence helps Dipak Manange go scot free
(ht 13/07/2020) [Negligence or
intention or simply political corruption?]
Three
doctors, two police personnel among 12 held for illegal
kidney transplantation (ht 13/07/2020), Kidney
trafficking: Selling poor men’s kidney: Ward chair,
doctors and police in trafficking, by Gajendra
Basnet (kh 14/07/2020)
33-kg-gold
smuggling case: Hari Sharan Khadka, alleged supplier
arrested from airport: Khadka will be sent to Biratnagar
as a case against him is pending in Morang District
Court, by Shuvam Dhungana (kp 12/07/2020)
How
Bomjan manages to hoodwink police?, by Gajendra
Basnet (kh 12/07/2020)
Conflict
victims lament govt’s apathy in their joint submission
(ht 11/07/2020)
Police
bust a gang involved in a string of jewelry shop heists
in Kathmandu Valley: Two gang members are still on the
run and police suspect the duo has already sold off the
stolen items in India, by Shuvam Dhungana (kp
08/07/2020)
Sudden
move to prorogue Parliament undermines legislature,
experts say: The budget session was ended saying it
lacked business, but there are some crucial bills,
including one related to citizenship, pending for
approval, by Binod Ghimire (kp 05/07/2020)
COVID-19
Magnifies Domestic Violence, by Suman Raj Tamrakar
(rn 05/07/2020)
Exploitation
risk for women migrant workers has increased during
pandemic, labour migration experts and rights activists
say: They have urged the government to protect
vulnerable women migrant workers and ensure their wages
and other legal rights, by Chandan Kumar Mandal (kp
05/07/2020)
Sexual
exploitation case filed against Ram Bahadur Bomjan in
Sarlahi: A complaint was registered against the
controversial spiritual leader earlier this year for
allegedly raping a 15-year-old, by Om Prakash Thakur
(kp 04/07/2020)
Body
of a girl found in Dhanusha’s field; rape-murder
suspected, by Brij Kumar Yadav (ht 04/07/2020)
Police
fire warning shots during demonstration by Dalit
Struggle Committee: The protest was launched demanding
justice for two Dalit youths who died in the past month;
one at an isolation centre in Dhanusha and the other in
Sabaila police custody, by Santosh Singh (kp
03/07/2020)
Government
tells UN that it will incorporate conflict victims’
concerns but victims are not convinced: Victims have
called the government’s response to the concerns of five
special UN human rights rapporteurs insincere and the
entire transitional justice process flawed, by Binod
Ghimire (kp 02/07/2020)
Nepal
Police devises action plan to curb crime (ht
27/06/2020)
Rupandehi
District Court remands in custody three people arrested
in connection with murder of Dalit teen: Prosecutors
filed a charge sheet against the trio on June 21 and
presented them before the court on Tuesday, by Sanju
Poudel (kp 26/06/2020)
Student
leaders set fire to TU VC’s chair (ht 25/06/2020)
12
trafficking victims, including three minors, rescued in
past three months: The Anti-human Trafficking Bureau of
Nepal Police says there’s a risk of traffickers
targeting the people who have become financially
vulnerable due to the Covid-19 pandemic and the lockdown,
by Shuvam Dhungana (kp 24/06/2020)
Police
arrest in-laws over death of Hetauda woman:
Investigators, family of deceased believe she was
murdered, by Shuvam Dhungana (kp 20/06/2020)
Police
raid Ram Bahadur Bomjan’s ashram in Sindhuli: Search is
on for the controversial cult leader after security
personnel seal the site, by Raj Kumar Karki (kp
19/06/2020)
Reports
suspect police negligence, political protection for
murderers in Rukum killings: They doubt a strong case
will be presented to prosecute the perpetrators, by
Tika R. Pradhan (kp 17/06/2020), Kin
of the youths killed in Soti continues protest demanding
justice: Protesters demand to scrap of the alleged
‘falsified’ postmortem report, by Bhim Bahadur Singh
(kp 17/06/2020), Dalit
killings in Rukum village spark outrage over caste
discrimination (ht 18/06/2020)
Janata
Socialist Party youth leader charged with rape (ht
17/06/2020)
Bank
fraudster Shrestha to face money laundering case at
Special Court: Shrestha is accused of embezzling Rs 2.6
billion while he was serving as the executive chairman
of Nepal Share Market and Finance Limited, by
Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp 17/06/2020)
Woman
in quarantine in Kailali gang raped, by Dil Bahadur
Chhatyal (rep 15/06/2020)
In-custody
death of a Musahar man sparks protests in Janakpur:
Police say 23-year-old Shambhu Sada committed suicide,
but family members suspect it was an extra-judicial
killing, by Ajit Tiwari (kp 15/06/2020) [Nepal
is also ripe for an anti-racism movement and a
correction of its view of history, including its
questionable heroes, identifications and
socio-hierarchical discrimination!]
Cases
filed against 34 people demanding life imprisonment for
Dalit youth killings in Soti: Homicide, attempted
homicide and caste-based discrimination and
untouchability charges have been filed against them,
by Krishna Prasad Gautam (kp 15/06/2020), Relatives
of youths killed in Soti question 'ambiguous'
post-mortem reports: Protesters accuse doctors of caving
under political pressure and vandalise Jajarkot hospital,
by Bhim Bahadur Singh (kp 16/06/2020)
Cross-border
small arms trade posing security threat in Tarai (ht
14/06/2020)
In
Saptari, a Musahar woman is accused of practising
witchcraft and beaten: Despite being beaten bloody with
a metal plate, Manjudevi Sada has been ordered by the
village panchayat to settle with the perpetrators and
not file a case, by Abdhesh Kumar Jha (kp
11/06/2020)
Two
more arrested in connection to Dalit killings in Rukum
(West): A relative of the Malla family accused of
orchestrating the killings, and another unidentified
individual have been arrested based on call data, said
police, by Bhim Bahadur Singh (kp 11/06/2020), All
20 prime accused in the killings of Dalit youths in
Rukum (West) arrested: Police arrested three more people
on Wednesday in connection to the incident, by Hari
Gautam (kp 12/06/(2020)
Water
cannons and batons at protest against government’s
handling of the pandemic: Police employed force to
disperse around 150 people gathered in peaceful protest
outside the prime minister’s residence in Baluwatar,
by Anup Ojha (kp 10/06/2020)
Digging
for justice: Keep an eye on the parliamentar committee’s
probe on Soti killings (kp 10/06/2020)
Nepal:
End impunity for caste-based discrimination and killings
(Forum-Asia 09/06/2020)
Police
arrest Rautahat brick kiln ‘massacre’ suspect: Eleven
people, including former lawmaker Mohammad Aftab Alam,
have been accused of incinerating people injured in an
explosion in Rautahat on the eve of the first
Constituent Assembly elections, by Shiva Puri (kp
08/06/2020), Rupandehi
murder update: Five struck to death with spade
(kh 09/06/2020), Five
people murdered in Rupandehi farm; suspect in police
custody: The murder suspect prone to erratic mood
swings, said police and locals, by Ghanashyam Gautam
(kp 10/06/2020), District
Court remands main accused of Rupandehi mass murder to
seven days in custody: Five people were bludgeoned to
death at a cattle farm in Tilottama Municipality on
Monday night, by Ghanashyam Gautam (kp 11/06/2020)
‘Lawmaker
Satgaunwa’s remark to be probed’ (ht 08/06/2020)
A
shadow pandemic: With the lockdown grabbing all
attention, domestic violence against women is often
overlooked, by Nilima Adhikari (kp 07/06/2020)
One
of the accused of Rautahat mass killing arrested
(rep 07/06/2020)
Rukum
killings ‘crime against humanity’ (ae 05/06/2020)
Soti
incident accused remanded in custody for ten more days:
Police have arrested 18 people, including Dambar Bahadur
Malla, the ward chairman of Chaurjahari Ward No. 8, over
their involvement in the alleged murder (kp
05/06/2020)
Challenge
To End Caste Discrimination, by Gopal Khanal (rn
04/06/2020)
“He
was beaten the whole night, and his body burnt by lit
cigarettes”, by Ashim Neupane (rep 04/06/2020)
Police
to probe manhandling of NMC doc (ht 01/06/2020)
NHRC
deploys separate team to probe Soti incident
(ht01/06/2020)
Soti
incident premeditated, a team of provincial assembly
members concludes: Karnali state legislators call for an
impartial investigation into the Dalit killings and
punishment for the perpetrators, by Bhim Bahadur
Singh & Hari Gautam (kp 31/05/2020)
Rights
commission expresses concern over death after rape
incident in Rupandehi: National Human Rights Commission
says its Butwal office has started a probe into the
incident (kp 30/05/2020), NHRC
concerned about death of rape victim (ht 30/05/2020)
Still
untouchable: Navaraj BK and his friends died because he
loved an upper-caste girl. He won’t be the last, by
Amish Raj Mulmi (kp 29/05/2020)
UN,
AI demand impartial probe into Rukum incident (ht
29/05/2020), Nepal:
Bachelet condemns Dalit killings, calls for independent
investigation (OHCR 28/05/2020), Nepal:
Authorities must deliver justice for Dalit killings
(AI 28/05/2020), UN
condemns Dalit killings in Rukum (West) and calls for
independent probe: Despite constitutional guarantees,
impunity for caste-based discrimination and violence
remains high in Nepal, UN High Commissioner for Human
Rights says (kp 29/05/2020)
Thousands
of Nepalis without food or shelter await entrance at the
Karnali border: Migrants arriving from India are massed
at the border without basic amenities as the provincial
government has sought to test them all for Covid-19
before letting them in, by Aditi Aryal (kp
27/05/2020)
As
popularity of virtual meetings soar, concerns over abuse
and harassment come to surface: Law enforcement
officials say it is difficult to track down and punish
people ‘bombing’ online meetings as they don’t leave
behind evidence, by Elisha Shrestha (kp 27/05/2020)
Bodies
of two Dalit men recovered from Bheri River: A Dalit man
went to marry a girl from ‘upper-caste’ but her family
and villagers chased them into the river, by Hari
Gautam and Bhim Bahadur Singh (kp 25/05/2020), Serious
human rights violations against Dalits reported during
lockdown: Parliamentary committee orders the government
to book culprits, by Tika R. Pradhan (kp
26/05/2020), One
more body recovered from the Bheri River on Monday: The
third victim was among the 18 who had accompanied
Nabaraj BK to Soti in Rukum (West). The deceased Nabaraj
was killed in his pursuit of a girl whose family deemed
him ‘untouchable’, by Bhim Bahadur Singh & Hari
Gautam (kp 26/05/2020), 15
including ward chair arrested in connection with Nawaraj
BK’s killing, by Dinesh Kumar Shrestha
(ht26/05/2020), Caste-based
discrimination ends a beautiful relationship: Even a
locally-elected representative was against their
relationship, by Lokendra Khanal and Ganesh Bishu
(rep 26/05/2020), Government
forms team to investigate the death of three youths in
Rukum West: Lawmakers have demanded a parliamentary
probe committee to study discriminations against Dalits
throughout the country (kp 27/05/2020) [This is an extremely severe criminal case, based
on Hindu fanatic thinking! Why are representatives from
ministries participated? Or are you loking for ways to
eliminate outdated Hindu social thinking and behaviour?],
Fourth
body recovered: from Bheri River: Family members and
relatives of the deceased had found the body on
Wednesday, by Hari Gautam (kp 28/05/2020), One
more body recovered from Bheri River; death toll of Soti
incident reaches five: Search is on for another missing
person, police say, by Hari Gautam and Bhim Bahadur
Singh (kp 29/05/2020), Soti
incident: Sixth missing body found after 10 days: The
deceased along with his 18 friends was attacked by Soti
villagers while the group was accompanying Nabaraj BK to
bring home his 17-year-old girlfriend as his bride,
by Bhim Bahadur Singh (kp 03/06/2020)
With
people staying home, burglars target shops and empty
houses: Forty-four cases of burglary have been reported
in the Valley in the last two months, by Shuvam
Dhungana (kp 24/05/2020)
Police
raided Mohammed Aftab Alam’s home in Rautahat on
Thursday night in search of his brother: The locals,
unaware of the raid, encircled the security team
thinking there was a robbery, and the police had to fire
warning shots a dozen times to disperse the crowd,
by Shiva Puri (kp 23/05/2020)
Police
hit 67-year-old with baton for stepping out to buy milk:
Man sustains a broken bone in his right leg due to the
severity of the blow, by Bhusan Yadav (kp
19/05/2020) [Both this police
officer and the person who ordered such action must be
brought to justice!]
Nepal
hasn’t allowed UN rapporteurs on transitional justice to
visit country: The government is afraid their visit will
expose it’s failure, say victims and human rights
activists, by Binod Ghimire (kp 17/05/2020)
Order
to shoot at fleeing patients draws flak (ht
16/05/2020)
Survivors
of domestic violence are forced to “compromise” with
abusive husbands, by Sher Bahadur Jero (rep
16/05/2020)
Unidentified
group thrashes Bara journalist (ht 12/05/2020)
Five
held for using street kids to steal (ht 12/05/2020)
COVID-19
And The Threat Of Cybercrime, by Kumar Abhinav (rn
11/05/2020)
For
Nepali women, rampant objectification and sexualisation
on the internet: One community on Reddit with more than
4,500 members has been sexualising, objectifying and
humiliating women with photos taken from their social
media accounts, by Aditi Aryal (kp 07/05/2020), Shedding
light: It is disturbing that pages propagating rape,
misogyny, paedophilia and the invasion of privacy exist
(kp 08/05/2020)
NHRC
member slams rumour-mongers (ht 06/05/2020)
Biplav
outfit leader Bandhu Chand released after 14 months
(kh 06/05/2020) [The Bandhu Chand case is a prime example of the
criminal contempt of judicial decisions by the Oli
government!]
Cyber
risk increases along with rising trend of webinars,
by Arpana Ale Magar (ht 06/05/2020)
OAG
submits annual report to president (ht 05/05/2020)
Two
men held for running illegal remittance business:
Although crime rates in the Kathmandu Valley have
dropped significantly during the lockdown, police
continue to receive complaints, by Shuvam Dhungana
(kp 03/05/2020)
Man
arrested for raping 15-year-old girl in Dang (kh
03/05/2020)
Hospitals
turn away patients with fever, by Laxmi Gautam (ht
02/05/2020)
OHCHR
urges govt to amend TJ law in support of SC ruling
(rep 01/05/2020) [see OHCHR
Press briefing note on Nepal], Four
int'l HR bodies urge govt to immediately amend TJ law in
line with Supreme Court ruling (rep 01/05/2020) [see
press
statement by AI, HRW, ICJ and TRIAL International],
International
rights bodies, UN welcome Supreme Court decision on
transitional justice: Government should now amend the
law to comply with the verdict, they say, by Binod
Ghimire (kp 02/05/2020)
Four
children killed in a bomb blast in Rolpa: Two of the
deceased children are said to be from the same family,
by Kashiram Dangi (kp 01/05/2020)
Expecting
mother expelled from operation theatre (ht
01/05/2020)
After
police and district attorney’s refusal to take
complaint, lawmaker Surendra Yadav approaches human
rights commission: Commission asks Nepal Police to
explain in writing why it refused to register Yadav’s
case and ensure his and his family’s safety (kp
01/05/2020), District
attorney office takes Yadav abduction complaint but only
after a counter-complaint by the accused: Complaint by
ruling party leaders accused of kidnapping lawmaker
Surendra Yadav is aimed at defusing the case, lawyers
say, by Tika R. Pradhan and Binod Ghimire (kp
05/05/2020), Yadav
finally gets to lodge FIR against ex-IGP, NCP MPs
(ht 05/05/2020)
Three
injured in a clash between APF personnel and locals in
Nawalparasi: Security personnel baton-charged the crowd
for disobeying lockdown, locals say, by Nabin Paudel
(kp 01/05/2020)
Police
arrest drug peddlers operating in the guise of importing
essential goodsIn Province 1, police have so far seized
over 2,800 vehicles on charge of defying the lockdown;
1,523 individuals have been in police custody for the
same charge, by Madhav Ghimire (kp 01/05/2020)
In
Province 5, sexual harassment and domestic abuse cases
are getting more severe: A large number of sexual
harassment cases in the province still go unreported,
said police, by Sanju Poudel (kp 29/04/2020)
Seven
rape cases reported in Kapilbastu in a month (kh
29/04/2020)
Nepalis
stranded in India continue to brave Mahakali River to
return home: More than 30 people tried to cross the
boundary river this weekend, by Manoj Badu (kp
29/04/2020) [Responsible for the crime is Mr. Oli, who claims
the right to deny Nepali citizens a safe return to their
villages]
Woman
thrashed to death (kh 28/04/2020)
With
everyone forced indoors and online by the lockdown,
cases of cybercrime are increasing: Police advise that
individuals take safety measures to protect their
information and identities online as criminals too have
more time on their hands, by Aditi Aryal and Shuvam
Dhungana (kp 28/04/2020)
SC
rejects govt’s request to review verdict on transitional
justice (rep 27/04/2020), Supreme
Court thwarts attempt to retain amnesty provisions in
transitional justice law: The government now has no
option but to amend the law to adhere to the court’s
February 2015 landmark order, by Binod Ghimire (kp
28/04/2020)
SP-N
alleges party lawmaker abducted (ht 24/04/2020), Nepal
Police’s refusal to register Surendra Yadav abduction
case raises questions about its neutrality: Many believe
police are acting on order from on high to not register
the case, especially since: it involves powerful
political actors and a former chief of police, by
Shuvam Dhungana Tika R Pradhan (kp 27/04/2020), NC,
RPP and People's Socialist Party demand legal action
against those involved in 'kidnapping' lawmaker Yadav
(rep 28/04/2020), After
police, district attorney also refuses to register
complaint against alleged kidnapping of lawmaker Yadav:
District attorney asked the complainants to leave an
application, but didn’t file the complaint, Janata
Samajbadi leaders said (kp 29/04/2020), JSP-N
MP’s abduction case a hot potato: Govt attorney accused
of turning deaf ear to kidnapping complaint against
ex-IG, lawmakers (ht 29/04/2020), District
Attorney Office registers ‘abduction’ complaint by
lawmaker Yadav (kh 04/05/2020)
Former
secy arrested for cyber offence (ht 24/04/2020), Freedom
Forum concerned (ht 24/04/2020)
How
one Pokhara resident led a smear campaign to get an
American kicked out of the country: After his romantic
advances were rejected, one individual used his
influence with an online news portal to smear and
discredit a foreigner, a month-long Post investigation
has revealed, by Shuvam Dhungana and Pranaya SJB
Rana (kp 23/04/2020)
Mahottari
sees rise in illegal mining of construction aggregate
during lockdown: Two journalists were threatened for
covering the story about illegal mining in the district
on Thursday, by Sunita Baral (kp 23/04/2020)
Locals
beat up ward office representative accusing him of
nepotism in relief distribution: Relief distribution
programmes in other parts of the district have also
courted controversy, while some wards are yet to
coordinate any efforts, by Abdesh Kumar Jha (kp
21/04/2020)
Police
clueless about three bodies found during lockdown
(ht 21/04/2020)
Police
sub-inspector beat up health worker in Dharan: Health
workers staged a protest outside the city demanding
action the officer following the incident, by
Pradeep Menyangbo (kp 17/04/2020) [The
policemen's mistaken idea that they could beat other
people at any time has not changed a bit since the royal
panchayat era!], Police
Punish 50 Morning Walkers (rn 17/04/2020) [The
police have to guarantee law and order, but they have no
right to order punishment.]
Wood
smuggling, wildlife poaching cases up (ht
17/04/2020)
Hackers
gain unauthorised access to .np domain: The group also
threatens to infiltrate Nepal Electricity Authority’s
system, by Umesh Poudel (ht 16/04/2020)
NTA
cautions against fake mobile calls: Advises against
calling back 1-ring calls originating abroad (ht
16/04/2020)
VAW
in lockdown: More than 104 cases in two weeks, by
Sabina Karki (kh 15/04/2020)
Man
in police custody for raping woman inside moving truck:
Police say the driver was released after the woman
vouched his innocence, by Shuvam Dhungana (kp
15/04/2020)
Woman
dies trying to protect son from police thrashing (ht
14/04/2020), Woman
dies in stampede following clash between police and
locals in Saptari: The incident occurred as security
personnel were taking action against the locals who had
gathered in the market place, by Bharat Jarghamagar
and Abdhesh Kumar Jha (kp 14/04/2020)
Valley’s
crime rate drops during lockdown: There has been no
serious crime in the last 20 days, police say, by
Shuvam Dhungana (kp 13/04/2020)
Wildfire,
poaching and tree felling go unchecked in forests of
Morang and Mahottari: Forest officials claim that the
poachers sparked wildfires to trap the wildlife, by
Binod Bhandari and Sunita Baral (kp 13/04/2020), Lockdown
a boon for timber smugglers, by Laxman Ghimire (rep
13/04/2020)
Around
200 Khayar trees cut down in Tripurasundari, Dhading:
Smugglers have cut down trees taking advantage of
nationwide lockdown, locals say, by Harihar Singh
Rathour (kp 12/04/2020)
Shanker
Group owner Agrawal arrested for overpricing thermal
guns: Medical equipment suppliers suspect foul play as
many of them ordered thermal guns from China, but none
of them received their cargo, by Prithvi Man
Shrestha (kp 08/04/2020)
Rautahat
police confiscate ambulances on charge of carrying
passengers during lockdown: Of the three ambulances, two
are privately owned and one belongs to the Nepal Red
Cross Society in Hirapur, by Shiva Puri (kp
05/04/2020)
Timber
smugglers are entering Nawalparasi forest taking
advantage of lockdown: As many as 65 trees were felled
in the past few days in Nawalparasi (East), forest
officials say, by Narayan Sharma (kp 05/04/2020)
Concerns
over safety of public money, data after F1Soft's
intrusion in news website (rep 03/04/2020)
Rise
in GBV, sexual abuse cases feared (ht 01/04/2020)
Man
accused of raping minor arrested (ht 31/03/2020)
More
than 2,000 lockdown violators punished (ht
31/03/2020), [The police have no
right to punish anybody! This would be a task of the
judiciary! It's time for the police to under stand their
limits!]
As
Covid-19 fears grow, some medical personnel face
eviction from their homes: Reports of medical personnel
being forced to work without adequate protection have
only aggravated discriminatory behaviour from landlords,
say doctors, by Arjun Poudel & Aditi Aryal (kp
30/03/2020)
Construction
company leaves workers high and dry at Gauda: Around
1,100 workers stranded for the past one week at various
construction sites of Kaligandaki corridor road
construction projects struggling to make their way home,
by Narayan Sharma (kp 30/03/2020)
Serial
killer Sobhraj in sentence waiver list (ht
29/03/2020)
In
Butwal, juvenile delinquents are compelled to stay at a
crowded correctional facility without proper means: As a
result of the overcrowding, many suffer from
skin-related diseases, by Amrita Anmol (kp
22/03/2020)
Neighbour
confesses to rape and murder of 17-year-old girl in Ilam
(ht 21/03/2020)
Government
launches coordinated inspections to curb black
marketeering of essential goods: The Department of
Commerce, Supplies and Consumer Protection Management
carried out inspections at 161 firms and penalised 57 in
the month of Falgun, by Shuvam Dhungana (kp
20/03/2020)
Police
seize one million masks (ht 19/03/2020), Confiscated
face masks to be sold from Sajha Swasthya Sewa (rep
19/03/2020)
Police
arrest a dozen in a span of two weeks for possessing
illegal pharmaceutical drugs: According to the data
provided by the bureau, the number of people arrested
for drug possession has been rising in recent years,
by Shuvam Dhungana (kp 18/03/2020)
Man
who slapped NCP leader Dahal held after 7 years (ht
16/03/2020) [And what about the
man who claims responsibility for the killing of 5.000
people! He is still not held!]
CIEDP
team in Rolpa to investigate into war-time cases
(rep 16/03/2020)
Transitional
justice is backsliding: To ensure better predictability,
a national roadmap with parliamentary ownership could be
a way out, by Tika P. Dhakal (kp 15/03/2020)
Complaints
of the disappeared have themselves disappeared!, by
Dinesh Subedi (rep 15/03/2020)
Police
arrest black marketeers, confiscate 75,000 face masks
(rep 15/03/2020)
Student
leader found guilty of rape gets eight and half years in
prison: Rai, a former assistant secretary at the Ratna
Rajya Laxmi Campus chapter of the All Nepal National
Free Students Union, was accused of raping an the girl
by luring her to his relatives’ place in Makalbari,
by Shuvam Dhungana (kp 14/03/2020)
Extrajudicial
killings continue in Nepal, reveals report (ht
14/03/2020)
Explosion
at former minister Baskota's under-constrution house
(ht 12/03/2020) Police
arrest a person in relation to blast at former
communication minister Baskota's house: Interrogation is
underway with the arrestee who is a district member of
Netra Bikram Chand-led Communist Party of Nepal, by
Shuvam Dhungana (kp 12/03/2020), Police
arrest three more in connection with blast at Baskota’s
house: On March 11, a group detonated a powerful IED on
the premises of former Minister Gokul Prasad Baskota,
by Shuvam Dhungana (kp 21/03/2020)
Regulate
acid sale: Apart from regulating the sale of acid, the
perpetrators of acid attacks should be meted out strict
punishment as a deterrent (ht 12/03/2020)
Twenty-nine-year-old
woman held for throwing acid on husband’s face (ht
11/03/2020), Victim
of acid attack blamed on wife runs out of money (rep
22/03/2020), Acid
attack victim seeks support for treatment (ht
23/03/2020)
Drug
traffickers active in Kavre district again (ht
11/03/2020)
Bizarre
punishment: Teacher sent to custody (ht 11/03/2020)
The
cost of extreme political traumatisation: The state and
the political parties are in denial about the sexual
violence that occurred during the conflict, by Susan
Risal (kp 10/03/2020)
A
51-year-old woman attacked with acid in Kapilvastu
district: Bedamati Devi Gupta, who was attacked by her
neighbour Hari Narayan Barai following a spat, is
receiving treatment at Universal College of Medical
Sciences in Bhairahawa, by Manoj Paudel (kp
09/03/2020)
Chief
accused of journalist Birendra Sah’s murder arrested:
Sah, a print and broadcast journalist, was killed in
October 2007, by Laxmi Sah (kp 09/03/2020)
Man
arrested for defrauding 60 people promising jobs abroad:
He used to target youngsters who didn’t know the
procedures to apply to work outside Nepal, police say,
by Shuvam Dhungana (kp 09/03/2020)
Justice
and gender equality in the age of #MeToo: It is only a
matter of time before the men hiding behind their title
and power are unveiled and brought to justice, by
Sakun Gajurel (kp 08/03/2020)
Caste-based
domestic violence against women rife in Rolpa, by
Dinesh Subedi (rep 08/03/2020)
Teacher
forcing students to cut their hands arrested (rep
08/03/2020)
In
criminal cases, police often fail to ensure privacy or
security for complainants, resulting in threats and
bribes: Threats and bribes can lead the complainant to
ultimately change their statements in courts, weakening
the case and resulting in a lack of conviction, by
Shuvam Dhungana (kp 06/03/2020)
Provincial
Assembly member Rawal arrested on attempt to rape charge,
by Pushpa Raj Joshi (rep 05/03/2020)
Siddhababa
surrenders, sent to jail, by Amar Khadka (rep
04/03/2020)
Youth
arrested for throwing shoe targeting Nepal Communist
Party chair Dahal: The 22-year-old youth from Jumla has
been identified as a son of a former Maoist fighter,
by Shuvam Dhungana (kp 02/03/2020) [Not
correct but understandable! This act is absolutely
harmless compared to the killing of 5,000 people for
which Dahal has claimed responsibility!], Flying
objects: When dissatisfaction reaches a tipping point,
people will protest (kp 03/03/2020), Panel
formed to probe shoe attack on Dahal (ht 03/03/2020)
[????], People
are angry (rep 03/03/2020)
What
you need to know about ethical hackers in Nepal: The
country’s cyber security is not the strongest. And with
everything going digital—from national identity cards to
driving licenses—if we are not too careful, we could
invite in a lot of risks, by Shashwat Pant (kp
03/03/2020)
UN
concerned over Nepal’s TJ process (rep 01/03/2020)
Nepal
Rastra Bank unit issues a set of guidelines on
suspicious transactions, defining what constitutes a
suspicious transaction: The directives come at a time
when Nepal is preparing for mutual evaluation this year
with Asia Pacific Group on Money Laundering of its
compliance with the global standards on anti-money
laundering and terrorist financing, by Prithvi Man
Shrestha (kp 01/03/2020)
Video
of police officer baton charging a woman carrying a
child outrages the public: The video once again calls
attention to the police’s use of excessive force against
peaceful protestors who pose no threat, by Shuvam
Dhungana (kp 29/02/2020), [No
one has the right to beat other people, especially not
with wooden sticks. Even policemen who do this are to be
treated as criminals!], Police
inspector mercilessly beats up woman, by Sabitri
Dhakal (ht 29/02/2020)
Two
Bajura teachers absconding on facing rape allegations,
by Tekendra Deuba (ht 28/02/2020)
Gyawali
claims progress on transitional justice in Geneva but
back home, victims are boycotting the process: Rights
activists and victims call Foreign Minister Pradeep
Gyawali’s claim that the transitional justice
commissions are working independently a ‘blatant lie’,
by Binod Ghimire (kp 27/02/2020)
Advisor
to state minister arrested for abduction and rape of a
teenager: Amrit Kumar Ghale, economic advisor to State
Minister for Urban Development Ram Bir Manandhar
abducted a teenager, held her captive for several days
and raped multiple times, by Shuvam
Dhungana (kp 27/02/2020)
1,104
absconding convicts held (ht 23/02/2020)
Transitional
justice could be an issue for Nepal at the upcoming
Human Rights Council meet: It is likely that questions
will not be too critical, but at the Universal Periodic
Review in November, the government is certain to face
serious queries, say activists, by Anil Giri (kp
22/02/2020)
Regulate
sale of acid, rights activists and attack survivors urge
government: According to a report, 16 people, 13 of them
women, have been attacked with acid since 2015/2016. Yet
acid is readily available for just Rs 25, by Elisha
Shrestha (kp 21/02/2020)
Youth
arrested for raping junior college student (ht
21/02/2020) [A 21-year-old man
should no longer be called youth!]
Thirteen
cases of police torture reported in 2019 (ht
21/02/2020)
Women
protest demanding arrest of murder accused (ht
21/02/2020)
Badge
of honor, by Guffadi (rep 2102/2020)
Replicating
Nepal’s stolen gods: It is difficult to get western
museums to return trafficked deities, so Nepalis are
making copies of the missing statuary, by Alisha
Sijapati (nt 21/02/2020)
Conflict
victims warn non-cooperation to the transitional justice
commission until Act is amended: Chief of disappearance
enquiry commission assures ‘fair and impartial
investigations’, by Binod Ghimire (kp 19/02/2020)
CIEDP
making final-round probe into disappearance cases
(rep 19/02/2020)
Shadow
of impunity: Election of Agni Sapkota to the post of
House Speaker looked like a state-sponsored drama
orchestrated by undermining criminal accountability,
by Charan Prasai (rep 19/02/2020)
Mahara’s
acquittal and Tumbahangphe’s elevation to minister will
have lasting effects, analysts say: While Krishna
Bahadur Mahara was acquitted of attempted rape charges,
Shiva Maya Tumbahangphe was appointed minister for law,
both on the same day, by Tika R. Pradhan (kp
18/02/2020) [Without
clarification and disclosure of the full circumstances
of the Mahara case, the decision remains unsatisfactory!],
A
travesty of justice: It is surprising to note that the
KDC did not deem it necessary to look into other details
of attempt to rape submitted by the police (ht
19/02/2020)
Ward
chair arrested for digital sexual harassment (rep
18/02/2020)
Two
arrested for defrauding woman of Rs 6 million: Members
of the gang were found to have duped another person into
depositing Rs 7 million in their account, by Shuvam
Dhungana (kp 18/02/2020)
Teacher
accused of molestation, primary schoolgirls request
school authorities for investigation, by Ujjwal
Satyal (ht 17/02/2020), Justice
likely to elude children allegedly molested by their
school teacher, by Ujjwal Satyal (ht 18/02/2020), Guardians
offer to get teacher booked, by Ujjwal Satyal (ht
19/02/2020), School
teacher accused of molesting students arrested: Police
act after principal finally files FIR, by Ujjwal
Satyal (ht 20/02/2020)
Police
arrest 57 persons involved in criminal activities
(ht 17/02/2020)
16
gamblers arrested with Rs 625,000 cash in Tarkeshwor:
According to official data, during the 2018/19 fiscal,
police detained 2,869 people in connection with
gambling—the highest in last three years, by Shuvam
Dhungana (kp 16/02/2020)
Rural
municipality chair accused of coercing a Dalit woman
into abortion: Jaya Bahadur Chemjong is among seven
people accused of forcing a Dalit woman to abort her
fetus at 21 weeks as she was in an intercaste marriage,
district police say, by Ananda Gautam (kp
15/02/2020)
Although
sentenced to jail, Prithvi Malla has been spending his
days in the hospital: Malla, accused of killing a woman
while drunk driving, has been at Chirayu Hospital for
over a month on ailments that doctors say should not
require a long hospitalisation, by Shuvam Dhungana
(kp 15/02/2020)
‘Negligent’
officials in Nirmala Pant case could be exonerated:
Review committee endorses police move to arrest Dilip
Singh Bista, by Shuvam Dgungana (kp 14/02/2020)
VAW
complaints up (ht 14/02/2020)
Crossborder
cybercrime and punishment: Nepali women blackmailed over
private content on the social web seek justice, by
Sabina Devkota (nt 14/02/2020)
Illegal
crusher industry operating in Rameshwornath Community
Forest in spite of ban: All crusher industries across
the eight districts of Province 2 have been closed
following the death of Dilip Mahato, who had been
protesting against illegal mining of riverbed material
in Dhanusham by Santosh Singh (kp 12/01/2020)
Former
secretary Arjun Karki's wife dies while undergoing
treatment for head injury: Muna Karki had a serious head
injury, while the domestic help was found hanging in the
dining room on Monday morning, by Swarup Acharya and
Madhusudhan Bhattarai (kp 11/02/2020), Former
secy’s wife killed in cold blood (ht 11/02/2020)
Nirmala
murder mystery: Police get nod to probe Dilip Bista
again (ht 11/02/2020)
Nepal
Police records criminal complaints against its officers,
but only a few are brought to justice: Police
spokesperson DIG Shailesh Thapa Kshetri says most
complaints turn out to be baseless, by Shuvam
Dhungana (kp 10/02/2020)
Drunken
group attacks police station, two injured, by Dhruba
Dangal (rep 09/02/2020)
Transitional
justice commissions have not taken any steps to bring
victims and rights activists on board: Disappearance
commission is preparing its work plan without consulting
with conflict victims, by Binod Ghimire (kp
08/02/2020)
Alam
to remain in judicial custody: Janakpur High Court
upholds lower court decision to keep him behind bars
until verdict is passed (kp 08/02/2020)
Arrest
warrant issued against former DSP accused of rape
(ht 07/02/2020)
Who
is the controversial swami everyone can’t stop talking
about? The self-proclaimed Swami Balyogeshwor has been
implicated in multiple fraud cases and has disappeared
ever since the charges became public, by Sailendra
Adhikari and Samuel Chhetri (kp 06/02/2020)
Two
persons held for fraud in Rautahat (ht 06/02/2020)
Parsa
police take harsh measure to control drugs smuggling:
Smugglers have been using Parsa as a transit to smuggle
drugs produced in Makwanpur and Dhading to India, by
Shankar Acharya (kp 05/02/2020)
Cops
involved in killing CPN leader to face action: Police
had fired nine shots to kill Kumar Poudel on the banks
of the Lakhandehi River in Lalbandi, Sarlahi, by
Ujjwal Satyal (ht 04/02/2020), Take
strong action: As an institution, Nepal Police cannot
escape from taking legal action against erring policemen
involved in Poudel’s extra-judicial killing (ht
05/02/2020)
Minor
raped in Bara (ht 04/02/2020)
Rajbiraj
campus vandalised (ht 04/02/2020)
Complaints
about stolen and lost mobile phones are rising, but
police are hardly helpful: Police blame a cumbersome
process for tracing missing phones, by Shuvam
Dhungana (kp 03/02/2020)
The
endless battle of Narcotics Control Bureau to stop drug
smuggling in Nepal: Since a unit under Nepal Police was
upgraded as a bureau, more arrests have been made, but
officials say more needs to be done, by Shuvam
Dhungana (kp 02/02/2020)
Dharan
SSP booked for rape, suspended (ht 01/02/2020), Rape-accused
SSP Rana surrenders (ht 03/02/2020)
54-yr-old
man arrested on the charge of raping 4-yr-old girl,
by Madan Thakur (rep 01/02/2020)
Youth
gets life sentence for killing girlfriend (ht
01/02/2020)
CIB
submits land grab probe report to MoHA (ht
01/02/2020), CIB
report on Baluwatar land scam exonerates top
politicians: Suggests legal action against bureaucrats,
middlemen (rep 01/02/2020)
DoTM’s
server gets partially hacked: Online driving licence
registration system to be offline till the issue is
sorted out (ht 01/02/2020)
What
is the controversy over Agni Sapkota as Speaker all
about? Ever since the ruling Nepal Communist Party
selected Sapkota as its candidate for Speaker of the
House, rights activists and conflict victims have
protested the decision, by Mohan Guragain (kp
30/01/2020)
Terror
suspects arrested in India say they were using Nepal as
a base but security agencies are clueless: The
revelation by three suspected ISIS operatives arrested
in Delhi displays an intelligence failure on the part of
Nepal’s security agencies, by Shuvam Dhungana and
Shashwat Pant (kp 30/01/2020)
Chand-led
cadres allegedly destroyed construction equipment over
donations: Contractors say excavators were torched
following their refusal to donate money to the party,
by Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp 29/01/2020)
Victims
of domestic violence prefer police to judicial committee
for justice: Most of the people’s representatives in the
judicial committee do not have the legal knowledge to
settle disputes, by Tripti Shahi (kp 29/01/2020)
Civil
servants spreading awareness against chhaupadi in Bajura
(ht 29/01/2020)
Police
reveal wife’s hand behind hubby’s murder in Morang
(ht 29/01/2020)
Province-1
PA member, two others to face prison, by Hari
Adhikari (ht 28/01/2020)
Message
of impunity (rep 28/01/2020)
Police
bust a gang of six alleged robbers who in a heist took
away Rs5 million from a person in Kathmandu: The police
managed to confiscate around Rs1.8 million from the
arrested persons, by Shuvam Dhungana (kp 27/01/2020)
Bomb
set off at Arun III project site (ht 27/01/2020)
Local
levels told to establish fund for GBV victims (ht
27/01/2020)
International
rights bodies warn Nepal’s conflict victims could seek
justice in foreign courts: Recent appointments to
transitional justice commissions and nomination of a
person accused of killing as Speaker undermined
transitional justice, the rights orgsanisations say,
by Binod Ghimire (kp 26/01/2020), Recent
Nepal steps undermine TJ process: Int’l rights bodies
(rep 26/01/2020) [see statement
by ICJ, AI, HRW and TRIAL]
Rape
convict arrested after being on the run for four years:
As many as 1,873 rape cases were registered across the
country in the fiscal year 2018/19, Nepal Police data
show, by Shuvam Dhungana (kp 26/01/2020)
Awareness
drive launched to end chhaupadi (ht 26/01/2020)
Petition
at Supreme Court demands Agni Sapkota’s arrest: The
petition, filed by advocate Dinesh Tripathi, also asks
that Sapkota’s nomination for Speaker of the House be
dismissed, by Tika R. Pradhan (kp 25/01/2020), President’s
advisor resigns over Sapkota’s nomination as House
Speaker: Sushil Pyakurel, one of the petitioners in the
murder case against Sapkota, resigned after being asked
to withdraw the case by ruling party members, by
Anil Giri (kp 25/01/2020), Writ
challenging Sapkota’s candidacy for speaker filed (ht),
Sapkota
is clean: NCP Co-chair Dahal (ht) [Just
as clean as the person that admits to be responsible for
the death of 5.000 human beings? It is neither the task
nor the right of any politician to decide if Sapkota is
clean! This is exclusively the task of a law court!]
Govt
to implement high-level commission’s report (ht
24/01/2020)
High
court overrules lower court’s order to release Giri on
bail (ht 24/01/2020)
Civil
society vows to protest until Sapkota’s nomination for
Speaker is dismissed: Agni Sapkota, who is accused of
murder, is certain to become Speaker of the House as he
is running unopposed, by Binod Ghimire (kp
23/01/2020)
FIR
filed against PA member (ht 23/01/2020), Police
arrest Gandaki provincial assembly member Deepak
Manange: Milan Gurung, chair of Kaski chapter of All
Nepal Football Association, had filed a complaint after
Manange slapped him on Tuesday, by Shuvam Dhungana
(kp 24/01/2020), Mockery
of rule of law: The person who got smacked by Deepak
Manange does not have untainted past, but this does not
give leeway to the provincial lawmaker to take the law
into his own hands (ht 24/01/2020), Milan
Gurung, chair of Kaski chapter of All Nepal Football
Association, arrested: Gurung was arrested after a
complaint of fraud and banking offences was registered
against him on Thursday, police said, by Lal Prasad
Sharma (kp 25/01/2020), PA
member Manange remanded to custody (ht 25/01/2020)
Police
misusing indecent behaviour clause (ht 23/01/2020)
Deadline
arrives but sugar mills still owe farmers Rs800 million:
Farmers have been duped by sugar mill owners in the past
but this time they were betrayed by the government too,
they say, by Krishana Prasain (kp 22/01/2020), Sugar
producers deceive farmers yet again: Pay farmers only Rs
160 million despite making promises to clear over Rs 1
billion in dues by Tuesday (rep 22/01/2020)
‘How
can someone responsible for murdering my husband be
elected speaker?’, by Madhusudhan Guragain (rep
22/01/2020)
Crusher
industries operating illegally (ht 22/01/2020)
Murder
of transwoman shows that things remain perilous for the
LGBTIQ community: Ajita Bhujel’s murder in Hetauda has
the trans community concerned for their safety and
security, by Shuvam Dhungana (kp 20/01/2020), Five
arrested in connection with murder of transgender woman
in Hetauda: Police said that Ajita Bhujel had been
murdered after a dispute over payment for sex, by
Subash Bidari (kp 05/02/2020)
Cases
of daylight burglary rising in Kathmandu Valley, police
say: Thieves are targeting homes and apartments of
working families, by Shuvam Dhungana (kp 20/01/2020)
Conflict
victims condemn parties for bulldozing decision on
transitional justice appointments: After an agreement
between ruling and opposition forces, recommendation
committee picks 10 individuals, all with affiliation to
political parties, by Binod Ghimire (kp 19/01/2020)
[Those who share responsibility
for so many crimes will never provide justice! Dahal,
Deuba, Ex-King Gyanendra and the top brass of the army
had highest responsibility!]
GoAML
To Check Financial Crime, by Uttam Maharjan (rn
19/01/2020)
Locals
of Tingla vandalize vehicles, by Sher Bahadur Jero
(rep 19/01/2020)
Dahal
says he will take responsibility for insurgency deaths
but his actions don’t match his words: Victims say he is
delaying the justice process, by Binod Ghimire (kp
18/01/2020), How
a photo has come to symbolise long wait for justice:
Muktinath Adhikari, a teacher and a member of Amnesty
International Nepal, was killed in Lamjung 18 years ago
by the Maoists (kp 18/01/2020)
Cops
take charge of body, arrest hubby (ht 17/01/2020)
Police’s
intelligence continues to fail them as Chand party
claims explosion: Despite the government designating the
Chand party a criminal outfit, Wednesday’s explosion
shows that security agencies are still unaware of their
activities, by Shuvam Dhungana (kp 17/01/2020)
Aided
by Indian drug traffickers, farmers are increasingly
turning from marijuana to opium: Once limited to Tarai
districts along the border with India, the cultivation
of poppy plants has now spread across the hills of Nepal,
by Shuvam Dhungana (kp 16/01/2020)
Police
confiscate smuggled mobile phones worth over Rs 3.5
million: Police said no one claimed ownership of the
phones that were recovered in passenger buses, by
Shuvam Dhungana (kp 16/01/2020)
Dahal
ready to own up 5,000 deaths during insurgency: Says
state killed 12,000 people (ht 16/01/2020) [It
does not matter who is responsible for more killings!
They all have to stand trial for this: Maoists,
politicians, army leaders, ex-king etc.]
A
fraud company swindles millions off farmers in Lamjung
and Tanahun: Police in Lamjung say they have not
received any formal complaint against the company
representatives who have been out of contact for almost
a year now, by Aash Gurung (kp 16/01/2020)
Peace
minus justice: The promises made under the Comprehensive
Peace Accord have been thrown to the winds, by Daman
Nath Dhungana (kp 15/01/2020)
Conflict
victims decry government’s consultations as a sham: The
consultations were not aimed at ensuring justice but
simply at showing the world that feedback was collected,
victims say, by Binod Ghimire (kp 14/01/2020)
Bhat-Bhateni
among firms faking VAT bills worth millions: SC (rep
14/01/2020), SC
indicts Bhatbhateni for tax evasion, by Umesh Poudel
(ht 16/01/2020)
Self-styled
godman Shivananda Swami held (ht 14/01/2020)
Police
intervene rally demanding justice for Nirmala Pant:
Security personnel used force on women rights activists
who were protesting in front of the Kanchanpur District
Court seeking justice for Nirmala Pant, by Bhawani
Bhatta (kp 14/01/2020)
Attorney
General seeks accurate forensic reports to deal with
problems correctly (kp 13/01/2020)
Government
rescues hundreds of children every year but does little
for their care: Children are usually put up in transit
homes before they are either handed over to other
shelters or their families, by Shuvam Dhungana (kp
12/01/2020)
Two
rape cases reported in valley, suspects held (ht
12/01/2020)
Irate
kin vandalise hospital (ht 12/01/2020)
Youth
crushed to death by tipper for protesting illegal
extraction of riverbed materials in Dhanusa:
Twenty-four-year-old Dilip Kumar Mahato was struck and
dragged by the tipper driver, say police, by Santosh
Singh (kp 11/01/2020) [Not only
the direct murderers are responsible, but also the idle
and disinterested government and administration!]
Police
nab four of the alleged perpetrators of Dhanusha tipper
attack: Dilip was killed on Friday morning while
protesting the illegal mining of riverbed materials from
a river beside his home at Sripur in Mithila
Municipality, by Ajit Tiwari (kp 12/01/2020), Police
arrest owner of crusher plant in connection with murder,
by Mithilesh Yadav (rep 12/01/2020), Rein
in Crusher Mafias: Book the culprits of Mahato’s
‘murder’ (rep 12/01/2020), Alleged
perpetrators of Dhanusha tipper attack remanded into
custodyDilip was killed on Friday morning while
protesting the illegal mining of riverbed materials from
a river beside his home at Sripur in Mithila
Municipality, by Santosh Singh (kp 13/01/2020), Dilip
Mahato was attacked before being run over by a tipper
truck: Police; In his statement to police, truck driver
Munindra Mahato has admitted to the crime, by Ajit
Tiwari (kp 14/01/2020), Dilip
Mahato should have been a hero. Instead, he will be
forgotten: Dilip’s murder encapsulates several of the
ills that ail this tottering republic, by Amish Raj
Mulmi (kp 24/01/2020)
Conflict
victims say their hope on Pradeep Gyawali might have
been misplaced: Gyawali, who had appeared sympathetic to
the cause of conflict victims, is also moving ahead on
transitional justice without taking victims into
confidence, by Binod Gjhimire (kp 09/01/2020)
Police
take steps to curb opium farming in remote areas of
Makwanpur: The first time police discovered an opium
plantation in the district was five years ago, by
Pratap Bista (kp 09/01/2020)
Despite
stringent measures, no let up in gold smuggling through
Kathmandu airport: In the past one week alone, police
have already arrested five people at the Tribhuvan
International Airport, by Shuvam Dhungana (kp
07/01/2020)
School
teacher held on charge of beating and injuring student:
The victim’s family lodged a complaint with the police
on Sunday and urged authorities to take strong against
the guilty, by Sanju Poudel (kp 07/01/2020)
Police
arrest bank hacker fugitive: The gang had stolen around
Rs48.5 million from the Lahan Branch of the Agriculture
Development Bank and Panas Remittance, by Shuvam
Dhungana (kp 06/01/2020)
Transitional
justice: This time around, the government must not go
back on its promise (kp 06/01/2020), NHRC’s
threat to withdraw its member from ex-CJ-led panel
(ht 06/01/2020), Amend
the TRC Act: It makes no sense in appointing members in
the TRC and CIEDP without amending the TRC Act in line
with the Supreme Court verdict (ht 06/01/2020)
Sudan
scam guilty Shambhu Bharati out on Rs 142 million bail,
by Ram Kumar Kamat (ht 06/01/2020) [??],
Corruption
convict Bharati released before completing jail term
(rep 06/01/2020)
Law
Ministry aims to get Transitional Justice Act amended
from ongoing session of Parliament: Foreign Minister
Pradeep Gyawali, also the law minister now, who has made
commitments from various platforms including the United
Nations, is taking the lead for amendments, by Binod
Ghimire (kp 05/01/2020)
24
ropanies of Rani Mahal’s land encroached upon: Report;
The National Vigilance Centre says ownership titles have
been tampered with in collusion with employees of
District Land Revenue, District Survey Office and the
then VDC office, by Madhab Aryal (kp 05/01/20202)
For
Nepali women seeking work in the Gulf, new routes and
old risks: Despite restrictions from traveling to the
Gulf countries, desperate Nepali women are falling into
traps of trafficking agents who are exploiting new
routes to take them out of the country, by Parbat
Portel (kp 04/01/2020)
'We
don't follow Chhaupadi', by Dhan Bahadur Budha (kp
04/01/2020)
572
India-bound girls, women missing (ht 04/01/2020)
Nepal
may be becoming a new transit point for drug smugglers:
As many as 5,607 people were arrested for drug-related
crimes in the first five months of the current fiscal
year, data show, by Shuvam Dhungana (kp 04/01/2020)
After
failing to establish charges, government to deport all
arrested Chinese nationals: Police had arrested 122
Chinese from different parts of Kathmandu for their
involvement in suspicious activities, by Anil Giri
(kp 03/01/2019)
Police
arrest six persons for allegedly making fake smart
driving licences: Fake licences are mostly used by
people who fail the licence test or those who want to go
abroad, Metropolitan Traffic Police Division says,
by Shuvam Dhungana (kp 02/01/2020), After
crackdown against drink driving, MaPaSe cases have
decreased in Kathmandu Valley, police records show:
Division office says an awareness programme for 47,000
drivers and riders focusing on the anti-drink drive,
helped reduce MaPaSe cases, by Anup Ojha (kp
02/01/2020)
Nepal
Police to keep record of landlords, tenants (ht
01/01/2020)
One
held with gold hidden in rectum (ht 01/01/2020)
Attacked
and violated: From Chhaupadi death to incidents of
sexual exploitation to cases of acid attacks, there was
no let-up in incidents of violence against girls and
women in 2019, by Elisha Shrestha (kp 31/12/2019)
Rape
accused godman freed on bail (ht 31/12/2019) [??]
Polluted
air spikes respiratory illness: The govt standard for
unhealthy air is way above WHO’s, by Sabitri Dhakal
(ht 29/12/2019)) [And the
government is doing nothing!]
Battle
against Chhaupadi in Karnali: Govt gets aggressive, but
people’s blind belief too strong (rep 29/12/2019)
Man
arrested on charge of rape, by Maheshwar Chamlinf
Rai (rep 29/12/2019)
Food,
gold adulteration rampant in Syangja, by Santosh
Pokharel (rep 29/12/2019)
National
conference on sexual harassment held (ht
29/12/2019)
Bike-lifting
syndicate busted, 12 arrested with 40 two-wheelers
(ht 28/12/2019), Police
arrest two men from Changunarayan for alleged motorcycle
theft: Out of 1,611 incidents of vehicle theft in the
last fiscal year, only 189 were recovered, police
records show, by Shuvam Dhungana (kp 29/12/2019)
Addressing
The Issue Of Gender Violence, by Indu Pant Ghimire
and Saurav Raj Pant (rn 28/12/2019)
Missing
teenage girl murdered (ht 28/12/2019)
Police
arrest two persons with alleged tax-evaded electronic
gadgets valued at Rs 5.2 million: The police also
confiscated more than Rs1.5 million in cash and cheques
worth more than Rs5,73000 from the accused, by
Shuvam Dhungana (kp 27/12/2019)
Govt
to designate watchdog for money laundering (ht
27/12/2019)
Rape
accused godman’s file submitted to court, by Santosh
Kafle (ht 27/12/2019)
Alarming
Abductions, by Bini Dahal (rn 27/12/2019)
Government
and police fail to abide by human rights commission’s
recommendation: The commission two months ago had
recommended action against police officials involved in
extrajudicial killing of Kumar Paudel, by Binod
Ghimire (kp 26/12/2019)
Breaking
the chain: Human trafficking under the guise of labour
migration has become one of the most severe problems
faced by Nepali migrant workers in recent times, by
Anurag Devkota (kp 26/12/2019)
Police
rescue a girl being trafficked to India, by Tapendra
Karki (rep 26/12/2019)
Chand
group’s donation terror in Udayapur (ht 26/12/2019)
Govt
to act tough against those who encourage Chhaupadi
(ht 25/12/2019)
122
Chinese nationals arrested from different parts of the
Capital: Police say the arrested, who had arrived in
Nepal on a tourist visa, are being investigated for
their involvement in illegal activities, including
financial crimes, by Shuvam Dhungana (kp
24/12/2019), At
least 800 Chinese nationals are under watch in
Kathmandu: The revelation follows the arrest of 122
Chinese nationals on Monday in a joint Nepal-China
operation, by Anil Giri and Shuvam Dhungana (kp
25/12/2019), Arrested
Chinese remanded to 5-day police custody, by Ujjwal
Satyal (ht 25/12/2019), Police
recover only 67 passports from the arrested 122 Chinese
nationals: The arrested Chinese nationals may be
involved in suspicious activities, including cybercrime,
police suspect, by Shuvam Dhungana (kp 26/12/2019),
The
recent arrest of 122 Chinese nationals sets a dangerous
precedent: How would Nepal react if the state apparatus
was conducting similar mass arrests on Nepali soil on
behalf of India?(kp 26/12/2019), Arrest
of 122 Chinese nationals was not a ‘joint operation’,
security agencies say: Although the Chinese Foreign
Ministry had said that Monday’s arrests were a joint
operation between China and Nepal, Nepali security
agencies say they acted solely on their own, by Anil
Giri (kp 27/12/2019), Detained
122 Chinese nationals likely to be deported (ht
30/12/2019)
Call
for survivor-friendly approach to investigate human
trafficking cases: Experts urge adopting Forensic
Experiential Trauma Interviews approach for better
dealing with survivors and investigating such cases,
by Chandan Kumar Mandal (kp 24/12/2019)
Bangladeshis
are being trafficked into Nepal, but most cases go
unreported: The Embassy of Bangladesh in Kathmandu
receives two to three cases of labour trafficking every
month, by Eliha Shrestha (kp 24/12/2019)
Two
drivers arrested for unhealthy competition on road,
by Dhruba Dangal (rep 24/12/2019)
Narcotics
Control Bureau arrests four foreigners for cocaine
smuggling: Two Belarusians and two Bolivians arrested
with 6kg of cocaine worth at least Rs150 million, by
Shuvam Dhungana (kp 23/12/2019)
Rural
municipality chair rescued hours after his abduction:
The Netra Bikram Chand-led Communist Party of Nepal has
claimed responsibility for the incident, by Jyoti
Katuwal and Tularam Pandey (kp 23/12/2019)
Police
launch awareness drive in Dadeldhura community schools:
Police personnel are running classes for students to
instil positive thinking in them, by D.R. Pant (kp
23(12/2019)
Police
arrest two persons on the charge of kidnapping three
minors: The kidnapping cases have risen by 48 percent
since 2014-15 to 104 in 2018-19, by Shuvam Dhungana
(kp 22/12/2019)
Police
bust a gang involved in motorcycle theft in Kathmandu
Valley: Auto theft incidents are on the rise, but
vehicle recovery and arrest rates are dismal, data show,
by Shuvam Dhungana (kp 21/12/2019)
Police
rescue three children from clutches of kidnapper (ht
21/12/2019)
Birgunj
High Court seeks suggestions from lawyers to transfer
Aftab Alam’s case away from his hometown: Government
attorney appealed for a transfer of the case following
threats from the lawmaker who has been charged with mass
murder, by Binod Ghimire (kp 20/12/2019)
Patan
High Court denies bail to Mahara (ht 20/12/2019)
Sexual
violence case involving faculty member settled in school
(ht 20/12/2019) [???? Such cases
cannot be settled but must be puniushed!]]
She
was returning from a temple. Then a drunk driver killed
her.: On Saturday morning, a 38-year-old woman was run
over by a car with four passengers who were returning
after a night of heavy drinking, by Shuvam Dhungana
(kp 19/12/2019), It’s
time to make our drink driving laws tougher: The killing
of a 38-year-old woman has raised questions about how
people get away with driving after heavy drinking,
despite checkpoints (kp 19/12/2019), Families
reach compensation deal in drunk driving case, but case
will proceed regardless: While the family of Leela
Devkota stands to receive up to Rs10 million in
compensation, police say they will continue to pursue a
vehicular homicide case against Prithvi Malla, by
Shucvam Dhungana (kp 20/12/2019)
Dahal’s
proposal to set up mechanism for transitional justice
raises alarm: Conflict victims and human rights
defenders say it is wrong to have a political body that
influences the commissions, by Binod Ghimire (kp
19/12/2019)
Drug
smugglers find a new, loose route— Siddhartha Highway:
Police have registered as many as 35 drug-related cases
in the past three years, by Madhav Aryal (kp
18/12/2019)
Municipality
threatens strike seeking release of rape accused ward
chair (ht 18/12/2019)
A
crisis centre provides relief to victims of violence in
Janakpur: The centre was built nine years after the
state said it would set up such centres in several other
districts, by Shahiman Rai (kp 18/12/2019)
One
year since the sexual abuse exposé: It would be a
disservice to all if we forget the survivors of Lalitpur
Madhyamik Vidhyalaya and the victims in so many other
schools, by Monika Niroula (kp 17/12/2019)
Rape
cases on the rise, by Ujjwal Satyal (ht 16/12/2019)
Ending
the stigma of menstruation: How many girls must die
before we realize that Chhaupadi in all its forms must
stop? Three-month jail time or Rs 3,000 fine is not
enough to stop this brutal practice, by Sakun
Gajurel (rep 16/12/2019)
Police
inspector among three killed in Dhanusha blast: No one
has claimed responsibility for the midnight blast,
by Shuvam Dhungana (kp 15/12/2019), Three,
including inspector, killed (ht 15/12/2019), Police
probing Dhanusha blast (ht 16/12/2019), Upholding
Order, by S. Binodkumar Singh, (SAIR 16/12/2019), Bomb
terror grips Dhanusha: Following the Mahendranagar
incident, people have become both wary and terrified
(ht 17/12/2019)
CDOs
instructed to form anti-chhaupadi mechanisms, intensify
campaigns (rep 15/12/2019)
“They
turned me into a living corpse”: For victims of the
Maoist insurgency, no justice and no peace: Over 13
years after the peace agreement, transitional justice
process has largely been held hostage to partisan
interests, with both the political parties and Army
playing for time, by Binod Ghimire (kp 14/12/2019)
Lack
of proper parking spaces in the capital gives rise to
auto theft cases: Thieves sell stolen two-wheelers at
prices ranging between Rs50,000 and Rs150,000, depending
on the vehicle’s condition, by Shuvam Dhungana (kp
14/12/2019)
Amend
act on human trafficking: NHRC (ht 14/12/2019)
Evidence
to prosecute Dr Rohit Kumar Jha for attempt to rape
insufficient (ht 14/12/2019)
Families
are sites of love and affection but also violence and
discrimination: A new report by UN Women points to the
dual role of families in Nepal, where 26 percent of
women face domestic violence, by Elisha Shrestha (kp
13/12/2019)
Everything
you need to know about Chhaupadi, the taboo ritual of
banishing women to period huts: Legal actions and social
campaigns have failed to make people in Nepal’s remote
western regions understand the urgency of abolishing the
deadly tradition, by Elisha Shrestha (kp 12/12/2019)
Exploitation
continues unabated at Kathmandu’s dance bars and dohori
restaurants: As such informal entertainment venues are
not regulated by the government, there is ample room for
labour exploitation and physical and sexual harassment,
by Elisha Shrestha (kp 12/12/2019)
Rape
incidents up in Saptari (ht 12/12/2019), Three,
including ward chair, held for attempt to rape (ht
12/12/2019)
South
Asian states urged to end culture of impunity (rep
12/12/2019)
Police
arrest three persons for defrauding around Rs150 million
through social media platforms: Peter Herman, a Nigerian
national believed to be currently residing in India is
the mastermind of the scams, says police, by Shuvam
Dhungana (kp 12/12/2019)
Police
want to be friends with the community but they act more
like foes: Time and again, police quickly resort to
baton charges and physical violence to deal with
protests, even when unnecessary, by Anup Ojha (kp
11/12/2019), Nagarik
reporter injured in police assault, by Rajan Shah
(rep 11/12/2019), Criminal
case filed against police over assault on Nagarik
journalist (rep 18/12/2019)
Abused
and forced to flee: How unchecked superstition displaced
a family in Dolakha: Belief in superstition and the
abuse of human rights that comes with it is widespread
in this mountainous district of about 200,000 people,
by Rajendra Manandhar (kp 11/12/2019)
Paedophile
caught in the act with three minor girls: One of his
victims escaped and brought cops to his hotel room,
by Ujjwal Satyal (ht 10/12/2019)
Violence
against differently-abled women goes largely unreported,
by Anjali Subedi (rep 10/12/2019)
Statues
are being stolen from Simraungadh, but nobody is
bothered: Simraungadh is the capital city of the Mithila
kingdom and houses many historical palaces, which is why
statues and other artefacts are frequently extracted
from various places, by Laxmi Sah (kp 10/12/2019)
Time
to think out of the box: If we had tackled this problem
from women’s health perspectives rather than cultural
taboos, perhaps the woman who died in Chhaupadi shed
would be among us today, by Mukesh Adhikari
(rep 09/12/2019) [Chhaupadi is
an archaic and perverse tradition that has its origin in
the morbid delusion of superiority of a deeply
patriarchal way of thinking. This crime against women
must be eradicated if women's health is to be protected.]
Department
of Foreign Employment seeks support of other government
agencies for overseas job frauds: The department seeks
collaboration with Nepal Police and Department of
Immigration for controlling malpractices in foreign
employment sector., by Chandan Kumar Mandal (kp
09/12/2019)
Police
arrest Chinese national in possession of banned drug:
The contraband is valued at more than Rs5 million in the
international market, by Shuvam Dhungana (kp
09/12/2019)
Crime
rate rose by 40 percent in five years: Data: 6,233
murder cases, 5,155 suicide cases and 3,999 women and
children related cases were registered last fiscal year,
by Shuvam Dhungana (kp 08/12/2019)
Doctor
arrested for ‘raping’ woman, by Madan Thakur (rep
08/12/2019)
Rape
accused AHW held (ht 08/12/2019)
‘Collective
effort needed to curb rape’ (ht 06/12/2019)
Suspended
DSP served arrest warrant over alleged criminal link: On
May 3, Nepal Police had suspended Dhungel, who was then
in charge of Chandranigahapur Area Police Office in
Rautahat, by Shuvam Dhungana (kp 05/12/2019)
Victims
of domestic violence must make the decision to take back
control of their lives: The national mission to end
domestic violence must be taken to every family, school,
workplace, courtroom, cabinet and police station, by
Madhuri Rana Singh (kp 05/12/2019)
Police
arrest two persons for alleged online fraud: Police
recover more than Rs800,000 from the bank account of
alleged fraudsters, by Shuvam Dhungana (kp
04/12/2019)
Menstruation
huts become death traps: 17 die in sheds in ten years,
by Prakash Singh (ht 04/12/2019) [If
men cannot stay in the house together with menstruating
women, then men must leave the house and stay in sheds!!],
Banishing
women to “period huts” is a national shame: Young girls
and women losing their precious lives to a deadly
superstition is distressing (kp 05/12/2019)) [It's not only a shame, it's a grave
crime!], For
greater activism: The local school is a good place for
intervention, where an appropriate curriculum could help
create awareness among the students (ht 05/12/2019)
[related to chhaupadi crime], Police
arrest brother-in-law of Parbati Budha who died in a
menstruation hut in Achham: This is the first arrest
since the country criminalised Chhaupadi in August 2017,
by Binod Ghimire (kp 06/12/2019)
Transitional
justice: Truth is its foundation; Transitional justice
is a challenge by which we test ourselves, our vision of
the future and the kind of society we want to build out
of the rubble of the decade of conflict, by Mohna
Ansari (ht 04/12/2019)
Priceless
idols stolen from Padukasthan Temple of Dailekh, by
Govinda KC (kp 04/12/2019)
Banished
from home, Achham woman dies in menstrual hut, by
Prakash Singh (ht 03/12/2019)
Despite
protests from animal rights activists, tens of thousands
of animals are being slaughtered in Gadhimai: In line
with the Supreme Court’s order to work towards
eliminating animal sacrifice, the temple has decided to
stop sacrificing pigeons, by Laxmi Sah (kp
03/12/2019), Ritual
sacrifice at Gadhimai shrine begins, photos barred
(ht 04/12/2019) [This brutal and completely senseless slaughter of
innocent creatures must never be called a "ritual
sacrifice". It is simply barbaric!], Contempt
of court case against govt, Gadhimai Trust for animal
sacrifice (rep 04/12/2019)
High-profile
culprits skip police custody on medical grounds (ht
03/12/2019)
CVCP
calls for parliamentary panel’s meeting, by Sabitri
Dhakal (ht 02/12/2019)
Man
arrested for 'raping' distant granddaughter (rep
02/12/2019) [What is a 'distant'
granddaughter? And why is 'raped written with quotation
marks?]
Most
traffickers are relatives of victims, officials say:
Police in the past four fiscal years have rescued 2,333
trafficked persons, statistics show, by Shuvam
Dhungana (kp 01/12/2019)
International
concern: Delay in transitional justice process (rep
01/12/2019)
Rape-accused
godman admits himself to hospital fearing arrest:
Sunsari police say he will be arrested once discharged,
by Santosh Kafle (ht 30/11/2019), Rape-accused
Siddhababa in ICU (ht 02/12/2019), Rape
accused 'godman' taken from ICU of nursing home to court
for remand (ht 03/12/2019), Siddhababa’s
remand extended by seven days (ht 07/12/2019), Giri
to be in judicial custody for 7 more days, by Amar
Khadka (rep 07/12/2019), Siddhababa’s
remand extended by three days (ht 14/12/2019)
Hi-tech
forgery racket busted, 3 arrested (ht 30/11/2019)
Two
Chinese nationals held with eight kilo gold (ht
30/11/2019)
Conflict
victims demand government to dissolve the recommendation
and start afresh selection process: They claim the
government is inviting international intervention by
politicising the transitional justice process, by
Binod Ghimire (kp 29/11/2019), TJ
appointments process hits snags (rep 30/11/2019)
Fake
doctors are conning villagers in Banke: People with
basic medical training are running clinics in rural
areas and putting people’s lives in danger, by Rupa
Gahatraj (kp 29/11/2019)
IED
detonated outside ruling party candidate’s office in
Mahottari: The explosion has caused minor damages to the
building while there were no human casualties, by
Santosh Singh (kp 29/11/2019)
Butwal
Sub-metropolis implements programme to end incidents of
sexual abuse in schools: Under the programme, every
school is supposed to assign a focal person for
resolving complaints filed by students, by Amrita
Anmol (kp 28/11/2019)
In
Achham, domestic abuse is driving women to depression:
Every week, the Bayalpata Hospital, which has a
dedicated mental health bureau, sees over a hundred
women suffering from depression, doctors say, by
Menuka Dhungana (kp 28/11/2019)
Police
arrest six men for withdrawing Rs1.9 million from a bank
account by forging signature: Suspects caught with Rs
1.8 million, copies of citizenship cards, signature
specimens and cheque books, by Shuvam Dhungana (kp
28/11/2019)
Rights
groups’ statement shows the world is watching Nepal’s
transitional justice process, experts say: The statement
from four prominent human rights organisations is
stronger than ones issued in the past, indicating the
international community may be gradually losing faith in
Nepal’s system, by Binod Ghimire (kp 27/11/2019)
[see joint
statement by ICJ, AI, HRW and TRIAL], International
rights watchdogs concerned about justice for victims
(ht 27/11/2019), NHRC
decision too little, too late: Conflict victims, by
Roshan S. Nepal (ht 27/11/2019)
NCP
student wing cadres thrash college chief: ANNFSU targets
Tri-Chandra College principal for hiking fees (ht
26/11/2019), Deplorable
conduct: The unruly conduct of the student unions has
its genesis in the upbringing by the parties that use
them for disruptive activities (ht 27/11/2019)
Detainee’s
death in police custody suspicious (ht 26/11/2019)
Couple
ostracised for practising witchcraft (ht 26/11/2019)
Officials
stress need for ending all forms of violence against
women, by Mukti Prasad Neupane (rep 26/11/2019)
Police
yet to identify culprit in hit-and-run that claimed
doctor’s life (ht 25/11/2019)
The
transitional justice process has failed to envision the
pains of women who were sexually abused during the
insurgency: As the state has excluded rape in the
interim relief process and in transitional justice, many
victims still await closure, by Chandra Bhadra (kp
24/11/2019), Panel
moves to recommend TJ officials amid widespread
criticism (rep 24/11/2019)
Our
songs from the forest: Finding freedom from menstrual
taboos in the lap of nature, by Uma Bista (kp
23/11/2019)
The
fight for fighting crime: Inside the Nepal Police’s
investigation unit: The country’s crime investigation
body has come a long way, but challenges persist, by
Shuvam Dhungana (kp 23/11/2019)
Surveillance
heightened in driving test centres to catch imposter
candidates: Police arrested six persons for taking
driving tests on behalf of others in the past four
months, by Anup Ojha (kp 23/11/2019)
High
court seeks details on Mahara case (rep 23/11/2019)
Smugglers
using Kimathanka border point in Sankhuwasabha to move
gold into the country: Arrests of three people,
including a gold carrier, has made it clear that
smugglers are using the border point to bring the
precious yellow metal from Tibet, say police, by
Dipendra Shakya (kp 22/11/2019)
Govt
to take care of four rape victims (ht 22/11/2019)
Dahal
for appointing new faces to TRC (ht 22/11/2019) [The leader of one of the outstanding
human rights violating forces at the time of the
conflict must not have any say in the composition and
work of the two commissions!]
Mahara
challenges Kathmandu court’s remand order in Patan High
Court: Former House Speaker was remanded in judicial
custody earlier this month in an attempted rape case,
by Shuvam Dhungana (kp 22/11/2019)
Justice
still eludes conflict victims: NHRC (ht 21/11/2019),
Peace
and injustice: Thirteen years of Comprehensive Peace
Accord (rep 21/11/2019), Waiting
for justice: Thirteen years after signing of CPA,
justice eludes the conflict victims, by Ram Kumar
Bhandari (rep 21/11/2019), Conflict
victims decry apathy of government and parties towards
transitional justice: Thirteen years after the peace
deal, victims of the decade-long Maoist insurgency
continue to wait for justice, by Binod Ghimire (kp
22/11/2019)
Unidentified
group kills man in Sunsari district (ht 21/11/2019)
Alleging
political intervention, applicants for transitional
justice commissions are withdrawing their names: Since
the recommendation committee has become a rubber stamp
for the political parties, no independent decision is
forthcoming, rights activists and victims say, by
Binod Ghimire (kp 20/11/2019), Stakeholders
prepare for consultations on TJ bill (rep
20/11/2019)
Seven
trafficking victims, including four minor girls rescued
(ht 20/11/2019)
Fuel-laden
tanker goes missing (ht 20/11/2019)
Supreme
Court sentences ‘Pooja Bohara’ rape accused to 11 yrs,
six months in jail, by Ram Kumar Kamat (ht
19/11/2019)
After
deal between parties, selection panel publishes list of
probable candidates for transitional justice bodies:
Conflict victims object to political interference,
saying they won’t accept the officials selected without
following the due process, by Binod Ghimire (kp
19/11/2019), Victims
decry selection of candidates for TJ bodies, by
Rohan S. Nepal (ht 19/11/2019)
Five
murder accused arrested (ht 19/11/2019)
Police
arrest man for fatally stabbing his friend in the
Capital: Forty-six-year old Manish Kunwar Khadgi was
detained in connection to the death of Arun Chitrakar of
Kathmandu Ward No. 19, by Shuvam Dhungana (kp
18/11/2019)
Police
arrest Indian man suspected of running Hundi from
Capital: The arrestee has been identified as
Satyanarayan Prasad, 57, of Betiya District, India,
by Shuvam Dhungana (kp 18/11/2019)
Panel
proposes Bhatta for TRC head, Mallick for CIEDP chief
(ht 18/11/2019)
Eight
arrested for hostage-taking (ht 17/11/2019)
956
gambling dens dismantled across country in three years
(ht 17/11/2019)
In
Rajapur, police consistently fail to investigate cases
involving marginalised communities: Police have refused
to look into a number of recent cases involving Tharus
and Dalits, despite their families alleging foul play,
by Shuvam Dhungana (kp 16/11/2019)
Under
the guise of humanitarian aid, high-profile paedophiles
are abusing Nepali children: Loose laws, illiteracy and
poverty, along with an unsuspicious welcome of
foreigners, have turned Nepal into a haven for Western
paedophiles, by Janakraj Sapkota (kp 16/11/2019)
Revenue
Investigation Department files cases on multi-billion
rupee tax evasion scam: More than 900 firms are under
investigation for purchasing fake VAT bills, by
Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp 16/11/2019)
Govt
auctioning Oriental’s assets to compensate duped victims,
by Sujan Dhungana (ht 16/11/2019)
Parties
close to consensus on chairperson for Truth and
Reconciliation Commission: Both ruling and opposition
parties are positive about appointing Ganesh Datta
Bhatta, associate professor at Nepal Law Campus, ruling
party leaders say, by Binod Ghimire (kp 15/11/2019)
Law
to protect victims, witnesses need of hour: ‘Vulnerable
should be relocated and their privacy protected’ (ht
14/11/2019), Protect
victims: Although relocation of the vulnerable with
changed identity has been suggested, is this feasible in
a small country like ours? (ht 15/11/2019)
Police
arrest 50-year-old woman for alleged human trafficking:
The then minor victim was trafficked to India in 2012
and thrown into prostitution, by Shuvam Dhungana (kp
14/11/2019), Woman
held for selling her niece to brothel in India (ht
15/11/2019)
Durbar
Marg rape case accused sent to prison: Main accused
sentenced to five years and two months in jail (ht
14/11/2019)
49
gamblers nabbed from valley in a day (ht 14/11/2019)
Five
accused in Nidan Hospital kidney scam sent to judicial
custody (ht 13/11/2019)
Families
of air crash victims say they are being pressured to
withdraw their case: 22 Nepalis were killed when
US-Bangla flight BS 211 from Dhaka crashed while landing
at Kathmandu airport, by Sangam Prasain (kp
13/11/2019)
Two
witnesses in Alam trial change their statements:
Government prosecutors demand protection for witnesses
and their close relatives, by Shiva Puri (kp
12/11/2019), Defendants
present arguments (ht 12/11/2019), No
blast had occurred in 2008: Alam's lawyers, by Madan
Thakur (rep 12/11/2019), A
witness in Alam trial says he was abducted and forced to
change statement: Gauri Shankar Ram Chamar, who was
injured in the 2008 Rautahat blast, is currently under
police protection, by Shiva Puri (kp 13/11/2019),
Protect the victims, eyewitnesses (rep 13/11/2019),
Victim’s
family tempted to change statement (ht 14/11/2019),
Aftab
Alam remanded in judicial custody after his formal trial
ended on Friday: Rauthat District Court had begun a
formal trial on Alam’s case on November 7, by Shiva
Puri (kp 16/11/2019), As
reputed lawyers flock to Alam’s defense, many question
their moral judgment: Mohammad Aftab Alam, who is in
custody on charge of a mass murder, is being represented
by nearly three dozen lawyers, some of whom once held
the position of attorney general, by Binod Ghimire
(kp 17/11/2019), District
judge and attorney dealing with Alam’s case left
district: Alam was remanded in judicial custody after
his formal trial came to an end on Friday, by Shiva
Puri (kp 17/11/2019)
Cop
takes Sudan scam convict Bharati to hotel on pretext of
health check-up (ht 11/11/2019)
High-profile
gamblers in hospitals 'to avoid police custody' (rep
11/11/2019)
14-year-old
girl found dead in suspicious circumstances: Family
members claim the victim was abducted, raped and
subsequently murdered, by Kamal Panthi (kp
10/11/2019)
Recommendation
committee fails to pick candidates leaving TJ bodies in
the lurch (ht 09/11/2019)
Department
of Money Laundering Investigation notifies District
Police for investigation into Alam’s properties: Alam
will be arrested again even if the court releases him on
general date, according to the letter sent by the
department, by Shiva Puri (kp 09/11/2019)
Woman
accused of witchcraft, tortured (ht 08/11/2019)
Tarai
farmers face crop failure due to fake paddy seeds: The
Garima variety of seeds sold to farmers in Kailali and
Kanchanpur produced only empty grains, by Bhawani
Bhatta (kp 08/11/2019)
Six
Chinese hackers sent to judicial custody, by Ujjwal
Satyal (ht 08/11/2019)
Police
rescue 14-year-old boy (ht 07/11/2019)
Minister
Rawal yet to appear before court (ht 07/11/2019)
Nepal
Police appears unwilling to take action against
officials involved in extrajudicial killing: The human
rights commission had asked that criminal charges be
filed against officers implicated in the killing but
police say they have yet to receive any official
communication in that regard, by Binod Ghimire (kp
06/11/2019)
Police
submit report on kidney scam at Nidan Hospital (ht
06/11/2019)
Man
dunking wife’s face in hot curry shocks even folks used
to VAW, by Anjali Subedi (rep 05/11/2019)
The
District Attorney’s Office files charge sheet against
Alam, seeking life imprisonment: Alam was presented at
the court on Monday amid tight security, while his
supporters had gathered outside the court, shouting for
his release, by Shiva Puri (kp 05/11/2019), Charge-sheet
filed against Alam: Ten absconding persons named as
co-accused, by Prabhat Kumar Jha (ht 05/11/2019), Life
imprisonment sought for Alam and ten others, by
Madan Thakur (rep) 05/11/2019, Alam’s
statement being recorded in Rautahat (ht 06/11/2019)
Nationwide
campaign launched to end violence against women: Flagged
off from Province 1, the drive will be run throughout
the year for long-term effectiveness, by Binu
Timsina (kp 05/11/2019)
Krishna
Bahadur Mahara remanded in custody over attempted rape
allegations: The former House Speaker will have to stay
in custody until the court passes the final decision,
by Tika R. Pradhan (kp 05/11/2019), Former
speaker in judicial custody for attempt to rape, by
Ram Kumar Kamat (ht 05/11/2019), Ex-speaker
Mahara off to jail until final verdict: He is the first
politician of his stature to land in jail on a criminal
charge in Nepal’s recent history (rep 05/11/2019)
High-profile
individuals, when arrested, tend to suddenly need
hospitalisation: Often, lawyers and doctors are
complicit in employing legal loopholes to help the
accused avoid time in jail while in police custody,
by Arjun Poudel (kp 04/11/2019)
Court
urged to send Mahara to judicial Custody (ht
04/11/2019)
Money
laundering probe against 25 gamblers (ht 04/11/2019)
Panel
to probe code of conduct violation charge against Shahi
(ht 04/11/2019)
Nepal
yet again fails to report to the UN on status of
judicial action on the killings of journalists: We are
waiting for updates from the Home Ministry,
Communication Ministry says (kp 03/11/2019)
Army
major among nine detained for alleged gambling: Police
detained 473 gamblers in the last two weeks across the
country, more than Rs31 million seized, by Shuvam
Dhungana (kp 03/11/2019), NA’s
Major Shahi sent to police custody (ht 04/11/2019)
Three
persons found murdered in Gulmi forest: Investigating
officers suspect the victims were from the same family
and were murdered by smashing their heads, by
Ghanhyam Gautam (kp 03/11/2019)
Assailant
of Hetauda acid attack arrested after more than six
years: The perpetrator had thrown acid on a 19-year-old
girl for rebuffing his romantic advances, by Subash
Bidari (kp 02/11/2019)
Filing
complaints with the police is filled with hassles: Nepal
Police’s behaviour with people seeking help from the
authorities has frequently come under the scanner,
by Shuvam Dhungana (kp 02/11/2019)
Ministry
starts process to amend bill on transitional justice
law: Law and Justice Ministry will gather suggestions
from the concerned parties to finalise the amendment
bill, by Binod Ghimire (kp 02/11/2019)
Investigation
report in Alam’s case submitted to attorney’s office
(ht 02/11/2019)
Chargesheet
filed against Mahara for rape attempt: District attorney
office has sought five to seven-and-a-half years jail
term for the former House Speaker, by Shuvam
Dhungana (kp 01/11/2019), Attempt
to rape case filed against Mahara: His trial hearing has
been scheduled for today (ht 01/11/2019), Rape
attempt case filed against Mahara: Prosecution seeks up
to 7 years 6 months jail (rep 01/11/2019), Mahara,
in court statement, denies ever entering the woman’s
apartment: The former Speaker of the House finally gave
his statement on Friday after he was formally charged
with attempted rape, by Tika R. Pradhan (kp
02/11/2019) [Mysteriously, he
did not remember this before?]
Man
dies after police fire on a group defying curfew in
Krishnanagar: Local administration imposed indefinite
curfew after a clash between Hindu and Muslim
communities over the route of idol procession, by
Manoj Paudel (kp 01/11/2019), A
10-point agreement signed between the agitating parties
and local administration in Kapilvastu: The situation
remained peaceful throughout Friday; administration yet
to lift curfew, by Manoj Paudel (kp 02/11/2019), Curfew
continues at Krishnanagar (ht 02/11/2019)
“I
thought I would die”: Despite laws on domestic violence,
archaic and insensitive treatment by police and the
justice system force women in Nepal to remain trapped in
cycles of abuse, even when they muster the courage to
report them; In the majority of domestic violence cases,
police push for reconciliation, by Bhrikuti Rai (kp
01/11/2019)
Police
file two more cases against Aftab Alam: Police have
filed ‘attempted murder’ and ‘holding, transporting
explosive materials’ cases against Alam, by Shiva
Puri (kp 01/11/2019)
VTEN's
arrest is only a symbol of a larger malaise: ‘Moral
order’ is such an amorphous idea that anything
undesirable to the authorities can be slotted into it,
by Amish Raj Mulmi (kp 01/11/2019)
Owner
and manager of a leather factory in Parsa Bara arrested
over Sirsiya stream pollution: Industrial waste from the
Parsa-Bara Industrial Corridor has become a major
contributor to the pollution of Sirsiya stream, say
authorities, by Shankar Acharya (kp 01/11/2019)
Squatters,
who received plots to build houses, are deprived of land
titles: Around 500 landless squatters had received space
to build in Salyan district, by Biplab Maharjan (kp
01/11/2019)
Student
leader from ruling party arraigned on rape charge: Indra
Hang Rai of All Nepal National Free Students Union is
accused of assaulting an 18-year-old girl, by Shuvam
Dhungana (kp 31/10/2019), Three
youth leaders of NCP, Nepali Congress arrested on rape
charges (ht 31/10/2019)
Politics
has become a haven for crime and corruption: Political
parties have not only protected the criminality of their
cadres, but they also have provided shelter to notorious
criminals, by Achyut Wagle (kp 31/10/2019)
Interpol
decides to enhance exchange of police data (ht
31/10/2019)
Police
arrest 25 and seize over Rs 26 million in illegal
gambling bust: Acting on a tip-off, police raided a
house in Maharajgunj for operating an illegal gambling
den, by Shuvam Dhungana (kp 28/10/2019), 59
gamblers nabbed in a day from valley (ht 31/10/2019)
Even
with a murder conviction, lawmakers might still be able
to hold on to their seats: Lawmakers are suspended when
they are convicted but they do not lose their seats
unless their crime involves ‘moral turpitude’, but no
one is certain what that means, by Tika R. Pradhan
(kp 26/10/2019)
‘Enough
evidence to corroborate accusation against Mahara’:
Office of the Attorney General will decide whether or
not to file charge sheet against Mahara (ht
26/10/2019)
Police
arrest four suspected Chand party members for burning PM
Oli’s effigy: The four persons have been held on charges
of disturbing public peace, by Shuvam Dhungana (kp
26/10/2019) [??]
Even
as lawmakers are accused of heinous crimes, Parliament
remains without disciplinary committee: The Speaker, who
is responsible for forming such committees, himself
remains in judicial custody after being accused of rape,
by Binod Ghimire (kp 25/10/2019)
American
Interpol deports rape, murder convict Gautam to Nepal
(ht 24/10/2019), For
the first time, a Nepali has been deported from the US
to serve his sentence: Acting on a red corner notice
issued by Interpol, Lila Raj Gautam, who was convicted
of rape and murder, was repatriated to Nepal, by
Shuvam Dhungana (27/10/2019)
Foreigners
report high number of theft and fraud cases with tourist
police: 1,252 cases were reported in the past two fiscal
years, but none concerned serious crime, by Shuvam
Dhungana (kp 24/10/2019)
Despite
increased security, the crime rate increased by 36
percent this Dashain: Due to increased awareness, people
have started reporting crimes like cyberbullying,
banking offences and social crimes, police say, by
Shuvam Dhungana (kp 24/10/2019)
The
crimes Alam has been accused of are grave, but his party
has little to say: Nepali Congress leaders continue to
insist that an individual’s crimes do not reflect on the
party, by Tika R. Pradhan (kp 23/10/2019) [The cover of criminals in their ranks has system
in many Nepali parties!], Alam
refuses to undergo polygraph test: Police on Tuesday
attempted to carry out the test after the Nepali
Congress lawmaker denied his involvement in the murder
while recording his statement, by Shiva Puri (kp
23/10/2019), Alam’s
remand extended yet again (ht 26/10/2019)
Excavator
operator and three others detained for investigation in
Baitadi: Eight villagers have been injured, one
seriously, when an excavator struck villagers protesting
road construction, by Tripti Shahi (kp 23/10/2019),
Nepal
needs development, but not by coercion: Reimagining
Nepal and developing it warrants a broad outlook that
listens to its people and shows regard for their
displeasure (kp 23/10/2019), Seven
injured as digger driver smites protesters with
excavator bucket in Baitadi, by Baburam Shrestha (ht
23/10/2019), Excavator
driver charged with attempt-to-murder (ht
23/10/2019), Three
more to be sued for excavator attack (ht 26/10/2019)
Event
organisers misuse names and photos of prominent people
to promote Nepali shows in foreign countries: Anuradha
Koirala and Kul Man Ghising have been featured in
promotional posters for an award show in South Korea
without their knowledge, by Chandan Kumar Mandal (kp
23/10/2019)
Killing
of Chand party cadre Kumar Paudel was extrajudicial,
human rights commission says: The National Human Rights
Commission has concluded that Paudel was killed after he
was arrested and has recommended criminal charges
against three police officers, by Binod Ghimire (kp
22/10/2019), Police
killed CPN leader Paudel in cold blood: NHRC (ht
22/10/2019), NHRC
rejects police encounter claim in Paudel death, calls
for suspending 3 (rep 22/10/2019), Begin
thorough probe: The government should start a thorough
investigation, and there must be no attempt by the state
to influence the outcome (ht 23/10/2019)
Govt,
parties ‘have put TJ on backburner’, by Roshan S.
Nepal (ht 22/10/2019), Big
2 parties agree to revise controversial TJ law (rep
22/10/2019)
Unearthing
of the grisly mass murder in Alam case has Nepalis
pointing fingers at a failed system: The onus to
strengthen the system lies on politicians and the people
in power, but analysts say recent incidents show how
they have used the system in service of their own
interests, by Tika R. Pradhan (kp 22/10/2019)
Attempt
to rape FIR against Mahara: Shahi’s retraction ‘can
backfire’; Will have no effect on outcome of the case:
Lawyers (ht 22/10/2019)
Man
held for running sex racket (ht 22/10/2019)
Three
arrested with machine used for printing fake currency
notes (ht 22/10/2019)
CEO,
promoters involved in banking fraud: Police, by
Devendra Basnet (rep 22/10/2019)
Four
of a family held on murder charge (ht 22/10/2019)
‘Discontinuing
chhaupadi isn't just about destroying period huts; it's
about ending the stigma of menstruation.’ Former Miss
Nepal Shrinkhala Khatiwada discusses her one-night stay
at a chhau goth in Babala, Achham, to experience the
ancient practice of the outlawed Chhaupadi, by Srizu
Bajracharya (kp 21/10/2019)
Mahara
remanded to custody for five more daysLawmaker Parbat
Gurung freed without bail (rep), Mahara’s
custody extended till October 23 (ht 21/10/2019), Congress
lawmaker Mohammad Aftab Aalam remanded in custody for
five more days: Alam was arrested on October 13 in
connection with an explosion and the subsequent murder
of at least 23 persons in Rautahat 12 years ago, by
Shiva Puri (kp 21/10/2019), District
court frees lawmaker Gurung on general date (ht
21/10/2019) [??], No
blast occurred, state is plotting against me: Alam,
by Madan Thakur (rep 21/10/2019)
Protest
grips Chitwan Medical college over patient's death:
Police fire 40 rounds of teargas and detain 12 people
for vandalism, by Ramesh Kumar Paudel (kp
21/10/2019), Medical
Association issues 24-hour ultimatum (ht 22 /10/209)
Lahan
police seize smuggled goods worth over a million, by
Mithilesh Yadav (rep 21/10/2019)
ASI
arrested on rape charge in Dharan (ht 20/10/2019)
Inter-caste
marriage leaves girl in a lurch (ht 20/10/2019)
Mahara’s
three days in judicial custody already over, but police
are yet to file a chargesheet: The former House Speaker,
who is facing rape charges, has been in hospital and
refused to record his statement, citing health condition,
by Tika R. Pradhan (kp 20/10/2019), Former
speaker Mahara undergoes coronary angiogram at Norvic,
by Sabitri Dhakal (ht 20/10/2019)
Rautahat
blast injured start coming in police contact after
Alam’s arrest, by Madan Thakur (rep 20/10/2019)
More
foreigners in criminal activities (ht 20/10/2019)
A
private hospital’s negligence has an infant on the verge
of death: A string of errors and oversights by doctors
at Grande International Hospital has destroyed a
15-month-old child beyond repair, his parents allege,
by Swarup Acharya (kp 19/10/2019)
A
discrimination case riles up Dalit activists in Morang
district: A Dalit rights group has demanded the
authorities launch a fair investigation, by Binu
Timsina (kp 19/10/2019)
Supreme
Court directs information commission to respond to writ
regarding Lal Commission report: The report includes
findings from investigations into deadly violence in
2015 that killed nearly 50 people, by Tika R.
Pradhan (kp 18/10/2019), NIC
gets three months to decide on Lal panel report (ht
18/10/2019)
The
rise and fall of Comrade Mahara, by Sewa Bhattarai
and Sanghamitra Subba (nt 18/10/2019)
Police
in Banke arrest a sub-inspector over an attempt to rape
charge: The official was arrested on the basis of a
complaint filed by a woman police trainee earlier this
week, by Madhu Shahi (kp 18/10/2019)
Nepali
citizens detained during Xi Jinping’s visit for Tibetan
signage on clothes and accessories: All citizens have a
right to political opinion and the right to criticise
and protest Nepal’s foreign policy, irrespective of the
country’s formal position, say rights activists, by
Bhrikuti Rai (kp 18/10/2019)
Crime
and punishment: The legal actions taken by the police
against politicians can help bring an end to
criminalisation of politics (ht 18/10/2019)
Bid
to combat human trafficking gets a boost (ht
18/10/2019)
Police
arrest five including Nidan Hospital officials and a
government section officer over kidney scam: A patient
had filed a complaint saying he was lured into selling
his kidney but was later cheated, as the hospital
created a fake donor, by Arjun Poudel (kp
17/10/2019)
Parties
continue to look the other way while their leaders get
arrested for crimes: Three lawmakers were arrested in
the past two weeks and none has been censured or
suspended by their parties, by , by Binod Ghimire
(kp 17/10/2019) [This has to do
with the fact that politicians and parties consider
themselves to be above the law, just as the monarchy did
before!]
Lawmaker
Parvat Gurung served summons for murder bid (ht
17/10/2019), Arrest
warrant issued against NCP lawmaker, by Ramesh
Khatiwada (rep 17/10/2019)
Cases
of polygamy unchecked in several districts of Province
5: Lack of stringent laws and loopholes in existing
legal provisions create an encouraging environment for
polygamy, by Amrita Anmol (kp 17/10/2019)
Hospitals
are implanting hormonal birth control on mentally
impaired women: Rights activists say that such implants
are a violation of women’s rights and legal provisions
and do not address the core problem of violence against
women, by Arjun Poudel (kpn 17/10/2019)
Teacher
thrashes student (ht 16/10/2019)
Mahara
to remain in police custody for three more days: Police
will soon conduct DNA tests on Mahara and things
collected from the complainant’s apartment, by Tika
R. Pradhan (kp 16/10/2019), Fighting
crime and gaining public trust: The government can show
its sincerity by conducting a fair probe into Mahara's
case, by Udayan Regmi (kp 16/10/2019)
Suspended
Congress MP Alam remanded in custody for seven days:
Police have linked Alam with the explosion and the
deaths, as well as accused him of murdering the injured
survivors by burning them alive in a brick kiln, by
Shiva Puri (kp 16/10/2019)
Lawmaker
Yadav demands fair investigation into acid attack,
by Ritesh Tripathi (rep 15/10/2019)
Health
Ministry to monitor hospitals to curb sex-selective
abortions: Newborn data of the Paropakar Maternity and
Women's Hospital shows a wide gap between the number of
boys and girls, by Arjun Poudel (kp 15/10/2019)
Despite
rape and murder charges, Mahara and Alam remain
‘honourable’ lawmakers: The new House Regulations have
removed a previous clause that automatically suspended
any lawmakers charged with crimes, by Tika R.
Pradhan (kp 15/10/2019) [There
are a lot more honourable criminals among Nepal's
politicians!], Crime
and impunity: Arrest of Mohammand Aftab Alam (rep
15/10/2019), Members
charged with a crime should be removed forthwith: The
criminalisation of politics is a threat to the basic
structure of the constitution, but the current
regulation allows lawbreakers to continue as lawmakers
(kp 16/10/2019)
Rastriya
Janata Party lawmaker vandalises counter at Janakpur
airport: The lawmaker said that he was furious at the
condition of the airport, and the irresponsibility and
indifference of Budhha Air’s officials to passengers’
queries, by Santosh Singh (kp 15/10/2019), Airline
operators warn of suspending all Janakpur flights
(rep 15/10/2019) [When
are politicians severely punished for such crimes so
that they finally realise that they are not above the
law?], Lawmaker
Pramod Sah arrested for vandalism: ‘Booked without
invoking any Civil Aviation Act section’ (ht
16/10/2019) [It seems the time
has come for godlike politicians to finally become
normal mortals!], Lawmaker
Sah remanded to custody (ht 17/10/2019), Lawmaker
Sah freed on general date (ht 19/10/2019)
Irate
youths vandalise hospital in Rajbiraj (ht
15/10/2019)
Police
to record Mahara’s statement from hospital bed (rep
14/10/2019), Make
Example, Not Exception, by P. Kharel (rn
14/10/2019), Mahara
to be presented in court (ht 15/10/2019)
Congress
lawmaker Mohammad Aftab Alam arrested in relation to
2008 Rautahat blast: The politician faces charges of
burning those injured in the explosion alive in a brick
kiln, by Shiva Puri (kp 14/10/2019), Ex-Minister
Alam arrested in connection with 2008 ‘murders’, by
Madan Thakur (rep 14/10/2019), Police
arrest NC leader Alam (ht 14/10/2019), Explainer:
The brick kiln murders Alam is accused of, by Bhadra
Sharma (rep 14/10/2019), Nepali
Congress cadres stage protest against Aftab Alam’s
arrest: The agitating cadres of the main opposition
burnt tyres and obstructed roads at different places,
by Shiba Puri (kp 15/10/2019), Alam
arrest revives writ petitioner's hopes of justice,
by Madan Thakur (rep)
In
Achham, postpartum mothers continue to face ostracism:
While the district has introduced several safe
motherhood programmes, they have largely been
ineffective, by Menuka Dhungana (kp 14/10/2019)
Mahara
to face trial following his treatment: Likely to remain
in hospital for an extended period (ht 13/10/2019)
Parties
agree on transitional justice officials but
recommendation committee disagrees: Political consensus
may be necessary but the committee's independence should
not be undermined, taskforce members say, by Binod
Ghimire (kp 12/10/2019)
With
a complaint formally registered against Mahara, all eyes
are now on the police and the government: As the country
prepares for Dashain holidays, there are fears about the
investigation’s progress and about the complainant’s
safety, by Bhrikuti Rai, Anil Giri and Tika R.
Pradhan (kp 06/10/2019), Preparation
on to take Mahara into police custody as investigation
escalates (ht 06/10/2019), Police
arrest Krishna Bahadur Mahara over rape allegations:
Police took Mahara into custody after the Kathmandu
District Court earlier on Sunday issued an arrest
warrant against him following a formal complaint by the
accuser on Friday (kp 07/10/2019), Krishna
Bahadur Mahara, who was arrested earlier this week over
rape allegations, admitted to Norvic Hospital: Police
arrested Mahara on Sunday evening from his residence in
Baluwatar following a court order, by Shuvam
Dhungana (kp 11/10/2019)
Journalists’
group demands action against those issuing threats to
journalist Shiwakoti: The Federation of Nepali
Journalists says threatening journalists for doing their
job is against press freedom (kp 05/10/2019)
National
Human Rights Commission seeks progress report from
police on Mahara rape charges: Though police say the
woman's conflicting statements have made it difficult
for them to pursue the case, criminal lawyers say the
investigating agency can take the investigation forward
as she had already called police on the night of the
incident (kp 05/10/2019)
Impunity
in sex crime: UN, Australia, EU nations concerned
(ht 05/10/2019)
Girl
found murdered after rape (rep 04/10/2019)
Prioritise
Transitional Justice, by Hira Bahadur Thapa (rn
04/10/2019)
Rights-protecting
bodies are supposed to keep the executive in check: The
National Women Commission not having a chairperson since
2017 is a sign of institutional erosion (kp
04/10/2019), Weekly
meet cancelled to duck Mahara issue? (ht
04/10/2019), Rights
groups seek probe into rape case (ht 04/10/2019), Journo
who broke ‘rape news’ gets threats, by Ujjwal Satyal
(ht 04/10/2019), Journalist
pleads for his safety (rep 04/10/2019), Police
stop Mahara probe as woman files complaint saying no
truth in media reports (rep 04/10/2019) [No
one will resign from office immediately if the
accusations against him are completely false!], Politicians’
silence on the Mahara case speaks volumes about their
beliefs: Analysts say politicians pay lip service to
women’s rights but don’t speak out about cases involving
one of their own, by Tika R. Pradhan (kp
05/10/2019), Dashain
holidays could delay investigation into Mahara rape
charges: Though police say investigation is underway,
they refuse to share the progress, by Shuvam
Dhungana (kp 05/10/2019), Govt,
parties mum on slur against Mahara: Women MPs from
ruling, oppn parties also silent on the issue (ht
05/10/2019)
Failure
to ensure justice in Mahara case could cost Nepal dearly
in the international arena: As Nepal is party to many
international human rights conventions, it is required
to ensure justice for victims of gender-based violence,
or face international censure, by Anil Giri (kp
04/10/2019)
The
Mahara case once again exposes the Nepal Police’s
shortcomings: Repeated failings in high-profile cases
are slowly eroding the public’s trust in the capacity of
Nepal Police to conduct impartial investigations, by
Shuvam Dhungana (kp 04/10/2019)
Woman
accused of critically injuring stepdaughter, arrested,
by Nagendra Upadhyaya (rep 04/10/2019)
Police
step up highway security to prevent untoward incidents
during festival season: The armed looters intensify
their activities during major festivals like Dashain,
Tihar and Chhath, by Om Prakash Thakur (kp
04/10/2019)
How
a Dalit woman fell victim to caste-discrimination in
Pokhara, by Deepak Pariyar (kp 03/10/2019)
Ignorance
and poverty driving parents in Humla to send their
children to children’s homes in Capital: 40 children
were rescued from several children’s homes in Kathmandu
and handed over to their families in Humla in the past
three months, by Chhapal Lama (kp 03/10/2019)
One
held on rape charge (ht 02/10/2019)
Online
violence against women in Nepal on the rise: Nearly 70
percent of the 353 cases filed at the cybercrime bureau
in the last two months were online abuse directed
towards women, by Shuvam Dhungana (kp 01/10/2019)
Women
victims of conflict era in Rupandehi demand identity
card: Since the government has not addressed many of the
issues faced by conflict victims, many widows say they
are facing an uncertain future, by Amrita Anmol (kp
0/10/2019)
Parliament
Sectt staffer accuses Mahara of rape (ht
01/10/2019), Speaker
Mahara accused of sexually harassing female employee
(rep 01/10/2019), Speaker
Mahara offers 'temporary resignation' following
accusation of rape (ht 01/10/2019), PM
advises Speaker Mahara to step down from his post,
by Tapendra Karki (rep), House
Speaker Mahara resigns amid sexual harassment
accusations, by Tapendra Karki (rep 01/10/2019), Why
the rape charges against Speaker is a litmus test for
police, the ruling party and government: Although
Krishna Bahadur Mahara has tendered his resignation, the
government and ruling party have yet to take a concrete
position while the police still haven’t pursued a
criminal case, by Anil Giri (kp 02/10/2019), A
scandal that could mean curtains for Mahara’s long
political career: Krishna Bahadur Mahara, who has risen
through the ranks over the decades, was embroiled in
controversies in the past too, by Tika R. Pradhan
(kp 02/10/2019), Speaker
Mahara resigns following rape allegations: The incident
cannot be allowed to become yet another unsolved case
(kp 02/10/2019), A
constitutional body that could’ve played a significant
role in the case against Mahara has been scuttled:
Without a chairperson for four years, the National Women
Commission, mandated to deal with cases of gender-based
violence, cannot even issue a statement, by Binod
Ghimire (kp 03/10/2019), Investigation
against Mahara should go on, opine lawyers (ht
03/10/2019), Mahara’s
fate rests on our probe: Police (ht 03/10/2019), Victim
needs emotional support, counselling, by Sabitri
Dhakal (ht 03/10/2019), All
eyes on PM: The PM should unequivocally ask the police
to launch an inquiry even if Shahi does not file an FIR
against Mahara and refuses to undergo medical tests
(ht 03/10/2019)
Stop
attacks: The ruling party must keep its cadres under
control, and the police should take action against those
involved in physically intimidating the NC leader and
others (ht 0/10/2019)
Governments
have no right to dictate what the citizenry can think:
The current government is notorious for its attempts to
muzzle the free press (kp 30/09/2019)
Bid
to attack Minendra Rijal of NC: Main opposition party
blames NCP cadres for the incident (ht 30/09/2019),
The
government and the ruling party must dial down on the
authoritarian behaviour: The Oli-administration would do
well to remember that the people democratically elected
it to uphold the rule of law (kp 01/10/2019)
Authorities
rescue children from different childcare homes in poor
conditions: The majority of the rescued children are
from Karnali zone, by Binod Ghimire (kp 29/09/2019)
Anti-corruption
campaigner Gyanendra Shahi attacked in Chitwan: Shahi
was one among the passengers who criticised Minister of
Tourism Yogesh Bhattarai for causing a delay to a
Kathmandu-bound Buddha Air flight in Nepalgunj earlier
this month, by Ramesh Kumar Poudel (kp 29/09/2019),
Attack
on government critic signals drive to crush dissent: The
brutal beating of Gyanendra Shahi is a symptom of the
ruling party’s intolerance for any kind of criticism,
analysts say, by Anil Giri (kp 30/09/2019), ‘Attack
on Shahi a severe blow to freedom of expression’ (ht
30/09/2019), Contemptible
act: The ruling party cannot use its cadres to
intimidate the people criticising the government for its
failure to deliver goods and services (ht
30/09/2019), Protest
staged expressing solidarity with Gyanendra Shahi
(ht 01/10/2019)
Government
plans to impose severe penalty against companies that
fail to develop anti-money laundering mechanism: Ahead
of Nepal’s compliance evaluation next year, the
government moves forward to strengthen enforcement
mechanism, by Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp 29/09/2019)
Dahal
owns up to insurgency-era mistakes and pledges to
deliver transitional justice: The major parties—Nepali
Congress and Nepal Communist Party—are on the same page
when it comes to an early conclusion to the drawn-out
transitional justice process, by Binod Ghimire (kp
27/09/2019)
Married
as children, women in Bajhang are abused, abandoned and
killing themselves: The majority of marriages in the
district are still between underage children, which
often leads to polygamy and gender-based violence,
by Basanta Pratap Singh (kp 26/09/2019)
Hackers
steal over Rs 47 million from Agriculture Development
Bank in the biggest heist yet: Police have arrested 12
people in connection with the robbery, which is the
second bank hacking attack in less than a month, by
Shuvam Dhungana (kp 26/09/2019)
Call
to form local and provincial bodies to fight human
trafficking: Once limited to some districts, human
trafficking has now become a nationwide menace, by
Chandan Kumar Mandal (kp 26/09/2019)
In
Bardiya, even elected Dalit representatives face
caste-based bigotry: Untouchability and caste
discrimination may have taken a backseat in public
places and platforms, but it is still prevalent on an
individual level, say Dalits, by Kamal Panthi (kp
25/09/2019)
Government
forms new team to re-examine Nirmala’s DNA sample
(ht 25/09/2019)
Child
labour still prevalent in Pokhara: Nearly 400 children
were employed as workers in Pokhara in the last fiscal
year 2018/19, data shows, by Bina Thapa (kp
25/09/2019)
Rampant
rise in ‘illegal’ collection of parking fees (ht
25/09/2019)
Police
are failing rape victims, new human rights commission
report says: Nepal’s criminal justice system continues
to make access to justice complicated and challenging
for victims of rape, according to the report, by
Bhrikuti Rai (kp 24/09/2019), More
than 1,300 rape cases filed in seven months: NHRC report
(ht 24/09/2019)
CPN
running extortion racket in Bajura (ht 24/09/2019)
Dahal
hints at withdrawing ‘fake’ cases related to Tikapur
incident: Tharu activists have long argued that the
Tikapur violence was a spontaneous political event and
should be treated as such, by Tika R. Pradhan (kp
23/09/2019) [??]
Less
than a year later, Nepal’s men of #MeToo are back to
work: When women came forward to share stories of sexual
harassment, there was hope that powerful men were
finally going to be held accountable. But today, it’s
business as usual, by Bhrikuti Rai (kp 21/09/2019)
Man
accused of abusing step-daughter released on bail of
three lakh rupees (ht 20/09/2019)
Body
of a 56-year-old woman found in Kapan, police suspect
murder: The body of 56-year-old Kamala KC, who hailed
from Badganga Rural Municipality in Kapilvastu district,
was found by her neighbours, by Shuvam Dhungana (kp
19/09/2019)
Action
taken against over 2,000 erring cops (ht 19/09/2019)
More
than two dozen assault cases registered with Rupandehi
police in the last two years: Traders and tourism
entrepreneurs fear the increase in criminal activities
in the district is working against the district’s
ambition to expand commercially, by Madhav Dhungana
(kp 18/09/2019)
Indian
girls trafficked for sex trade rescued, by Ujjwal
Satyal (ht 18/09/2019)
Government
ready to amend transitional justice Act as per
international standard: Law minister: Conflict victims
say they are ready to support the process if Minister
Bhanu Bhakta Dhakal fulfils his commitments, by
Binod Ghimire (kp 17/09/2019)
Bus
conductor held from Suvakamana Chowk for raping
11-year-old girl, by Ujjwal Satyal (kp 17/09/2019)
Violence
against children on the rise, by Ujjwal Satyal (ht
16/09/2019)
TRC
used as tool to exact revenge: Dahal (ht 16/09/2019)
[The unbelievable statement of a
person who obviously used the Maoist uprising for his
own personal political and economic rise and who is not
interested in the fate of his former fighters nor in
that of the victims of the uprising and their families!]
Rupandehi
villager shot dead in broad daylight (ht 16/09/2019)
Police
data suggests rise in abduction cases over the years:
Around 104 cases of kidnapping were reported last fiscal
year alone, by Shuvam Dhungana (kp 15/09/2019)
Police
open fire to arrest crime suspect (ht 14/09/2019)
New
penal code fails minor rape victims: Lawyers, by Ram
Kumar Kamat (ht 14/09/2019)
Committee
formed to select transitional justice officials decides
to step up efforts: Government is preparing to start
consultations with victims to amend the transitional
justice act, by Binod Ghimire (kp 13/09/2019)
Students
say colleges cutting their hair to discipline them is
equivalent to harassment: ‘We cut hair at Rs50, while
other shops charge around Rs100 to Rs200. It is actually
more profitable to students,’ one college principal
said, defending his institution’s practice, by Arjun
Bhattarai (kp 13/09/2019)
NCP
cadres attack NC members during awareness campaign
(rep 13/09/2019), Nepali
Congress stages rally to protest attack on Banke
president (ht 14/09/2019)
Home
Minister’s brother, along with eight others, face
charges of extortion: The Central Investigation Bureau
on Sunday detained Naresh Thapa and his accomplices for
their alleged involvement in threatening several
contractors, by Shuvam Dhungana (kp 13/09/2019), Gangster
Basnet ran an extortion racket from prison using home
minister’s brother
Police shoot at and capture another suspect linked with
the racket, by Shuvam Dhungana (kp 13/09/2019), Home
minister’s brother released on bail: Five others sent to
jail, by Ujjwal Satyal (ht 19/09/2019)
Man
held for murdering his beloved in cold blood (ht
13/09/2019)
Citizenship
debate has reached another low, rights activists say:
New provisions in the citizenship amendment bill could
further limit equal citizenship rights for women, by
Bhrikuti Rai (kp 12/09/2019)
To
forgive or not to forgive: Failure of the government to
adhere to the Supreme Court verdict in relation to
amnesty could further agonize the victims, setting the
ground for vengeance and violence, by Deepak Joshi
Pokhrel and Rajendra Senchurey (rep 12/09/2019)
16
medical students arrested during demonstration in
Chitwan released (ht 12/09/2019), Netra
Bikram Chand's son arrested (rep 12/09/2019)
Despite
reservations, parties have their way on transitional
justice appointments: Conflict victims say they won’t
accept the new teams chosen at the behest of political
parties, by Binod Ghimire (kp 11/09/2019) [This
is the safest way to secured injustice!]
Recruiting
agencies ‘using migrant workers to siphon off US dollar
abroad’: Country's foreign exchange reserve depleted by
Rs64 billion in the last fiscal year compared to the
preceding year, according to the central bank, by
Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp 11/09/2019) [But it is also true that nobody can go abroad with
$500 in cash! Everybody knows this. The Nepali citizen
Khadka Prasad Sharma Oli recently went to Singapur twice
for expensive health treatment. Has he been checked and
arrested at TIA? All citizens are equal before the law!]
Smuggling
of animal body parts rife in Kakadbhitta border point:
Division Forest Office says smuggling has become easier
because of the open border between Nepal and India,
by Parbat Portel (kp 11/09/2019)
Fair
or not, some say it’s time to talk about skin colour
discrimination: Like racism, colourism is largely
overlooked and dismissed in Nepal. Some Nepalis say
society should start addressing it head on, by June
Karkee (kp 10/09/2019)
Twin
blasts at midnight in Jhapa (ht 10/09/2019)
Nepali
women are being trafficked to China and sold as wives॥
Bride-buying is becoming increasingly prevalent in
China, where men far outnumber women, by Shuvam
Dhungana (kp 09/09/2019)
Suspected
Chand party cadre, Army deserter among eight arrested
for a string of crimes: Cases of theft and robbery on
rise in the Capital in recent years, by Shuvam
Dhungana (kp 09/09/2019)
Lawmakers
demand death penalty for acid attackers, lawyers oppose
(ht 09/09/2019), From
public harassment to acid attack, legal loopholes
emboldening assailants, by Priyanka Adhikari (rep
12/09/2019)
Mayor,
deputy mayor blame each other for the death of a person
killed in clash: A violent clash ensued between the
supporters of Mayor Mandal and Deputy Mayor Jha over the
issue of the administrative centre of the municipality,
by Shyam Sundar Shashi (kp 09/09/2019)
Discrimination
against Dalits still rife, continue to be left out of
decision making processes: Marginalisation of members of
Dalit communities still persists even though several
laws and constitution bar discrimination, by Chandan
Kumar Mandal (kp 08/09/2019)
Human
rights body to pull out of committee formed to select
transitional justice commission officials: Rights body
is recalling Prakash Osti from the committee, saying it
does not want to be part of the process that has been
heavily politicised, by Binod Ghimire (kp
08/09/2019), Panel
set to publicize list of TJ bodies candidates this week
(rep 09/09/2019)
Will
Tribhuvan University be the first educational
institution to have a sexual harassment policy in Nepal?
Months after articles and news stories about continued
sexual harassment in the country’s oldest and largest
university, it finally has put a team to work on
addressing these issues through a grievance mechanism,
by Bhrikuti Rai (kp 08/09/2019)
Outlawed
party on extortion spree amid clampdown: Security
officials said the ongoing arrests and crackdown on the
party's activities have proved little to deter the
party's donation drive (rep 08/09/2019)
A
teenage girl was attacked with acid after her father
told a man to stop pursuing her: Muskan Khatun, a ninth
grader, suffered burns on her face, chest and hands, and
is receiving treatment in Kathmandu, by Bhusan Yadav
and Shankar Acharya (kp 07/09/2019)
[The government must also be
made responsible for not enacting the August 2017 order
of the SC to regulate sale and distribution of acids!!],
Hetauda
acid attacker still at large: Six years since the
incident, police are still struggling to arrest the
assailant, by Pratap Bista (kp 09/09/2019), Enact
law pronto: The government should enact law to regulate
the sale and distribution of acids to prevent women and
girls from acid attacks (ht 10/09/2019)
Kin
suspect woman murdered over dowry (ht 07/09/2019)
Conflict
victims may ‘snub’ TJ process over commissioner
appointments (rep 07/09/2019)
Bote
community in Makwanpur denied licence renewal for
fishing: The Bote people fish in the local rivers and
rivulets, especially in the Rapti river, which falls
inside the Parsa National Park, by Pratap Bista [???? This is the economic survival basis of this
small group! At the same time, members of the ruling
social groups destroy the nature of the country in many
places for the mere sake of profit!]
Will
the new commissions go the way of the transitional
justice bodies? There is no alternative to making
appointments in such commissions transparent and fair,
by Mohna Ansari (kp 06/09/2019)
Two
more FIRs filed against ‘loan shark’ (ht 06/09/2019)
Human
trafficking still a major challenge for the country:
Despite legal protections and law enforcing agencies in
action, Nepali girls, women and children are still
vulnerable to human trafficking, by Chandan Kumar
Mandal (kp 05/09/2019), Over
500 women missing from Nepalgunj border (ht
05/09/2019), Clear-cut
laws are needed to fight human trafficking: While the
individuals concerned are doing their best to stop it,
the laws defining what constitutes human trafficking
remain narrow (kp 06/09/2019)
Rift
surfaces in committee to select transitional justice
commission officials: Committee members are at odds over
the selection criteria, chairman fails to rise to the
occasion, by Binod Ghimire (kp 05/09/2019)
Police
to solve Jha’s murder case (ht 05/09/2019), Sanu
Kanchha sent to jail until final verdict (rep
12/09/2019)
One
held for extortion attempt, security beefed up (ht
05/09/2019)
Agitating
students vandalise TMC (ht 04/09/2019)
TJ
appointment meeting cancelled at the eleventh hour
(rep 04/09/2019)
Youth
arrested for sexual abuse, fraud (ht 03/09/2019) [At the age of 29, the person should
be called adult, not youth!]
Police
probing Kalawar for money laundering also (rep
03/09/2019)
Cows
from Nepalgunj being smuggled into Bihar via the
East-West Highway, by Mithilesh Yadav (rep
03/09/2019)
Millions
stolen by ATM hackers exposes vulnerability of Nepali
banks: Five Chinese nationals were arrested on Saturday
night on suspicion of using cloned debit cards to breach
the banks’ processing system and withdraw cash, by
Shuvam Dhungana and Rajesh Khanal (kp 02/09/2019), Banks
must invest more in digital security: The recent
breaches show that not enough has been done to increase
security (kp 03/09/2019), 3
Nepalis among 4 more arrested for cyber heist, by
Ujjwal Satyal (ht 03/09/2019), Rs
35.8m withdrawn in Saturday’s heist: NRB (ht
05/09/2019), Police
still clueless about two Chinese involved in cyber heist
(Uht 08/09/2019)
Where
are the disappeared? (rep 01/09/2019)
Number
of theft cases on the rise: Police advise caution as
festival season approaches near, by Shuvam Dhungana
(kp 01/09/2019)
Guest
house owner arrested for raping teenage employee:
Thousands of women working in entertainment sector face
exploitation (ht 01/09/2019)
Parents
of murdered child question country’s justice mechanism,
by Prabhat Kumar Jha (ht 01/09/2019)
300
households displaced in Sarlahi as ‘loan shark produces
fake loan documents’, b y Tapendra Karki (rep
01/09/2019)
Police
rough up a Madhesi man yet again. This time, it’s on
video: A viral video from Janakpur shows police pushing
and pulling on a Madhesi man, prompting outrage on
social media, by Samuel Chhetri (kp 31/08/2019)
State
softens stance on transitional justice after pressure
from victims and rights groups: National Human Rights
Commission says it will recall its member from the
recommendation committee if parties don’t correct their
working style, by Binod Ghimire (kp 31/08/2019)
Bride
trafficking racket busted, four Chinese nationals among
10 arrested: The Chinese men mobilised their Nepali
associates to lure unwary girls and women into fake
marriages with them (ht 31/08/2019)
Former
minister, four others held on charge of human
trafficking (ht 31/08/2019)
On
the International Day of the Disappeared, one family in
Kanchanpur talks about the misery of being torn apart:
According to the data available at the district
administration office, 53 people have disappeared in the
district over the decade-long insurgency period, by
Bhawani Bhatta (kp 30/08/2019), Victims’
woes unaddressed: CIEDP collected 3,212 complaints but
couldn’t probe any, by Roshan S. Nepal (ht
30/08/2019), A
day for the victims, and for the future of transitional
justice: This day should serve as an occasion to
remember the need to continue working towards completing
the transitional justice process, by Navaraj
Pudasaini (kp 30/08/2019), Insurgency
victims in Rolpa await return of missing kin, by
Dinesh Subedi (rep 30/08/2019)
A
teenager in Okhaldhunga killed herself after she was
bullied online: The perpetrator had created a fake
Facebook account in the victim’s name to defame her,
by Kumbha Raj Rai (kp 28/08/2019)
Derailing
justice: Transitional justice has taken up a lot of
resources. It cannot be allowed to get derailed into an
industry that supports interests of conflict spoilers,
by Pranab Kharel and Gaurab KC (rep 27/08/2019)
Cyber
bureau receives 320 plaints in three months (ht
27/08/2019)
SC
orders compensation for wrongfully convicted cop:
Another cop confesses to stealing service revolvers for
which his colleague was sentenced to four years, by
Ram Kumar Kamat (ht 26/08/2019)
Female
workers subjected to forced labour (ht 26/08/2019),
Regulate
leisure sector: A provision of decent working conditions
is a prerequisite to prevent females from being sexually
abused (ht 27/08/2019)
Rupandehi
border becoming hub for drug smugglers, by Rekha
Bhusal (rep 26/08/209)
Police
file charge-sheet against Lamichhane, Kandel and Karki,
by Sabita Shrestha (rep 26/08/2019), Lamichhane,
two others freed, by Tilakram Rimal (ht 27/08/2019)
Dealing
with syndicates : As long as the market-related
inefficiencies that actually gave rise to syndicates
remain, the transportation syndicates will rise again,
in one form or another, by Biswo Poudel (rep
26/08/2019)
Parties’
undue intervention could call credibility of
transitional justice process into question: Conflict
victims and rights activists say politicians must
correct their past mistakes and appoint officials in an
impartial and transparent manner, by Binod Ghimire
(kp 25/08/2019)
Drugs
worth millions are seized from smugglers every year:
Police say smugglers are taking advantage of the porous
border to bring in contrabands, by Shuvam Dhungana
(kp 25/08/2019)
Nine
arrested for trying to settle rape case (ht
23/08/2019)
Transitional
justice in jeopardy: Keep aside vested interests, by
Ram Dayal Rakesh (ht 22/08/2019), Conflict
victims oppose plan to amend transitional justice act
based on a draft they rejected a year ago: As the
political parties do not appear serious about ensuring
justice, their actions will only promote impunity,
conflict victims say, by Binod Ghimire (kp
23/08/2019), TJ
appointments get messy as one nominee declines offer
(rep 23/08/2019)
Nine
minors rescued from a children’s home in Bafal, three
arrested: The children were living in dismal conditions,
surviving only on rice and salt, authorities say, by
Shuvam Dhungana and Bhrikuti Rai (kp 22/08/2019)
Govt
unable to control thriving human trafficking (ht
22/08/2019)
Bimala
Tamang's kin prepare to move apex court, by Sonam
Thapa (rep 21/08/2019)
Man
sets wife and son ablaze, by Sarita Shrestha (rep
21/08/2019)
Parties
finalising names for two transitional justice bodies
this week: Nepal Communist Party will take leadership of
the truth commission while Nepali Congress will get the
one on disappearances, by Binod Ghimire (kp
20/08/2019) [Still active
leaders of both parties had political responsibility at
that time and are not qualified for this task!],
Costs
of justice delayed: If the voices of the victims are
ignored and justice process is put on hold like this,
Nepal’s TJ process is surely going to attract universal
jurisdiction, by Ram Kumar Bhandari (rep
20/08/2019), Former
attorney general Raman Shrestha is parties’ pick for
truth commission: While Shrestha himself says he will
not take up the position, conflict victims too are
against the parties’ decision, by Binod Ghimire (kp
22/08/2019) [?????], NCP’s
choice for TRC chair turns down offer (ht
22/08/2019)
Police
to probe Paras’ manhandling of on-duty cop (ht
20/08/2019)
Police
arrest suspected Chand party member for posession of
firearms and bullets: The government in March declared
the Chand-led party a criminal outfit and banned its
activities, by Shuvam Dhungana (kp 19/08/2019)
NA
offers to set up Maina memorial, by Roshan S. Nepal
(ht 19/08/2019) [This is a blatant mockery against the background
that criminals from the security forces, including in
the murder case of Maina Sunuwar, are protected and
promoted unchanged by the army leadership and
politicians!], Do
not obstruct justice (rep 20/08/2019)
FIR
filed almost one year after ex-ambassador Jha’s murder
(ht 19/08/2019)
Man
on the lam after ‘thrashing Dalit woman’ arrested,
by Ganesh Bishu and Govinda KC (rep 18/08/2019)
Case
against Chhaupadi: Chhaupadi is rooted in ignorance and
unfounded fears, another reason why it must be
completely eradicated, by Shiva Kumar Pokharel (rep
18/08/2019)
Nine
persons, including NEFIN president, injured in baton
charge (ht 18/08/2019)
One
arrested with two pistols, bullets (ht 18/08/2019)
Government
introduces stringent strategy to combat money
laundering: Provisions allow even police to investigate
cases, but experts say implementation will be the key to
avoiding getting blacklisted, by Krishna Acharya (kp
17/08/2019)
Murder,
rape, drug trafficking accused held (ht 17/08/2019)
Head
of Bal Mandir, nation’s oldest non-profit for children,
arrested on charges of child trafficking: The director
of the organisation has been accused of abetting a
British national in unlawfully procuring a Nepali child
and assisting in obtaining fraudulent documents to claim
the baby, by Tsering D. Gurung (kp 16/08/2019)
Concerted
efforts stressed to combat human trafficking (ht
16/08/2019)
Pudasaini
death mystery:TV host Lamichhane among three arrested,
by Ujjwal Satyal (ht 16/08/2019), Five-day
custody for Rabi Lamichhane, 2 others, by Tilakram
Rimal (ht 17/08/2019), Lamichhane
fans clash with police, seven policemen injured (rep
17/08/2019), Police
lathi-charge Lamichhane supporters; use tear gas to
control situation, by Kamal Subedi (rep 17/08/2019),
Case
filed against Rabi Lamichhane, two others (ht
19/08/2019)
Journalists
are being arrested for their political beliefs, in eerie
reminder of Panchayat days: At least two journalists are
in detention on suspicion of their affiliation with the
Chand-led Communist Party of Nepal, by Tika R.
Pradhan (kp 15/08/2019)
Neglected
for giving birth to a baby girl: If there is something
our society as a whole must fight together it is this
(rep 15/08/2019)
Nirmala
rape and murder case: Bhandara emerges from coma after
one year, starts speaking, by Ujwal Satyal (ht
15/08/2019)
Nepal
falls behind in combating human trafficking, says NHRC
(ht 15/08/2019)
Two
arrested for raping women (ht 15/08/2019)
Police
use force on protesters (ht 14/08/2019)
Youth
held for sexually abusing minor in Jhapa (ht
14/08/2019)
Probe
into trader’s murder begins (ht 14/08/2019)
Geneva
Conventions instrumental in reducing suffering, says
Welch (ht 13/08/2019), Jail
term till death proposed for grave violations, by
Ram Kumar Kamat (ht 13/08/2019)
Zero
VAW cases in Manang (ht 13/08/2019)
Two
trafficking suspects held, woman rescued (ht
12/08/2019)
Police
baton-charge SRC agitators (ht 12/08/2019)
Woman
thrashed 40 days ago yet to recover from injuries,
by Pushparaj Joshi (rep 12/08/2019)
OAG
braces up for protecting victims (ht 12/08/2019)
Elderly
couple brutally murdered in Baglung (ht 12/08/2019)
Police
arrest three chain snatchers from valley (ht
11/08/2019)
Dhading
locals burn excavators after two youths drown (ht
11/08/2019)
Trafficking
in persons: Nepal must focus on prevention efforts and
victims' protection, by Dev Datta Joshi (kp
09/08/2019)
Cases
of domestic violence unchecked in Baitadi: Eighty-six
cases of domestic violence were filed at the District
Police Office in the fiscal year 2018-19, by Tripti
Shahi (kp 08/08/2019)
Physical
Infrastructure Ministry’s interest in Kathmandu-Tarai
expressway is delaying DPR endorsement: Sources say
Minister Mahaseth wants his say in the construction of
the multibillion-rupee project, by Binod Ghimire (kp
07/08/2019)
Calls
from the police shake up human rights activists: At
least three rights activists received calls from the
police asking for their professional affiliation,
without saying why, by Tika R. Pradhan (kp
07/08/2019)
Nearly
1.5 million Nepali at risk of human trafficking, report
says: Aspiring migrant workers, Nepali working abroad,
child labour, workers in the entertainment sector and
missing persons are more vulnerable human trafficking,
by Chandan Kumar Mandal (kp 06/08/2019), Human
traffickers, in a change of tricks, are now waiting
across the border: Despite decades of surveillance and
awareness programmes, hundreds of women continue to be
trafficked across the open Nepal-India border every year,
by Madhu Shahi (kp 06/08/2019)
People’s
representatives from Likhu Tamakoshi visit district
administration office seeking security: They have
accused Govinda Bahadur Khadka, chairman of the rural
municipality, of assaulting office staff, by Tika
Prasad Bhatta (kp 05/08/2019)
AWC
urges NHRC to conduct fair investigation (ht
05/08/2019), No
credible basis to conclude Paudel was killed in
encounter: Rights groups (rep 05/08/2019)
More
rape victims seek police help (ht 04/08/2019)
Theft
cases on the rise across country: More than 20 per cent
of burglars turn out to be repeat offenders
(ht 04/08/2019)
Recommendation
committee to consult with victims before picking
transitional justice leadership: The move comes in place
following concern from various international human
rights bodies urging the government to take action,
by Binod Ghimire (kp 03/08/2019)
NHRC
investigation challenges govt claim on Kumar Paudel
‘encounter’ (rep 03/08/2019)
SC
overturns high court decision against Golyan, frees him
on Rs 10 lakh bail: Upholds all other decisions of
Biratnagar High Court and endorses lower court’s order
in case of 33 defendants (ht 03/08/2019)
Social
campaigner is beaten up while nabbing litterbugs in
Koteshwor: Garbage throwing on roadside is rampant
during the night, but authorities till date have paid no
heed, by Anup Ojha (kp 03/08/2019)
Alarming
rise in crimes in Province 3, by Ashok Sujan
Shrestha (rep 03/08/2019)
Inmate
kills Nakkhu jailmate (ht 03/08/2019)
Unidentified
groups torch more than 30 Ncell towers across the
country: Police suspect Netra Bikram Chand-led Communist
Party of Nepal behind the arson (kp 02/08/2019)
CPN
cadres held with weapons (ht 02/08/2019)
Prachanda
and the spectre of The Hague: Transitional justice
should not be aimed only at hounding and punishing
Prachanda for all war-era crimes. But his own party
comrades may not be with him on this, by Dinesh
Kafle (kp 02/08/2019)
CPN
cadres torch three ward offices (ht 01/08/2019), CPN
cadres seize land (ht 01/08/2019)
How
I suffered violence: Women are still being
character-assassinated. How many more suffering women
does it take to change Nepali society’s mindset toward
domestic abuse?, by Ushma Rebel (rep 01/08/2019)
Two
youths abducted in Parsa (ht 01/08/2019)
TJ
process prolonged as victims insist on no impunity:
Political parties wrangle over appointments to
commissions (rep 31/07/2019) [The
perpetrator side must not be represented in the
commissions, i.e. please no representatives of the
political parties, the army and the former monarchy!]
No
means ‘no’: Dressing in a sexually appealing way is not
an invitation for sex. If a woman agrees to allow a man
to pay for her food or drinks, it does not mean that she
owes him sex, by Giri Bahadur Sunar (rep 31/07/2019)
Four
international rights groups criticise government
inaction on transitional justice: Nepali government
officials say they are working sincerely to conclude the
process, by Binod Ghimire (kp 30/07/2019) [see
common statement by Amnesty
International, Human
Rights Watch, TRIAL
International and International
Commission of Jurists; same statement
in Nepali], ‘I’ll
become global hero if dragged to The Hague’ (ht
30/07/2019) [What bullshit
nonsense! Dahal is obviously trying to acquit himself of
his co-responsibility for crimes from the time of the
uprising!], Govt
told to start fresh appointment process‘: Authorities
flippant on fulfilling obligations’, by Roshan S.
Nepal (ht 30/07/2019), Rights
bodies urge govt to halt ongoing commissioner
appointment process: The process cannot be halted, says
the recommendation committee (rep 30/07/2019), There
are no heroes in The Hague: By throwing an open
challenge to be taken to the International Criminal
Court, Dahal has also trivialised the hallowed
institution (kp 31/07/2019), Amend
the act: The government should not be seen as trying to
protect the perpetrators of rights violations during the
conflict era; it is time justice is delivered to the
victims (ht 31/07/2019)
Dispute
over forming panel to investigate Tarai deaths obstructs
House, again: Speaker Mahara feels trapped by the
positions taken by the ruling and opposition MPs, his
advisors says, by Binod Ghimire (kp 30/07/2019)
Postpartum
mothers in Joshibunga carry the weight of old
traditions: In many parts of Nepal, new mothers are
considered “untouchable” until the eleventh day of
delivery, by Tripti Shahi (kp 30/07/2019)
Two
persons held for rape made public (ht 30/07/2019)
Women,
children go missing from Kailali (ht 30/07/2019)
Chepang
women picket Dhading District Administration Office over
illegal sand mining: Illegal mine operators have been
extracting sand from river and streams in collusion with
representatives of rural municipality, locals say,
by Harihar Singh Rathour (kp 30/07/2019)
House
sub-committee begins discussion on the issue of unpaid
electricity bills: Nepal Electricity Authority says 25
factories need to be forced to disgorge an estimated
Rs10 billion, by Prahlad Rijal (kp 30/07/2019)
Hundreds
of Nepalis fall victims to pyramid scheme operating out
of Uttar Pradesh: Police have arrested two primary
operators of the business, but five others remain at
large, by Manoj Paudel (kp 30/07/2019)
Nepal
Police’s central lab needs upgrading: Forensic experts:
With the lapses in DNA tests surfacing after the Nirmala
Pant case, experts say faults may continue unless the
central lab is equipped with infrastructure and
qualified staff, by Nayak Paudel (kp 30/07/2019)
Big
hauls of gold are being smuggled through the northern
border, authorities say: Lax border security, and poor
telligence, infrastructure and investigation are
encouraging gold smuggling, officials say, by Nayak
Paudel (kp 28/07/2019)
Tracing
Disappeared Persons, by Jaya Chor Chapagain (rn
28/07/2019)
National
human rights body asks prime minister’s office—again—to
report on the status of Nirmala Pant case: The rights
watchdog had made 24-point recommendations in January
for a fair and credible probe into the 13year-old’s rape
and murder, by Binod Ghimire (kp 27/07/2019)
Only
porters are arrested in gold seizures on Tibet-Gorkha
route, by Narahari Sapkota (rep 27/07/2019)
Nearly
a year later, no new developments on Nepal’s biggest
gold smuggling case: Most of those accused have either
been released on bail or general date while those in
custody are appealing for conditional release, by
Nayak Paudel (kp 26/07/2019)
How
government bureaucracy killed a new mother: Goma Osti
needed an airlift from Nuwakot to Kathmandu after
postpartum complications. But a labyrinthine bureaucracy
delayed her treatment by four hours—and took her life,
by Arjun Poudel (kp 26/07/2019)
People
are furious after Home Minister says Nirmala Pant’s rape
and murder isn’t a “new phenomenon”: The remark comes
just days before the one-year mark of the gruesome
incident whose investigation is still incomplete, by
Bhrikuti Rai (kp 24/07/2019) [It is an outstanding task of the govt, especially
of the home minister, to end this phenomenon once and
for all. If you are incompetent to do this, Mr Thapa,
then you should resign and stop such nonsense talk! This
is a political issue in every respect!], Home
minister’s gaffe: To Nirmala’s parents who are seeking
justice, such thoughtless comments from a minister only
add insult to injury (ht 25/07/2019), Walk
the talk (rep 25/07/2019), YouTube
videos on Nirmala Pant leave more questions than
answers: The 13-year-old’s rape and murder has created a
cottage industry of YouTube channels that churn
out sensational crime videos, adding more confusion than
clarity, by Bhrikuti Rai (kp 25/07/2019), 367
days of injustice (rep
Police
reluctant to register FIR of trafficking victims, by
Ujjwal Satyal (ht 24/07/2019
Selective
abortion rampant in Siraha, by Mithilesh Yadav (rep
23/07/2019)
‘Innocent
people should not be framed in Nirmala’s rape and murder
case’, interview with Durga Devi, mother of murdered
Nirmala Panta (ht 22/07/2019)
TRC,
CIEDP nominations next month, by Ram Kumar Kamat (ht
21/07/2019) [Take your time and
wait until all the victims and perpetrators have died a
natural death. This is likely to happen sooner to the
victims and their families due to the circumstances of
their lives!]
Transitional
justice without leaders as parties disagree on
candidates: Transitional justice without leaders as
parties disagree on candidates, by Binod Ghimire (kp
20/07/2019) [And only
politically nominated male Bahuns can lead these
commissions?]
Conflict
victims demand halt to TJ bodies appointment process
(rep 19/07/2019)
Thousands
of domestic violence cases are registered every year,
but almost none go to court: Nepal’s law itself favours
mediation over prosecution, as domestic violence is
regarded to be a family affair, lawyers say, by
Tsering D. Gurung (kp 19/07/2019)
5
concrete Buddha statues vandalized in Rupandehi (rep
19/07/2019)
Nepal
risks being blacklisted on money laundering: An
international task force is not convinced Nepal has done
enough to tackle financial crime, by Sharad Ojha (nt
19/07/2019)
Three
convicted of human trafficking (ht 18/07/2019)
Man
admits to killing his wife to marry girlfriend, by
Sandesh Shrestha (rep 18/07/2019)
For
rape survivors, police are not always their friends:
Nepal’s police force is heavily male and woefully
undertrained when it comes to dealing with survivors of
sexual violence, by Bhrikuti Rai (kp 17/07/2019), Humiliated
again: The police should help victims of sexual assault
get justice, not shame them further (kp 18/07/2019)
‘Crime
investigation action plan successful’ (ht
13/07/2019)
Teenager
convicted of murder (ht 13/07/2019)
Nepali
women take to media to expose abuse: Upset by impunity,
more women share testimonies of harassment from their
own pasts, by Reeti K.C. (nt 12/07/2019)
Chand
cadre, police constable die in shootout, by Alisha
Shrestha (kp 11/07/2019), CPN
cadre, cop killed in exchange of fire (ht), Two
including cop killed in incident with armed Chand cadre,
by Akson Rai (rep 11/07/2019), Another
Chand cadre’s killing raises questions about
government’s stance—and style—against the outfit:
Killings of citizens, regardless of which party they
belong to, cannot be justified, rights defenders
and security experts say, by Binod Ghimire (kp
12/07/2019)
Kin
of Saroj Narayan Mahato yet to receive compensation:
Ishwarpur mayor says they will release compensation
after the Cabinet’s decision, by Om Prakash Thakur
(kp 11/07/2019)
A
year-old child is paying the price of his brother’s
eloping with a Dalit: It’s been eight years since Nepal
was declared ‘untouchability free’, but caste-based
discrimination is still practiced widely in the country,
by Pramita Dhakal (kp 11/07/2019)
Thrashed
student dies, teachers, principal arrested (ht
11/07/2019), Ninth
grader dies after severe beating by teachers: Four
teachers in police custody (rep 11/07/2019)
Actress
files case against filmmaker husband (ht 11/07/2019)
Couple
held for killing wife’s ex-lover (ht 11/07/2019)
Police
killed a Madhesi man. Home minister blamed it on the
man: Opposition obstructs House after ruling party
refuses to form a panel to look into deaths of
Saroj Mahato and Kumar Paudel, by Binod Ghimire (kp
10/07/2019)
Teenager
dies under 'mysterious circumstances' (rep
10/07/2019)
Hospital
vandalised after minor’s death (kp 10/07/2019), Locals
vandalize snakebite treatment center in Sarlahi after
toddler dies, by Tanka Chhetri (rep 10/07/2019)
2,362
absconding convicts arrested (ht 10/07/2019)
Canadian
national sentenced to nine years on paedophilia charges:
Peter Dalglish, a high-profile Canadian humanitarian was
convicted of victimising two young boys, by Janakraj
Sapkota (kp 09/07/2019)
Tradition
defies the law: Parliament has criminalised Chhaupadi,
but the practice still exists due to prevalent social
norms, by Labhesh Thapa (kp 09/07/2019) [This
reflects the cultural mania determined by men in the
patriarchal Hindu state that discriminates against
women!]
TU
files sexual harassment FIR against teache: rFirst time
the varsity has done so, by Sabitri Dhakal (ht
09/07/2019)
More
than 50 persons involved in gold smuggling under
anti-money laundering agency’s scanner, by Prithvi
Man Shrestha (kp 08/07/2019)
Woman
arrested on the charge of killing her husband, by
Tanka Chhetri (rep 08/07/2019)
Undue
delay in Badarmude rape case (rep 08/07/2019)
Priest
accused of sexually abusing schoolgirls in Janakpurdham
(ht 08/07/2019)
Man
arrested with gold hidden in diapersAirport scanner
fails to detect the metal (kp 08/07/2019)
Varsity
offices vandalised, locked (ht 08/06/2019)
Naseem
Khan, a most wanted criminal by Kapilvastu police,
arrested in Kathmandu, by Nayak Paudel (kp
07/07/2019)
Victim’s
family accuse police of inaction (ht 07/07/2019)
Physically
punishing students is ineffective, harmful, and illegal
but teachers continue to do it: Many school teachers,
and even parents, still believe that physically
disciplining students is sometimes necessary, by
Binod Ghimire (kp 06/07/2019)
Man
kills daughter to claim double insurance amount in
Rautahat (ht 06/07/2019)
Son
held for killing mother in Saptari (ht 06/07/2019)
Police
arrest three fugitives after 12 years (ht
06/07/2019)
Ruling
party leaders are enraged after provincial lawmaker with
criminal past enters the party: Rajib Gurung, who goes
by the name of Dipak Manange, has been charged with
attempted murder, by Tika R. Pradhan (kp 05/07/2019)
[The party leaders knew all this
when they mada him a candidate in the elections!]
Ex-police
chief Thakuri surrenders two years after being convicted
in Sudan Scam: Supreme Court registers his petition to
review the judgment before sending him to Dillibazaar
Prison, by Nayak Paudel (kp 05/07/2019)
Ward
member shot in Dhading (ht 05/07/2019)
Crime
and politics: Conviction of former lawmakers (rep
04/07/2019)
Three
people are under investigation in hospital staff suicide
case: Police are investigating if the suspects had
provoked Bimala Tamang into taking her life, by
Nayak Paudel (kp 03/07/2019)
People’s
representatives concerned over incidents of blasts,
arsons: Elected representatives have stopped going to
their local offices in rural areas of Achham district,
by Menuka Dhungana (kp 03/07/2019)
Court
slaps second life term on former minister ‘Takla’,
by Surtesh Yadav (rep 03/07/2019)
Rolpa
conflict victims worried about the secrecy of their
complaints, by Dinesh Subedi (rep 03/07/2019)
Anti-money
laundering agency resumes probe into Sumargi’s deals:
Controversial trader is said to have laundered around
Rs20 billion, by Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp
02/07/2019)
Woman
held for plotting mother’s murder, by Ujjwal Satyal
(ht 02/07/2019)
Sixty-year-old
woman found murdered in her room, by Nayak Paudel
(kp 01/07/2019)
One
killed, several hurt as police open fire at
protesters in Sarlahi: People of Ishwarpur Municipality
were protesting against illegal sand mine after a
12-year-old boy died falling into a 30-feet pit, by
Ajit Tiwari and Om Prakash Thakur (kp 01/07/2019), Killing
of Tarai man brings age-old question to the fore: when
can police fire a live bullet?The country’s law
enforcement agency fails to exercise restraint during
protests in Madhes, rights activists say, by Tika R.
Pradhan and Om Prakash Thakur (kp 02/07/2019) [It's not only the citizens' right to
life, the question is also when will the police stop
torture and beating and respect the fundamental rights
of the people?], Insurgency’s
over but police continue to stop and interrogate people
on streets: City residents say they regularly get
accosted by police, particularly at night, asking
why they’re out until late., by Tsering D. Gurung
(kp 02/07/2019) [Yes,
and police must also learn to be polite! Citizens are
not under orders and have a right to explanation!]
Police
initiate action against its staff amid further erosion
of its credibility, by Sujeeta Pradhan (rep
30/06/2019)
Missing
children: Girls more vulnerable as human traffickers
find it easy to lure them, by Sujita Pradhan (rep
29/06/2019)
Man
attacking women with ‘sharp objects’ in police custody:
Police have confirmed that no syringes were used in the
attacks, by Arjun Poudel and Nayak Paudel (kp
29/06/2019)
Two
minor girls raped in Nijgadh Municipality (ht
27/06/2019)
Man
cheated of Rs 455,000 by Facebook pal (ht
27/06/2019)
Tarai
communities more prone to abuse and torture in police
custody, report says: Advocacy Forum says marginalised
communities and women are more likely to be abused and
tortured in detention, by Binod Ghimire (kp
26/06/2019) [See statement
by Advocacy Forum - Nepal], Citizens
in uniform: Differential treatment by the police towards
people from the Tarai community is condemnable (kp
27/06/2019)
No
justice in sight for rape, murder victim Nirmala, by
Ujjwal Satyal (ht 26/06/2019)
Fresh
bout of political instability: Former Maoists are
frightened as a fair investigation into conflict-era
cases would send many among them behind bars, by
Achyut Wagle (kp 25/06/2019)
Two
girls gang-raped (rep 25/06/2019)
Man
labelled Dalai Lama’s agent, deported to US: Immigration
officials at TIA did so because a man with his name was
on China’s most wanted list, by Rajan Pokhrel (ht
25/06/2019) [???]
Committee
failsagain to recommend TJ commissioners (rep
24/06/2019)
Rape
cases increase in Karnali State (rep 24/06/2019)
House
committee to question Home Ministry over killing of
Chand party leader: Lawmakers are concerned over whether
Kumar Paudel’s killing in Lalbandi was extrajudicial,
by Tika R Pradhan (kp 24/06/2019), Lawmakers
are unconvinced Chand party member was killed in
‘encounter’: Home minister reiterates police version but
commits to forming a probe committee, by Tika
R. Pradhan (kp 25/06/2019)
Supreme
Court clears the deck for tax authority to recover
unpaid taxes from Sumargi: Inland Revenue Department
says Sumargi sold his stake in Nepal Satellite Telecom
for Rs5.63 billion to Cyprus-based Airbell Service, but
failed to pay capital gains tax, by Prithvi Man
Shrestha (kp 24/06/2019)
Chaudhary’s
shackling shows how state treats its citizens
differently, rights defenders say: District court had
convicted Chaudhary, who won the 2017 elections
from Kailali, of inciting the 2015 Tikapur violence,
by Tika R Pradhan (kp 23/06/2019), Resham’s
manacled leg enrages PM: Chief secy told to take action
against cops who did this (ht 23/06/2019)
Growing
child trafficking cases worry Kalikot parents:
Eight trafficked children were rescued from
Kathmandu before they were reunited with their families
on Friday, by Tularam Pandey (kp 23/06/2019)
How
schools are becoming easy target to fulfil petty
party interests: The trend has increased as Netra Bikram
Chand-led outfit intensifies anti-government
activities, by Binod Ghimire (kp 23/06/2019)
NHRC
probing CPN leader’s killing in Sarlahi (ht
22/06/2019)
Nepal
fails to meet minimum standards for elimination of
trafficking: US report, by Kosh Raj Koirala (rep
22/06/2019) [see report
section on Nepal], Trafficking
of Nepali women, girls continues unabated, says
report (ht 23/06/2019)
Steps
yet to be taken to ensure justice for war-era victims of
sexual violence: Two rights bodies file petitions at UN
committee to build pressure on the government of Nepal,
by Binod Ghimire (kp 21/06/2019)
Dhading’s
centuries-old temple where women are still barred,
by Sarita Shrestha (rep 21/06/2019
40
Gorkha-bound Chepang children rescued from Chitwan: The
children were being taken to Gorkha without any
documents by a man who is currently detained for
investigation, by Pramita Dhakal (kp 21/06/2019)
Doctors
alarmed by the assaults they are facing at the hands of
family of deceased: Relatives usually allege doctors of
negligence, but medical professionals say the issue
needs to be dealt with more carefully, by Arjun
Poudel (kp 20/06/2019)
Four
women attacked with sharp objects, by Sabitri Dhakal
(ht 20/06/2019)
Swindler
in police custody (ht 20/06/2019)
Series
of murders terrify local residents (ht
20/06/2019)
Hospital
staff found dead in Capital, by Arjun Poudel (kp
19/06/2019)
Two
women gang-raped, one accused held (ht 19/06/2019)
Mayor
thrashed during meeting (ht 19/06/2019)
Kobold’s
deadline to bring fire trucks has expired but tourism
board hasn’t decided on a legal response yet: There was
no official agreement to receive fire trucks because
official policy prohibits accepting second-hand vehicle
as donations, officials at Disaster Management
Department tell the Post, by Tsering D Gurung (kp
18/06/2019), Fire
truck expedition cancelled, Michael Kobold says: In a
statement posted on social media, the German watchmaker
said that the project was impossible from its inception,
by Tsering D Gurung (kp 20/06/2019)
Without
personal means and support from government, mother of
acid attack survivor struggles to foot medical bills:
Kamala Khadka can expect financial aid only after a
final verdict on her daughter’s case, by Nayak
Paudel (kp 17/06/2019)
Violence
against girls: Let’s talk about it, by Kokila KC (ht
17/06/2019)
Police
arrest 82 pickpockets in a month in the Capital, by
Nayak Paudel (kp 17/06/2019)
Police
arrest mastermind of human trafficking racket in the
Capital: The 40-year-old was involved in smuggling
Nepalis into Libya, promising them lucrative jobs in
European countries, by Nayak Paudel (kp 16/06/2019)
A
year on, family of a minor killed after abduction still
awaiting justice, by Madan Thakur (rep 14/06/2019)
US
and UK join hands to combat human trafficking in Nepal:
UK injects extra £4.5 million to $8 million Hamro Samman
project (rep 14/06/2019)
Chhaupadi
affects teaching-learning (ht 13/06/2019)
Police
open fire to arrest drug smuggler in Pokhara, by
Sanskriti Acharya (rep 13/06/2019)
Man
arrested for attempting to rape daughter in the Capital,
by Nayak Paudel (kp 12/06/2019), Under-secretary
held for bid to rape teenage daughter (ht
12/06/2019)
Girls
at high risk in Birgunj, by Ritesh Tripathi (ht
12/06/2019)
Former
UN official convicted of child abuse:
Thirteen-year jail term to be sought for Canadian
national (kp 12/06/2019)
Committee
to recommend leadership for transitional justice bodies
fails to nominate anyone, again: Latest excuse for the
delay: busy schedule of the committee head, by Binod
Ghimire (kp 11/06/2019) [Real
reasons: There is no interest in providing justice for
the victims and the responsibilities of politicians and
army leaders for the crimes are to be disguised!]
Four
months after ban on its activities, Chand outfit yet to
join talks: Government officials do not rule out violent
actions, as security analysts say the approach to
dealing with the party is faulty, by Tika R Pradhan
(kp 09/06/2019) [For a
government that does not take fundamental rights and the
constitution too seriously, it is hardly possible to
enter into dialogue with terrorists who claim that their
murders and the destruction of private and public
property are in the interests of the citizens!]
Suspect
held after a man is robbed by two persons pretending to
be cops, by Nayak Paudel (kp 08/06/2019)
Police
arrest burglars who carried out robberies in four places
in the Valley, by Nayak Paudel (kp 08/06/2019)
Eight
people, including two Indian citizens, arrested on
criminal charges, by Shiva Puri (kp 08/06/2019)
Top
court postpones hearing on petition against 2015 ruling
on transitional justice for 22nd time: Continued
deferrals amid delay in amending Transitional Justice
Act concern conflict victims, by Binod Ghimire (kp
07/06/2019)
Conflict
victims mount pressure on leaders to amend transitional
justice Act: Law minister tells victims the process will
start when top leaders reach an agreement, by Binod
Ghimire (kp 06/06/2019) [This is
a question of justice and the rule of law! Many of the
so-called leaders have been responsible for the crimes
of the past! They have no right to have any say at all!],
Top
leaders seek ways to manage conflict-era cases: Consider
revising TJ-related laws by taking victims into
confidence and appointing commissioners at the earliest
(rep 06/06/2019), Conflict-era
sexual violence victims yet to be identified (ht
06/06/2019), Thirteen
years on, victims of the Badarmude incident await
compensationDespite a pledge from Pushpa Kamal Dahal
during the 2017 election season, victims of the
2006 civilian bus bombing have received nothing, by
Ramesh Kumar Paudel (kp 06/06/2019)
Family
feuds, depression fueling crimes: Police, by Giriraj
Baskota (rep 06/06/2019)
Juvenile
cases on the rise in Rupandeh:iThe district is seeing a
sharp rise in delinquency cases—from 16 recorded cases
in the past year to 85 this year so far, by
Amrita Anmol (kp 05/06/2019)
Leaders
may face arrest abroad if TJ issues not resolved:
Australia envoyVoices concern over moves concerning NHRC
and press freedom, by Kosh Raj Koirala (rep
05/06/2019)
Say
no to corporal punishment (rep 05/06/2019)
Police
send reinforcements to Solukhumbu village after Chand
party’s ‘suspicious activities’: Reports of an attack on
a police post, which authorities later said was
baseless, have prompted new security concerns, by
Kumbha Raj Rai (kp 04/06/2019)
Violence
against children unabated in Province 2, by Suresh
Yadav (rep 04/06/2019)
Man
sentenced to over 38 years in jail for selling wife, son
(rep 04/06/2019)
Man
on hunger strike seeking justice for Shahi (ht
04/06/2019)
Murderer
made public (ht 04/06/2019)
District
court finds man guilty in the death of transwoman:
Bidesh Karki faces 10 to 15 years in prison after being
convicted of involuntary culpable homicide in the
killing of Junu Gurung, by Tsering D Gurung (kp
03/06/2019)
‘Smart
Chhori’ preparing daughters of martyrs of conflict for a
better futureA total of 189 girls from 16 districts are
receiving education at Shahid Smriti Residential
Secondary School, by Durgalal KC (kp 03/06/2019)
Tale
of two trafficked women, by Ram Kumar Kamat (ht
02/06/2019)
Her
husband set her on fire: She lived to tell her story,
by Bijay Gajmer (kp 01/06/2019)
Women
ostracised for activism against Chhau (ht
31/05/2019)
Shaman
slays toddler in human sacrifice, by Suresh Yadav
/rep 31/05/2019)
Superstition
drives women out of homes—again— into Chhau sheds in
Achham districtDhakari was declared a Chhaupadi- and
untouchability-free village on May 17 with much fanfare.
But a recent fire has led the villagers to believe that
their embracing of the campaign has angered the gods,
by Menuka Dhungana (kp 30/05/2019)
Abducted
boy, 7, found dead in Bara: Two kidnappers injured in
police firing while trying to flee the scene, by
Bhusan Yadav (kp 30/05/2019)
Supreme
Court tells authorities to determine the source of
Sumargi’s money, which is currently frozen: Orders the
authorities concerned to find whether the funds entered
the country violating Money Laundering Prevention Act,
by Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp 29/05/2019)
Wildlife
crimes decreasing, rape and drug abuse on the rise,
by Sabita Shrestha (rep 29/05/2019)
Child
marriage still rampant in Bajura: Even people’s
representatives are found to be marrying off
their underage children, by Sangeeta Timilsena (kp
28/05/2019)
General
shutdown hits life across nation; Terror unleashed as
bombs go off and vehicles get torched (ht
28/05/2019), 8
million stduents missed classes due to Chand shutdown
(rep 28/05/2019)
Blasts
indicative of an intelligence failure, analysts say:
Security officials said they were aware of possible
violence but they failed to prevent a series of blasts
that killed four people, by Anil Giri (kp
28/05/2019), Thapa
says those killed in explosions weren’t citizens,
angering opposition: Home minister has grown extremely
critical of Chand, once his ally, by Binod Ghimire
(kp 28/05/2019)) [You may call
them criminals or even terrorists but that were most of
the offenders of the Maoist insurgency, too! They all
are Nepali citizens and have to be punished according to
law!], Government’s
dealing with Chand outfit faulty, experts say, as
multiple blasts unleash terror: Tensions ran high in
Ghattekulo a day after an explosion killed one in the
neighbourhood, by Tika R Pradhan and Anup Ojha (kp
28/05/2019), Bomb
scares and arson mark the nationwide strike enforced by
Chand-led communist outfit: Co-chair of ruling Nepal
Communist Party Pushpa Kamal Dahal says political
objectives cannot be materialised by spreading terror
(kp 28/05/2019) [Dahal claimed
the opposite between 1995 and 2005 though he did not
call it terror at that time! And he vehemently resists a
punishment of the perpetrators from the time of the
rebellion!]
In
educated and elite circles, a different kind of ‘period
huts’: Young Nepali women living in cities may not be
banished to sheds, but many of them are forced to adhere
to a long list of menstrual restrictions, by Tsering
D Gurung (kp 28/05/2019), Meet
Nepal’s ‘Pad Man’ who is challenging menstrual taboos:
Not content with selling reusable sanitary pads, Gyan
Maharjan visits communities and schools in Lalitpur,
teaching girls, boys and teachers about menstrual
hygiene, by Anup Ojha (kp 28/05/2019)
No
regulation in place to control sale and distribution of
acid: Steps have not been taken yet to form regulations,
officials say, by Nayak Paudel (kp 27/05/2019)
Conflict
victims demand amendment to TJ Act (ht 27/05/2019)
Four
killed, at least three injured in separate blasts in the
Capital: Police suspect the involvement of Chand outfit,
which has called a general strike today, by Nayak
Paudel (kp 27/05/2019), Multiple
blasts claim four lives in valley: Police suspect hand
of Chand-led Communist Party of Nepal; Three of the
seven injured in critical condition, by Ujjwal
Satyal (ht 27/05/2019), Terror
sweeps Valley: Own bombs kill 4 Chand outfit members,
six injured; IEDs found in several places (rep
27/05/2019)
Darchula
couple found murdered (kp 27/05/2019)
Human
trafficking 'kingpin' Gurung finally deported to Nepal,
by Biken K Dawadi (rep 26/05/2019)
This
is how society and state continue to fail rape
survivors: Many survivors have their lives uprooted, and
are forced to relocate, live away from their family and
friends, and start fresh in an unfamiliar setting,
by Tsering D Gurung (kp 25/05/2019)
10
months after Nirmala rape and murder, rights activists
renew call for justice, by Bhawani Bhatta (kp
25/05/2019)
Fake
Indian currency worth Rs 76.7 million confiscated
(ht 25/05/2019)
Teenager
gang-raped in Myagdi for declining sex proposal (rep
24/05/2019)
26
persons sent to prison over murder (ht 24/05/2019)
Sarita
murder case: Husband, four of his family sent to jail
(ht 24/05/2019)
Say
no to dowry: Don’t make it a status symbol, by
Sangita Chalise (ht 24/05/2019)
Uncover
the truth: Incidents of gruesome murders are on the rise
following the Maoist insurgency, which has made society
insensitive to crimes (ht 23/05/2019)
UN
urges Nepal to change its rape law: Rights activists say
they are cautiously optimistic given Nepal’s lax
attitude to past pleas, by Bhrikuti Rai (kp
22/05/2019), Change
laws to ensure justice to rape victims: UN to Nepal
(rep 22/05/2019), Amend
laws for victims’ access to justice: UN (ht
22/05/2019)
Nine
members of two families murdered in Miklajung,
Panchthar: Murder suspect found hanging from a tree in a
village 90 minutes’ walk from incident site, by
Gyanu Ghimire and Madhav Ghimire (kp 22/05/2019), Police
begin investigation into Panchthar carnage, by Gyanu
Ghimire (kp 23/05/2019), Frightened
friends, classmates remember the deceased minors:
Aarubote Secondary School Headmaster Bhawendra Kumar Rai
says the students are scared after the incident and have
refused to come, by Arjun Rajbanshi (kp 24/05/2019),
Evidence
suggests involvement of younger son-in-law, by
Giriraj Baskota (rep 24/05/2019)
Revenue
investigation office seeks six-year term for gold
smuggler: Officials say the main culprit behind 7kg
gold haul could not be identified, by Prithvi
Man Shrestha (kp 22/05/2019)
Teachers
affiliated to Far-western University not paid since 11
months, by Yogesh Rawal (22/05/2019)
Rastriya
Janata Party-Nepal asks government to make Lal report
public: Party says it will obstruct House proceedings
until the report on Tarai protest is out, by Binod
Ghimire (kp 21/05/2019)
Notorious
robber ‘Kale’ lands in police net, by Biken K Dawadi
(rep 21/05/2019)
Controversial
ascetic Bomjan resurfaces in Sindhuli ashram (kp
20/05/2019)
Newborns
dying in sheds in Bajura (ht 19/05/2019)
Bomb
blast in the house of Rural Municipality Chair, by
Jitendra Kumar Jha (rep 19/05/2019)
Province
5 sees high number of women dying unnatural deaths:
Forty-one women were killed in the province in the past
10 months. Rights activists believe violence against
women to be the primary cause, by Amrita Anmol (kp
18/05/2019)
A
20-year-old woman battles for life after her husband
hurled acid at her: Last fiscal year alone, four acid
attacks were reported across the country, by Nayak
Paudel (kp 17/05/2019) [This
reflects the value of women in the extremely patriarchal
state and society of Nepal!]
Elected
officials demand road be opened—against court order:
Supreme Court orders the Tilganga-Tamaraganga road
section remain closed, as it is part of a UN heritage
site and must be protected, by Anup Ojha (kp
16/05/2019) [Decisions of the SC
are binding law, also for politicians!!]
Musahar
families denied access to water after an intercaste
marriage dispute, by Binu Timsina (kp 16/05/2019)
Men
thrashed over business deal admitted to hospital (ht
16/05/2019)
Violence
against women unabated in eastern Nepal, by Giriraj
Baskota (rep 15/05/2019)
Birgunj
Avenues Television office vandalised (ht 14/05/2019)
Police
start bureaus to fight cybercrime and human trafficking,
by Nayak Paudel (kp 13/05/2019)
Two
suspects held for rape (ht 13/05/2019)
Brick
kilns operating in human settlements: Thick smoke risks
public health, agriculture, by Mithilesh Yadav (rep
13/05/2019)
Women
rebuilding Chhau sheds in Chhaupadi free
areas of Bajhang: Local representatives’ awareness drive
in Saipal Rural Municipality was ineffective, by
Basanta Pratap Singh (kp 12/05/2019)
Unable
to bear domestic violence, woman ‘commits suicide’
(rep 12/05/2019)
12
Indians held for networking business (ht
12/05/2019)
Is
Nepal’s #MeToo movement finally taking off? The theatre
fraternity’s response to revelations of sexual harassment by
several of its members has provided a template on how such
behaviour could be handled, by Bhrikuti Rai (kp
11/05/2019)
Couple
arrested on charge of burning their 10-month-old daughter to
death in Darchula, by Prem Chunara (rep 11/05/2019)
Two
suicide attempts in police custody within a month raise
concerns: With track-laying and test run over, service is
expected to resume in 5 monthsAs issues pertaining to lack of
proper surveillance surface, Nepal Police says that it will do
the needful to ensure detainees’ safety, by Nayak Paudel
(kp 11/05/2019)
23
Nepali women rescued from Mizoram in India: Officials
say human traffickers are using India-Myanmar borders to
move their victims in recent times, by Parbat Portel
(kp 10/05/2019)
Man
set wife on fire to save illicit relations with
sister-in-law: Police, by Suresh Yadav (rep
10/05/2019)
Woman
accused of murdering daughter-in-law for dowry, by
Binod Pariyar (rep 10/05/2019)
Mentally
unsound girl tied with rope for 14 years, by Yogesh
Rawal (rep 10/05/2019)
Almost
a year on, Jha murder case remains a mystery: Division
says apart from the Jha case, it solved various
high-profile cases and arrest a number of culprits over
the past year, by Nayak Paudel (kp 10/05/2019)
686
crime suspects arrested in one year (ht 10/05/2019)
Parties
in negotiations to get ‘their’ people in transitional
justice bodies: Victims say such political interference
could jeopardise transitional justice process, by
Binod Ghimire (kp 09/05/2019) [It's
always the same! These failed and dishonest politicians
and parties will never change! They want to prevent
justice for the victims at all costs!]
Probe
committee clears three Lalitpur Madhyamik teachers of
sexual abuse charges: The report, instead of spelling
out how it reached the decision, emphasises how events
took place years ago, by Marissa Taylor (kp
08/05/2019)
Police
expose family’s complicity in crime (ht 08/05/2019)
Blackout
of
government sites exposes cybersecurity lapses in
country: But government officials downplay the incident
saying it’s ‘part and parcel’ of Nepal’s evolving
cybersecurity process, by Bhrikuti Rai (kp
06/05/2019)
Two
arrested for misbehaving with and thrashing "low-caste"
principal (rep 06/05/2019)
Ex-lawmaker
and her husband held for abandoning their newborn,
by Nayak Paudel (kp 06/05/2019), Former
lawmaker Gayatri Shah, husband arrested: Accused
of abandoning baby with Down syndrome (ht
06/05/2019), Former
lawmaker Shah, husband remanded to seven-day custody
(ht 07/05/2019)
APF
constable arrested on charge of raping a woman, by
Amar Khadka (rep 05/05/2019)
Siraha
woman, 21, found dead in suspicious circumstances,
by Bharat Jarghamagar (kp 04/05/2019)
Details
of 196,771 ‘lost’ passports recorded in Interpol
database (kp 04/05/2019)
Booked
for marital rape (ht 04/05/2019)
Victims
pressure
government to amend Transitional Justice Act: Rights
defenders and victims’ groups ask authorities to
halt process to appoint officials, by Binod
Ghimire (kp 03/05/2019)
15
arrested for beating a wedding guest to death, by
Narahari Sapkota (ht 03/05/2019)
Fostering
impunity: Proposed amendment to NHRC Act 2012 does a
disservice to justice delivery (kp 02/05/2019)
‘65
pc cases of violence against women occur inside home’
(ht 02/05/2019) [see WOREC
Nepal report]
Lawmaker
accused of protecting murder-accused grandson (rep
02/05/2019)
Murder
cases over petty issues on the rise in Province 5,
by Amrita Anamol (kp 01/05/2019)
Truck
'reverses' and kills girl after accident, by Yogesh
Rawal (rep 01/05/2019) [Unbelievable brutality!!]
Abducted
boy, 12, rescued from India, by Abdhesh Kumar
Jha (kp 01/05/2019)
CPN
district in-charge Ghalan arrested soon after his
release, by Pratap Bista (kp 30/04/2019)
Woman’s
body found, murder suspected (ht 30/04/2019), In-laws
accused of murdering a woman for dowry, by Sarita
Shrestha (rep 29/04/2019), Rally
held seeking action against guilty (ht 01/05/2019)
Unknown
group detonates IED, by Kashiram Dangi (kp
30/04/2019)
Woman
found dead, relatives suspect murder (ht
29/04/2019), In-laws
accused of murdering a woman for dowry, by Sarita
Shrestha (rep 29/04/2019)
Checking
terrorism: Efficient intelligence required, by
Govind Prasad Thapa (ht 29/04/2019)
Huge
cache of prescription drugs seized, 16 persons arrested
(ht 29/04/2019)
Unidentified
group plants IED at DCC gate, by Suman Malla (rep
28/04/2019)
Untouchability
thriving in rural Bajura (ht 26/04/2019)
Sangita
Magar: from survivor to champion: … but brave acid
survivor now dreads her attacker’s release from prison,
by Animesh Shrestha (nt 26/04/2019)
Conflict
victims’
associations to recommend names for transitional justice
bodies: But they lay stress on an amendment to the
existing act before new leaderships assume offices,
by Binod Ghimire (kp 25/04/2019)
69
trafficked women rescued from Mizoram, by Ujjwal
Satyal (ht 25/04/2019)
Rape-accused
held (ht 25/04/2019)
New
bill deprives provinces of right to prosecute
criminals, by Ram Kumar Kamat (ht 25/04/2019)
Smuggler
held
with 750 grams of gold hidden in his rectum: The
Bangladeshi man had come to Nepal after his friends told
him that the Tribhuvan International Airport ‘has
light security checking’, by Nayak Paudel (kp
25/04/2019)
Woman’s
death sparks protests in Pathari, by Binod Bhandari
(kp 24/04/2019)
Rights
activists picket DAO demanding justice for Nirmala,
by Bhawani Bhatta (kp 24/04/2019)
Indian
and
Chinese nationals arrested for conning Nepalis through a
lottery scam: Nigerian national, supposed mastermind, is
at large, by Nayak Paudel (kp 24/04/2019)
Loktantra
Day: People injured in police brutality decry
government’s apathy, by Mohan Budhaair (kp
24/04/2019)
Tootle
and
Pathao make commute easy, but many women express safety
concerns: Women say harassment has not stopped even
though both ride-sharing services say they have a
system in place to discourage—and penalise—riders,
by Sachitra Gurung (kp 23/04/2019)
CPN
cadre threatens to kill Kavre trader (ht 23/04/2019)
Police
arrest three of six persons suspected in Ranibari house
robbery incident, by Nayak Paudel (kp 22/04/2019)
15-year-old
boy dies in police custody; family claims torture,
by Parbat Portel (kp 20/04/2019), Police
form three teams to look into the death of 15-year-old
boy in custody (kp 22/04/2019), Police
record statement from Kiran’s family: NCP stands against
its members protesting teen’s custody death, by
Parbat Portel (kp 26/04/2019) [??],
Rights
body team probes into Kiran’s suspicious death, by
Parbat Portel (kp 28/04/2019)
Police
seize woman’s body from ghat (ht 20/04/2019)
Former
lawmaker Yadav, RJP-N leader Mandal held for forgery,
by Abadhesh Kumar Jha (kp 19/04/2019)
Strike
disrupts life in Sudurpaschim (kp 19/04/2019), Blasts,
hoaxes, arson mark CPN’s general strike (ht
19/04/2019) [Only
criminals organise strikes against the interests of the
people, destroy their properties and endanger their
lives!!]
Man
slapped 16-year jail sentence for incest (ht
18/04/2019)
Rape-accused
entrepreneur freed on Rs 5-lakh bail (ht 18/04/2019)
Another
key accused in Nakkhu and Basundhara blasts arrested:
Police say Ranbir had planted IEDs at both explosion
sites, by Nayak Paudel (kp 18/04/2019)
UN
pushes
Nepal to amend Transitional Justice Act in a strongly
worded letter: UN officials, in a 10-page letter, also
reminded the Foreign Ministry of their repeated
requests for a visit by the Special Rapporteur, by
Binod Ghimire (kp 18/04/2019), UN
concerned about sluggish transitional justice process
(ht 18/04/2019), UN
rapporteurs for transparency in TRC, CIEDP members
appointments (rep 18/04/2019), UN
letter
on transitional justice process puts government in a
bind: Officials say the agency has tried to portray
Nepal in a way that inaccurately shows the country
has done nothing, by Anil Giri (kp 19/04/2019) [And why have you prevented justice
for the victims for 13 years and instead protected and
promoted perpetrators?], Justice
delayed:
The entire peace process will remain incomplete unless
the victims get justice, reparation and fair treatment
from the state (ht 19/04/2019), End
impunity: Don’t make mockery of HR, by Ram Dayal
Rakesh (ht 19/04/2019)
Oh
no, not this again: Transitional justice seems to be
walking blind; that’s why it keeps falling into holes,
by Mohna Ansari (kp 17/04/2019)
Missing
boy found decapitated (ht 16/04/2019)
12
Nepali girls rescued from Kenya club (ht 15/04/2019)
Call
for
competent people in transitional justice bodies: Faulty
process was responsible for picking inept people in the
past, rights defender says, by Binod Ghimire (kp
13/04/2019), TJ
bodies
spent Rs 460 million in four years, conflict victims
still await justice: Despite spending millions of rupees
in the salaries, neither of the two commissions could
prosecute even a single perpetrator (rep 13/04/2019)
Father
held for raping 14-year-old daughter (ht 13/04/2019)
Sarlahi
growing as a transit point for drug trafficking, by
Tanka Chhetri (rep 13/04/2019)
Chinese
nationals caught with 3.5kg gold, by Nayak Paudel
(kp 13/04/2019)
Indian
held with 64kg marijuana (kp 13/04/2019)
French
man held on paedophilia charges, by Janak Raj
Sapkota (kp 13/04/2019)
Slow
boat to justice: The government keeps dilly-dallying
while frustrated conflict victims keep waiting, by
Geja Sharma Wagle (kp 12/04/2019), CIEDP
commissioners retire without accomplishing given tasks
(rep 12/04/2019)
Man
held for cheating women (ht 12/04/2019)
SC
scraps writ petition demanding release of CPN leader Oli
(rep 11/04/2019)
Fed
up
with molestation, Nepali women are learning to fight
back: With a growing number of individuals and
organisations providing self-defence classes, young
girls and women are tackling their harassment head on,
by Sachitra Gurung (kp 10/04/2019)
RPP’s
Lingden gets death threats (ht 10/04/2019)
How
Tribhuvan
University let students down after a sexual harassment
case: Students at the university filed a sexual
harassment complaint but instead of taking action,
university officials facilitated a compromise between
the five women and the teachers accused of harassing
them, by Bhrikuti Rai (kp 09/04/2019)
Most
Chand outfit leaders, cadres out on bail: Police, by
Biken K Dawadi (rep 09/04/2019)
KMC
to slap fine for littering public vehicles (ht
09/04/2019)
Nepali
Army defuses socket bomb (ht 09/04/2019)
Police
baton charge RPP supporters (ht 09/04/2019), Police
baton-charge RPP protestors in capital, detain 20 in
Pokhara, by Biken K Dawadi (rep) [This
police action is a crime, regardless of the
anti-national policies advocated by the demonstrators!]
Process
of
selecting TRC, CIEDP members okayed: Conflict victims
not impressed, lambast recommendation panel for
‘unilateral decision’, by Roshan S Nepal (ht
08/04/2019), A
new approach: Victims must be placed at the centre of
the reconciliation process (kp 08/04/2019)
Online
sexism: Challenges of tackling it, by Samiksha
Koirala (ht 08/04/2019)
Police
still clueless about four missing followers of Bomjan:
We cannot question Bomjan without evidence, a police
official says, by Nayak Paudel (kp 08/04/2019)
Man
held with undeclared foreign currency at TIA (ht
07/04/2019), TIA’s
only café in sterile zone shut after owner held with
undeclared foreign currencies, by Nayak Paudel (kp
11/04/2019)
Illegal
drug dealing on the rise in Kavre district (ht
07/04/2019)
Airport
police arrest four Indians with more than 5kg gold,
by Nayak Paudel (kp 06/04/2019)
Health
workers in Khotang without salaries for five months
(rep 06/04/2019)
Doctors’
strike hits patients hard across country (ht
06/04/2019), Near
50,000 patients hit by doctors' strike (rep
06/04/2019)
Govt’s
apathy promoting impunity: NHRC (ht 05/04/2019)
GODAN
threatens to halt health services (ht 04/04/2019), Government
doctors to halt out-patient care from today, by
Arjun Poudel (kp 05/04/2019), Doctors’
strike hits patients hard across country (ht
06/04/2019), Near
50,000 patients hit by doctors' strike (rep
06/04/2019), Government
doctors
steadfast on their strike against Civil Servants
Adjustment Bill: Nepal Medical Association extends
solidarity with the protest that has hit thousands of
people, by Arjun Poudel (kp 07/04/2019), As
government
doctors go on strike, the country’s poor suffer the
most: Several state-run health facilities were
overwhelmed on Sunday by patients, most of whom were
visiting from outside of Kathmandu, only to be refused
medical care, by Arjun Poudel (kp 08/04/2019)) [The legitimacy of a medical strike
is extremely limited. As soon as patients are seriously
endangered, it becomes a crime!]
Panel
to
pick new leaderships of two transitional justice bodies
by mid-April: Names of former Supreme Court justices
under consideration, sources say, by Binod
Ghimire (kp 04/04/2019)
Social
crimes are rising across the country, says police,
by Nayak Paudel (kp 03/04/2019)
Transitional
justice Act amendment, appointment of officials to go
together, by Binod Ghimire (kp 03/04/2019)
Complaints
registered
with transitional justice bodies to be sealed until new
leadership assumes office: Office bearers at the Truth
and Reconciliation Commission and the Commission of
Investigation on Enforced Disappeared Persons will
retire on April 14, by Binod Ghimire (kp 02/04/2019)
VIPs
are not above the law (rep 01/04/2019) [Their
self-assessment looks different!], It’s
our road too: Vehicles carrying VIPs should not
get precedence over others (kp 01/04/2019)
Koshi
flood victims pay tax for inundated land, by Pradeep
Menyangbo (kp 01/04/2019)
Police
arrest
man for faking abduction to swindle Rs 2.3 million from
his family: Authorities say cases of people faking their
own abduction are on the rise, by Nayak Paudel (kp
01/04/2019)
Dahal
decries
attempt in US to ‘vilify him as terrorist': Dahal said
that he personally felt bad by the behavior shown by the
Nepali community toward him (rep 01/04/2019), Reimagining
leadership:
Transitional justice process has not come to a
meaningful end because conflict victims were not placed
at the center, by Charan Prasai (rep 01/04/2019)
64
drug trafficking cases in eight months alone (kp
01/04/2019)
No
more secrecy: The government must pick the people for
the transitional justice bodies transparently, by
Binod Ghimire (kp 31/03/2019)
A
police vehicle escorting ex-prime minister Chand hits
scooter and then flees: Armed Police Force says
investigation has been launched by calling driver,
Assistant Head Constable Santosh Ghimire, to
headquarters, by Nayak Paudel (kp 31/03/2019)
Sunita
beaten to death over dowry, by Bhusan Yadav (kp
31/03/2019), A
sad story of a wife killed by husband for dowry, by
Ritesh Tripathi (rep 01/04/2019), Woman
allegedly beaten to death by her husband, by Madan
Thakur (rep 01/04/2019), Rage
against dowry death (rep 03/04/2019)
Opium
farming goes unchecked, difficult to locate plantation
sites, by Shiva Puri (kp 31/03/2019)
Overstaying
foreigners
in Pokhara booked: Immigration office in the lake city
has arrested a dozen visitors, including six from
Russia, for overstaying their visa this fiscal year,
by Lal Prasad Sharma (kp 31/03/2019)
Seven
people jailed in 2012 Janakpur blast (kp 29/03/2019)
Crime
and forgiveness: We need to rethink reconciliation for
peaceful coexistence in post-insurgency Nepal, by
Dinesh Kafle (kp 29/03/2019)
Nirmala
Pant rape and murder case: DSP Angur GC surrenders
before court, by Bhawani Bhatta (kp 26/03/2019)
Five
individuals charged with evading revenue worth Rs 169.28
million, by Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp 25/03/2019)
Women
are still dying after being sent to menstruation huts,
but no one is filing complaints: A new report by the
National Human Rights Commision paints a grim picture of
Chhaupadi and how it’s still taking women’s lives,
despite being outlawed, by Bhrikuti Rai (kp
23/03/2019) [see NHRC
report (in Nepali)]
Nirmala
rape, murder mystery: Sacked SP Bista surrenders,
detained, by Tekendra Deuba (ht 20/03/2019), SP
Bista released on bail, by Dil Bahadur Chhatyal (rep
25/03/2019) [???]
80%
of accused rapists were acquaintances of the victims,
by Biken K Dawadi (rep 19/03/2019)
Parties
still
undecided on appointment of officials at transitional
justice bodies: Conflict victims concerned about further
delay in justice delivery, by Binod Ghimire (kp
19/03/2019) [Positions are far
more important than justice for the victims!]
Betrayed
by activists: Rights activists, her husband and media
have made life difficult for Durga Devi Panta, Nirmala’s
mother, by Anjali Subedi (rep 19/03/2019)
Chand’s
men on extortion drive in Surkhet, by Nagendra
Upadhyaya (rep 18/03/2019) [Another
crime against the common people!], PM
terms Chand outfit a criminal gang (rep 18/03/2019),
A
series of events, and intel report led to government
action against Chand outfit: Security agencies have
orders to arrest major suspects behind violent
activities carried out by the group, a high-level police
source says, by Nayak Paudel (kp 18/03/2019)
In
Dahal’s
‘my life under threat’ claim, many see bid for sympathy:
Politicians, analysts say Dahal is exaggerating
‘sabotage’, a term his party used to mean ‘destruction
of infrastructure’, by Tika R Pradhan (kp
17/03/2019)
Rs
4b hundi case referred to money laundering probe, by
Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp 17/03/2019)
1,127
rape cases recorded in 8 months (rep 16/03/2019)
Unidentified
groups torch motorcycle, vandalize school bus (rep
16/03/2019)
Watchdog
aims better coordination with other state agencies to
increase anti-money laundering compliance, by
Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp 16/03/2019)
Transitional
Justice bodies may end up without commissioners (rep
16/03/2019)
Nirmala
rape, murder mystery: Arrested police personnel bailed
out (ht 15/03/2019), Durga
Devi’s U-turn (ht 15/03/2019)
House
issues ruling to make public probe report on Tarai
protest, by Binod Ghimire (kp 14/03/2019)
Defence
team
questions legality of charge against police officers in
Nirmala case: The case was registered after the expiry
of three-month statute of limitation, defence lawyers
argue, by Nayak Paudel (kp 14/03/2019)
The
33 kilo gold smuggling racket, explained: Nepal’s
biggest gold smuggling racket also exposes serious
security vulnerabilities at the country’s only
international airport, by Nayak Paudel (kp
14/03/2019)
Government
labels
Chand party a criminal group, bans its activities: The
Cabinet has concluded the Communist Party of Nepal’s
activities are more criminal than political, an aide to
the prime minister says, by Anil Giri and Tika R
Pradhan (kp 13/03/2019) [How
else shall we call a group that kills innocent citizens
and destroys public property, independent of some
probably reason able arguments?]
Achham
police launch campaign against Chhaupadi, by Menuka
Dhungana (kp 12/03/2019)
Chand
party owns up to Friday’s explosion in Basundhara:
Police await government’s position on how to deal with
the outfit, by Nayak Paudel (kp 11/03/2019)
Nepal
Communist Party leader held on murder charge (kp
11/03/2019)
Justice
for conflict victims: If the government continues to
dillydally, we should go to the international courts,
by Govinda KC (kp 10/03/2019)
Another
explosion
in Capital—two weeks after a deadly blast—raises
security alarm: High time the government made it clear
whether the Chand-led party is a political outfit
or a terror group, security experts say, by Nayak
Paudel (kp 10/03/2019)
Abducted
lawmaker released after four hours, by Basanta
Pratap Singh (kp 09/03/2019)
Girl,
14, raped in Rautahat (kp 09/03/2019)
Tikapur
residents
fear possible unrest over court’s order to imprison 11
people: The authorities, on their part, have beefed
up security in Tikapur to control possible
violence, by Ganesh Chaudhary and Arjun Shah (kp
09/03/2019)
Case
filed
against eight cops for torture, evidence destruction in
Nirmala case: Six were taken in custody after they were
produced before Kanchanpur court on Thursday, by
Bhawani Bhatta (kp 08/03/2019)
Apex
court releases CK Raut on general date; probe into him
continues, by Tika R Pradhan (kp 08/03/2019)
Resham
Chaudhary
and ten others sentenced to life for 2015 Tikapur
violence: Rastriya Janata Party-Nepal objects to Kailali
District Court’s order, pulls out support from the
government immediately after the ruling, by Arjun
Shaha (kp 07/08/2019) [Politicians
obviously see criminals within their parties as immune
against punishment!]
120
cases of violence against women recorded in a month
(kp 07/03/2019)
Social
crimes
on the rise, but hard to intercept, police say: In a
span of just six months, 1,150 cases of social crime
have been registered in the Valley, by Nayak Paudel
(kp 07/03/2019)
Park
rangers
tortured a man to death. Then, they were rewarded: An
investigation by The Kathmandu Post, in partnership with
BuzzFeed News, shows that the World Wide Fund for Nature
continues to ignore blatant violations of human rights
inside Nepal’s conservation areas—including the death of
a Tharu man in Chitwan in 2006—while continuing to
reward, fund and train partners who operate with
impunity, by Tsering D. Gurung (kp 04/03/2019) [This is reminiscent of the attitude
towards security forces and politicians who, during the
Maoist uprising, were to blame for crimes!], A
new film celebrates a park official — and the torture
and abuse of detainees: Manoj Pandit’s Khaag glorifies
an official who was accused of killing an indigenous man
in Chitwan over a decade ago, by Tsering D. Gurung
(kp 14/03/2019)
Bardiya
police rescue two women from border, by Kamal Panthi
(kp 04/03/2019)
Tokha
mayor, 9 others, convicted of fraud, by Prithvi Man
Shrestha (kp 04/03/2019)
Two
persons charged with misappropriation of Rs 36 million
through Hundi, by Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp
04/03/2019)
Chand
outfit
spokesman under probe for terror financing: Department
of Money Laundering Investigation says it has started
probing Khadga Bahadur Bishwakarma, by Prithvi Man
Shrestha (kp 03/03/2019)
Three
get 10-year jail for rape, murder bid (ht
02/03/2019), Three
slapped with 10 years jail in Godamchaur rape case:
Victim's family still receiving threats, by Bikan K
Dawadi (rep 02/03/2019), Punishment
to
Godamchaur ‘A’ rapists good step, but too little, too
late: Rights activists; They stress the need for
continuous hearing to ensure speedy justice to survivors,
by Tika R Pradhan (kp 03/03/2019)
Conflict
victims demand their 'say' in transitional justice
process (rep 02/03/2019)
Headmaster
gets five-year jail term for sexually abusing students
(kp 01/03/2019)
Whither
Transitional Justice?, by Uttam Maharjan (rn
28/02/2019), No
blanket amnesty for rights violations, says Gyawali
(ht 28/02/2019), No
blanket amnesty for serious rights violations, Gyawali
says in Geneva, by Anil Giri (kp 01/03/2019)
Chand
party
planned for a month before perpetrating attacks: Police
sources: The outfit reshuffled its district committees
to dodge security officials after attacks, by Nayak
Paudel (kp 28/02/2019), Chand-led
CPN cadre held in connection with Nakkhu blast (ht
28/02/2019)
In
need of a broader solidarity: #MeeToo is an
intersectional issue where gender, caste, and ethnicity
all come into play, by Sangita Thebe Limbu and
Kalpana Jha (kp 27/02/2019)
In
his
own words: How a man whisked away gold from Indian
smugglers: Authorities say a man, who was arrested with
23 kilos of gold, admitted that the gold actually
belongs to Indian smugglers—he stole from them, by
Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp 27/02/2019) [???]
Scourge
of
dowry violence in Dhanusha: Around 690 cases of
gender violence have been registered in the
current fiscal year, by Ajit Tiwari (kp 27/02/2019)
A
horror confronted: Sexual harassment of girls in schools
largely goes unreported (kp 27/02/2019)
Elderly
couple murdered, set on fire (ht 27/02/2019)
Ncell
blast victim’s kin wants govt to act against Chand’s CPN
(ht 26/02/2019) [It would be
completely incomprehensible if such action had not
already been taken in the face of this terrorist crime!],
In
not
speaking against Chand outfit, Dahal sees an opportunity
to rebuild his own image: At this point, Chand’s rise
plays to Dahal’s benefit, a Maoist leader says, by
Tika R Pradhan (kp 27/02/2019)
Tribhuvan
University
is finally talking about its sexual harassment problem:
After months of criticism, an interaction programme at
Nepal’s oldest university discussed sexual harassment on
campus, by Bhrikuti Rai (kp 26/02/2019)
19
women saved from trafficking (kp 26/02/2019)
Two
women raped in Saptari district (kp 25/02/2019)
Man
held for raping 81-year-old woman (kp 25/02/2019)
Police
constable thrashes woman (ht 25/02/2019)
A
month since the revelation of abuse at Lalitpur school,
probe committee has little to show: The committee has
only reached out to two former students till date,
by Alisha Sijapati and Marissa Taylor (kp 25/02/2019)
Victims
push against reappointment of transitional justice body
officials, by Binod Ghimire (kp 24/02/2019)
Concerns
of Nepali women to be presented at international stage,
by Nayak Paudel (kp 24/02/2019), Customs
trump law on issue of gender equality (kp
24/02/2019)
Banks
still
struggling to implement court order to retrieve
Sumargi’s money: It’s a month and a half since the Nepal
Investment Bank was told to get the money withdrawn
by the controversial businessman back to his
account, by Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp 24/02/2019) [When will the judges who ordered the release of
the money in December 2018 be called to account?]
Six
dead bodies recovered within a week in Rautahat, by
Madan Thakur (rep 24/02/2019)
Menstruating
women are still being banished to outdoor sheds — and
it’s killing them, by Tsering D Gurung (kp
23/02/2019)
Nirmala’s
parents call off indefinite sit-in after 105 days,
by Bhawani Bhatta (kp 23/02/2019)
Three
hurt
in powerful blast at Nakkhu: People residing as far as
500 metres away from explosion site could feel the
reverberations, by Roshan S. Nepal (ht 23/02/2019),
Gurung,
one of three injured in Ncell office blast, dies (ht
23/02/2019), Blast,
arsons
targeting Ncell prompt concerns about business climate:
Police suspect Chand-led party’s involvement in attacks
on mobile company; One injured in Nakkhu explosion dies;
two wounded are receiving treatment, by Nayak Paudel
(kp 24/02/2019), Nakkhu
explosion victim dies: Six arrested in Kathmandu, 16
held in other districts, by Ujjwal Satyal (ht
24/02/2019), Friday's
blasts
a question mark on PM's claim: Police suspect hand of
Netra Bikram Chand-led Maoist party in Friday's multiple
blasts (rep 24/02/2019), Police
in the dark about culprits behind Nakkhu blast (ht
26/02/2019)
300
girls get self-defence training in Tulsipur, by
Durgalal KC (kp 23/02/2019)
Govt
to act against public land encroachment: Minister
(rep 23/02/2019)
3
men injured in police firing while rallying for Nirmala
Pant suffer as state stops medical fund, by Bhawani
Bhatta (kp 22/02/2019)
Police
seize hash and kief worth Rs 10 million; arrest two men,
by Pratap Bista (kp 22/02/2019)
Where
is Bomjon? Police say, “We have no idea”, by Anil
Bhandari (rep 22/02/2019)
Home
minister says the biggest gold smuggling racket busted:
Claim comes amid no headway in 33kg gold smuggling case,
by Nayak Paudel (kp 21/02/2019)
Dalit
girl raped, cops arrest alleged rapist (ht
21/02/2019)
TU
assistant dean arrested for molesting teenage girl
(ht 21/02/2019)
Ward
chair accused of beating local woman (kp 21/02/2019)
Getting
off easy: Corrupt officials get to resign and go
scot-free, fuelling impunity (kp 21/02/2019)
Assaulting
free speech: The provisions in the new bill could
further curtail free speech and silence dissenters,
by Taranath Dahal (kp 21/02/2019)
Prithvi
Highway becoming a route for drug trafficking, by
Harihar Singh Rathour (kp 21/02/2019)
Nirmala
rape, murder mystery: CIB yet to decide which country to
send DNA sample, by Ujjwal Satyal (ht 20/02/2019)
Rape
cases up 79 pc in 2018: INSEC (rep 20/02/2019) [For
intensive evaluation of human rights in 2088 see: Human Rights Yearbook 2019, by INSEC, 17
February 2019]
Heed
the voice of disabled civilian war victims: Lalitpur
Declaration (rep 20/02/2019)
Retrieving
stolen mobile phones tall order for cops (ht
20/02/2019)
‘We,
as
a society, have kept quiet on sexual harassment, abuse
and violence so far’: Issues of sexual violence must be
included in public discourses to ensure equality for
women (kp 19/02/2019)
Conviction
rate has gone up: OAG report (ht 19/02/2019)
Trafficking
victims being brought home from Manipur (ht
18/02/2019)
Inaction
in sexual harassment allegations against Bhattachan
concerns international academics, by Bhrikuti Rai
(kp 18/02/2019), Silent
students: Usually vociferous unions are keeping
mum on harassment (kp 20/02/2019)
After
being trafficked, survivors struggle to rebuild lives,
by Marissa Taylor (kp 17/02/2019)
Dalit
woman thrown out of house in Salyan, by Biplav
Maharjan (kp 17/02/2019)
Province
2 turning into a drug smuggling hub (rep 17/02/2019)
Nepal’s
peace came with a promise for justice — but it’s been
painfully slow, by Binod Ghimire (kp 16/02/2019), ‘Appoint
TRC, CIEDP members without delay’, by Roshan S Nepal
(ht 16/02/2019), SC
begins hearings on petitions against Agni Sapkota
(rep 16/02/2019)
11-year-old
girl found dead, by Ajit Tiwari and Shyam Sundar
Shashi (kp 16/02/2019), Demand
to arrest Rasaili’s murderers (kp 17/02/2019), Police
arrest rape, murder suspect, by Shyam Sundar Shashi
and Santosh Singh (kp 20/02/2019), Heinous
crime:
Women’s rights, dignity and safety cannot be ensured as
long as the community itself does not foster the “we”
feeling (ht 20/02/2019)
Police
constable accused of raping woman, by Devendra
Basnet (rep 16/02/2019)
Three
men held for fake abduction, by Shyam Sundar Shashi
(kp 16/02/2019)
18kg
gold seized, by Bhawani Bhatta (kp 15/02/2019)
Misuse
of CCTVs made punishable (ht 15/02/2019)I
Father
held for raping daughter (kp 14/02/2019)
Criminals
exploiting social media to swindle unwary people: Police
(ht 14/02/2019)
Combatting
modern slavery: Challenges and opportunities, by
Jhabindra Bhandari (ht 14/02/2019)
Nepal
to defend its transitional justice process in Geneva:
Foreign Minister Pradeep Gyawali says he will tell the
international community there will be no blanket amnesty
in cases of serious human rights violations, by Anil
Giri (kp 13/02/2019) [13 years have passed since the end
of the ten-year conflict and not much has really
happened! So, what process do you want to defend?],
'Bomb
shattered my dreams, poverty took away my wife', by
Bhadra Sharma (rep 13/02/2019) [How
will you defend 13 years of inactivity in such cases, Mr
Gyawali?], Conflict
victims of Guranse struggle to overcome trauma, by
Biplav Maharjan (kp 14/02/2019), Ideological
differences in governing party surface over ‘people’s
war’, by Anil Giri (kp 14/02/2019)
Nirmala
rape, murder mystery: CIB plans to send DNA sample to
foreign lab (ht 13/02/2019), Wilful
inaction:
Whatever the outcome of the report from abroad, it will
not convince the public because the Nepal Police has
lost credibility (ht 14/02/2019)
Boy,
14, found dead with slit throat in Pokhara (kp
13/02/2019), Love
triangle ends in murder (ht 13/02/2019)
Series
of murders terrorizing locals of Sunsari: 15 murders in
seven months, by Amar Khadka (rep 13/02/2019)
Police
are
still clueless about 33 kg gold smuggling and Sanam
Shakya murder case: Officers implicated in the case on
regular duty after court orders, by Nayak Paudel (kp
12/02/2019)
Rape-accused
ward chair surrenders in Nawalpur (ht 12/02/2019)
Elusive
Justice, by Ajit Kumar Singh (South Asia
Intelligence Review 11/02/2019)
International
company
used lies to threaten government, private rescue
agencies and hospitals in Nepal: A Post investigation
shows Australia-based Traveller Assist has been using
the helicopter rescue scam to market itself as the sole
representative of global insurance firms, by Arpan
Shrestha and Sangam Prasain (kp 11/02/2019), Govt
launches investigation into Traveller Assist (rep
11/02/2019)
25
protesting doctors arrested, released, by Arjun
Poudel (kp 11/02/2019), 25
govt docs arrested, 3 injured in police action in
Kathmandu (rep 11/02/2019)
Fake
currency seized in capital (kp 11/02/2019)
Two
arrested for using migrant workers to smuggle gold (kp
10/02/2019)
Unknown
group sets off three explosions at Arun-III hydropower
project site, by Dipendra Shakya (kp 09/02/2019), IPPAN
flays bombings in Arun III hydel project (ht
12/02/2019)
Rape
rulings in Nepal follow letter, not spirit of the law,
by Sewa Bhattarai (nt 08/02/2019)
Millions
of students affected by Chand-led Maoist party’s strike,
by Binod Ghimire (kp 08/02/2019)
Kin
vandalise hospital after patient’s death in Chitwan
(ht 09/02/2019)
Over
300
Nepalis trafficked through the India-Myanmar border in
one month: Only two people have been tracked so far,
while the whereabouts of hundreds are still unknown,
by Chandan Kumar Mandal (kp 07/02/2019), Myanmar
emerging as a transit hub for trafficking Nepali girls
(ht 09/02/2019)
Rape
victim stigmatised, deprived of education (ht
08/02/2019)
House
endorses
amendment bill on Transitional Justice Act: Two
transitional justice bodies will get one-year extension
and new officials, by Binod Ghimire (kp), Truth
and Reconciliation Commission chairman and member put in
papers, by Binod Ghimire (kp 07/02/2019)
Government
fails
to give concrete answer on Nirmala Pant rape and murder
probe: Home minister goes on defensive responding to
lawmakers’ queries, by Binod Ghimire (kp 07/02/2019)
Justice
deferred
for Dalits: Many reports have pointed out that the
police hardly register the cases of crimes of
caste-based discrimination and rarely carry out
investigation, by Saraj Ray (rep 06/02/2019)
Two
more
teachers from Lalitpur Madhyamik accused of sexual
abuse: A document started by the school’s alumni has
over 40 testimonials from former students detailing
molestation by the school’s teachers, by Alisha
Sijapati and Marissa Taylor (kp 06/02/2019)
State
entities
keep financial intel body in dark: Probe agencies say
flow of information will boost crackdown on money
laundering, by Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp 06/02/2019)
Cold
winter
nights add to the trauma of women banished to period
huts: ‘We can’t even build a fire inside because the
shed gets filled with smoke, and then it becomes
suffocating', by Basanta Pratap Singh and Menuka
Dhungana (kp 05/02/2019)
Mayor,
ward chairmen caught stealing electricity, by Bibek
Subedi (kp 05/02/2019)
Birta
City Hospital vandalized after an infant's mysterious
death (ht 05/02/2019)
Family
receives
Ram Manohar Yadav’s body five months after he died in
police custody: Brother says they will continue to fight
for justice and won’t accept the government’s
compensation pay, by Chandan Kumar Mandal (kp
04/02/2019), Police
seize
Ram Manohar’s body on the way to funeral: Hundreds of
supporters of the Free Madhes movement showed up
for the last rites despite the arrest of scores by the
authorities, by Chandan Kumar Mandal (kp 05/02/2019)
Nepal
Police sets up separate bureau to look into human
trafficking cases, by Nayak Paudel (kp 04/02/2019),
Women
trafficking:
One reason why girl trafficking has flourished in Nepal
is because traffickers can operate here without much
fear (ht 04/02/2019)
At
least
130 Nepali girls rescued from India-Myanmar border in
two days: They were en route to Southeast Asian and Gulf
countries via Myanmar, by Chandan Kumar Mandal (kp
03/02/2019)
TJ
bodies preparing interim reports as term ends near
(rep 03/02/2019)
Lawmakers
visit Bajura for field study of chhaupadi (ht
03/02/2019)
Student
wing resorts to violence; government vehicles vandalised
(kp 03/02/2019), NSU
cadres torch four govt vehicles, take scores in control
(rep 03/02/2019)
Man
chained to cowshed for 18 years (ht 03/02/2019)
Youths
more vulnerable to cyber crimes (rep 03/02/2019)
Police
and marijuana smugglers exchange fire, by Abadhesh
Kumar Jha (kp 03/02/2019)
127
burglary suspects rounded up in one month (ht
03/02/2019)
A
Madhesi died in police custody. No one knows what really
happened: Five months since the death of Ram Manohar
Yadav, a Free Madhes activist, the family is still
looking for answers while the police stay silent, by
Chandan Kumar Mandal (kp 02/02/2019)
Chhaupadi
deaths fail to teach people any lesson (rep
02/02/2019)
Ministry
consults conflict victims on justice process, by
Binod Ghimire (kp 02/02/2019)
A
child cries in silence: Sexual abuse widespread, by
Aruna Uprety (ht 01/02/2019)
Six
trafficking victims rescued from Delhi (kp
01/02/2019)
Crime
and politics: Nirmala Panta’s unsolved rape and murder
divides activists and prolongs the family’s grief,
by Namrata Sharma (nt 01/02/2019)
Sexual
harassment on public transport unabated (ht
31/01/2019)
Hooch
production increasing in Rautahat (ht 31/01/2019)
Transitional
justice
bodies to get term extension; officials won’t: Move aims
to allay concerns of conflict victims but lacks
substance, by Binod Ghimire (kp 30/01/2019), TRC,
CIEDP members’ tenure extended till April 13:
Commissions get one year extension (ht 30/01/2019),
CVCP
lauds bill related to TJ laws amendment (ht
31/01/2019)
Crime
and candidacy: Having lawbreakers as lawmakers would be
the biggest irony (kp 30/01/2019)
Raped
minor struggles with cancer, by Sher Bahadur Jero
(rep 29/01/2019)
A
faction of war victims refuses to be part of any
mechanism: “We want the two transitional justice
commissions to continue, but their officials should be
changed,” says Phanindara Luitel of Conflict Victims
National Network, by Binod Ghimire (kp 28/01/2019),
Government
in
bind as conflict victims divided: One association calls
for mechanism to decide the future of transitional
justice process; another objects to any new structure to
deal with war-era cases, by Binod Ghimire (kp
29/01/2019)
A
closed door: The process of seeking legal remedy for
cases of sexual abuse should be clear (kp
28/01/2019)
Girl,
10, found dead on riverbank, by Binod Bhandari (kp
28/01/2019), Ten-year-old
girl found dead, rape suspected, by Hari Adhikari
(ht 28/01/2019), Missing
11-year-old girl found dead and naked, by Biken K
Dawadi (rep 28/01/2019), Police
arrest two men in rape andmurder of girl, 11,
by Deo Narayan Sah (kp 04/02/2019), Two
held for rape, murder paraded (ht 04/02/2019)
Nirmala
rape, murder mystery: NHRC finds flaws in collection of
vaginal swab (ht 28/01/2019), Durga
Devi’s DNA matched with Nirmala’s sample, by Bhawani
Bhatta (kp 29/01/2019), Police’s
extraction of male DNA shrouded in mystery (ht
29/01/2019), DNA
test of home minister’s son sought (ht 29/01/2019),
Media,
rights activists violated our human rights: Bam sisters
(ht 29/01/2019)
Himalayan
Cargo owner under investigation for money laundering,
by Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp 27/01/2019)
Woman
found dead in Rautahat (kp 27/01/2019)
Law
minister-led
mechanism to decide future of transitional justice:
Sources say the body will seek participation of
all stakeholders, including conflict victims, by
Binod Ghimire (kp 27/01/2019), Transitional
Justice & Factional Diplomacy, by Ritu Raj
Subedi (rn 27/01/2019) [An incredible statement by the Deputy Executive
Editor of the government-owned daily The Rising Nepal in
blind support of the machinations of the Oli government,
despite all the hypocrisy of today's opposition NC,
which has done similar things in the past when in power.
National and international supporters of victims and
civil society are accused of manipulative interference
in internal Nepalese affairs. They are denied any appeal
for respect for the rule of law, democracy and human
rights. Peace without justice for the victims is not
possible!
Like all governments before, the Oli government will do
nothing in support of justice without internal and
external pressure!]
Govt
plans nationwide consultation on next transitional
justice process (rep 26/01/2019)
Maths
teacher
at Lalitpur Madhyamik Vidyalaya sexually abused young
girls for decades; An investigation by the Post
discovered a pattern of abusive behaviour by Bodha Raj
‘Basu’ Tripathee; At least seven female students, most
of them in their 20s now, recounted molestation by
Tripathee in the classroom, by Pranaya Shamsher JB
Rana and Marissa Taylor (kp 26/01/2019), Tears
and
anger after Post’srevelations about a teacher’s sexual
abuse of young girls: Lalitpur school suspended Basu
Tripathee after a Post investigation, by
Pranaya Shamsher JB Rana and Marissa Taylor (kp
28/01/2019)
Two-year-old
girl kidnapped, rescued (ht 26/01/2019)
Everest
fraud
leads insurers to threaten a boycott: Trek operators,
guides and helicopter operators had conspired to bilk
millions of dollars from insurance firms by
intentionally making hikers ill, by Kai Schultz (kp
26/01/2019)
From
tika to ashes: There are layers upon layers of injustice
in the rape of Dalit women, by Sarita Pariyar (kp
25/01/2019)
International
community
builds pressure on transitional justice: Foreign
missions, UN call for broader consultation with
conflict victims and stakeholders, by Tika R Pradhan
(kp 25/01/2019), Govt
slams statement of Western countries, UN on transitional
justice (rep 25/01/2019), ‘Zero
draft’ starting point for talks with victims, by
Roshan S Nepal (ht 25/01/2019)
Swindlers’
list: The promise of a ‘serious probe’ devoid of any
strategy is frustratingly familiar (kp 25/01/2019)
Tribhuvan
University
lecturer sexually harassed female students for years:
Former students advised by Krishna Bahadur Bhattachan
say he touched them inappropriately and regularly made
lewd remarks; Bhattachan denies wrongdoing, says he is
‘so surprised', by Bhrikuti Rai (kp 25/01/2019), Tribhuvan
University
VC says its hands are tied on harassment case: Krishna
Bhattachan, the lecturer accused of sexually harassing
his students for years, defends himself in a letter to
the editor, by Tsering D Gurung Kp 29/01/2019), Bhattachan
responds (kp 29/01/2019), The
hollow eclipse of ‘Identity’: Some notes of reflection
on #MeToo, by Sabin Ninglekhu Limbu (kp 08/02/2019)
Case
filed against woman for dumping infant in Siraha (ht
25/01/2019)
Armed
group leader killed in action: Doubts surface over
authenticity of leader Chaudhary’s death; NCP demands
investigation, by Abdhesh Kumar Jha (kp 24/01/2019)
Women
brave cold and spend night under tents during
menstruation, by Khamma Khatri (rep 24/01/2019)
Woman
killed on witchcraft allegation (kp 24/01/2019)
Rapist
jailed for eight years (kp 24/01/2019)
Nirmala
rape, murder mystery: NHRC glare on flaws in police
investigation (ht 24/01/2019)
Authorities
clamp down on poultry smuggling, by Shiva Puri (kp
23/01/2019)
‘Laws
made thru political consensus unacceptable’ (ht
23/01/2019)
Tootle
evaded VAT for 19 months: Sources: Was never registered
for VAT, by Biken K Dawadi (rep 23/01/2019)
Textile
smugglers usingtrucks carrying cement, by Bushan
Yadav (kp 23/01/2019)
Seven
held with huge cache of drugs (ht 23/01/2019)
Dalit
community practises untouchability, by Mohan Budhair
(kp 22/01/2019), Caste-based
discrimination rampant, by Tularam Pandey (kp
22/01/2019)
Chepang
girls physically assaulted in Chitwan (kp
22/01/2019), Chepang
girls brave physical assault, escape rape attempt
(ht 22/01/2019)
Nepali
arrested in Delhi for human trafficking (ht
22/01/2019)
Govt
has failed to provide security to women: Ansari (ht
22/01/2019)
Four
murder accused made public in Kailali district (ht
22/01/2019)
Government
agencies say probe into Sumargi funds continues, by
Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp 22/01/2019), Central
bank
asks three banks to return Sumargi’s money to NIBL: The
controversial businessman had withdrawn frozen funds
after court order, by Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp
23/01/2019), Retrieval
of
Sumargi’s money becomes more complicated: Experts say
the central bank did not play proactive role while the
court was silent on order implementation process, by
Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp 24/01/2019)
Bajura
police starts collecting data on Chhaupadi sheds (kp
21/01/2019)
Justice
delayed:
There is no reason why the transitional justice process
should have taken thirteen years unless it is trying to
protect the perpetrators (ht 21/01/2019)
Police
to launch program to control VAW in public vehicles
(rep 21/01/2019)
CIB
arrests British man over paedophile case: In the raid,
Cole was found in apartment with three under-age boys,
by Nayak Paudel (kp 21/01/2019)
Policing
the police: Reform Nepal’s interrogration practices,
by Sakun Bhandari (kp 20/01/2019)
Rise
against
cybercrimes: Women are more susceptible to cyber crime
as perpetrator’s identity remains anonymous and he may
constantly threaten and blackmail the victim by using
different identities, by Dikchya Raut (rep
20/01/2019)
Four
men held on rape charge, by Pratikshya Kafle (kp
19/01/2019)
14-year-old
girl assaulted in Syangja (kp 19/01/2019)
Govt
unlikely to hold consultations with victims, by
Roshan S Nepal (ht 19/01/2019)
Murder
charge filed against ruling party leader in Dolakha,
by Rajendra Manandhar (kp 19/01/2019)
Dozens
of Nepalis invested in tax havens overseas, by
Tsering D Gurung (kp 17/01/2019), How
the ultra-rich use FDI to launder their illicit cash,
by Bibek Subedi (kp 17/01/2019), Rs
35.8 bn parked in Swiss banks: 55 Nepalis have invested
in foreign countries violating domestic laws (ht
17/01/2019), Black
money: From shell companies to Nepal, via Ncell, by
Arpan Shrestha (kp 17/01/2019), Washing
up: Political will vital to implicate Nepalis amassing
wealth in offshore accounts (kp 17/01/2019), Can
Nepal bring back Rs 52 billion stashed in Swiss banks?
(rep 17/01/2019), Sumargi
among 55 Nepalis with investment abroad (rep
17/01/2019), 55
Nepalis invest in foreign firms (ht 17/01/2019), Dhakal
and Bajgain deny report, by Bibek Subedi (kp
18/01/2019), Some
Nepalis investing overseas deny breaking any law
(rep 18/01/2019), Money
laundering watchdog to probe fund transfer (ht
18/01/2019), Mahato
denies taking wealth to foreign countries, by Anuj
Kumar Adhikari (kp 19/01/2019), PM’s
Office
directs probe into Nepalis with offshore investments:
Finance minister says Non-Resident Nepali Act, Income
Tax Act and Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement could be
amended, by Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp 19/01/2019), A
web of factors hamper probe into offshore investment,
money laundering: Businessmen exploiting legal loopholes
while channelising illicit cash into the country, by
Krishna Acharya and Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp 21/01/2019),
Decoding
NepaLeaks:
It should be noted that mere investing in foreign lands
does not constitute illicit activity in an age of
globalization and liberalization, by Narayan
Manandhar (rep 21/01/2019)
Woman
thrashed on charge of practising witchcraft (ht
17/01/2019)
Rukum
villages bid farewell to Maghe Sankranti with child
marriage, by Lokendra Khanal (rep 17/01/2019)
Family
of fifth missing Bomjan follower files report (kp
17/01/2019)
Justice
delayed,
denied: Why is the state so indifferent toward cases of
sexual violence even as it has totally undermined rule
of law, justice system, national security and good
governance?, by Nabita Nakarmi (rep 16/01/2019)
Kidnapped
boy rescued from Dhangadhi, by Arjun Shah (kp
16/01/2019)
17
years
of denied justice: Muktinath Adhikari’s family is among
thousands who have been dismissed in the Transitional
Justice process, by Suman Adhikari (kp 16/01/2019)
Nirmala
rape, murder report: NHRC to make public contents of
probe, not findings, by Ujjwal Satyal (ht
15/01/2019)
Criminal
killed in police encounter, by Madhav Dhungana (kp
14/01/2019)
The
chairperson takes action: Local governments can
play a vital role in ending social evils like Chhaupadi
(kp 14/01/2019)
Report
on Maleth killings yet to be submitted, by Ram Kumar
Kamat (ht 14/01/2019)
Police
arrest six men, including a ward chairman, with illegal
gold, by Bharat Jarghamagar (kp 13/01/2019)
Locals
pull down chhau shed in Bajura (ht 12/01/2019)
Nirmala's
father shows his dark side: Yagyaraj beats up his
ex-wife, by Dil Bahadur Chhatyal (rep 11/01/2019)
Preventing
sexual crimes: Policy level changes needed, by
Biranchi Poudyal (ht 11/01/2019)
Teaching
Hospital residents on strike, by Nayak Paudel (kp
11/01/2019) [Not paying the
doctors' salaries for 8 months is an unbelievable crime!
Please stop the paymernt of all politicians and
responsible administrators for the same period of time!]
Even
right activists and teachers observe criminalised
Chhaupadi in western Nepal, by Basanta Pratap Singh,
Menuka Dhungana and Arjun Shah (kp 11/01/2019)
Tourism
board
to scrap deal with Michael Kobold if fire trucks don’t
arrive by March: In private emails raising funds for the
fire truck expedition, the German watchmaker admitted
that the project was a commercial venture, not a charity
as he’s been advertising to the Nepali people, by
Tsering D Gurung and Pranaya SJB Rana (kp 10/01/2019), Pattern
of immigration fraud and employee abuse / Using two
passports, Michael Kobold evaded Nepali visa regulations,
by Tsering D Gurung and Pranaya SJB Rana (kp 11/01/2019),
Immigration
office launches probe into Michael Kobold, by
Tsering D Gurung (kp 12/01/2019)
Ganga
Maya Adhikari seeks global attention, by Binod
Ghimire (kp 10/01/2019)
Mother
and two sons die in Chhaupadi shed fire: Women are still
banished to sheds though the practice has been
criminalised, by Arjun Shah (kp 10/01/2019), Break
the
shackle: The local levels must launch a massive
awareness drive to get rid of the chhaupadi system that
dehumanises women in rural areas (ht 10/01/2019)
Nirmala’s
mother demands DNA authenticity verification, by
Bhawani Bhatta (kp 10/01/2019)
Conflict-affected
families of security personnel launch indefinite sit-in
(ht 10/01/2019)
Fate
of transitional justice bodies hangs in balance: As
parties vacillate, conflict victims are divided over new
mechanism, by Binod Ghimire (kp 09/01/2019), Snowfall
adds chill to quake survivors’ lives, by Anish
Tiwari (kp 09/01/2019) [Failure of government and administration to
provide assistance in time!]
Anti-trafficking
society: Voice for the voiceless, by Shanta Dhakal
(ht 09/01/2019)
Cold
worsens menses woes in far-west (ht 09/01/2019)
Rectify
swearing-in:
Democracy is not just about elections, it is about
electing righteous people who will work for the welfare
of the people and the country (ht 09/01/2019)
Man
held for repeatedly raping daughter, 12, by
Pratichya Kafle (kp 08/01/2019)
CIEDP
probes
85 pc complaints in first phase: Preparing to record
statements of alleged perpetrators for the second phase
of investigation (ht 08/01/2019)
House
panel goes soft on ministers: Recommends action against
two secretaries, acquits Home Secretary Rai, by Tika
R Pradhan (kp 08/01/2019) [There
is no rule of law as long as the crimes committed by
politicians and their clientele remain unpunished!]
Man
held in Canada for paedophile charges in Nepal, by
Janakraj Sapkota (kp 08/01/2019), Unwanted
visitors: Paedophilia has become more pervasive
over recent years (kp 09/01/2019)
Maoist
from Chand’s party held on extortion charge (rep
08/01/2019)
Ten
shops gutted in Dadeldhura, one arrested (ht
08/01/2019)
Woman
allegedly murdered for dowry by husband, in-laws, by
Ritesh Tripathi (rep 07/01/2019)
Action
sought against two industries releasing toxic waste into
Jhanjha River (ht 07/01/2019)
Property
worth millions looted at gunpoint (ht 07/01/2019)
Will
Manange be administered oath?, by Bishan Chhetri
(rep 06/01/2019), Provincial
Assembly snubs Manange, by Lal Prasad Sharma (kp
07/01/2019), Gandaki
PA mired in dilemma over swearing in Gurung (ht
08/01/2019)
Breaking
the
silence on #MeToo: Women’s silence in Nepal’s feeble
#MeToo movement has also to do with illiteracy and
socioeconomic disadvantages majority of women face,
by Gyanu BK (rep 06/01/2019)
Criminal
Code ‘ineffective’ to end Chhaupadi practice, by
Binod Ghimire (kp 05/01/2019)
Police
search Bomjan’s ashram: Say nothing suspicious found
during raid; Investigation to continue, by Anish
Tiwari and Nayak Paudel (kp 05/01/2019), Police
suspect missing nun Sanchalal Waiba murdered, by
Anish Tiwari (kp 06/01/2019), Bodhi
Shrawan Dharma Sangh refutes charges against Bomjan,
by Anish Tiwari (kp 08/01/2019)
NAFEA
ex-chair booked for evading taxes worth crores (ht
05/01/2019)
Bullion,
real estate, casinos also come under money laundering
scrutiny (rep 05/01/2019)
Chaudhary
sworn in after party’s pressure, by Binod Ghimire
(kp 04/01/2019) [?????],
Why
govt let massacre-accused Resham Chaudhary take oath
(rep 04/01/2019) [There cannot be enough (potential) criminals in
leading political positions! The rule of law in
democratic states does not allow the participation of
persons who are accused of crimes!], Back
to jail after oath, by Ashok Dahal (rep 04/01/2019),
Tikapur
victims speak of grave injustice, by Dil Bahadur
Chhatyal (rep 04/01/2019), Road
to impunity: Oath to Resham Chaudhary (rep
06/01/2019), Verdict
on Tikapur carnage delayed, by Tekendra Deuba (ht
06/01/2019), Apex
court refuses to release Chaudhary, by Tika R
Pradhan (kp 08/01/2018), SC
refuses to set Resham Chaudhary free (ht
08/01/2019), ‘Chaudhary
won’t get salary, perks’, by Sanjaya Lama (kp
10/01/2019)
Deepak
Manange’s swearing-in uncertain (ht 04/01/2019)
Chitwan
police arrest Pokhara man for throwing acid at his wife,
by Ramesh Kumar Paudel (kp 04/01/2019)
Police
to cross-check Nirmala’s vaginal swab, by Ujjwal
Satyal (ht 04/01/2019), ‘Allow
women lawmakers to investigate Nirmala Panta’s rape,
murder’ (ht 04/01/2019)
Trafficking
prevention more challenging now (kp 03/01/2019), Human
trafficking prevention a complex issue (ht
03/01/2019)
Fool
me once: The Conflict Victims’ Common Platform could
breathe new life into our pursuit for justice, by
Binod Kumar Paudel and Rajendra Sechuray (kp 03/01/2019)
Consent
is key: Will Nepali society ever fully understand
marital rape?, by Priya Rajbhandary (kp 02/01/2019)
Together
for justice: Charter initiative may further empower
perpetrators rather than victims. Dialogue can help us
unite, by Om Prakash Aryal, Anita Neupane Thapalia
and Ram Bhandari (rep 02/01/2019)
Transitional
Justice Actr: Govt undecided on amendment, by Roshan
S Nepal (ht 02/01/2019), Ganga
Maya to tell her story to the world, by Ujjwal
Satyal (ht 02/01/2019)
Bomjan’s
supporters press against ashram cases probe: Sangha
urges politicians to spare cult leader action, by
Tika R Pradhan (kp 02/01/2019)
Police
after a child rape suspect (kp 01/01/2019)
Torture,
disappearings to be moved from military to civilian
court, by Ashok Dahal (rep 01/01/2019), Bill
to amend Nepal Army Act (rep 02/01/2019)
My
disappeared father: Families who lost relatives during
the Maoist conflict are still seeking truth and justice,
by Ram Kumar Bhandari (kp 31/12/2018), Road
to
justice: Nepal’s transitional justice process failed to
pursue transformative agenda of CPA. It seems to be
moving away from socio-economic dimensions of conflict,
by Tika P. Dhakal (rep 31/12/2018), National
Reconciliation Day Celebration, by Siddhi B
Ranjitkar (km 31/12/2018)
#WhoKilledNirmala?:
When
those in power and with agency to protect the citizens
and uphold societal law and order responds with
hostility to an earnest call for accountability, it
shows how fractured the country’s justice and law
enforcement system is, by Nayak Paudel (kp
31/12/2018)
Speaking
out
and aloud: The #MeToo momentum in Nepal, while welcome,
dissipated before it could even make a dent in Nepal’s
power structures, by Alisha Sijapati (kp 31/12/2018)
49
women rescued from rehab centre in Budhanilkantha
(kp 29/12/2018)
Kin
of missing appeal state to intervene, by Nayak
Paudel (kp 29/12/2018)
Nirmala
probe started from new hypothesis: IGP Khanal, by
Dil Bahadur Chhatyal (rep 29/12/2018)
12
years
later, justice is a mirage: A proposal to find a way out
of the transitional justice impasse splits the victims’
movement, by Sewa Bhattarai (nt 28/12/2018),
Justice
in
transition: The international community has seen
transitional justice as a barrier to the peace process
rather than a necessary part of it, by David Seddon
(nt 28/12/2018)
‘Untouchability’
culture among Dalits weakens anti-discrimination drive,
by Menuka Dhungana (kp 28/12/2018)
Families
file complaints after people go missing from Bomjan’s
ashram, by Pratap Bista and Krishna Thapa (kp
28/12/2018), Controversial
godman: Bomjan’s actions cannot remain overlooked
for any longer (kp 31/12/2018)
Nirmala
murder case: 2nd suspect freed by DNA report, accuses
police of torture, by Sanjaya Lama (kp 27/12/2018),
Freed
suspects allege torture in custody, by Ujjwal Satyal
(ht 28/12/2018), Police
deny
torturing suspects during interrogation: Pradip Rawal
and Bishal Chaudhary, the latest suspects in
Nirmala murder case, cleared by DNA evidence, by
Nayak Paudel (kp 28/12/2018)
Menstruating
women still banished to sheds in 'Chaupadi-free' Jumla,
by DB Budha (rep 27/12/2018)
Throwing
caution to the wind: The authorities’ inaction
towards air pollution is inexcusable (kp
27/12/2018)
TU
vice-chancellor
‘unaware’ of sexual harassment charges against
professor: Retired Tribhuvan University professor
teaches at private colleges and is invited to speak at
prestigious forums, by Tsering D Gurung (kp
26/12/2018)
Bride
injured in gang’s attack, by Chandra Karki (kp
26/12/2018), Case
filed against 10 men for attacking bride (kp
28/12/2018)
Teacher
accused of beating student to death, by Upendra
Yadav (rep 26/12/2018), Teacher
on the run after student’s death in Kalaiya, by
Laxmi Sah (kp 27/12/2018)
Dialogue
Over Conflict, by Dev Raj Dahal (rn 25/12/2018)
Boy
arrested for stabbing a girl for refusing his love
proposal (rep 25/12/2018)
IGP
fails to shed more light on Nirmala rape, murder, by
Ujjwal Satyal (ht 25/12/2018), Protesters
submit signatures to UN country office (ht
25/12/2018)
Mystery
shrouds cop’s death: Was working as domestic help in a
DIG's house, by Ujjwal Satyal (ht 24/12/2018)
Mechanism
for
justice: If proposed high-level political mechanism
provides the space for concluding remaining tasks of
peace and justice, we need to support it, by
Rajendra Senchurey (rep 23/12/2018), Conflict-hit
women demand prompt response to their plaints (ht
23/12/2018)
Chaudhary:
Police tortured me to extract confession, by Bhawani
Bhatta (kp 23/12/2018), Bishal
taken to Kathmandu for medical examination, by
Bhawani Bhatta (kp 25/12/2018) [Showing
mental problems after severe police torture!]
Cabbies
continue to fleece passengers (ht 23/12/2018)
Chhaupadi-free
drive ineffective, by Menuka Dhungana (kp
22/12/2018)
AIG’s
report
blames senior officers for failed Nirmala murder
probe: Report says police tried to frame Dilip Singh
Bista; Probe names 18 officers for tampering
with evidence at the crime scene, by Nayak Paudel
(kp 22/12/2018)
Deepak
Manange released after SC’s order (rep 22/12/2018) [???]
Two
men
caught with unsourced currencies, idol: Police say the
two men were arrested after they could not provide the
source for Rs 1.35 million and 4,300 yuan they
were carrying (kp 22/12/2018)
Tarai
districts in the grip of inclement weather (ht
21/12/2018), Bone-chilling
cold hits Dom community hard (ht 21/12/2018)
Justice,
interrupted: Transitional Justice will only work if
those in charge are trusted, by Mohna Ansari (kp
21/12/2018), Crippled
commissions: Victims’ long wait for justice, by Ram
Dayal Rakesh (ht 21/12/2018)
Watchmaker
promising
fire trucks has a series of dodgy financial dealings—and
a chequered past: A month-long investigation by The
Kathmandu Post shows how Michael Kobold has used a
string of lies and exaggerations to raise funds for his
fire truck campaign, while continuing to threaten and
refusing to pay Nepali entrepreneurs, by Tsering D
Gurung and Pranaya SJB Rana (kp 21/12/2018)
Ex-UN
official in Nepal to discuss transitional justice issues,
by Binod Ghimire and Anil Giri (kp 21/12/2018)
Fake
gold business on the rise in Kathmandu Valley (rep
21/12/2018)
Cops
raid illegal brewing outlets, seize 79,054 litres of
bootleg liquor (ht 21/12/2018)
Students
vandalise far western campus (kp 20/12/2018)
Rape,
murder convict of minor gets Life sentence (kp
20/12/2018), Timely
verdict;
While the provision of life sentence till death will act
as deterrence the judicial system also needs to impart
justice prudently (ht 21/12/2018)
7-year-old
raped (kp 19/12/2018)
Locked
up mentally ill woman rescued (ht 19/12/2018)
Combating
trafficking:
There are no urban centers, in and outside Nepal, where
Nepali women and girls may not have been forcibly
trafficked, by Nilam Sangroula (rep 19/12/2018)
Playing
politics
with justice: The proposed high-level political
mechanism is believed to be yet another strategy to
award immunity to perpetrators of serious crimes
committed during conflict-era, by Charan Prasai (rep
19/12/2018)
Smugglers’
attack
injures three cops: Fuel price is about Rs 20 more per
litre in India than in Nepal, hence fuel smugglers have
been active in the border area (kp 19/12/2018)
TRC
still clueless about Rolpa house massacre, by Dinesh
Subedi (rep 18/12/2018)
Rape
cases double in Dang, by Devendra Basnet (rep
18/12/2018)
Woman
murdered in Tokha; police arrest four suspects, by
Samuel Chettri (kp 18/12/2018)
Nirmala
rape, murder: Cops yet to release DNA test results of
suspects held recently, by Anita Shrestha (ht
17/12/2018), Nirmala
murder case: Mother files case against police for
destroying proof, by Bhawani Bhatta (kp 18/12/2018),
Police
register plaints on cover-up, coercion, by Bhawani
Bhatta (kp 19/12/2018), Nirmala’s
mother files complaint against 8 cops for ‘destroying
evidence’, by Dil Bahadur Chhatyal (rep 19/12/2018),
Relatives
protest for release of two ‘suspects’, by Bhawan
Bhatta (kp 20/12/2018), Police
searching for other evidences after failed DNA test,
by Dil Bahadur Chhatyal (rep 20/12/2018), Chaudhary
and Rawal are still major suspects: Police say DNA test
results alone not the basis for investigation, by
Nayak Paudel (kp 21/12/2018)
Nepalis
held
with 33kg gold in Kolkata: Sharma and Prasad are accused
by a high-level team formed to investigate into the gold
smuggling racket, by Nayak Paudel (kp 16/12/2018), Officials
say 33kg gold seized from 2 Nepalis in Kolkata could be
that 'lost' from TIA, by Biken K Dawadi (rep
16/12/2018), Police
unsure if gold seized in India is the same that went
missing from Nepal, by Biken K Dawadi (rep
22/12/2018)
Teenager
found hanging inside NC leader’s house, by Maheshwar
Chamling Rai (rep 16/12/2018)
Trafficking
of women to Gulf countries on the rise (ht
16/12/2018)
Girl
disowned by in-laws for being Dalit, husband out of
contact since months, by Jitendra Kumar Jha (rep
16/12/2018)
Bus
committees get more time to register as company, by
Chandan Kumar Mandal (kp 16/12/2018)
Ten
arrested for cow slaughter (kp 16/12/2018) [?????]
Civil
society group protests transitional justice junket,
by Binod Ghimire (kp 15/12/2018), Disgruntled
group
calls on Swiss to stand firm on int’l standards: In the
memorandum, the dissident group has appealed to the
United Nations and Switzerland to stand consistently for
ending impunity and fulfillment of the victims’ right to
truth, justice and reparations (rep 15/12/2018)
Women
still reluctant to register complaints against domestic
violence (ht 15/12/2018)
Oil
theft persists despite advanced locking system, by
Rajesh Khanal (kp 15/12/2018)
Four
arrested for attacking police, vandalizing police
station, by Mohan Gurung (rep 15/12/2018)
SC
lets
Manange appeal against conviction: Decision means
appellate court verdict against him not final; He can
get ourt of jail if court allows him to post bail,
by Ram Kumar Kamat (ht 15/12/2018) [???]
Another
key accused in 33kg gold smuggling case gets bail,
by Nayak Paudel (kp 14/12/2018) [??]
Police
arrest two suspects in Godamchaur rape case, by
Biken K Dawadi (rep 13/12/2018) [after more than one
year!]
Army
deserter turned Maoist rebel serving life term:
Implicated in surrendering army weapons to rebels,
by Prakash Timalsina (rep 13/12/2018) [But
the one who received the arms is now officer in the army
and those who commanded the rebels and their army are
now sitting in leading positions of the government!]
Abducted
Indian boy rescued from Damak, Jhapa, by Arjun
Rajbanshi (kp 13/12/2018)
Watch
your words: Online harassment is an epidemic that needs
to be addressed more seriously (kp 13/12/2018)
Mystery
surrounds the death of a Bardiya teen, by Kamal
Panthi (kp 11/12/2018)
Laws
are not enough: A complaint panel should be formed to
deal with sexual harassment in organisations, by
Dinesh Pant (kp 11/12/2018)
More
girls being exposed to Facebook abuse, by Ujjwal
Satyal (ht 11/12/2018)
Gold
smugglers use Malagadhi route after police crackdown,
by Balram Ghimire (kp 11/12/2018)
Suspected
robber killed in police shootout, by Pradeep
Menyangbo (kp 11/12/2018)
Twist
in Nirmala murder case as new arrests don’t relate,
by Chitranga Thapa and Bhawani Bhatta (kp 10/12/2018), Women
activists stage protest with blindfolds demanding
justice for Nirmala, by Dil Bahadur Chhatyal (rep
10/12/2018), Nirmala
case remains unsolved: PM Oli (rep 11/12/2018), Relatives
of
new ‘suspects’ protest: Citizen Struggle forum
Co-ordinator says the authorities have framed innocent
people to protect the real culprits, by Mohan
Budhair and Bhawani Bhatta (kp 12/12/2018)
Reporting
of VAW cases up after operation of helpline service
(rep 10/12/2018)
Two
minors raped in the last 72 hours, by Amrita Anmol
and Birendra KC (kp 09/12/2018)
Police
arrest
rehab centre owner for torturing inmates: Thirteen out
of the 34 inmates fled the rehabilitation centre
and reported to the police the torture they
endured there (kp 08/12/2018)
Police
open fire to arrest ex-con robbery-accused (rep
08/12/2018)
Two
convicted of rape attempt (rep 08/12/2018)
Extortion
to cost cabbies six-month licence suspension (ht
08/12/2018)
Transitional
justice: There’s no confusion, says Law Minister Dhakal
(ht 08/12/2018)
With
new arrest, police say they will crack Nirmala murder
case soon, by Nayak Paudel (kp 07/12/2018)
CK
Raut remanded to judicial custody, by Shiva Puri (kp
07/12/2018)
Rape
victims in Jumla settle cases fearing social stigma,
by DB Budha (rep 06/12/2018)
Kidnapping
cases up by 29%, by Biken K Dawadi (rep 05/12/2018)
83
pc of missing persons are women or children, by
Shuvam Dhungana (rep 05/12/2018), Where
are missing women and children? (rep 06/12/2018)
India
becoming safe haven for criminals from Nepal, by
Mithilesh Yadav (rep 05/12/2018)
Transitional
justice bodies prepare to go as term sees end, by
Binod Ghimire (kp 04/12/2018), CIEDP
refutes CVCP’s charge (ht 04/12/2018)
New
law set to seize assets of fugitive casino owners,
by Sangam Prasain (kp 04/12/2018)
Rights
activists in fresh protest demanding justice for Nirmala,
by Bhawani Bhatta (kp 04/12/2018)
Police
claim Sethi is the culprit in Thapa murder case, by
Dil Bahadur Chhatyal (rep 04/12/2018)
Nirmala
rape and murder: SP, inspector appeal for lost jobs,
by Nayak Paudel (kp 03/12/2018)
Madhesi
Muslims ‘do not report sexual crimes by male in-laws’
(kp 02/12/2018), Muslim
women facing sexual abuse by family members, fail to
raise voice (ht 02/12/2018)
Injured
conflict victim neglected by state: He has got no
justice even after a court verdict in his favor, by
Sabita Shrestha (rep 02/12/2018)
11
murders in Sunsari in four months, by Amar Khadka
(rep 02/12/2018)
Police
detain activists for pasting Nirmala posters, by
Bhawani Bhatta and Nayak Paudel (kp 01/12/2018) [The
Oli government as veto players with respect to rule of
law, justice and human rights!!], Police
disrupt peaceful protest: Arrest 12 persons for pasting
posters featuring Nirmala (ht 01/12/2018), Hundreds
rally for justice in Nirmala case (rep 02/12/2018),
Protesters
defy police warning (ht 02/12/2018)
Rise
in incidents of murder, abduction has NHRC worried
(ht 01/12/2018)
Special
rapporteur: Nirmala murder is a test case for Nepal,
by Tsering D Gurung (kp 30/11/2018), UN
official concerned about delay in providing justice to
Nirmala Panta (ht 30/11/2018), Justice
delayed and denied: Quest for truth and justice in
daughter’s murder has driven Nirmala’s father to
insanity, by Sewa Bhattarai (nt 30/11/2018)
Abducted
8-yr-old boy found murdered, man arrested, by Shuvam
Dhungana (rep 30/11/2018)
The
ageing warriors: Betrayed by the state and the parties,
it’s an endless wait for justice for the victims, by
Ram Kumar Bhandari (kp 29/11/2018)
3
arrested for allegedly raping a 22-year-old in Thamel,
by Biken K Dawadi (rep 29/11/2018)
Nirmala's
sisters fear sleeping at home in absence of mother,
by Dil BahadurChhatyal and Rajendra Bhatta (rep
29/11/2018)
Two
girls found dead in Lukla hotel (kp 28/11/2018)
6
rape cases a day in first quarter of fiscal year, by
Ashok Dahal (rep 28/11/2018)
At
home, women face worst form of violence (kp
27/11/2018)
Transitional
Justice: Leaders attend Bangkok gathering (ht
27/11/2018)
Those
littering in KMC may face up to 3 months in jail or Rs 100,000
fine, by Shuvam Dhungana (rep 27/11/2018)
Peace
by peace: Nepal requires a bottom-up, intentional and
integrated approach to peace, by Rajendra Senchurey
(kp 26/11/2018)
Movement
against
rape: When rapes happen, it is not the abuser who is
punished, rather victims are blamed, and they may even
be ostracized, by Pratap Sharma (rep 26/11/2018)
A
commitment to all women. This article was written by
the male heads of the following organisations: UNDP,
UNICEF, UNOPS, IOM, ILO, UN HABITAD, UNRCPD, FAO, WHO
UNODC, UNCDF and UNESCO (kp 26/11/2018)
Video
of police manhandling Birgunj women sparks outrage,
by Tsering D Gurung (kp 26/11/2018)
Proposed
political mechanism may derail ongoing progress: TJ
officials (rep 25/11/2018)
Nirmala’s
father
barred from flying to Capital: Yagya Raj, who has been
protesting for weeks demanding justice for the rape and
murder of his teenage daughter, shows signs of mental
illness, by Bhawani Bhatta (kp 25/11/2018) [????],
Nirmala’s
father brought to Kathmandu, doctors say no signs of
mental illness, by Nayak Paudel (kp 26/11/2018) [!!!!]
Kapilvastu
man shot dead; locals protest lax security, by Manoj
Paudel (kp 25/11/2018)
Body
of Madhesi activist who died in police custody lingers
in morgue, by Chandan Kumar Mandal (kp 22/11/2018),
Duhabi
residents protest over Hussein’s murder (kp
23/11/2018)
Police
record nine rapeS in four months in Bouddha (kp
22/11/2018)
Police
arrest rape accused In Delhi, by Ramesh Kumar Paudel
(kp 22/11/2018)
Duhabi
tense after NEA employee shot dead, by Deo Narayan
Sah and Pradeep Menyangbo (kp 22/11/2018)
12
years
on, political leadership still dithers on transitional
justice: As two commissions waste three years, leading
parties have been accused of attempting to tire the
victims, by Binod Ghimire (kp 21/11/2018) [Political
leaders who share responsibility for the crimes in one
or other way will never be interested to provide
justice!]
Woman,
73, tortured over witchcraft allegation, by Harihar
Singh Rathour (kp 20/11/2018)
Part
of the problem: As #MeToo gains prominence in Nepal, men
must check their privilege, by Bikash Gupta (kp
20/11/2018)
Civil
right
activists call for proper investigation: Thousands of
people, who suffered at the hands of state security
forces and the Maoist insurgents have largely been
deprived of justice (kp 19/11/2018)
Nirmala’s
unsolved case: The case has stirred the public and
revealed the state’s disregard towards the law, by
Udayan Regmi (kp 18/11/2018)
27-year-old
man found murdered, by Mohan Budhair (kp 18/11/2018)
VAW,
A Henious Crime, by D.M. Thapa (rn 17/11/2018)
DNA
of 4 more suspects fails to match, by Dil Bahadur
Chhatyal (rep 17/11/2018)
Swiss
bankroll
leaders’ Bangkok junket: Second-rung leaders from the
major parties will spend six days discussing
transitional justice, by Binod Ghimire (kp
16/11/2018) [??], Conflict
victims, Army officials will join Bangkok junket, by
Binod Ghimire (kp 17/11/2018)
Pipe
bomb terror at busy Nepalgunj thoroughfare, by
Thakur Singh Thakur (kp 16/11/2018), Police arrest one man
in Nepalgunj for placing bomb, by Thakur Singh Tharu (kp
17/11/2018)
Proposal
on political quick fix for transitional justice draws
flak (rep 15/11/2018), Give
me some truth: The government has disregarded the courts
and lied with regard to transitional justice, by Ram
Kumar Bhandari (kp 15/11/2018)
Agriculture
and Forestry University vandalised (kp 15/11/2018),
Agriculture
and Forestry University in Chitwan vandalised, set
ablaze (ht 15/11/2018)
Bajura
becoming safe haven for poachers, herb smugglers (ht
15/11/2018)
Elusive
justice: Why have we let singular narratives define
victimhood?, by Varsha Gyawali (kp 14/11/2018)
Ward
official held over witchcraft allegation, by Amrita
Anmol (kp 14/11/2018)
Man
assaults sister, nieces in Taplejung, by Ananda
Gautam (kp 14/11/2018)
Theft
cases double during Tihar, suicides down by 40 percent,
by Bikan K Dawadi (rep 14/11/2018)
Conflict
victims work on demand paper to press for justice,
by Binod Ghimire (kp 13/11/2018)
Two
men killed their wives in two days (ht 13/11/2018)
Man
arrested for raping daughter in Morang (ht
13/11/2018)
11-year-old
defiled, two Indian teens held (ht 13/11/2018)
Seven
men gang-rape two girls in Lahan, by Bharat
Jarghamagar (kp 12/11/2018), Woman,
teenage girl gang-raped (ht 12/11/2018), Two
gang raped in Siraha, police searching for accused
(rep 13/11/2018)
13-year-old
girl found dead in Udayapur, rape suspected (ht
12/11/2018), Five
held over the ‘rape and murder’ of girl, 12, by
Dilliram Khatiwada (kp 13/11/2018)
12-yo-girl
raped in Kathmandu during Tihar (ht 12/11/2018)
Cyber
crimes on the rise in Valley, by Bikan K Dawadi (rep
12/11/2018)
Three
arrested on rape charge, by Ujjwal Satyal (ht
11/11/2018)
Transitional
body Finishes study of Complaints in 55 districts
(kp 07/11/2018), Victims
urge transitional justice mechanism backed by political
parties (rep 07/11/2018)
Shaman
scorches woman with hot spatula, by Anil Bhandari
(rep 07/11/2018)
Nepal,
first S Asian country to criminalise corporal punishment
of children, by Ram Kumar Kamat (ht 06/11/2018)
Gangster
Samirman’s wife arrested: Accused of involvement in
Gauchan’s murder (ht 05/11/2018)
16-year-old
girl raped in Sunsari, by Pradeep Menyangbo (kp
01/11/2018)
Impunity
must end: Judicial punishment is the only remedy and
hope for breaking the chain of impunity, by Mohna
Ansari (kp 31/10/2018), Can
“sorry”
lead to lasting peace? Without an admission that
violence may not have been necessary, there can be no
repentance or apology and, therefore, no reconciliation,
by Bishal Thapa (rep 31/10/2018)
One
dead, seven hurt in clash between party cadres, by
Om Prakash Thakur (kp 31/10/2018), Family
refuses to receive body, NC warns of protest, by Om
Prakash Thakur (kp 01/11/2018), Men
from two Sarlahi villages flee homes fearing reprisal
attacks, by Tanka Chhetri (kp 05/11/2018)
Dr
Shrestha jailed in illegal property case (kp
31/10/2018)
3
arrested in connection with Gauchan's murder (rep
30/10/2018)
Ward
chairman among 5 in custody over man's disappearance
(rep 28/10/2018)
Three
months
on, no headway in Nirmala rape, murder probe:
Investigations remain fruitless while sacked police
officers retain the chance of working at a government
office again in future, by Nayak Paudel (kp
27/10/2018), Not
enough:
Shifting narratives and sacking of two cops are the only
things that have been seen in government’s ‘efforts’ to
nab the culprits in Nirmala rape and murder (ht
29/10/2018), Nirmala’s
parents
demand punitive action against Bista and Bhatta: Say
terminating Bista and Bhatta from police service alone
is not enough punishment for what they did,
by Bhawani Bhatta (kp 30/10/2018), DNA
samples of four persons sent for test (ht
31/10/2018), 100
days and still no justice, by Arpan Shrestha and Nayak
Paudel (kp 02/11/2018)
Two
accused of murder make dramatic escape from
custody, by Hari Adhikari (ht 27/10/2018)
Murder
convict arrested after 29 years, sent to jail (ht
27/10/2018)
Intimate
partner violence: Lack of laws and weak implementation
forces young people to suffer in silence, by
Jesselina Rana (kp 26/10/2018)
Transitional
justice:
Act amendment process snail-pacedLaw ministry plans to
finalise draft before the start of winter session of
Parliament, by Roshan S Nepal (rep 26/10/2018)
Man
held on charge of attempted rape (ht 26/10/2018)
Elderly
woman force-fed excreta over minor dispute (ht
25/10/2018), Assault
on elderly: Three arrested (kp 26/10/2018)
‘Most
wanted’ foreign employment fraud held (ht 25/10/2018)
Boy,
12, rapes girl, 3, in Kanchanpur (kp 23/10/2018)
Another
minor raped in Bhimdattanagar-2, Kanchanpur (ht
23/10/2018)
Youth
arrested on charge of raping a 7 y/o girl (ht
23/10/2018)
Child
murder suspect held near Nepal-India border (kp
23/10/2018)
Transitional
justice: Ministry consults top leaders on law revision,
by Binod Ghimire (kp 23/10/2018)
Man
rapes 7-year-old girl (kp 22/10/2018)
Nirmala
rape and murder case: Process begins to sack suspended
police officers, by Nayak Paudel (kp 22/10/2018), Fire
negligent police officers, NP headquarters recommends
(ht 22/10/2018), Suspended
SP, inspector yet to furnish clarification (ht
23/10/2018)
Police
bust fake currency racket (kp 22/10/2018)
Father
murders two sons, commits suicide, by Laxmi Sah and
Pawan Yadaw (kp 22/10/2018)
Abducted
5-year-old found dead in Bara, by Laxmi Sah and
Pawan Yadaw (kp 15/10/2018)
Anti
Money Laundering Efforts, by Ujwal Raj Gautam (rn
15/10/2018)
Dashain
brings tears to families of disappeared migrant workers,
by Sarita Shrestha (rep 15/10/2018)
Cuffs
for 90 property crime suspects in five days (ht
15/10/2018)
10-year-old
girl raped, murdered in Dhanusha (kp 14/10/2018)
Officers
involved in Nirmala’s case under probe, by Bhawani
Bhatta (kp 14/10/2018)
Fourteen-year-old
girl raped in Saptari (ht 13/10/2018)
Border
police seize trucks loaded with illegal goods, by
Bhushan Yadav (kp 13/10/2018)
Experts
emphasize sex education to minimize sexual crimes,
by Biken K Dawadi (13/10/2018)
Fed
up of harassment, Nepali women go online to share #MeToo
stories, by Pranaya Shamsher JB Rana (kp 12/10/2018)
Teenager
gang-raped (ht 12/10/2018)
Two
men rape 13-year-old girl (ht 12/10/2018)
Two
doctors suspended for preparing false medical report of
rape victim, by Ujjwal Satyal (ht 12/10/2018)
Four
rapes in a week (kp 12/10/2018)
Eight
Nepali women rescued from Delhi (ht 12/10/2018)
Man,
21, dies in Rajbiraj gang attack (kp 12/10/2018)
Degrading
Law And Order Situation, by Uttam Maharjan (rn
11/10/2018)
Groom
calls off wedding after finding about bride's rape,
by Kiran Man Bajracharya (rep 11/10/2018)
Ward
chairman charged with sexual misconduct (kp
10/10/2018)
Police
arrest teenager for molesting girl (kp 10/10/2018)
Call
for a singular view on war crime inquiry (kp
09/10/2018), Life
without father: Growing up in time of Maoist insurgency,
by Pratik Rimal (rep 09/10/2018)
PM's
IT consultant 'tapping' private data on people for
commercial use (rep 09/10/2018)
Report
shows
lapses in police probe: Investigation committee led by
Joint-secretary Mainali reports that authorities
destroyed vital evidence, by AnilGiri (kp
08/10/2018), Nirmala
Pant
rape and murder: Action against SP Bista soon: Ministry;
Activists say Mainali report fails to name the culprits;
Home secretary says further probe is on to find the role
of police, by Anil Giri and Arpan Shrestha (kp
09/10/2018), Police
Come Under Fire, by Narayan Upadhyay (rn 10/10/2018)
CK
Raut arrested (kp 08/10/2018)
Self-defence
camp starts in Dhangadhi, by Arjun Shah (kp
08/10/2018)
Fugitive
former Kist Bank manager Gyawali arrested, by Bibek
Subedi (kp 06/10/2018)
Student
wings demand IGP Khanal’s dismissal: Home Minister Thapa
assures releasing Mainali panel report, by Nayak
Paudel (kp 05/10/2018)
Don’t
be cruel: The authorities need to understand that the
use of torture is inhumane and illegal, by Sudeshna
Thapa (kp 05/10/2018)
Together
against
rape: Time has come to take movement for social justice
forward by bringing in political parties to stand for it,
by Hima Bista (rep 04/10/2018)
Man
rapes 74-year-old woman (kp 03/10/2018)
Speak
against
sexual harassment: There is still a silence around
talking about sexual harassment including eve teasing,
violation of personal space, prolonged staring among
others, by Nabodita Subedi (rep 01/10/2018)
Breeders
of machismo culture: Violence based on gender has much
to do with societal power structures, by Bhawana
Upadhyay (kp 01/10/2018)
Woman
assaulted by husband and in-laws for demanding
citizenship, by Adhesh Kumar Jha (kp 01/10/2018)
Party
leaders, employees harass me: Deputy Mayor (kp
01/10/2018)
As
hackers get better of government sites, officials say
full safety infeasible (kp 01/10/2018)
Conflict
victims
turn to local level for reparation: Conflict victims
seek the role of the powerful local governments in the
reparation programme, by Binod Ghimire (kp
30/09/2018)
Police
grill eight suspects in teenager’s rape (rep
30/09/2018)
Publish
probe report, urge protestors, by Bhawani Bhatta (kp
30/09/2018)
More
women report domestic violence: But layers of fear and
prejudice deter others from speaking up, by Arpan
Shrestha (kp 29/09/2018)
‘Govt
working to control violence against women’ (ht
28/09/2018) [Then start by
changing constitution and subordinate laws to make women
independent and equal to men in each and every respect!]
Custody
death of Ram Manohar Yadav: Family decries non-consented
autopsy, by Chandan Kumar Mandal (kp 28/09/2018)
Daughter
Slaughter: More unspeakable crimes against women drown
Nepal in sorrow, by Monika Deupala (nt 28/09/2018)
Missing
boy, 10, found dead in forest (kp 28/09/2018)
Criminals
without
borders: Openness in trade has created economic growth
but also spread transnational crime; Implementing a
limited regulated border monitoring system without
hindering our historical, geo-political, social,
religious and economic ties will be the relevant
approach to combat trans-national crime, by Kishor
Kumar Lama (kp 28/09/2018)
Burning
shame: Gender-based violence flourishes because of a
misogynistic society (kp 27/09/2018)
The
price
of justice: With effectual and reliable investigation
mechanisms in place, cases like Nirmala Pant’s would be
a lot less in number, by Sakun Bhandari (kp
27/09/2018)
Dolakha
police
start ‘fight back campaign’ in schools: Police in
Dolakha plan to empower school girls through awareness
on sexual harrassment and self defence training, by
Rajendra Manandhar (kp 27/09/2018)
Another
woman attacked with acid and stabbed; condition critical,
by Ramesh Kumar Paudel and Nabin Paudel (kp 26/09/2018), Neighbor
pours acid on woman, inflicts stab wounds, by Sabita
Shrestha (rep 26/09/2018), Nawalparasi
acid victim regains consciousness (rep 27/09/2018)
10-year-old
raped, murdered (kp 26/09/2018), Suspect
in net, by Deepak Pariyar (kp 27/09/2018), 27-yr-old
man held over rape and murder of child, by Bishan
Chettri (rep 27/09/2018)
Girl,
13, raped (kp 26/09/2018)
Kanchanpur
probe report in (kp 26/09/2018), Probe
panel report kept under wraps (ht 26/09/2018), Activists
call on govt to make report public (kp 26/09/2018),
Make
report
public: Any move to cloak the report on Nirmala’s rape
and murder in secrecy would mean there’s a game going on
to protect the criminals (ht 26/09/2018), Thapa
links police lapses to probe delay, by Binod Ghimire
(kp 27/09/2018), Nirmala’s
father was forced to put thumbprint on backdated FIR:
Minister (rep 27/09/2018), FNJ
condemns home ministry for keeping report under wraps
(ht 27/09/2018), Investigate
cops who botched up probe: HURON (ht 28/09/2018), DNA
test spares police officer, two more suspects, by
Bhawani Bhatta (kp 01/10/2018)
Embezzlement
at Poverty Alleviation Fund: Director among nine
officials convicted (kp 26/09/2018)
For
fifth time, Supreme Court orders govt to release CPN
spokesperson (ht 26/09/2018)
CIB
arrests human trafficker (ht 26/09/2018)
3
Indians held in citizenship forgery case (kp
26/09/2018)
Damak
police arrest man for raping four-year-old girl (kp
25/08/2018)
Trials
and errors: Strengthening the foundation of the criminal
justice system is imperative for an effective justice
delivery, by Bishnuhari Marasini (kp 25/09/2018)
What
went wrong in Nirmala probe?, by Roshan Sedhaoi (rep
25/09/2018)
Nirmala
Pant rape & murder: Panel conducts polygraph test on
police officers (kp 24/09/2018)
What
was left behind: Nirmala’s legacy should be an end to
the violence and the lack of justice that has persisted
since decades, by Tejshree Thapa (kp 24/09/2018)
Man
rapes 12-year-old girl in Dharan (kp 24/09/2018)
Bara
woman found dead with slit throat, by Pawan Yadav
(kp 24/09/2018), Woman
hacked to death in Bara (rep 24/09/2018)
Four
children rescued from Jogbani (rep 24/09/2018)
15,875
kids reported missing in nine years: Untraced rate
higher; Girls more vulnerable (ht 23/09/2018), Children
at
risk: Awareness at the grassroots level and strong
vigilance at border points is a must to minimise the
number of children from missing (ht 24/09/2018)
Rights
activists meet conflict victims to devise strategy
(kp 23/09/2018)
Rape
incidents
continue to go unchecked: Civil society member says some
perpetrators walked away scot-free on the back of power
and money, by Bhawani Bhatta (kp 23/09/2018)
Zonal
hospital tense after infant’s death (kp 23/09/2018),
Locals
vandalise Sagarmatha zonal hospital over child’s death
(ht 23/09/2018)
Ministry
forms high-level team to investigate Ansari’s murder
(kp 22/09/2018), Alam’s
body taken to BPKIHS for autopsy, by Amar Khadka
(rep 22/09/2018), Locals
fear for their safety after Khursid murder: Locals say
police failed to nab the gunmen even as Armed Police
Force is stationed at Bhutaha and Ghuski border points,
by Deo Narayan Sah (kp 23/09/2018)
16
rape incidents reported in Rautahat in past two months
(ht 22/09/2018)
Two
doctors
accused of protecting child rapist: Two doctors at
Janakpur Zonal Hospital allegedly took bribe to alter
medical test results of rape victim (kp 22/09/2018)
‘Multi-sectoral
efforts needed to check GBV’ (ht 22/09/2018)
Two
girls raped in Rautahat (kp 21/09/2018), Two
new rape cases reported in Rautahat, by Madan Thakur
(rep 21/09/2018)
Discrimination
in compensation for rape victims, by Dil Bahadur
Chhatyal (rep 21/09/2018)
Entertainment
sector emerging as destination for trafficking girls:
NHRC (ht 21/09/2018)
Gunmen
shoot dead Sunsari man on broad daylight, by Pradeep
Menyangbo (kp 21/09/2018)
Self
defence training for teenage girls, by Nabin Paudel
(kp 20/09/2018)
15-year-old
girl raped in Baglung (kp 20/09/2018)
Whither
The Justice For Nirmala?, by Uttam Maharjan (rn
20/09/2018)
6-month
baby critical after acid attack (kp 19/09/2018), Acid-attack
baby dies, police suspect aunt, by Menuka Dhungana
(kp 20/09/2018)
Police
arrest three men on rape charge (kp 19/09/2018), Three
arrested on charge of gang rape (ht 19/09/2018)
15-year-old
girl raped in Myagdi (kp 19/09/2018)
Nepali
women being trafficked in guise of marriage, says report
(ht 19/09/2018)
Transitional
justice: Cash crunch cripples CIEDP, TRC functioning,
by Roshan S Nepal (ht 19/09/2018)
Dang
brutal
for women if the charge is witchery: Mostly, illiterate
women with weak financial status are accused of
witchcraft, they are beaten up and even murdered, by
Devendra Basnet (rep 19/09/2018)
Social
security allowance misused in Rautahat: Money disbursed
in the names of persons long dead (ht 19/09/2018)
Police
gone wild: Cops are brutalising the people they have
sworn to serve (kp 19/09/2018)
Eight
underage girls raped in two months: Family members,
acquaintances involved, by Damodar Bhandari (ht
18/09/2018)
Out
of
cash, transitional justice bodies sit idle: Five months
before the end of tenure, two commissions have their
whole investigations pending, by Binod Ghimire (kp
18/09/2018)
Beyond
the law: The rape and murder case of Nirmala Pant makes
a mockery of the rule of law, by Shreya Paudel (kp
18/09/2018)
Teen
girl’s life hangs by a thread after acid attack, by
Chandan Kumar Mandal (kp 17/09/2018), Acid
attack victims being treated (ht 17/09/2018), Suitor
attacked sisters with acid ‘after older girl spurned him’,
by Shiva Puri (kp 20/09/2018), Acid
attack victim Samjhana in critical condition (ht
23/09/2018), Harmful
chemicals law not enacted despite SC order, by Ram
Kumar Kamat (ht 23/09/2018), Rautahat
acid attack victim loses battle for life, by Chandan
KumarMandal (kp 25/09/2018), Dad
calls for stern action after acid attack victim dies,
by Biken K Dawadi (rep 25/09/2018)
Man
accused of killing wife in Kailali (ht 17/09/2018)
Man
arrested for raping two minors (kp 16/09/2018)
Nine
months on, Lalitpur gang rape victim still awaiting
justice, by Diya Dhakal (rep 16/09/2018)
Monopoly
of contractors: Contractors demolish tents after
shopkeepers refuse to pay demanded tax (rep
16/09/2018) [Under the rule of
law, nobody has the right to demolish other's property
without judicial order!]
NCB
steps up search for persons using stolen passports
(ht 16/09/2018)
Court
Frees SSP Lohani in Gold Case (kp 15/09/2018), Court
orders release of two more suspects in gold case (kp
17/09/2018)
Sirsiya
Dry Port sees surge in theft cases, by Bhushan Yadav (kp
15/09/2018)
Jha’s
murder continues to baffle cops (ht 15/09/2018), Probe
into ex-envoy Jha’s murder hits wall (kp 17/09/2018)
The
Land Grabbers, by D.M. Thapa (rn 15/09/2018)
Interpol
helping Nepal Police arrest criminals hiding in foreign
countries (ht 15/09/2018)
Two
sisters injured in Rautahat acid attack, by Shiva Puri (kp
13/09/2018)
Groups
clash in Bara after boy teases priest (kp 13/09/2018)
Cloth
store owner murdered (kp 12/09/2018)
Clash
erupts over arrest of rape accused (ht 12/09/2018), Lawmaker
offers cash to raped girl’s mother, by Shiva Puri (kp
13/09/2018)
Eleven-year-old
schoolgirl raped: She and her friend, 14, were held captive in
Kirtipur for five days by a 25-yr-old man (ht
11/09/2018)
Menstruation
sheds make a comeback in Dailekh: Despite NGOs' efforts, chhau
culture continues to get strong, by Govinda KC (rep
11/09/2018)
Principal
rents out classrooms forcing students to study under a tree,
by Suresh Yadav (rep 11/09/2018)
Trafficking
victims reluctant to file police complaint (rep
11/09/2018)
Catch
them or else: If Nepal still cannot prosecute war
crimes at home, other countries may step in, by
Clive Baldwin (kp 10/09/2018)
Krishna
Prasad’s murder case: Chitwan Distrct Court acquits 12
accused, by Ramesh Kumar Poudel (kp 10/09/2018), Justice
denied: How the state and human rights group "cheated"
Ganga Maya's quest for justice, by Anjali Subedi
(rep 10/09/2018), Chitwan
District Court acquits 12 defendants, by Sabita
Shrestha (rep 10/09/2018)
Tarun
dal head of Rolpa Municipality shot dead (rep
10/09/2018), Tarun
Dal cadres shut down Rolpa over Pun’s murder (kp
11/09/2018)
Gorkha
emerging as new smuggling route, by Narahari
Sapkota (rep 10/09/2018)
Dashain
becomes
a bargaining chip: Transport entrepreneurs refuse to
open advance bookings for the festival until government
unfreezes their bank accounts, by Sanjeev Giri and
Chandan Kumar Mandal (kp 10/09/2018) [Not
the rule of law and free market economy shall be
enforced but syndicates and corruption!?]
Girl’s
death sparks protest (kp 10/09/2018)
Two
arrested with 10 kg gold (rep 09/09/2018), ‘Seized
10kg gold was smuggled from Tibet’, by Hariram
Upreti (kp 11/09/2018)
Police
re-arrest Bhujel from court (kp 08/09/2018) [Deliberate
disregard for the rule of law! The government obviously
thinks to have inherited absolute rights from the former
king!]
Locals
demand their land back from army: Land used by locals
since 1938 was encroached by the army in 1972, by
Puskar Bhandari (rep 08/09/2018)
12
people held in forgery case (kp 07/09/2018)
Kanchanpur
rape
and murder case: Rights body points at flawed
investigation; NHRC Spokesperson Mohna Ansari says
mishandling and possible destruction of evidences is a
major oversight (kp 07/09/2018), ‘Serious
dereliction of duty by police has complicated probe’
(kp 08/09/2018), IGP
admits to lapses in Nirmala rape-murder probe, by
Rajendra Bhatta (rep 08/09/2018), Accused
Bista brought back after medical tests (kp
09/09/2018), Court
extends Bista’s judicial remand, by Bhawani Bhatta
(kp 10/09/2018), Probe
committee member resigns, by Bhawani Bhatta (kp
11/09/2018), 47
days on, police nowhere close to Nirmala's murderers
(rep 11/09/2018), Bista,
Bam sisters released: Suspect’s DNA fails to match
sample taken from 13-year-old rape and murder victim,
by Bhawani Bhatta (kp 12/09/2018) [This
shoiuld have been proved for long!], Opposition
on warpath after panelist quits over threats (kp
12/09/2018), Mentally
unstable Bista released after DNA failed to match,
by Dil Bahadur Chhatyal (rep 12/09/2018), 48
days of national shame: Where is our govt? (rep
12/09/2018), Release
of 3 suspects ‘narrows case’, by Chitranga Thapa and
Bhawani Bhatta (kp 13/09/2018), KC
does U-turn, returns to probe panel (kp 13/09/2018),
No
justice, no peace Police incompetence is turning the
tragic Nirmala Panta case into a farce (kp
13/09/2018), Police
take blood samples of three suspects for DNA tests,
by Chandan Kumar Mandal (kp 14/09/2018), Suspended
SP Bista has a chequered past (kp 14/09/2018), Family
mourns,
and a country recoils: The rape and murder of Nirmala
Pant and the failure of law enforcement to diligently
investigate the perpetrators have angered and stunned
Nepalisacross the country. Now the 13-year-old girl’s
parents say they are starting to lose hope , by
Tsering D. Gurung (kp 15/09/2018), Nationwide
protests today in support of Nirmala (rep
15/09/2018), #JusticeForNirmala
calls
get louder: People from all walks of life join protests
across the country; Police say DNA analysis will take
‘two weeks’ to complete, by Arpan Shrestha and Nayak
Paudel (kp 16/09/2018), Five
police officers suspended (kp 16/09/2018),
Five
police officers suspended (kp 16/09/2018), Mum’s
not the word: The usually voluble PM’s reticence
pertaining to the Nirmala Pant case is unacceptable,
by Avasna Pandey (kp 16/092019), New
team to scan officers for faulty investigation (kp
17/09/2018), 53
days, 6 committees, guilty still at large (rep
17/09/2018), Why
did police ‘destroy’ evidence?, by Dil Bahadur
Chhatyal (rep 17/07/2018), Nirmala’s
parents knock on PM’s door for justice, by Tika R
Pradhan (kp 18/09/2018), Basnyat
panel grills police officials (kp 18/09/2018), Investigators
still ‘clueless’, by Chitranga Thapa and Bhawani
Bhatta (kp 18/09/2018), State
government draws flak over inaction (kp 18/09/2018),
Nirmala’s
parents, rights activists ‘humiliated’ at PM’s residence
(ht 18/09/2018)
347
women,
children missing from Makwanpur: Report; Officials say
in many cases missing women and children have been found
living in foreign countries as illegal migrants, by
Pratap Bista (kp 07/09/2018)
Over
200 women, children rescued in three years (kp
06/09/2018)
Toothless
tigers: Conflict victims are not fully convinced by the
truth and disappearance commissions, by Ram Dakal
Rakesh (kp 06/09/2018)
C
stresses criminal liability for serious medical
negligence, by Ananta Raj Luitel (rep 06/09/2018)
Police
clueless about 7-year-old double murder, by Kamal
Panthi (kp 05/09/2018)
Unite
against
rape: Rather than the victims, rapists should be
persecuted, ostracized and humiliated. Survivors need
support both from the state and the society, by
Sapana Phuyal (rep 05/09/2018)
SC
orders Home Ministry to release Bishwokarma (kp
04/09/2018), Maoist
leader Bishwokarma taken to Bhojpur (kp 05/09/2018),
SC
takes strong exception to Bishwakarma’s repeated arrests
(rep 05/09/2018)
Three
suspects held for rape of teenage girl, by Arjun
Rajbanshi (kp 04/09/2018)
Free
Madhes
activist dies in police custody: Claims of police,
victim’s side differ: Yadav’s neighbour says he died on
way to hospital while officials say doctors declared him
dead in Kathmandu, by Chandal Kumar Mandal and Kamal
Panthi (kp 03/09/2018), Relatives
of CK Raut's supporter who died in police custody
suspect murder, by Nirmal Ghimire (rep 03/09/2018),
Custody
death: Yadav’s family suspects torture, demands probe;
Victim’s mother says they were only informed about his
death, questioning why police had not told them earlier
if he was ill, by Thakur Singh Tharu and Kamal
Panthi (kp 04/09/2018)
Woman
suffers burn injuries in husband’s attack, by Arjun
Rajbanshi (kp 03/09/2018)
Activists
unhappy with president’s ‘silence’ on rape cases
(rep 03/09/2018)
Traffickers
on Interpol watch list arrested (ht 03/09/2018)
Indian
arrested with fake citizenship, DAO under scanner,
by Jitendra Kumar Jha (kp 03/09/2018)
Woman
murdered
on witchcraft charge: Tanki killed her mother-in-law
after local shamans told her that Khopi made her fall
ill by practicing witchcraft, by Durgalal KC (kp
02/09/2018), Woman
kills mother-in-law accusing her of witchcraft, by
Devendra Basnet (rep 02/09/2018)
Another
teenager raped in Kanchanpur, by Rajendra Bhatta
(rep 01/09/2018), One
held on charge of raping 15-year-old girl (kp
02/09/2018)
Why
were our kin disappeared? Killed? Conflict victims’
families, by Bhim Chapagain (rep 02/08/2018)
Chand-led
CPN collects Rs 77 million in donations (ht
02/09/2018)
Govt
discriminates in compensations for rape, by Dil
Bahadur Chhatyal (rep 01/09/2018)
Who
Is Responsible?, by D.M. Thapa (rn 01/09/2018)
Local
body sacks lady teacher for getting married to another
village, by Anil Bhandari (rep 01/09/2018)
Police
told to make special plan to curb violence against women
(kp 31/08/2018)
Turning
outrage into justice: Is it time for Nepali women to
also learn jiu-jitsu like the Sufragettes?, by
Sumana Shrestha (nt 31/08/2018)
Upper
Dolpa monasteries losing identity with theft of idols,
by Bishnu Prasad Devkota (rep 31/08/2018)
Gang
extorting from freed Kamaiyas held, by Yogesh Rawal
(rep 31/08/2018)
Mistaken
conviction: Contrary to popular opinion, capital
punishment will not help deter rape, by Parbishi
Mishra (kp 31/08/2018)
Kalikot
families demand whereabouts of disappeared kin, by
Pabitra Kumar Shahi (rep 31/08/2018)
Over
1,700 held in Chitwan on various charges in three months,
by Sabita Shrestha (rep 31/08/2018)
Long
wait for loved ones—and for justice: Families of
disappeared are still waiting to know the whereabouts of
their loved ones, by Binod Ghimire (kp 30/08/2018)
Six
rogues gang rape woman, 20 (kp 29/08/2018)
Yarsa
smuggling up due to lax border controls, by Krishna
Prasad Gautam and Raj Bahadur Shahi (kp 29/08/2018)
9-month-old
baby kidnapped and murdered Aurahi (kp 28/08/2018),
Infant
snatched from mother’s shop recovered dead, by
Mahesh Kumar Das (rep 28/08/2018)
Zero
tolerance against GBV: Easy to commit, difficult to
deliver, by Namrata Sharma (ht 28/08/2018)
Changing
Social Psychology Of Crime, by Prem Khatry (rn
28/08/2018)
Teenage
girl raped in Capital (kp 27/08/2018)
TRC
yet to prepare reparation policy (kp 27/08/2018)
More
traders smuggling in Indian poultry, by Shiva Puri
(kp 27/08/2018)
Pokhara
girl found dead in suspicious circumstances, by
Deepak Pariyar (kp 26/08/2018), 13-year-old
schoolgirl found dead in Pokhara (ht 26/08/2018)
Woman
found buried in bush (kp 26/08/2018), Woman,
who went missing 16 days ago, found murdered, by
Mithilesh Yadav (rep 26/08/2018)
Doubling
compensation, punishment for untouchability proposed,
by Ashok Dahal (rep 26/08/2018)
Smuggling
of black pepper on the rise, by Pawan Yadav (kp
26/08/2018)
One
killed, four injured in Kanchanpur clash: Locals
question police role in rape-murder probe, by Dil
Bahadur Chhatyal (rep 25/08/2018), Kanchanpur
rape and murder: One killed, 24 injured in police-locals
clash, by Chitranga Thapa and Bhawani Bhatta (kp
25/08/2018) [The fact is that
the Nepali police have never respected life and
fundamental human rights! The highest political and administrative levels must be held
accountable for this!], Protesting
teenager killed in police firing, by Tekendra Deuba
(ht 25/08/2018), PM
Oli urged to form high-level commission (kp
25/08/2018), #JusticeforNirmala:
Justice delayed is justice denied (rep 26/08/2018),
Unequal
society:
Many tend to think that our social structure will break
down if women are empowered politically and infidelity
will increase, by David Kainee (rep
26/08/2018), Kanchanpur
in turmoil: Two suspects arrested; Indefinite curfew
since Friday, by Tekendra Deuba (ht
26/08/2018), Rally
demands #JusticeForNirmala (kp
26/08/2018), Sunny
Khuna killed while out to collected his wages, by
Pushpa Raj Joshi and Rajendra Bhatta (rep
26/08/2018), AI
Nepal tells govt to refrain from using force (ht
26/08/2018), Police
told to suspend SP Bista (kp
26/08/2018), Case
reopens under pressure, by Chitranga Thapa and
Bhawani Bhatta (kp 26/08/2018),
New
CDO says probe should have begun right after the
incident (rep 26/08/2018),
Kanchanpur
curfew remains: Police yet to quiz Bam sisters, by
Chitranga Thapa and Bhawani Bhatta (kp 27/08/2018), Kanchanpur
District Court remands Bam sisters to judicial custody,
by Chitranga Thapa and Bhawani Bhatta (kp 28/08/2018), Accused
Bista sent to Kathmandu for medical examination (kp
29/08/2018), Kanchanpur
Incident Fair Probe Is The Key, by Narayan Upadhyay
(rn 29/08/2018), 'Investigation
centered on proving innocent guilty', by Dil Bahadur
Chhatyal and Pushpa Raj Joshi (rep 29/08/2018), Chopping
of guava tree raises eyebrows, by Dil Bahadur
Chhatyal and Pushpa Raj Joshi (rep 30/08/2018), Court
extends remand of Bam sisters by a week, by Bhawani
Bhatta (kp 31/08/2018), Nirmala's
classmates write open letter to PM, by Rajendra
Bhatta (rep 01/09/2018), Investigation
delay raises suspicion, by Chitranga Thapa and
Bhawani Bhatta (kp 06/09/2018)
Top
leaders silent over alarming rise in rapes, murder,
by Ashok Dahal (rep 25/08/2018), House
endorses resolution against sexual violence, by
Binod Ghimire (kp 25/08/2018),
Parliament
unanimously passes stricture on VAW, by Jagdishor
Panday (ht 25/08/2018)
Chitwan
women rally against rape incidents (kp 25/08/2018)
Former
Maoist
child soldier barred from leaving country: Lenin Bista
says officials threatened him against raising the issue
of child combatants, by Binod Ghimire (kp
25/08/2018), TIA
immigration bars ex-child soldier from flying abroad
(rep 25/08/2018), Stop
Intimidating Citizens Government’s action against Lenin
Bista is a naked display of power (kp 27/08/2018)
Incidents
of theft on the rise in valley (ht 25/08/2018)
Crime
and punishment: Flawed and biased investigation could
send an innocent man to the gallows (kp 24/08/2018)
Atrocity
beyond words: Rape is beyond sexual lust, our rapid
modernisation is responsible too, by Hisila Yami (kp
24/08/2018), Justice
for Sale: Money, power and patriarchy allows rapists to
easily get away with their crime, by Tufan Neupane
(nt 24/08/2018), The
roots of rape: Misogyny, malevolent malehood and
impunity perpetuate rampant rape, by Kedar Sharma
(nt 24/08/2018)
IGP
stresses use of CCTVs for crime control (ht
24/08/2018)
Police
arrest Bishwokarma at SC premises (kp 24/08/2018), Police
rearrest Bishwakarma after Supreme Court orders his
release (ht 24/08/2018)
Even
elected representatives have chhaugoths at home, by
Nagendra Upadhyay (rep 23/08/2018)
Striking
fuel tanker operators to face action (kp 23/08/2018)
‘Plea
bargaining’ makes police investigation easier, by
Ramesh Khatiwada (rep 23/08/2018)
Woman
thrashed mercilessly in Siraha district (ht
23/08/2018)
Youth
murdered in Okhaldhunga (ht 23/08/2018)
Transitional
justice: Conflict victims for criminal code revision:
Say it fails to address SC verdict on enforced
disappearance, by Roshan S Nepal (ht 22/08/2018)
NHRC
concerned about spurt in rape, murder (ht
22/08/2018)
Police
arrest prime suspect in Kanchanpur rape, murder case / 7
held on rape charge, by Bhawani Bhatta (kp
21/08/2018), Man
who served nine years for murder held for raping,
killing 13-year-old girl (ht 21/08/2018), Seven
held in Chitwan for gang-raping minor girls (ht
21/08/2018), Protests
escalate after police parade ‘wrong’ rape suspect,
by Bhawani Bhatta (kp 22/08/2018), Police
‘frame’ mentally ill person in rape, murder case, by
Dil Bahadur Chhatyal and Pushparaj Joshi (rep 22/08/2018),
Clashes
and demonstrations continue in Mahendranagar, by
Chitranga Thapa and Bhawani Bhatta (kp 23/08/2018), 8
hurt as police open fire on protesters in Kanchanpur
(rep 23/08/2018), Curfew
as protests turn violent: Police firing injures four
protesters, by Chitranga Thapa and Bhawani Bhatta
(kp 24/08/2018), Lawmakers
slam use of force (kp 24/08/2018),
Kanchanpur
rape victim's parents accuse police of negligence,
by Dil Bahadur Chhatyal and Pushparaj Joshi (rep
24/08/2018), Home
Ministry forms high-level probe panel: Transfers CDO,
police chief (kp 24/08/2018), Get
the rapists: People who were demonstrating were ordinary
people who empathised with the rape and murder victim
(ht 24/08/2018)
Harsh
action sought for rape convicts (kp 21/08/2018), MPs
demand life for rape of minor, elderly or disabled: MPs
demand life for rape of minor, elderly or disabled
(rep 21/08/2018), Issues
against gender-based violence: Resolution motion fails
to make it to House discussion (kp 21/08/2018)
Anti-liquor
campaign lowers cases of domestic violence in Achham
villages, by Menuka Dhungana (kp 21/08/2018)
Ex-ambassador
Jha found murdered; 3 suspects held (kp
21/08/2018), Ex-envoy
Keshav Jha found ‘murdered’ at home, three held, by Biken K
Dawadi (rep 21/08/2018), Former
envoy Jha murdered, motive a mystery, by Ujjwal
Satyal (ht 21/08/2018), Former
ambassador Keshav Raj Jha’s murder shrouded in mystery,
by Prakash Rimal and Ujjwal Satyal (ht 22/08/2018), Investigation
likely to take time: Police (ht 23/08/2018), Daughter
files FIR (ht 23/08/2018)
Nur
Prasad fails to appear at Chitwan court; appearance
rescheduled for September 9 (kp 21/08/2018)
‘Urgent
efforts needed to protect women and girls’ (kp
20/08/2018)
Federal
units using tax money to appease party cadres, by
Dil Bahadur Chhatyal (rep 20/08/2018)
Banking
crimes rising rapidly in Valley, by Biken K Dawadi
(rep 20/08/2018)
Whereabouts
of missing women still unknown (kp 19/08/2018)
Woman
accused
of witchcraft ostracised: Radha still remains a witch in
the eyes of the villagers, though her persecutors were
exposed of their lies, by Arjun Shah (kp 18/08/2018)
Jilted
man murders girlfriend (kp 18/08/2018)
Crime
and
punishment: We will have to wait and see if our
government is serious enough to implement the laws of
the land. We all know that our lawmakers are the real
lawbreakers, by Guffadi (kp 18/08/2018)
Bishwokarma
re-arrested after court frees him (kp 18/08/2018)
Even
local representatives not spared of caste-based
discrimination, by Binod Pariyar (rep 18/08/2018)
Murder
convict arrested after 35 years (rep 18/08/2018)
Twin
girls
die after being dumped into septic tank: Police search
for 20-year-old mother as suspect; One of the infants
was found dead while the other died on her way to the
hospital, by Ananda Gautam (kp 17/08/2018),
Mother of murdered twin babies in custody (kp
18/08/2018)
Doramba
killing memorial: ‘Onus on govt to look after victims’
families’ (ht 17/08/2018)
Crime
rates soared by 25 per cent last fiscal (ht
17/08/2018)
Misuse
of state-provided housing may bring 3 yrs jail, Rs 1m
fine (rep 17/08/2018)
Law
Minister Dhakal tables Protection of Victims of Crime
Bill in National Assembly (ht 17/08/2018)
Women
workers
in entertainment sector continue to be exploited:
Forty-nine per cent of women employed in the
entertainment sector face sexual abuse (ht
16/08/2018)
Practising
untouchability
during menstruation, postpartum periods criminal
offense: Offenders can be jailed for up to three months
(Setopati 16/08/2018)
Nationwide
CPN strike ends with fake bombs and arrests, by
Nayak Paudel (kp 15/08/2018) [When
will the main instigators like Netra Bikram Chand
finally be arrested?], NA
disposes of 27 suspicious objects (rep 15/08/2018)
Harsher
punishment set for sexual harassment (ht 15/08/2018)
Cops
beat up Dalit man 'without reason' (rep 15/08/2018)
[Cops don't have the right to
beat anybody, espexcially not the downtrodden Dalits!!]
Hospital
vandalised over patient’s death (kp 14/08/2018)
Province
2 state minister surrenders to court: Freed on general
date after hearing, by Ajit Tiwari and Santosh Singh
(kp 14/08/2018), Murder-accused
Province 2 state minister released without bail, by
Mahesh Kumar Das (rep 14/08/2018) [???],
Court
releases two suspects (kp 15/08/2018), Murder-convict
mayor freed without bail, by Mahesh Kumar Das (rep
15/08/2018)
Victims
of conflict-era land transactions forced to purchase the
same land twice, by Devendra Basnet (rep 14/08/2018)
Rape
cases on the rise in Sunsari, by Amar Khadka (rep
13/08/2018)
Where
are the conflict-disappeared?, by Dinesh Subedi (rep
13/08/2018) [And in which
positions are those responsible for their
disappearances??]
Gold
smuggling probe stalls (kp 13/08/2018) [Political
denial?]
Sarlahi
becoming entry point of illegal drugs into Nepal ,
by Tanka Chhetri (rep 13/08/2018)
Explosion
outside
Biratnagar mayor’s office: Tarai Janatantrik Mukti
Morcha (Revolutionary) owns up to the attack, saying it
wanted to send out the message that its activities were
not just limited in Province 2, by Binod Bhandari
(kp 13/08/2018), 3
suspects held behind Morang blast (kp 03/09/2018)
Nirmala's
rape
and murder: Guilty yet to be booked; More than twenty
investigation teams are engaged but the outcome of the
probe continues to be nil even two weeks after the
incident, by Tekendra Deuba (ht 12/08/2018), Crime
in
Kanchanpur: Authorities must pull out all the stops to
complete a fair investigation into the rape and murder
of 13-year-old girl (ht 13/08/2018)
Court
issues arrest warrant against Prov 2 state minister
(kp 12/08/2018)
Dharan
and Itahari dumping waste recklessly, by Rohit Rai
(rep 12/08/2018)
US
clears four Army units on human rights, by Binod
Ghimire (kp 11/08/2018) [This does not excuse the fact that many secutity
forces who committed crimes at the time of insurgency
are still running free and have been promoted time and
again!]
Drug
and alcohol abuse blamed for alarming rise in rape cases
in Province 7 (ht 11/08/2018)
37
victims of gender-based violence compensated (ht
11/08/2018) [Compensation for
the victims will have no effect in the future unless the
perpetrators are severely punished!]
Conflict
victims unhappy with draft amendment to law, by Bhim
Chapagain and Giriraj Baskota (rep 11/08/2018)
The
death
of justice: n a rule of law, even mundrey dons, thulo
mancheys and common citizens are all subject to the law.
If you break the law, you must face the music, by
Guffadi (kp 11/08/2018)
Lama
sent to one year in prison for laundering money (kp
10/08/2018)
1,480
rape cases last year, 4 every day!, by Pratik Rimal
(rep 09/08/2018)
Moving
beyond
“kill all rapists”: In a deeply hierarchical society
where the most vulnerable rape victims are likely to
face aggression from police officers, baying for blood
diverts the attention from the real issue, by Abha
Lal (rep 09/08/2018)
Over
220 firms found selling unsafe goods: 41 bottled water
suppliers were found to be selling contaminated water
(kp 09/08/2018)
Chand-party
man Bishwokarma held (kp 09/08/2018),
Police
beef up vigilance against Chand-led party (rep
09/08/2018) [This has been
overdue for long!], Bishwokarma’s
son files habeas corpus petition: Police had arrested
Bishwokarma from Dakshinkali on Aug 7 (kp
13/08/2018), Present
Bishwokarma within 48 hours, apex court orders (kp
14/08/2018)
36
kidnapping cases reported in city in three years (ht
08/08/2018)
Drop
community service provision in TJ bill: NHRC to govt
(rep 08/08/2018), National
rights body slams weak penalties for war crimes, by
Binod Ghimire (kp 09/08/2018)
‘Nepal
is serious about fighting human trafficking’ (kp
08/08/2018)
Maoists
sell off lands they captured during insurgency (rep
08/08/2018)
Angry
Kanchanpur residents protest against rapes and murders
of victims (kp 07/08/2018)
Police
shoot dead killers of abducted boy in gun battle (kp
07/08/2018), Kidnappend
boy found dead, police shoot dead two suspects (rep
07/08/2018), Kidnapping
and murder in Bhaktapur (rep 07/08/2018), Questions
over police encounter weaken credibility: Experts
(rep 08/08/2018), Uphold
rule
of law: No matter how serious a case is, it is the court
of law that has the ultimate power to pronounce the
accused guilty (ht 08/08/2018), ,
NHRC
begins encounter probe: ‘Kidnappers’ families claim
killings are extrajudicial (kp 09/08/2018), Home
Minister Thapa assures probe into encounter killings
(kp 10/08/2018), Home
minister flip-flops on extrajudicial killings (kp
11/08/2018)
Province
govt opens probe into Maleth shooting (kp
07/08/2018)
Priests
carry idols away from temple to protect them from
thieves, by Mukti Prasad Neupane (rep 07/08/2018)
Police
find
out-of-contact Nur Prasad: Campaigner Ganga Maya
Adhikari had asked NHRC to find her son ‘missing’ for
four years since her husband Nanda Prasad’s death (kp
06/08/2018) [Murderers are
runnig free with highest political protection and the
brother of the victim has to hide for years"]
Rage
further against rape (rep 06/08/2018)
Man
held for rape attempt (kp 06/08/2018)
Students
vandalise medical college (ht 06/08/2018)
Shuklafanta
denies official services to Chhaupadi enforcers (kp
05/08/2018)Investigation
delay raises suspicion, by Chitranga Thapa and
Bhawani Bhatta (kp 06/09/2018)
Man
held for rape attempt in Bhimdutta (kp 05/08/2018)
Understanding
sexual
consent Shady business: There’s only one way to know for
sure if someone has given their consent: if they tell
you, by Anjam Singh (kp 05/08/2018)
Jewellery,
mobile stores, co-operatives at risk of robbery, by
Sabita Shrestha (rep 05/08/2018)
Women
in control: Breaking menstrual taboo, by Panta (kp
04/08/2018) [related to the Chhaupadi crime]
When
justice
dies: Ganga Maya will win this battle for justice. And
the victory will mark the process of healing the wounds
of conflict era, by Anjali Subedi (rep 04/08/2018)
Gold
probe team submits report: Report prepared by a task
force suspects involvement of 293 people in the gold
smuggling racket (kp 03/08/2018), Probe
report fails to track whereabouts of 33 kg gold (ht
03/08/2018)
How
does the Nepali media cover rape?, by Bhrikuti Rai
(nt 03/08/2018)
Court
orders arrest of Province 2 State Minister, other
accused in ASI’s murder, by Suresh Yadav and Madhesh
Das (rep 03/08/2018) [This is
not so much a problem between central and provincial
governments as the general problem of the political
parties holding on to criminal elements!], High
Court issues letter to arrest Thaman murder accused
state minister, mayor (kp 04/08/2018)
Man
rapes 7-year-old girl (kp 02/08/2018)
PHC
member ‘receives death threat’ (rep 02/08/2018), PHC
member Niru Pal issued death threat, by Ram Kumar
Kamat (ht 02/08/2018), Thapa
says attack on Pal a political crime (kp
03/08/2018), Police
arrest 82 suspects for threatening NCP lawmaker (kp
03/08/2018)
Janakpur
High Court issues mandamus: State minister, lawmaker and
mayor among 28 accused of killing police officer Thaman,
by Ajit Tiwari and Santosh Singh (kp 02/08/2018)
More
Nepali women rescued from Delhi, by Rewati Sapkota
(ht 02/08/2018)
No
country for women: The number of reported rape cases has
jumped 256 percent in the past decade (kp
01/08/2018)
Police
Efficiency and Crime Control, by Narayan Upadhyay
(rn 01/08/2018)
Family
murdered by close relatives, by Abdhesh Kumar Jha
(kp 01/08/2018), Sibling,
sister-in-law involved, says police (ht 01/08/2018)
NCB
nabs ‘most-wanted’ drug smuggler, seizes 7,120 tablets
of yaba (ht 01/08/2018)
Two
Chand-led NCP cadres held for arson at crusher industry
(ht 01/08/2018)
Govt
moves to clamp down on helicopter rescue scam, by
Sangam Prasain (kp 31/07/2018), Taskforce
finds organized crime in heli-rescue scam: Refuses to
name guilty trekking companies,hospitals, helicopter
operators (rep 31/07/2018)
Drug
smuggling network from border to Kathmandu, by
Mithilesh Yadav (rep 31/07/2018)
Police
arrest five men in kidney racket case (kp
30/07/2018)
Two
APF constables held on rape charge (ht 30/07/2018)
CIEDP
completes
first-phase probe in 39 districts: Conflict victims ask
how long they will take to complete complex tasks such
as taking statements, excavation and exhumation (ht
30/07/2018)
The
revolutionary and the lawyer: The Maoists grapple with
demands to hold them accountable for violence of the
conflict, by Aditya Adhikari (The Record 30/07/2018)
Women
helpless in 'chhaugoths' out of fear of deity, by
Janak KC (rep 29/07/2018)
Office
bearers and employees divided over Jumla incident ,
by DB Budha (rep 29/07/2018)
Two
girls missing since 12 days (rep 29/07/2018)
Girl,
13, raped and killed in Nimbukheda (kp 28/07/2018),
Kanchanpur
tense after girl’s rape, murder, by Bhawani Bhatta
(kp 29/07/2018), Teenager
raped and killed in Kanchanpur, by Dil Bahadur
Vhhatyal (rep 29/07/2018), Nirmala’s
kin refuse to receive her body; demand justice, by
Bhawani Bhatta (kp 30/07/2018), Province
MPs concerned about gruesome crime (kp 30/07/2018),
Family
coerced into cremating Nirmala: Girl’s father
Yagya Raj says he was threatened with criminal charge if
protest became violent; CDO Khadka says family agreed to
receive the 13-year-old’s body after authorities vowed
to prosecute the guilty, by Bhawani Bhatta (kp
31/07/2018), Nirmala’s
kin not happy with probe (kp 03/08/2018)
Prasai
faces
slander charge: Prasai’s had suggested that Nepali
female medical students in Bangladesh were sleeping with
their professors to get degrees (kp 27/07/2018), MPs
want Prasai punished (kp 28/07/2018), NC
lawmakers seek action against Prasai (ht 30/07/2018)
11
murder accused sent to judicial custody in Rautahat
(ht 28/07/2018)
One
more on Interpol watch arrested (ht 28/07/2018)
Save
our
girls: Women in Nepal are advancing careers, breaking
boundaries and fighting so many intrinsic social evils.
But what do we lack so much to stop Chhaupadi?, by
Sweta Gyanu Baniya (rep 26/07/2018)
16
Nepali women rescued from Delhi, by Suresh Raj
Neupane (kp 26/07/2018)
More
than 150 Nepali women feared caughtin trafficking racket,
by Kamal Panthi (kp 26/07/2018)
84pc
success
in money laundering cases: Ex-chairman of Special Court
Gauri Bahadur Karki says the court has been more lenient
towards politically connected ‘Dons’ , by Prithvi
Man Shrestha (kp 25/07/2018)
Government
grants Rs10m in cash relief to Ganga Maya (kp
25/07/2018) [Money does not mean
justice as long as the murderers are set free and
promoted!!]
Two
Frenchmen arrested over pedophilia charges, by Diya
Dhakal (rep 25/07/2018)
Woman,
69, murdered for refusing sex (kp 24/07/2018)
RJPN
picks absconding murder- accused as state minister
(rep 24/07/2018) (related to Province 2) [????
His arrest has already been ordered by the SC!]
Minister
Tamang faces public outrage (kp 23/07/2018), Sorry
says minister (kp 23/07/2018), Watch
your language: Law Minister Tamang’s comments about
Nepali girls studying MBBS are unseemly (kp) [Tamang's statement reflects the way
many Nepalese men think about women! It disqualifies him
as a minister!], Minister
quits over controversial remarks (kp 25/07/2018)
Thousands
rally in support of Dr KC, by Nayak Paudel (kp
22/07/2018) [The state must
finally stop brutally beating and seriously injuring
people with wooden sticks! No policeman has the right to
shawl people on their heads with wooden sticks, no
politician has the right to order and cover such
procedure! This is a crime and the government is
responsible!], Scores
hurt as Tarun rally turns violent (kp 22/07/2018)
9-year-old
girl raped in Kanchanpur (kp 22/07/2018)
174
women rescued from eastern transit point (ht
22/07/2018)
Criminal
activities up in Lalitpur (ht 22/07/2018)
Swiss
held on pedophilia charge: Eight foreigners arrested in
two years (kp 21/07/2018)
Mayor
slaps municipal staffer over dozer purchase row, by
Mithilesh Yadav (rep 21/07/2018)
Human
trafficking through Pashupatinagar on the rise, by
Bhim Chapagain (rep 21/07/2018)
Overall
crime rate soaring in Kathmandu valley, say police
(ht 21/07/2018)
40
injured in clash as Dr KC taken by force to Kathmandu
(rep 20/07/2018)
[see video], 20
doctors among injured in clashes with security forces
(kp 20/07/2018), Jumla
reeling from Thursday’s clash over Dr KC (kp
21/07/2018) [The culprits,
including politicians, must stand trial!], Police
gone
wild! Why can’t our politicians understand that no
regime has succeeded by beating up protestors and or
even shooting at them?, by Guffadi (kp 21/07/2018)
Three
men rape girl, 13, for two months in captivity, by
Shiva Puri (kp 18/07/2018)
33
kg gold smuggling case: ‘Big fish’ still elusive as
panel deadline expires (kp 18/07/2018), Murdered
Shakya kept records of transactions (ht 19/07/2018)
Smuggling
of small arms continues unabated (ht 18/07/2018)
Crimes
on the rise in Udayapur: Social crimes, theft doubled;
narcotic cases quadrupled in a year, by Maheshwar
Chamling Rai (rep 18/07/2018)
The
religious roots of Chhaupadi, by Pushpa Raj Joshi
and Arun Bam (rep 17/0/72018)
Missing
girl, 17, found murdered following rape: One suspect
held, another on the run (kp 17/07/2018)
150
Nepali women in ‘captivity’ (kp 17/07/2018)
Man
beats wife to death in Makwanpur (kp 16/07/2018)
8-year-old
girl raped in Achham (kp 15/07/2018)
Rape
cases on the rise, by Nagendra Upadhyay (rep
14/07/2018)
Leave
no one behind: It is time to make the Nepali
transitional justice model truly victim-centric and
local, by Ram Kumar Bhandari and Varsha Gyawali (kp
13/07/2018)
Relatives
of women killed by Chhaupadi continue the malpractice,
by Khamma Khatri (rep 13/07/2018)
Municipality
office torched in Siraha (ht 12/07/2018)
Gold
smuggling case: Morang court releases three suspects on
bail, by Madhav Ghimire and Binod Bhandari (kp
10/07/2018)
Gold
smuggling
probe committee likely to end investigation: An official
of the committee said that the government wants the
committee to end its probe without further ado as it
does not want the committee to go deep into the matter
and reveal senior politicians reportedly involved in the
case (rep 10/07/2018) [!!!]
Police
arrest gang of thieves operating as scrap collectors
(ht 09/07/2018)
Krishna
Prasad murder main suspect surrenders (kp
09/07/2018), Main
accused in the murder of Ganga Maya’s son surrenders
(rep 09/07/2018)
Girl
gang-raped and murdered for refusing sex proposal,
by Dil Bahadur Chhatyal (rep 08/07/2018)
Mother
accuses police of neglecting daughter's murder, by
Rekha Bhusal (rep 08/07/2018)
Victims
want consultation on transitional justice law (rep
07/07/2018)
Girl
arrested for 'orchestrating' friend's rape, by
Nagendra Upadhyaya (rep 07/07/2018)
Man
murders five-year-old nephew (kp 03/07/2018)
Money
laundering
case: OAG appeals against Special Court decision; The
OAG had earlier failed to appeal the exoneration of
another mob boss Rajeev Gurung aka Deepak Manange (kp
03/07/2018) [Political
corruotion on highest level!!]
Interpol
issues Red Notice for 83 Nepalis (ht 02/07/2018)
Dr
KC starts hunger strike in Jumla (kp 01/07/2018) [Brutal police force against against
peaceful civil society action!]
Indian
national held with 8.2kg silver (kp 01/07/2018)
Victims
reject
draft amendment: NHRC chairman Sharma calls it
translated draft guided by motive; There will be no
punishment left after waiving 75pc sentence (ht
30/06/2018)
Police
kill armed man in ‘gunfight’, locals deny it (kp
30/06/2018)
Chhaupadi
continues in Surkhet, by Krishna Prasad Gautam (kp
30/06/2018)
Four
held for banking fraud (ht 30/06/2018)
Ganga
Maya’s fast: NHRC questions Home secy, IGP (kp
29/06/2018), When
our son was killed: A translated excerpt from a chapter
of ‘Death of Justice' - a memoir of Gangamaya Adhikari,
who is on the third week of her hunger strike at Bir
Hospital, demanding her son's murderers be brought to
justice (nt 29/06/2018)
Bill
on TRC, CIEDP terms extension in parliament (rep
29/06/2018) [The exension of
terms means little without fundamental changes in
justice law and politics!], Just
not justice: Proposed amendments to Nepal’s Transitional
Justice Act still let perpetrators off the hook, by
Om Astha Rai (nt 29/06/2018)
Police
fail to nab murder suspects (ht 29/06/2018)
Mirror
to our soul: The Nepali state must go beyond just
consulting with elites on the draft CIEDP and TRCA bill,
by Seira Tamang (kp 28/06/2018)
MPCD
worried about growing incidents of cybercrime (ht
28/06/2018)
Child
marriages continue unabated (ht 27/06/2018), Campaign
against child marriage (ht 28/06/2018)
Change
the mindset: Stop victimising rape victims, by
Bijaya Laxmi (ht 27/06/2018)
Wife,
lover held for husband’s murder (kp 27/06/2018)
Man
beats wife to death (kp 27/06/2018)
Conflict
victims reject revisions to TJ law: Draft lacks power to
make TJ bodies ‘accountable’ (kp 27/06/2018)
Yet
another businessman held over gold smuggling (rep
27/06/2018)
Chand
followers shut Chitwan schools (kp 26/06/2018)
Torture
still endemic: Though torture is prohibited, systemic
torture by the state is a common practice, by
Sanjeev K. Shah (kp 26/06/2018), Preventing
torture:
The revised criminal code is an attempt toward
systematic reform to address torture-related impunity.
It should be implemented, by Praveen Kumar Yadav
(rep 26/06/2018)
Women
head back to Chhaupadi sheds, by Nagendra Upadhyaya
(rep 25/06/2018)
Teenage
girl raped in Mahottari (ht 25/06/2018)
Truck
driver arrested with 213 kg hashish, 2.250 kg opium
(ht 25/06/2018)
Buddha
idols ‘stolen’ from Rigmagaun (kp 24/06/2018)
Conflict
victims
slam ‘symbolic prosecution': “Ordinary citizens
convicted of murder receive 20 years of imprisonment but
why did the government reduce the jail term for war
criminals?”’ (rep 24/06/2018)
33
kg gold smuggling case: High-level panel continues
arrests (rep 24/06/2018)
Shree
Niwas released on Rs 5,000 bail (kp 23/06/2018) [???], Religious
leader Sriniwas Acharya released on bail (ht
23/06/2018)
Ganga
Maya again at Bir since 25 days in lone struggle for
justice: Dr Govinda KC to flout govt ban at Maitighar
today (rep 23/06/2018)
Three
murders in Rajbiraj in less than a week, by Jitendra
Kumar Jha (rep 23/06/2018)
Black
pepper smugglers arrested in Birgunj, by Bhushan
Yadav (kp 23/06/2018)
Transitional
Justice Act amendment draft ready: Apex court order,
international practices taken into account, by Binod
Ghimire (kp 22/06/2018), Bill
seeks to bring under transitional justice cases now in
court or in UN system, by Bhadra Sharma (rep
22/06/2018)
Special
court to look into conflict-era cases (ht
22/06/2018)
Four-fold
increase in reported rape in 10 years, The lack of
justice for rape, and its social stigma combine to breed
impunity, by Sewa Bhattarai (nt 22/06/2018)
Platform
denies victims’ consent for concessions to war criminals
(kp 21/06/2018)
Fourth
gangster is free as Special Court acquits Giri (kp
21/06/2018)
Lahan
police release Indian quacks without action, by
Mithilesh Yadav (rep 21/06/2018)
Businessman
Bimal Poddar arrested (ht 21/06/2018)
Contractors
yet to receive Rs 580m (ht 21/06/2018) [related to
Dolakha district]
Amnesty
slams inaction over Ganga Maya (kp 20/06/2018)
‘Ruling
leaders responsible for delaying justice to conflict
victims’ (rep 19/06/2018)
Conflict-hit
women demand justice, by Nagendra Upadhyay (rep
19/06/2018)
Police
arrest relatives for killing man (kp 17/06/2018)
Alleged
rapist of 10-yr-old girl held (kp 17/06/2018)
Probe
with malicious intent criminalised, by
Ram Kumar Kamat (ht
17/06/2018)
Rukum
conflict victims seek justice (kp 16/06/2018)
‘Women
should speak against all forms of violence’ (ht
16/06/2018)
Dutchman
arrested for pedophilia (rep 16/06/2018)
Gangamaya's
autobiography unveiled (rep 16/06/2018)
Two
ward chairmen arrested for electricity theft (rep
16/06/2018)
Two
gold smugglers sent to jail kp 15/06/2018)
Woman
thrashed for rejecting nephew’s ‘sexual advances’
(ht 15/06/2018)
Security
agencies, Maoists buried disappeared in mass graves:
CIEDP, by Bhim Chapagain (rep 14/06/2018)
Man
kills son, injures wife, by Dipak Pariyar (kp
14/06/2018)
Conflict-hit
women: Still far from justice, by Susan Risal (ht
14/06/2018)
Ward
chairman downplays girl’s death in Chhaupadi, by
Menuka Dhungana (kp 13/06/2018), Woman
dies after snakebite in menstruation shed, by Khamma
Chhetri (rep 13/06/2018), Bad
blood continues: To banish Chhaupadi, besides having a
new law, we need to change our behaviour (kp
13/06/2018) [Why
do not men leave the house and stay in sheds during
menstruation of female family members?], Chhaupadi
still rampant in Bajura district (ht 13/06/2018)
Woman
stripped half naked and thrashed in public seeks
justice: Says police imposed arbitration, by
Devendra Basnet (rep 13/06/2018), Insensitive
state: Thrashing of woman in Dang (rep 14/06/2018)
307
burglary suspects held in 15 days (ht 13/06/2018)
Police
arrest gangster Lama after gunfight, by Anup Ojha
(kp 12/06/2018)
Abducted
boy, 12, found murdered; five men held, by Shiva
Puri (kp 12/06/2018), Police
arrest 11 more in Yuvaraj murder case (kp
13/06/2018), Teacher,
cop arrested for kidnapping, killing 12-yr-old, by
Madan Thakur (rep 15/06/2018)
Two
arrested for attempting to traffic women to Iraq using
fake visa, by Amar Khadka (rep 12/06/2018)
Man
gets life sentence for rape, murder (ht 12/06/2018)
33kg
gold smuggling case: 3 main accused sent to DMLI for
further probe, by Madhav Ghimire and Binod Bhandari
(kp 11/06/2018), Officials
grill 3 accused over money laundering (kp
12/06/2018), Bajeko
Sekuwa outlets sealed (kp 16/06/2018), Property
details of 3 accused sought (kp 17/06/2018), Probe
team’s tenure extended (kp 18/06/2018)
Mum,
son found dead in Rautahat (kp 11/06/2018)
No
suspension of MPs facing trial, by Binod Ghimire (kp
09/06/2018) [Close cooperation
of leading politicians and criminals and the protection
of the latter continues unabated! This is a
characteristic of the lawless state of Nepal!], NHRC
urges govt to save Ganga Maya Adhikari (kp
09/06/2018) [Another case of
protecting criminals!], NHRC
urges PM Oli to save Ganga Maya, by Binod Ghimire
(kp 14/06/2018)
Bardiya
Tharus wait for justice: Lack of political will stalls
investigations, by Dewan Rai (The Record 08/06/2018)
TRC
assigns experts to draft reparation policy (kp
08/06/2018) [What does
reparation mean as long as the criminal perpetrators are
sitting in leading state positions and are being
promoted time and again? The vitims have been suffering
for so many years watching the offenders being awarded
for their crimes!!], Justice
delayed is justice denied: Delay in pursuance of
transitional justice is violating victims’ ‘right to
effective remedy’, by Samikshya Bhattarai and
Prakash Bhattarai (kp 08/06/2018)
Hotelier
arrested with 40 passports (kp 08/06/2018)
Man
held in attempted rape case (kp 08/06/2018)
Match-fixing
case: Special Court acquits 5 footballers (kp
08/06/2018)
‘Big
fish of smuggling racket yet to be caught’ (ht
07/06/2018)
Udaypur
growing into a hub for drug dealers, users: 153 arrested
on charge of drug abuse in last 11 months (rep
07/06/2018)
Cops
take steps to combat property crimes (ht 06/06/2018)
Police
seize 12,200 kg black pepper being smuggled to India,
by Ritesh Tripathi (rep 06/06/2018)
Casteism
denies Dalit lawmaker rental apartment in Kathmandu
(kp 05/06/2018)
Dalit
ward member killed, three women held (kp
05/06/2018), Dalit
ward member dies after beating by paramor's children,
by Anjali Subedi (rep 06/06/2018)
Dispute
takes
regulation off House agenda: The ruling and opposition
parties are at odds over whether or not to suspend a
lawmaker facing judicial custody (kp 05/06/2018)
Unidentified
group vandalises campus (ht 05/06/2018)
Hospital
holds patient captive (ht 05/06/2018)
RJP-N
to join central govt after leaders’ release,
by Tika R. Pradhan (kp 03/06/2018)
[Another murderer to be
released? This is not worth to make the RJPN join the
government! The close cooperation of politicians and
criminals goes unabated!], New
laws for pardon, waiver, suspension, commutation of
sentence sought (ht 03/06/2018)
Boy,
14, rapes 3-year-old kin (kp 02/06/2018)
Nepali
woman sold in Iraq calls it a near-death experience,
by Rohit Rai (rep 02/06/2018)
Bus
tyranny still rules Valley roads, by Dilasha KC (rep
02/06/2018)
33kg
gold smuggling case: SSP surrenders: court orders
judicial custody, by Madhav Ghimire and Binod
Bhandari (kp 01/06/2018), Another
suspect sent to custody, by
Madhav Ghimire and Binod Bhandari (kp 04/06/2018)
13
year-old disabled minor tied up for nine years (ht
01/06/2018)
Police
rescue
39 girls from dance bars: Police say the girls were
being forced to engage in illicit activities by their
employers (kp 01/06/2018)
Investigation
into war crimes gets tougher under new govt ‘Former
rebels wielding new-found political influence to hinder
probe’ (kp 31/05/2018) [Previous
government was hardly any better!]
NHRC
lists Agni Sapkota, Suryaman Dong as human rights
violators (ht 31/05/2018)
Bank
staff rapes 13-year-old girl (kp 31/05/2018)
Sports
betting cartel busted: Ex-national team football player
Anjan KC among six suspects (kp 30/05/2018)
SC
seeks govt file on Dhungel pardon (kp 29/05/2018), Murder-convict
Dhungel gets presidential pardon (kp 29/05/2018) [If there has ever been rule of law
in Nepal, it is definitely over!]
Rapist
gets 13-year term (kp 29/05/2018)
Let
competitive juices flow: Whether it’s called a cartel or
a syndicate, the ultimate goal is the same: price-fixing,
by Paban Raj Pandey (kp 29/05/2018)
‘Senior
police officers, political leaders involved in gold
racket’ (kp 28/05/2018), Gore
accuses SSP Shyam Khatri of channeling the smuggled gold,
by Binod Subedi (rep 28/05/2018), Police
arrest Gore’s accomplice, by Madhav Ghimire and
Binod Bhandari (kp 28/05/2018)
One
held for illegal kidney transplant (ht 28/05/2018)
Conflict
victims demand justice, by DR Panta (kp 27/05/2018)
Increasing
number of incestuous rapes raises concerns in Gorkha,
by Narahari Sapkota (rep 27/05/2018)
Police
arrest one of rajpur gang rapists (kps 27/05/2018)
CIEDP
completes first phase of probe in 20 district, by
Ram Kumar Kamat (ht 27/05/2018)
209
organised criminals arrested in nine months (ht
26/05/2018)
Chand-led
party’s activities against statute, state: Home Minster
Thapa (kp 24/05/2018) [Why
don't you call them what they are: Terrorist crimes
against people and country?!]
Woman
thrashed on witchcraft charge (ht 23/05/2018), Woman
brutally thrashed by her in-laws for 'practicing
witchcraft', by Madan Thakur (rep 24/05/2018)
Five-star
resort dumps sewage into irrigation canal (rep
23/05/2018)
Gore
reveals more names in gold smuggling case (kp
23/05/2018), Court
extends suspects’ remand, by Madhav Ghimire and
Binod Bhandari (kp 23/05/2018), Court
starts recording main accused Gore’s statement, by
Madhav Ghimire and Binod Bhandari (kp 24/05/2018), All
that glitters isn’t gold: Gold smuggling saga should
provide the opportunity to scrutinise the political
class (kp 24/05/2018), Signs
of new mysteries being uncovered in gold smuggling case,
by Binod Subedi (rep 24/05/2018), Gore
denies role in Shakya’s murder (kp 25/05/2018), Gore
gang’s sordid saga: Smugglers sneak in gold worth 61
percent of Nepal’s legal imports (kp 26/05/2018), Interpol
Red Notice likely to be issued for arrest of absconders
(ht 26/05/2018), Alleged
mastermind denies killing Shakya (ht 28/05/23018)
‘File
appeal in Supreme Court against Chakre Milan acquittal’
(kp 22/05/2018)
Protest
in Birgunj over ‘dowry-related death’ of woman (kp
22/05/2018), Police
arrest Rinki’s father-in-law (kp 23/05/2018)
Opium
cultivation thrives in Jajarkot (kp 22/05/2018)
Govt
working to free Balkrishna Dhungel through presidential
pardon, by Ashok Dahal (rep 21/05/2018) [Turning
Nepal into a justice free haven! Close cooperation oif
politicians and crminals works well!!], Republic
Day pardon recommended for Balkrishna Dhungel (ht
22/05/2018), ‘Rule
of criminals and corrupt people will end’ (kp
22/05/2018) [By freeing and
promoting convicted murderers and generally by close
cooperation between leading politicians and criminals??],
Don’t
do it Dhungel's release (rep 22/05/2018), Plan
to waive Dhungel’s jail term challenged (ht
25/05/2018), Apex
court show-cause to government on Dhungel clemency bid
(kp 26/05/2018), Dhungel's
jailterm waiver case: PM consults NCP leaders to prepare
govt response (kp 27/05/2018) [????],
SC
to hear Dhungel’s case today (kp 28/05/2018), Justice
Hari Karki recuses himself from Dhungel waiver case
(ht 28/05/2018)
CIB
books 148 for Apex Development Bank scam (ht
21/05/2018)
Life
on hold: Relief payments alone are not enough for the
families of disappeared persons—they need to know what
happened, by Luke Moffett and James Gallan (kp
21/05/2018)
Med
centre, VLN operators booked for overcharging
Malaysia-bound workers (kp 21/05/2018)
Six
sentenced to life imprisonment for NC cadre’s murder
(ht 21/05/2018)
Rautahat
court jails serial killer for 52 years, by Shiva
Puri (kp 20/05/2018)
Conflict
victims feel further disheartened after left unity,
by Bhadra Sharma (rep 20/05/2018)
Teach
kids to fight back: Self-defence training is not all
kung fu, it is raising awareness about possible abuse,
by Giri Bahadur Sunar (kp 20/05/2018)
Noted
humanitarian charged with child rape in Nepal, stunning
a village, by Kai Schultz and Rajneesh Bhandari (kp
19/05/2018)
Petroleum
theft: Court convicts 17 in Bhalwari depot scam (kp
18/05/2018)
Film
producer and five others arrested with fake currency
(kp 17/05/2018), ‘Bank
Notes recoverd from Wagle and co were fake’ (kp
21/05/2018)
NRB
warns
money changers against financing smuggling: There have
been a growing number of gold smuggling cases in the
last few years that could potentially have been financed
through various channels according to the central bank
(kp 17/05/2018)
PA
member gets one year prison term (ht 16/05/2018)
Man
sentenced to 10 years in jail for killing wife (ht
16/05/2018)
Rapists
sentenced to 10 years in prison (ht 14/05/2018)
Facebook
lands girl in brothel, by Keshav Rana (rep
14/05/2018)
Sporadic
blasts, arson mark banda enforced by Chand’s outfit
(kp 14/05/2018), IEDs
go off at different places across country (ht
14/05/2018)
Woman
tied in chains, locked in room for 12 years, by
Jitendra Kumar Jha (rep 12/05/2018)
Financial
crime on the rise in Nepal (kp 09/05/2018)
‘Shree
Niwas
staged attack on himself to stoke violence’: Police
arrest Delhi-bound Hindu godman at Tribhuvan
International Airport in Kathmandu; Police say the
elaborate scheme was aimed at rallying Hindus to
launch a ‘decisive movement’ to reinstate Hindu nation,
by Deo, Narayan Sah (kp 08/05/2018), Shree
Niwas to be tried only for firearm offence, by Deo
Narayan Sah (kp 09/05/2018) [??
He must be accused for spreading hatred and social
unrest!], Shriniwas
sent to custody (ht 22/05/2018)
Gold
smuggling accused stare at 3 more charges (kp
07/05/2018), Suspects
change their statements to court, by Madhav Ghimire
and Binod Bhandari (kp 07/05/2018), Former
DIG and suspended SP deny involvement, by Madhav
Ghimire and Binod Bhandari (kp 08/05/2018), All
chargesheeted people involved’ (kp 10/05/2018), Extension
of judicial custody sought, by
Madhav Ghimire and Binod Bhandari (kp 11/05/2018), SC
orders release of two accused on bail (kht
19/05/2018)
MPs
in judicial custody spared suspension (kp
06/05/2018)
Turning
tears
into happiness: Local govts need to implement plans that
satisfy victims’ rights to justice, acknowledgment and
reparations, by Elena Naughton (kp 06/05/2018)
Violent
activities reported during CPN-called banda (kp
06/05/2018)
Vandals
damage house of Thimi Mayor Shrestha (kp 06/05/2018)
Assailants
beat
up tender bidders: The group of assailants also
misbehaved with Deputy Mayor Pampha Basel who
informed police about the incident, by Hariram
Upreti (kp 06/05/2018)
Crackdown
on
passport crimes: Department proposes three-year jail
term and huge fines for recruiting agents who retain
jobseekers’ passports (kp 04/05/2018)
Down
with
the death penalty: Reintroduction of the death penalty
would be a regressive step for the criminal
justice system of Nepal, by Deepika Thapa Magar (kp
04/05/2018)
Woman
thrashed, tortured for dowry (ht 03/05/2018)
Police
arrest 'drunkard' for attempted rape, by Bhim
Chapagain (rep 03/05/2018)
Police
destroy poppy plants on 10 acres of land in West Rukum,
by Hari Gautam (kp 03/05/2018)
Paedophilia
case filed against 60-year-old Canadian national (ht
03/05/2018)
Deputy
mayor frees husband detained for assaulting her, by
Anup Ojha (kp 03/05/2018)
83-year-old
reportedly raped in Ilam, by Bhim Chapagain (rep
02/05/2018)
Unknown
group cuts down 3,100 banana trees (kp 02/05/2018),
Banana
farm vandals caught (kp 04/05/2018)
Dhangadhi,
safe haven for drug peddlers (ht 01/05/2018)
33-kg
gold smuggling: DSP KC in net (kp 30/04/2018), Recorded
conversation sheds new light in gold case, by
Tapendra Karki (rep 01/05/2018), Case
to be filed against 62 suspects, by Madhav Ghimire
and Binod Bhandari (kp 02/05/2018), Cops
told to arrest SSP Khatri on sight (ht 02/05/2018),
Case
to be registered against 28 persons (ht 02/05/2018),
Charge
sheet filed against 63 suspects, by Binod Bhandari
(kp 03/05/2018), Seven cops among 63 charge-sheeted, by
Hari Adhikari (ht 03/05/20188), Morang
court starts recording statements, by Madhav Ghimire
and Ninod Bhandari (kp 04/05/2018), Judge
in gold smuggling case picked through lots, by Binod
Subedi (rep 04/05/2018), Police
detains constable in gold smuggling case (kp
06/05/2018)
IED
explosion
at Arun III office: Police suspect the hand of the
Netra Bikram Chand-led Communist Party of Nepal in
the latest attack on the project (kp 30/04/2018)
323,155
crime cases recorded digitally (ht 30/04/2018)
Women,
children disappearing in Lamjung (ht 30/04/2018)
Man
arrested on the charge of killing two children (ht
29/04/2018)
Rape
cases continue unabated, says report (ht
26/04/2018), 131
cases of VAW including 36 rapes in a month (rep
26/04/2018), 30
per cent rape victims below 10 years of age (ht
27/04/2018)
Curbing
fuel theft: NOC to implement locking system, by
Madhav Dhungana (kp 26/04/2018)
Police
officials dragged into investigation (ht
26/04/2018), DSP
Sanjay Raut turns himself in for investigation (ht
27/04/2018)
Army
to
probe rape claim against Blue Helmets in South Sudan: UN
had asked troops contributing country to fully probe
case and, where applicable, pursue criminal prosecution
(kp 25/04/2018), Nepali
peacekeepers accused of child rape in South Sudan
(ht 25/04/2018), Nepal
army vows to book guilty after investigation (kp
26/04/2018), Watching
the watchmen: Nepal Army must come clean on
allegations concerning the peacekeeping mission in South
Sudan (kp 26/04/2018)
Smuggling
flourishing in Bhairahawa, by Rekha Bhusal (rep
25/04/2018)
Traffic
police officer throws acid on woman, by Ramesh Kumar
Paudel (kp 24/04/2018)
Unhealed
wounds: The Transitional Justice Act must be amended to
make fair investigation possible, by Ram Kumar
Bhandari (kp 24/04/2018)
Man
injured in Madhes movement feels betrayed, by
Shankar Acharya (kp 24/04/2018)
Police
apprehend five men for attacking Mayur driver (kp
24/04/2018)
EC
asks govt to ensure safety of commissioners (kp
24/04/2018)
Menstruating
women, girls fear ‘invisible’ power (ht 23/04/2018)
Experience
of
working with abused women in India: Nazma is just a
representative of numerous women across the world who
have experienced domestic abuse at some point in their
life, by Pratikshya Sharma (rep 23/04/2018)
Gold
smuggling probe puts ex-DIG in net (kp 23/04/2018)
Police
to curb sexual harassment in public places (ht
23/04/2018)
Police
rescue two Nepalis from Delhi brothel (kp
23/04/2018)
Armed
group robs Rs 1.3m (kp 23/04/2018)
Smuggling
of petro products rises in Sarlahi, by Aman Koirala
(kp 23/04/2018)
Nightmare
of rape: Along with alarming rise of cases across the
country, rape has become every girl’s nightmare today,
by Sakun Bhandari (rep 22/04/2018)
Intel
unit
to keep tabs on money laundering: Body under Money
Laundering Investigation Department to probe money
laundering and terror financing suspects (kp
22/04/2018)
CPN
student leaders held with cache of explosives, by
Raj Kumar Karki (kp 22/04/2018)
Salyan:
Hotbed for herb smugglers, by Biplac Maharjan (kp
22/04/2018)
Copycats
beware: Cases of plagiarism have to be dealt with
academic charges as well as legal penalties, by
Umesh Raj Regmi (kp 22/04/2018)
Would-be
bride kills self over dowry demand (ht 21/04/2018)
Chand-led
CPN cadres running extortion drive in Panchthar (ht
21/04/2018)
Justice
expert tells Nepal to make Act changes public, by
Ghanashyam Khadka (kp 20/04/2018)
Man
rapes teen daughter (kp 20/04/2018)
Dalits
still treated as ‘untouchables’ (ht 20/04/2018)
Govt
launches ‘Operation Mandala’ (ht 20/04/2018)
CPN
men threaten mayor for refusing extortion demand (kp
20/04/2018)
Police
arrest Deepak Manange (kp 20/04/2018), Manange
sent to Dillibazar prison (kp 21/04/2018), Manange
not
to face money laundering trial and OAG is to blame;
Attorney office fails to file petition at SC in time to
appeal Special Court’s ruling to acquit Manange;
Internal probe underway into ‘rare slip-up’, by
Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp 23/04/2018)
Rautahat
deploys police at gas stations to curb smuggling: Move
after gas stations found colluding with smugglers,
by Shiva Puri (kp 20/04/2018)
Ward
chair ‘mistakenly’ imprisoned for trafficking freed
(ht 20/04/2018), Ward
chair freed by SC rearrested, sent to prison (ht
23/04/2018)
Migrant
workers being used to smuggle gold (ht 20/04/2018)
Maoist,
Youth Association leaders arrested for involvement in
criminal activities, by Reksha Bhusal (rep
19/04/2018)
Police
investigate rape and murder of girl, 14 (kp
18/04/2018)
Teenage
girl found dead (ht 18/04/2018)
Court
sends child killers to prison (kp 18/04/2018)
Blast
damages Indian Embassy camp office wall in Biratnagar
(kp 18/04/2018), Indian
police arrest blast suspect (kp 03/05/2018)
Call
to book 450 people for taking citizenship with fake
documents, by Kamal Panthi (kp 18/04/2018)
Cases
of oil theft on rise in eastern Nepal, by Binod
Bhandari (kp 18/04/2018)
Busting
smuggling
racket: Combating gold smuggling is a tough job because
of strong nexus among smugglers, corrupt leaders,
security personnel, bureaucrats and gangsters, by
Dipesh KC (rep 18/04/2018)
Act
on
transitional justice: CIEDP calls for early amendment;
TJ body officials also urge Minister Tamang to resolve
other administrative and procedural complexities (kp
17/04/2018)
Man
charged with killing live-in girl friend (ht
17/04/2018)
Explosion
at municipal building in Ilam (kp 16/04/2018)
Yesterday’s
impunity
is today’s impunity: The recently held conference on
impunity has shown that South Asia stands together
against human rights abuses, by Mohna Ansari (kp
16/04/2018)
Book
criminals without compromise, IGP tells cops (ht
16/04/2018)
Suspect
in guest house murder of woman held (ht 16/04/2018)
Complaint
filed
to probe ‘suspicious death’ of woman: Husband and
in-laws of Sanu claim she committed suicide by consuming
poison (kp 15/04/2018)
Rethinking
society: Violence against women is not only a female
problem, it is also an issue of men, by Milan Pandey
(kp 15/04/2018)
NCP
cadres vandalise crusher plant, torch vehicles (ht
15/04/2018)
Bandarmudhe
victims tired of false promises. by Ramesh Kumar
Paudel (kp 14/04/2018)
Chand’s
party men rob municipal office (kp 13/04/2018), Seven
including ex-MP arrested for carrying out blasts, by
Maheshwor Chamling Rai (rep 14/04/2018)
Seeking
bail made easier for convicts, by Ram Kumar Kamat
(ht 13/04/2018)
Tarun
Dal cadre among four arrested for extortion (kp
13/04/2018)
Girl
traffickers arrested (ht 13/04/2018)
Crossing
point: Extra vigilance needed on both sides of
Indo-Nepal border to curb human trafficking (kp
13/04/2018)
Two
arrested with banned notes worth INR 4.9m (ht
13/04/2018)
Police
arrest a gang of forgers (kp 12/04/2018)
Protecting
the vulnerable: Heinous crimes against women are
continually committed despite the existence of legal
provisions, by Sajin Bikram Kunwar (kp 11/04/2018)
Revamp
justice
bodies rights groups suggest: The AWC has also urged the
UN and other international agencies to take measures not
to support and condone the process that would promote
de-facto impunity in relation to gross violations
of human rights in Nepal (kp 11/04/2018), Do
it right and just, by Barun Ghimire (rep
11/04/2018), UN,
global groups urged to fund TJs (kp 12/04/2018), Govt
to
amend transitional justice act: AG; Kharel said the
government was coming up with provisions on reparations,
relief, public apology and memorialisation of victims
(ht 12/04/2018)
Ward
chair attacked, hospitalised (ht 11/04/2018), 5
held in Bharatpur blast, attack on ward chair (kp
12/05/2018)
Women
increasingly opting for divorce to end abusive marriages
(rep 11/04/2018)
Action
against defaulting sugar mills: Police arrest manager of
Eastern Sugar Mill (rep 11/04/2018)
Third
‘don’ walks free: Special Court acquits Parshuram Basnet
in money-laundering case on Monday, by Prithvi Man
Shrestha (kp 10/04/2018)
Boy,
12, steps on ‘electric trap’ dies, by Mohan
Budhair (kp 10/04/2018)
Farmers
deprived of using their own land captured by APF during
conflict era, by Khamma Khatri (rep 10/04/2018)
Religious
leader hurt in Biratnagar shooting (kp 09/04/2018),
Campaigner
for Hindu nation shot, injured, by Amar Khadka and
Chuman Basnet (rep 09/04/2018), Spiritual
leader Acharya discharged from hospital (ht
30/04/2018), ‘Shree
Niwas
staged attack on himself to stoke violence’: Police
arrest Delhi-bound Hindu godman at Tribhuvan
International Airport in Kathmandu; Police say the
elaborate scheme was aimed at rallying Hindus to
launch a ‘decisive movement’ to reinstate Hindu nation,
by Deo, Narayan Sah (kp 08/05/2018)
Krishna
Prasad murder case: Person filing charge sheet fails to
record statement at court (ht 09/04/2018)
Canadian
paedophile nabbed (kp 09/04/2018)
Menace
of rape: We have no moral ground to talk about
prosperity when safety and wellbeing of women and
children remains a far cry, by Mira Dhakal and Luna
Bhattarai (rep 07/04/2018)
Katahariya
mayor gets life in prison for murder (ht 07/04/2018)
Rape
culture: Our society and our law enforcement must
accomodate victims, not shield perpetrators (kp
06/04/2018), Relatives,
neighbors and dusk most dangerous!, by Mithilesh
Yadav (rep 07/04/2018)
Police
bust fake job racket (ht 06/04/2018)
Activists,
academia probe spate of rapes (kp 04/05/2018), Anti-rape
drive in Saptari (kp 05/04/2018), Man
rapes girls, aged 7 and 8, in Kanchanpur (kp
05/04/2018), Police
posts in capital ill-poised for sexual violence cases:
NHRC (rep 05/04/2018)
Big
picture: Case of Radha Chaudhary should not be treated
as a stale incident. We cannot rule out possibility of
such incidents occurring in the future, by Rupashree
Niraula (rep 05/04/2018)
Woman’s
body found in sack; hubby held (kp 05/04/2018)
Police
arrest two with red sandalwood (kp 05/04/2018), Tourist
bus used to smuggle red sandalwood, clothes seized
(ht 05/04/2018)
Minister’s
jeep vandalised (ht 05/04/2018)
300
VAW cases registered with NWC in three months (ht
04/04/2018)
13
rape incidents in Makawanpur this fiscal (ht
04/04/2018)
Police
to launch campaign against rape (ht 04/04/2018)
Child
trafficking rampant in Bajura (ht 04/04/2018)
Man
murders two kids, age 3 and 5 (kp 04/04/2018)
Goodwill
hunting: Govt lost trust of victims due to rampant
politicisation of TJ process; it must make amends via
reparation (kp 04/04/2018)
Rape cases increasing at alarming rate (rep
03/04/2018)
Police
and staff clash injures 12 (kp 03/04/2018)
Smuggling
of black pepper to India on the rise (rep
03/04/2018)
Disproportionate
assets case filed against Sah (ht 03/04/2018)
Diesel
theft
continues unabated: Per litre of diesel costs Rs28 more
in India than in Nepal, while petrol is expensive
by Rs22 per litre, by Binod Bhandari (kp 02/04/2018)
Poaching,
smuggling on rise in Chure area, by Bharat
Jarghamagar (kp 01/04/2018)
12-yr
mentally
challenged girl ‘gang raped’ in Sunsari: Police arrest
Abinash Sardar on charge of raping the girl on Friday
following a complaint by the victim’s family (kp
01/04/2018)
Man
kills wife over suspicion of extramarital affair (ht
01/04/2018)
Locals
attack policemen, seven injured (ht 01/04/2018)
House
nods to extend terms of TJ bodies (kp 31/03/2018)
Taxmen
crack down on fake excise stickers (kp 31/03/2018)
Case
against ex-minister (kp 31/03/2018)
President
sad over unsolved Dasdhunga accident (kp 31/03/2018)
Patient’s
attendant
raped, suspect arrested: The suspect, a former NA
soldier, was dismissed from service for his involvement
in a rape case (ht 30/03/2018)
Child
gang-raped in Sunsari yet again, by Amar Khadka (rep
30/03/2018)
Couple
held over daughter’s mysterious death (ht
30/03/2018)
NA
team defuses IED in Bardiya (kp 30/03/2018)
Man
rapes 10-year-old girl (kp 29/03/2018)
Police
seize 1.4 kilos of opium (ht 29/03/2018)
Man
and woman tortured at ward office for ‘illicit
relationship’, by Mahesh
Kumar Das (rep
28/03/2018)
Police
arrest man for raping girl, 10 (kp 28/03/2018)
ASI
arrested for raping teenage girl (ht 28/03/2018)
Tenth
grader found dead in rented room (ht 28/03/2018), Traffic
police officer and two others held in student death,
by Prakash Adhikari (kp 29/03/2018), Girl
appearing for SEE in Surket raped, murdered, by
Nagendra Upadhyaya (rep 29/03/2018)
PM
rules out blanket amnesty for serious rights violations
(rep 28/03/2018), TRC
welcomes PM’s stand on TJ: Urges the govt to make
necessary amendments to Act (kp 29/03/2018), The
moment of truth: PM Oli has to ensure commitment
to transitional justice in legislation (kp
29/03/2018), Walk
the talk: PM’s pledge against impunity (rep
29/03/2018)
Man
stabbed to death; wife and daughter held (kp
28/03/2018)
Kin
of disappeared demand swift probe, by Shankar
Acharya (kp 28/03/2018)
Police
step up crackdown on gamblers; 208 arrested in six weeks
(ht 28/03/2018)
Women
take out rally against growing rape cases in Saptari,
by Abdhesh Kumar Jha (kp 27/03/2018)
Most
wanted criminal Barud Singh arrested (ht 27/03/2018)
Chand’s
party extorts Bardiya business people (kp
26/03/2018)
Three
bombs explode in separate places in Morang (ht
26/03/2018)
Elected
representatives look on as forest officer is attacked
(kp 26/03/2018)
Don’t
let
bygones be bygones: Role of the Courts in bringing
conflict crimes to a logical end could restore public
faith in the judiciary, by Anurag Devkota (kp
26/03/2018)
Koireli
becomes VAW-free village (kp 26/03/2018)
Murder
convict held seven years after sentencing (ht
26/03/2018)
Waling
man held on charge of raping teen (kp 25/03/2018)
Internet
users warned against lottery scams (25/03/2018)
Dy
mayor beats up ward member (rep 27/03/2018)
8
hurt in blast at jewellery shop, by Bharat
Jarghamagar (kp 24/03/2018)
Police
arrest two men for raping girls (kp 24/03/2018)
TRC
to
set up district offices: Move aimed at completing probe
into more than 60,000 complaints within the remaining
11-month tenure of the commission, by Binod Ghimire
(kp 23/03/2018)
Land
sold thrice without owner’s knowledge, by Byas
Shankar Upadhyaya (ht 23/03/2018)
High-level
police team to probe killing of gold smuggler, by
Manish Gautam (kp 23/03/2018), Police
launch investigation into murder, 33 kg gold smuggling:
Suspects claim cops trying to let main perpetrators free
(ht 23/03/2018)
Smuggling
of goods rampant (ht 23/03/2018)
Man
caught trafficking girl (kp 22/03/2018)
Five
held over gang rape of 15-year-old girl: The
intellectually disabled victim was held captive for days
(ht 22/03/2018)
Another
minor raped in Parsa, by Ritesh Tripathi (rep
22/03/2018)
14
years on, wounds from Beni attack still raw, by Hari
Krishna Gautam (rep 22/03/2018)
Burn
violence, acid attacks discussed (ht 22/03/2018)
Four
arrested on suspicion of murder (ht 22/03/2018)
Body
seized from pyre for murder probe, by Shiva Puri (kp
21/03/2018)
Police
find cremated remains of Sneha (kp 21/03/2018)
RJP-N
presses for Chaudhary’s swearing-in (kp 21/03/2018)
[Impunity and reward for crime
accused persons?]
Durbarmarg
gang-rape: Main accused in net (kp 21/03/2018)
Study
reveals widespread underinvoicing in exports (kp
21/03/2018), Under-invoicing
in carpet export to China costing Nepal dear, by
Pushpa Raj Acharya (ht 21/03/2018), Underinvoicing
raises tax avoidance, money laundering concerns, by
Sagar Ghimire (rep 21/03/2018)
Attempted
murder of pregnant rape victim (kp 20/06/2018)
3
jailed for kidnap, murder of 8-year-old (kp
20/03/2018)
6
girls rescued from Nepal-India border (kp
20/03/2018)
Process
begins
to amend transitional justice Act: Attorney General
Kharel is taking a lead in preparing the draft
amendments in consultation with the Law Ministry (kp
20/03/2018)
Woman
torches own children on death after dispute with husband,
by Manju Upreti (rep 20/03/2018)
Two
extortionists arrested (kp 20/03/2018)
BPKIHS
Sunrise Bank branch robbed (ht 20/03/2018)
Ex-king
evades Rs 38 million tax: Municipality official, by
Yuwaraj Biwas (rep 20/03/2018)
Opposition
party not weighing in (rep 20/03/2018), No
power can save Resham Chaudhary from law: AIG, by
Jagat Khadka (rep 20/03/2018)
TRC
starts talks with victims (kp 19/03/2018)
Sexual
abuse of male children overlooked, by Anita Shrestha
(ht 19/03/2018)
Call
for men to join hands in the fight against VAW (ht
19/03/2018)
Interpol
hunts for fugitive Manange (kp 19/03/2018) [CPN-UML
and Election Commission will have to explain how this
criminal could be made a candidate for the provincial
elections!]
Three
underage girls raped in Syangja: Uncle rapes 11-year-old
niece (kp 18/03/2018)
CPN
activists attempt to burn hospital officer, by
Ramesh Kumar Paudel (kp 18/03/2018)
School
principal molests student (kp 18/03/2018), Court
remands
Gyan Kunja principal to five-day custody: Principal
Shiva Karki was arrested on Friday night after a student
complained he ‘molested her’ (kp 19/03/2018),
Teacher
held for attempting to rape student (ht 19/03/2018)
Hard
day at the office: Workplace harassment laws in Nepal
mainly focus on sexual harassment in offices: Is that
enough?, by Giri Bahadur Sunar (kp 18/03/2018)
Officials
raid overseas job consultancy, four arrested for fraud
(ht 18/03/2018)
NC
cadres clash with cops in Banepa (ht 18/ß03/2018)
Racquet
importing fake alcohol stickers busted, by Shankar
Acharya (kp 18/03/2018)
Girl,
17, raped inside microbus in Saptari (kp 17/03/2018)
13
key NCC bank officers held in Rs1.5 billion scam (kp
17/03/2018)
Police
probe out-of-court rape settlement incident (kp
16/03/2018), Police
accused of settling rape case through mediation (ht
17/03/2018)
Pressing
for progress?, by Gunjan Upadhyay (rep 16/03/2018)
[on VAW]
Woman,
23, severely beaten for refusing marriage proposal,
by Bhawani Bhatta (kp 15/03/2018), Woman
attacked with hotPolice probe out-of-court rape
settlement incident oil for refusing marriage proposal,
by Dil Bahadur Chhatyal (rep 15/03/2018), Sunita’s
family files attempted murder case against Rakesh and
his friend, by Bhawani Bhatta (kp 16/03/2018)
A
woman on Women’s Day: No matter the ethnicity or
grouping, Nepali women face strange scenarios of extreme
prejudice, by Pramod Mishra (kp 15/03/2018)
Remembering
Maleth:
A year after Maleth tragedy political temperature has
cooled down. Sworn ‘enemies’ of the past have now become
‘friends’, by Manjeet Mishra (rep 15/03/2018)
Five
paraded for printing fake currency bank notes (ht
15/03/2018)
Catch
the momentum: Nepal’s resounding victory at Human Rights
Council reflects international community’s
acknowledgment of our commitments and accomplishments in
human rights, by Dinesh Bhattarai (rep 15/03/2018) [This article does not correctly
reflect Nepal's human rights reality!]
Rape
rife in Saptari localities: Even toddlers not spared,
by Jeetendra Kumar Jha (rep 14/03/2018)
Enough
is enough: Many people were killed in charge of
practicing witchcraft. Those cases were resolved most
probably with milapatra, by Shiksha Risal (rep
14/03/2018)
Police
arrest four CPN activists on charges of attacking mayor,
by DR Panta (kp 14/03/2018)
Govt
cuts off power to stone, sand factories: The decision
made to stop revenue evasion, land misuse and power
theft, by Harihar Singh Rathore (kp 14/03/2018)
CIB
arrests six persons for smuggling gold (14/03/2018)
Trader
Harish Sethiya shot at again (ht 14/03/2018)
Police
arrest man behind death of teen daughter, by Ajit
Tiwari and Santosh Singh (kp 13/03/2018)
Two
women gang-raped in 24 hours, by Abdhesh Kumar Jha
(kp 13/03/2018)
Chhaupadi
in Palpa: School bars menstruating girls from using
toilet, by Mukti Prasad Nyaupane (rep 12/03/2018)
Kapilvastu
man held for ‘raping his neighbour’ (kp 11/03/2018)
Husband
held for wife’s death (kp 11/03/2018)
Student
unions submit memorandum to home minister (ht
11/03/2018) [related to growing violence against women and
children], Students
urge
govt to stop crimes against women, kids: Student unions
draw Home Minister’s attention to a recent spate
of crimes committed against women and children (kp 12/03/2018)
Migrants
being used as gold carriers by racketeers (ht
11/03/2018)
Villagers
thrash girl, 18 (kp 10/03/2018), Police
launch investigation into Kailali witchcraft torture
incident, by DR Panta (kp 11/03/2018), Probe
into thrashing of witchcraft-accused starts (ht
11/03/2018), Lawmakers
demand action against cops, local reps (ht
11/03/2018), PM
directs action against those involved in alleging and
abusing girl for practicing 'witchcraft' (ht
11/03/2018), Human
Rights demands strong action against ‘witch’ thrashers
(kp 12/03/2018), Govt
vows action against perpetrators (kp 12/03/2018), SI
Bista suspended, case filed against three (ht
12/03/2018), Three
held for thrashing woman on witchery charge, by Dil
Bahadur Chhatyal (rep 12/03/2018), ‘Ram
Bahadur used to sexually exploit girls, young women’
(kp 13/03/2018), Govt
team in Kailali to inquire about witchcraft torture case
after a week, by DR Panta (kp 15/03/2018), 6
made public in Kailali witchcraft torture case, by
DR Panta (kp 16/03/2018), Radha
felicitated in her own village, by DR Panta (kp
18/03/2018)
Schoolchildren
falling prey to online sexual abuse (ht 10/03/2018)
Nine-year-old
tied up at home for mental illness (ht 10/03/2018)
RJPN
calls for Chaudhary’s release (rep 10/03/2018) [???], RJP-N:
Drop charges against Chaudhary: The MP-elect from
Kailali airlifted to Ktm for treatment, by Tika R.
Pradhan (kp 11/03/2018), Chaudhary
flown to capital for treatment (ht 11/03/2018), RJPN seeks
political solution to Kailali 'incident': Alerts govt
about possible consequences if Chaudhari dies in prison
(rep 11/03/2018) [This
is not a political issue but a crime! It cannot be
solved politically but only by a law court!], Resham
Chaudhary admitted to Bir Hospital (ht 12/03/2018),
Suspects
of Tikapur carnage end hunger strike after 4-pt deal,
by DR Panta (kp 13/03/2018)
Police
arrest gang of scooter thieves in Kathmandu (kp
10/03/2018)
Cooperatives
brought under anti-money laundering law, by Rajesh
Khanal (kp 10/03/2018)
Four
CPN cadres held for attacking elected official (kp
09/03/2018)
ICJ
concerned about continuing impunity in Nepal (ht
09/03/2018)
Minor
killed after rape in Rupandehi, by Rekha Bhusal (rep
08/03/2018)
Rage
against rape: We were never taught that we should fight
back against all sexual assaults. We could never share
abuses because it would be considered as our faults and
we would be blamed, by Sweta Gyanu Baniya (rep
08/03/2018), Women’s
Day:
As much a fight as celebration: #RageAgainstRape
activists march as part of a larger event organised to
mark International Women’s Day, by Sandesh Ghimire
(kp 09/03/2018)
Attorney
General starts talks to expedite justice process (kp
08/03/2018)
Huge
amount of injectable drugs seized (ht 08/03/2018)
An
unfinished agenda: We need to rethink the influence
gender biased mythology plays on our treatment of women
and girls, by Bhawana Upadhyay (kp 08/03/2018)
Four
persons on Interpol Red Notice arrested, brought home in
three months (ht 08/03/2018)
Smuggled goods seized, smugglers escape, by
Mithilesh Yadav (rep 07/03/2018)
Consultancy
operator
held for illegally sending workers abroad: Purushottam
Khadka, operator of Catchy Education and Training
Consultancy was arrested in Kathmandu last Friday
(kp 06/03/2018)
19
years after the killing of Yadu Gautam, a Maoist leader
calls it a mistake (rep 06/03/2018) [A
btutal murder is not a mistake but a fundamental crime!]
Police
arrest fugitive wildlife smuggler (kp 06/03/2018)
Cement
factories found flouting quality standards, by
Kushal Basnet (rep 06/03/2018)
Sand
mines operating using fake papers, by Harihar Singh
Rathore (kp 06/03/2018)
Kailali
Prison
inmates start fast unto death: 25 accused in 2015
Tikapur incident highlight their demands; Protesters
demand election victory certificate for Chaudhary,
by DR Panta (kp 05/03/2018)
Woman,
44, bludgeoned to death in Morang, by Arjun
Rajbanshi (kp 05/03/2018), Woman
in Morang killed after rape, by Yuvraj Biwas (rep
05/03/2018)
Wanted
MP Silwal claims he did not go into hiding (kp
05/04/2018), Review
of Silwal case on: AG’s office (kp 06/03/2018)
Sharma
out on Rs4.5m bail (kp 05/03/2018) [He
is accused of having amassed almost ten times this
amount!]
Police
arrest serial killer deported from Qatar (kp
05/03/2018)
Police
recover body of missing man from Lahan, by Binod
Bhandari (kp 04/03/2018)
No
compromise: Attempt to ‘compromise’ on rape cases is an
attack on dignity of women, by Pragya Lamsal (kp
04/03/2018)
Crime
and punishment: Killings of individuals, who had
criminal backgrounds, show a worrying trend that Nepal
Police is bent on dispensing ‘justice’ by bypassing the
judicial mechanisms, by Nir Lama (rep 04/03/2018)
5-year-old
raped (kp 04/03/2018)
Tikapur
tense after youth’s murder, by Ganesh Chaudhary (kp
04/03/2018)
Silwal
spotted in parliament, by Manish Gautam (kp
04/03/2018) [??]
Hindu
custom of Chhaupadi: Kanchanpur continues to isolate
menstruating women in sheds (kp 03/03/2018)
Forgery
racket running from medical store busted (ht
03/03/2018)
No
country for women: Nepal’s political transition is over,
but there is no closure for victims of wartime rape,
by Shreejana Shrestha (nt 02/03/2018)
Cyberbullies
top risk for children (kp 02/03/2018)
2
young girls raped in Parsa, Sunsari (kp 02/03/2018)
‘Ward
chair assaults woman’ (kp 02/03/2018)
Woman
behind bid to murder husband (ht 02/03/2018)
Some
return to crime when out of jail, by Sher Bahadur KC
(rep 02/03/2018)
Arrest
warrant against Chand (kp 01/03/2018), Police
issue Chand 70-day warrant to appear in court, by
Roshan Sedhai (rep 01/03/2018) [This
has been overdue for long!]
6-year-old
girl raped (kp 28/02/2018)
Sleuths
bust fake notes international racket, by Manish
Gautam (kp 28/02/2018), Counterfeit
currency in circulation: NRB suspects fake notes changed
hands during elections, by Pushpa Raj Acharya (ht
28/02/2018)
Police
step up efforts to curb hashish menace, by Kashiram
Dangi (kp 28/02/2018)
Tikapur
carnage suspect surrenders: Kailali District Court
remands MP-elect Chaudhary in judicial custody, by
Arjun Shah (kp 27/02/2018), Resham
Chaudhary to file application at High Court for release
date (kp 28/02/2018)
Two
minors raped in last two weeks (rep 27/02/2018)
Innocent
man jailed for 18 days (ht 27/02/2018)
Govt
told to compensate murder convict: Woman imprisoned five
years in excess of her awarded term, by Ram Kumar
Kamat (ht 26/02/2018)
NOC
begins
probe into gasoline smuggling: Fuel imported from India
is sold en route before reaching Nepal as prices are
higher across the border, by Binod Bhandari (kp
26/02/2018)
CIEDP
chooses
3 districts for probe: Teams will reach Kanchanpur,
Makwanpur and Jhapa to get details from family and to
collect ante-mortem data (kp 25/02/2018)
Five
women rescued (ht 25/02/2018)
Siblings
missing since more than a week, by Hari Krishna
Gautam (rep 25/02/2018)
Chhaupadi
is still a norm in Achham, by Menuka Dhungana (kp
23/02/2018)
Girls
from poor families prone to rape, sexual assault: Police,
by Giriraj Baskota (rep 23/02/2018)
Police
kill gangster Pun in Devdaha shootout, by Manish
Gautam and Ghanashyam Gautam (kp 22/02/2018), Police
begin hunt for Pun’s gangsters (kp 23/02/2018), Extrajudicial
killing:
The principle of law is that an accused is innocent
until proven guilty and should get a fair chance to
stand trial (ht 23/02/2018)
Police
constable and journalist injured in Pokhara IED
blast (kp 21/02/2018)
Chand-led
Maoists hurl bomb at moving bus, dozens injured
(rep 21/02/2018)
Rape
accused man on the run (kp 20/02/2018)
Why
#rageagainstrape?, by Shiksha Risal (rep 20/02/2018)
No
toilets for Dalits in ODF Rukum, by Ganesh BK
(20/02/2018)
Locals
terrorized after abducted son of ward chief killed,
by Kiran Man Bajracharya (rep 19/02/2018), Missing
boy found dead in Kapilvastu, by Manoj Poudel (kp
20/02/2018)
Two
men
rape girl, 16, in Bajura: Villagers threatened to kill
us if we filed a police case, said the victim’s father.
They prevented us from filing a police complaint at the
district headquarters, he said (kp 18/02/2018)
Electricity
theft down in Lalitpur (kp 18/02/2018)
Suspicious
foreigners under police surveillance (kp 18/02/2018)
4
rapes reported in different parts of country: Three
victims below 13 years; Cousin rapes and murders
11-year-old girl; Saptari police arrests a 12-year-old
boy after a two-year-old is raped on Thursday
(kp 17/02/2018), Man
arrested for raping, killing cousin (ht 17/02/2018),
Man
accused of raping child escapes, police accused of
collusion, by Madan Thakur (rep 17/02/2018)
Child
marriage still rampant although illegal, by Ram
Saran Tamang (rep 17/02/2018)
Mentally-challenged
man forced in shed since four decades, by Maheshwor
Chamling Rai (rep 17/02/2018)
Waiting
and waiting: Conflict victims have been demanding a fair
investigation, but it is nowhere in sight, by Ram
Kumar Bhandari (kp 16/02/2018)
Girl
raped, police blamed for letting of perpetrator (ht
16/02/2018)
Child
rape accused bribes victim’s mum to lie in court, by
Shiva Puri (kp 15/02/2018)
Cases
of violence against women decreasing in Bhaktapur
district (ht 15/02/2018)
Illicit
network businesses thriving by selling illicit drugs,
by Raju Adhikari (rep 15/02/2018)
Cases
of sexual violence increasing (kp 14/02/2018)
Assailants
attack Ncell towers (kp 14/02/2018)
Six-year-old
found dead (ht 14/02/2018)
Single
women in Rolpa facing domestic, social violence (ht
13/02/2018)
No
safe zones for women; Chronic anxiety of sexual
harassment in public transport narrows down
socio-economic prospects of women, by Biranchi
Poudyal and Samikshya Thapa (rep 13/02/2018)
118
kg illegal gold bust in six years (kp 13/02/2018)
Morang
police free three men from abductors, by Deo Narayan
Sah (kp 13/02/2018)
Five
held for abducting Indian nationals (ht 13/02/2018)
Police
in Kathmandu and Itahari tried to obstruct access to
justice, interview with Gita Upreti (kp 12/02/2018)
Two
Nepali Army men among three held with rhino horns
(ht 12/02/2018)
No
one owns explosion at UKHP (ht 12/02/2018)
Four
held for running hundi racket (ht 12/02/2018)
Smuggling
of Indian chicken rife in Siraha, by Mithilesh Yadav
(rep 12/02/2018)
TJs
begin new term with little hope for result, by Binod
Ghimire (kp 11/02/2018)
11-year-old
girl raped, suspect absconding (ht 11/02/2018)
Police
arrest rape accused in India (kp 11/02/2018)
Schoolchildren
at high risk of online sexual abuse (ht 11/02/2018)
Interpol
India hands over murder convict to Nepal (ht
10/02/2018)
Not
pushed around anymore: A young school girl from a remote
Nepali village dares to take a molester to court, by
Sahina Shrestha (nt 09/02/2018)
Hunger
for justice: Ganga Maya Adhikari refuses to give up her
struggle for justice, by Makenzie Stallo (nt
09/02/2018)
Everest
Hotel chair held (kp 09/02/2018)
Unsafe
and insecure: Recent media disclosures of police
complicity with rape perpetrators tells a lot about our
society (kp 08/02/2018), Crime
and
clarity: The police must institutionally do away with
the current iniquitous practice of finding a compromise
solution over rape, by Deepak Thapa (kp 08/02/2018),
‘Grave
mishandling of rape case', by Manish Gautam (kp
09/02/2018)
UML
dumped me: blast victim, by Pawan Yadav (kp
08/02/2018)
Man
attempts to burn wife to death, by Santosh Singh (kp
08/02/2018)
Rights
groups demand justice for 14-year-old rape victim in
Itahari (kp 07/02/2018)
Dharan
police investigates abduction, rape of student (kp
07/02/2018)
Rights
chair slams delay in war-era cases probe: Tenures of TJ
mechanisms extended by another year (kp 06/02/2018)
Criminalize
conflict-era torture and enforced disapperaces: NHRC
(rep 06/02/2018)
Govt
staff killed during 10-year insurgency declared martyrs,
by Roshan S. Nepal (ht 06/02/2018)
Teenager
rapes 3-year-old girl: Two girls gang-rapedl (kp
05/01/2017)
Birgunj
capital demand enters 32nd day: Protesters burn tyres
and damage vehicles, by Bhushan Yadav and Shankar
Acharya (kp 05/02/2018)
Police
arrest main accused in Lalu Khan shooting (kp
03/02/2018)
NHRC
panel to probe Durbarmarg gang rape case (kp
01/02/2018), Victim
changes her statement (kp 02/02/2018), Durbarmarg
gang rape: Suspension recommended for Inspector Thakuri
(kp 03/02/2018), Process
on to suspend Inspector: HQ (ht 04/02/2018), Police
fail to trace suspects’ whereabouts (ht 10/02/2018)
Police
arrest four suspects in Bhaktapur robbery case (kp
01/02/2018)
17
sent to judicial custody for illegal medical practice
(ht 01/02/2018)
Ganga
Maya on another death fast (kp 31/01/2018)
Police
HQ probes officers for refusing rape victim’s plaint
(kp 31/01/2018), Police
inspector under scannerAccused of taking bribe to let
‘gang-rapists’ off the hook (ht 31/01/2018)
The
world watches: Transitional justice bodies are being
criticised for delays but bulk of blame lies with
parties (kp 31/01/2018)
Security
guard held over murder of colleague (kp 31/01/2018)
17
held on charges of practising medicine illegally (kp
30/01/2018)
Fourteen-year-old
thrashed in police custody (ht 30/01/2018)
Oli
moots one-time amnesty to money launderers (ht
30/01/2018) [???], Oli for
legalizing 'underground money': Repeated statements from
would-be prime minister indicate incoming government's
lenient attitude, by Sagar Ghimire (rep
30/01/2018) [Politicians and
criminals are a mutually supportive community!!]
Whereabouts
of missing schoolboy still unknown (ht 29/01/2018)
Fugitive
robber ‘Tike’ hurt in police crossfire (kp
28/01/2028)
Youths
take initiative in fight against crime (ht
28/01/2018)
CIB
steps up crackdown on traffickers (ht 27/01/2018), Call
to end human trafficking in the guise of foreign
employment (ht 27/01/2018)
TRC
asks govt, parties not to meddle in war-era incidents,
by Binod Ghimire (kp 27/01/2018)
Two
elected representatives thrashed (ht 27/01/2018)
Cultural
rights and wrongs: How many more women must die before
defining how far Chhaupadi is acceptable?, by
Prakash Budha Magar (kp 26/01/2018), Chill
adds to woes of menstruating women (ht 26/01/2018)
Body
of minor girl found (ht 26/01/2018)
TRC,
CIEDP ‘in dilemma’ on term extension, by Roshan S.
Nepal (ht 26/01/2018)
Dozens,
including 38 blast victims, declared martyrs (ht
26/01/2018) [??]
SC
decision to jail me influenced by media, activists:
Dhungel (rep 26/01/2018) [????????]
Human
rights watch: TRC and CIEPD have done very little to
earn the victims’ families respect and goodwill (kp
25/01/2018)
Minor
girls employed in entertainment industry
(25/01/2018)
Family
held hostage in Bhaktapur, robbed of cash and jewellery
(kp 25/01/2018)
CIEDP
for Rs 2m in compensation: Proposes the sum to Peace
Ministry as relief for each family of the disappeared,
by Binod Ghimire (kp 24/01/2018)
International
community calls for ‘credible’ TJ process (kp
24/01/2018)
Eight-year-old
murdered in cold blood (kp 24/01/2018)
Main
shooter in Gauchan murder case arrested (kp
24/01/2018), Court
sends nine suspects to prison, one more nabbed (ht
24/01/2018)
CIEDP,
NEFAD deliberate collaboration, by Roshan S. Nepal
(ht 23/01/2018)
Diffusion
notice against former DIG Silwal (ht 23/01/2018)
Police
fail to nab gold smuggling kingpins (ht 21/01/2018)
Nepal
Police mobilises all units to arrest Manange (ht
21/01/2018) [Why not long before
the elections?], Police
still clueless about Manange: Ex-AIG of police blames
inept leadership in law enforcement agency (kp
23/01/2018)
Jail
sentence awarded to Dipak Manange remained unimplemented
for five years (ht 20/01/2018)
Expired
goods sold to hilly markets (rep 20/01/2018)
Dealing
with sexual harassment, by Anweiti Upadhyay (rep
19/01/2018)
Transitional
justice
mechanism: ‘Political will to deliver justice crucial to
settle conflict-era cases’; With the tenures of the two
transitional justice bodies due to expire in less
than a month, the government is planning to seek a year
extension through an ordinance (kp 18/01/2018)
Illegal
mining puts Changu area at risk, by Anup Ojha (kp
18/01/2018)
SC
sentences Manange to five years in prison (kp
17/01/2018)
Increasing
demonstration challenge court's credibility in Dhanusha,
by Suresh Yadav (rep 17/01/2018)
Apex
court acquits four of attempt to murder charges (ht
17/01/2018)
Jeweller
arrested for involvement in 33.5 kg gold smuggling
(ht 17/01/2018)
Post
journalist attacked by sand smugglers in Gorkha (kp
16/01/2018)
Police
bust gang that duped scores with RAW job offers (kp
15/01/2015)
Sinjali
nabbed
after being deported by Qatar: Sinjali had supplied
fire-arms used to kill Durga Tiwari, Rupandehi chair of
the CPN-UML-aligned Youth Association Nepal (kp
14/012/2018)
Betrayed
by delay: Many houses would have been rebuilt by now if
the government had not promised reconstruction grants,
by Ravi Lochan Paudyal (rep 14/01/2018)
Continuous
isolation:
Changing a long-held tradition requires a more
comprehensive approach than legislation alone can ever
provide, by Navaraj Pudasaini (kp 14/01/2018) [on
Chhaupadi]
Chronicles
of
crime: Incidents of murder are on the rise in Nepal but
culprits that claim the responsibility manage to stay
away from police net, by Kanchan Jha (rep
14/01/2018)
Chandrapur
blast victim in financial crisis (ht 14/01/2018)
http://nhrcnepal.org/nhrc_new/doc/newsletter/1267361268TIP_National_Report_2015_2016.pdfCops
clueless on Khotang ‘murders’ (ht 13/01/2018)
6
convicted of leaking MBBS question paper (kp
12/01/2018)
Sumargi
firms laundered Rs9b into Nepal: Govt report, by
Rupak D. Sharma (kp 11/01/2018), KMG
statement on its coverage of Sumargi’s financial
transactions (kp 17/01/2018)
Invisible
thieves: Recent cyber-attacks have shown that Nepali
banks need to keep up with technology, by Haribol
Acharya (kp 11/01/2018)
Judge
has no time for hearing Adhikari murder case, date fixed
15 times (ht 11/01/2018)
Tamang
to face attempt to murder case in Nuwakot (kp
10/01/2018)
Calls
for
amendment to laws before extending tenure of TJ bodies:
Rights activists have warned that extension of the
terms of TRC and CIEDP in status quo would be
unacceptable to them (kp 09/01/2018), One
year
term extension won’t do: TRC reps; Conflict victims say
that inept transitional justice bodies also to blame for
delay in investigation of war-era cases (kp
10/01/2018)
Woman
Dies in Chhaupadi practice: Chhaupadi tradition
was criminalised by the government in August
2017, by Menuka Dhungana (kp 09/01/2018), Woman in
Achham dies in Chhaupadi shed, by Khamma Khatri (rep
09/01/2018), Woman
suffocates in ‘menstruation hut’ in Achham (ht
11/01/2018)
Child
marriage rampant in Bara (ht 09/01/2018)
10
held on question leakage charge (kp 07/01/2018)
Conflict
victims
working on demand paper: With support from donors,
Conflict Victims Common Platform is finalising the paper
defining criteria and schemes for reparation by
categorising victims (kp 07/01/2018)
Inebriated
man beats wife to death, by Pratap Bista (kp
07/01/2018)
Trader
shot dead in Rupandehi, by Amrita Anamol (kp
06/01/2018)
CIEDP
draws flak for not tracking down disappeared: Sudden
confirmation of kin's death angers families of conflict
victims, by Arjun Oli (rep 06/01/2018), Truth on
Disappeared Fleeting, by Nandalal Tiwari (rn
08/01/2018)
Conflict
victims want their personal details secured (kp
05/01/2018)
Woman
beaten on witchcraft charge (kp 05/01/2018)
Warrant
issued to arrest MP-elect Silwal, by Manish Gautam
(kp 03/01/2018), Will
not cooperate in biased investigation process: Silwal,
by Manish Gautam (kp 04/01/2018) [??]
New
ordinance to extend term of TRC, CIEDP by a year, by
Kosh Raj Koirala (rep 04/01/2018), Ordinance
for extending TJ commissions’ tenure (kp
06/01/2018), TRC
investigates 285 plaints in seven months (ht
06/01/2018)
Ward
secretary at large with Rs 2 million, by Narahari
Sapkota (rep 04/01/2018)
People
practicing child marriage to be ostracized and penalized,
by Jagat Khadka (rep 03/01/2017)
Police
teams deployed to curb sexual assaults (ht
03/01/2018)
Over
100 drug smugglers, users arrested in Udayapur this
fiscal (ht 03/01/2018)
60
killed in East in a year: INSEC (kp 02/01/2018)
CIEDP
declares 400 missing people killed ‘without probe’
(ht 02/01/2018)
Another
cop held for APF HQ arson (kp 01/01/2018)
Violence
against young girls on the rise in Jhapa, by Raju
Adhikari (rep 01/01/2018)
2
held for, extortion, rape attempt (kp 01/01/2018)
Female
cops to frisk women crime suspects (ht 31/12/2017)
Abolishing
Chhaupadi: Jumla women in period no longer deemed
unclean, by DB Buda (rep 30/12/2017)
Sumargi
may have formed shell company to cleanse dirty money,
by Rupak D. Sharma (kp 29/12/2017)
To
forget or not to forget: Can new provincial governments
address hardships of war victims?, by Shreejana
Shrestha (nt 29/12/2017)
50
firms busted for selling inferior food (kp
29/12/2017), 50
firms accused of adulteration (ht 29/12/2017)
Wife
eats husband’s fingers in Dang (kp 29/12/2017)
Post-quake
reconstruction: Only 11 pc private homes built so far,
by Chandan Kumar Mandal (kp 28/12/2017) [a
crime committed by NRA, government and administration!],
Relief
materials rot in storehouse while quake victims battle
with cold and hunger, by Bhagawati Lama (rep
28/12/2017)
Untouchability
cases being settled under duress (ht 28/12/2017)
SC
directs police not to harass people based on appearances
(kp 28/12/2017)
Punishable
but pervasive: Incidents of child marriage in Nepal are
widespread yet remain woefully underreported, by
Chun Bahadur Gurung (kp 28/12/2017)
Attack
on election rally: 2 accused remanded in custody (kp
28/12/2017)
Smuggling
of
petro products rampant in eastern Nepal: A litre of
petrol is Rs16 cheaper in Nepal than in
India while diesel costs Rs22 less per litre in
Nepal, by Binod Bhandari (kp 28/12/2017)
APF
head constable held over Halchowk HQ arson (kp
27/12/2017)
Quake
victims lack resources to rebuild (ht 27/12/2017)
Ward
chief held on trafficking charge (kp 26/12/2017)
Nepali
woman returns home from Iraq incapacitated, by
Pradeep Menyangbo (kp 26/12/2017)
Child
marriage rampant in far flung areas of Bajura district
(ht 26/12/2017)
Quake
survivors battling with extreme cold, by Kishan
Sangeet Nepali (rep 26/12/2017)
Rautahat
woman thrashed for 'practicing witchcraft' (ht
25/12/2017), Long
way
to go: Fighting this illegal and abominable practice is
not just the duty of government; NGOs also should come
up and act against the social scourge (ht
26/12/2017)
Contractors,
suppliers paid Rs 20 billion in bribes last year, by
Rudra Pangeni (rep 25/12/2017)
Police
shoot dead Myadi recruit for protesting pay cut, by
Tularam Pandey (kp 23/12/2017), Curfew
clamped in Manma, by Tularam Pandey (kp 24/12/2017),
Curfew
clamped in Kalikot: dozens injured including one
policeman (ht 24/12/2017), Temporary
police intensify protests in Kalikot, by Pabitra
Kumar Shahi (rep 24/12/2017), Kalikot
under curfew again after 2-hr respite, by Tularam
Pandey (kp 25/12/2017), Curfew
lifted in Manma (kp 26/12/2017)
People
practicing or promoting Chhaupadi in Dhamile to be
punished, by Jagat Khadka (rep 23/12/2017)
Buddhist
‘spiritual guru’ Tulku Lama sent to prison (ht
23/12/2017)
Maoists
preparing to validate conflict-era land deals, by
Devendra Basnet and Ganesh BK (rep 22/12/2017)
Six
of armed group arrested in Bara (ht 21/12/2017)
Quake
victims to spend third winter in tents, by
Madhusudan Guragain (rep 20/12/2017) [This
is a grave crime committed by politicians, NRA and other
administrators!!]
Police
accused of breaking hand of a suspect, by Nagendra
Upadhyay (rep 20/12/2017)
4
Indians flee after swindling Rs 100m from Pokhara folk,
by Deepak Pariyar (kp 19/12/2017)
Police
arrest alleged human trafficker: He left several women
in the lurch promising them high-paying jobs in Iraq
(ht 17/12/2017)
Women
risking their lives in Achham in obsession for a male
child, by Khamma
Khatri (rep
16/12/2017)
New
law to be tough on absconders (ht 16/12/2017)
Terai-Madhes
unrest probe commission submits report to govt (rep
16/12/2017)
Syndicate
practice: Crony capitalism, by Guna Raj Bhatta (ht
15/12/2017)
Cop-turned-politician
Silwal
in the dock? Apex court orders action against those
involved in forging appraisal documents related to
former DIG; After resigning from police force, Silwal
joined the CPN-UML and went on to win a seat in
the House of Representatives (kp 15/12/2017) [The connections between politics and
crime can never be close enough! This cannot be colled
rule of law!], Lal
commission submits report: Recommends govt declare 4
killed in Madhes movement as martyrs (kp 16/12/2017)
[And the main accused culprit is
elected into parliament??]
Child
marriage blamed for adolescent violence (rep
15/12/2017)
Criminal
activities on rise after the elections in Rautahat,
by Madan Thakur (rep 14/12/2017)
Man
on
the run set to walk into Parliament: Resham Chaudhary
wins election from Kailali-1; He is on our wanted list;
we will arrest him: Police (kp 13/12/2017) [Question
to EC and RJPN: What about artiucle 87 of the
constitution??], SC
refuses Chaudhary’s writ petition (kp 16/12/2017)
Outlawed
Chhaupadi
still in practice: The Criminal Code stipulates a
three-month jail term or Rs 3,000 fine, or both, for
anyone forcing a woman to follow the custom (ht
13/12/2017)
CIB
to launch crackdown on gangsters (ht 13/12/2017)
Helpline
for GBV plaints launched (kp 11/12/2017), Zonta
marks 16 days of activism against GBV (kp
11/12/2017)
Girls
fight back: Self-defence is not all about kicking and
punching with fancy moves like in films, by Giri
Bahadur Sunar (kp 10/12/2017)
Forgetting
something: The transition is said to have been a
success, but conflict victims still wait for justice,
by Ram Kumar Bhandari (kp 10/12/2017)
Several
idols in Pashupati temple go missing, by Anita
Shrestha (ht 09/12/2017)
#16
Days:
Make the call: Only if the culture of shame and silence
around Gender Based Violence is broken will we be able
to create a safe environment, by Biska Thapa (kp
08/12/2017)
FNJ
moves SC demanding release of arrested journalists
(kp 06/12/2017)
TRC
ignored due process while probing war-era cases: Victims,
by Binod Ghimire (kp 05/12/2017)
Leave
no one behind: Nepal can be proud of its efforts to
tackle gender-based violence, but a lot remains to be
done, by Richard Morris and Rurik Marsden (kp
05/12/2017)
Contractor
murder: ‘Mastermind’ in police net, by Manish Gautam
(kp 04/12/2017)
Dahal
signs deal with Bandarmude blast victims, by Shiva
Puri (kp 04/12/2017) [This means that he at last admits the crime, but
justice looks different!! And who will pay all this, the
state or the Maoist party??], Justice
eludes conflict victims, by Ujjwal Satyal (ht
04/12/2017), Dahal's
deal with Badarmude victims draws flak (rep
05/12/2017), TRC
takes exception to Dahal’s deal with Madi blast victims
(kp 06/12/2017)
One
held with 17 kg gold from Balaju (kp 04/12/2017)
Couple
murdered in cold blood in night attack, by Laxmi Sah
(kp 03/12/2017)
Bank
employee among three held for banking fraud (ht
03/12/2017)
Online
listing of VAW cases from Dec 11 (kp 02/12/2017)
Cyber
threat
corners banks: Use of pirated software is quite rampant
in financial institutions in Nepal. This has
prevented them from installing new patches to upgrade
the software, making them vulnerable to cyber attacks,
by Rupak D. Sharma (kp 01/12/2017)
Families
of Maleth victims want jobs, education (ht
01/12/2017)
‘Chand-led
CPN grave threat to security’ (ht 01/12/2017)
Temporary
cop injured in Dang explosion dies: 1st casualty of
anti-poll activities, by Durga Lal KC (kp
30/11/2017), NC
candidate among seven hurt in Udaypur IED blast, by
Dilliram Khatiwada (kp 30/11/2017), NHRC
condemns rising incidents of bomb attack (kp
30/11/2017)
Transitional
justive:
Lack of designated law minister puts MoPR in quandary:
Act amendment process stalled as commissions’ term nears
end (kp 29/11/2017)
IEDs
detonated targetting ballot boxes (kp 28/11/2017)
Better
safe than sorry, by Giri Bahadur Sunar (rep
27/11/2017)
Transitional
justice:
Probe into 500 cases completed in 2 provinces: Reports
to be sent to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission
head office for review before further process;
Commission unable to review the investigated cases
as senior officials from the TRC headquarters have
been deputed for the elections, by Binod Ghimire (kp
26/11/2017)
Violence
against women continues (ht 26/11/2017)
CIB
arrests two TIA officials for allegedly colluding with
wildlife smugglers (ht 25/11/2017)
‘Godman’
held
on sexual exploitation charges: The incident came to
light only recently, after the woman revealed her ordeal
to her family members who reported it to the CIB, by
Manish Gautam (kp 24/11/2017)
Transitional
justice: CIEDP to summon Deuba over conflict-era
disappearances, by Chitranga Thapa (kp 23/11/2017)
Speakers
stress effective implementation of CEDAW (kp
23/11/2017)
11
years of peace agreement: Conflict victims’ wait for
justice continues, by Binod Ghimire (kp 22/11/2017),
Piecemeal
process: 11 years after CPA, political parties are still
to internalise the essence of transitional justice
(kp 23/11/2017)
Govt
to file cases against anti-poll elements in court,
by Kamal Dev Bhattarai (kp 22/11/2017)
Bomb
hoax terrifies people at Supreme Court (kp
22/11/2017), Bomb
hoax creates panic in apex court: Staff evacuated from
premises, court business closed for the day, by Ram
Kumar Kamat (ht 22/11/2017)
Eight
arrested for running fake certificate racket (ht
22/11/2017)
Achham
rife with cases of violence against women (kp
21/11/2017), VAW
cases rampant in Achham district: Much of the
violence unreported; Five rapes reported in five months
(ht 21/11/2017)
Police
seize 17kg smuggled gold, by Balaram Ghimire (kp
19/11/2017)
NC,
Maoist Centre leaders attacked: Blast targeted at Mahat
injures six in Nuwakot (kp 18/11/2017)
Blasts
targeting candidates cause for concern, say poll
observers (kp 15/11/2017)
Five
arrested in connection with Gauchan murder case: Killed
after refusal to pay extortion money; mastermind at
large: Police, by Manish Gautam (kp 15/11/2017), Gauchan
murder case: Two more suspects Held (kp 18/11/2017)
Banda
hits life in Rolpa (kp 14/11/2017)
Unidentified
group fires at Pun’s team, by Kashiram Dangi (kp
13/11/2017)
IEDs
hurled at election motorcade of Sharma (kp
11/11/2017)
Eleventh
grader stabs classmate to death (kp 09/11/2017)
TRC,
CIEDP stare at crisis as term sees end: Act needs to be
amended to give the commissions more time to work,
by Binod Ghire (kp 08/11/2017), Trauma
in transition:Tenures of toothless transitional justice
bodies need to be renewed; given greater independence
(kp 09/11/2017)
Maina
Sunuwar
murder case: SC orders Kavre court to produce documents;
three ex-Nepal army officials were sentenced to life in
prison in April (kp 07/11/2017)
Guilty
of Madi bus ambush should face legal action: Dahal
(kp 05/11/2017) [Change of mind?]
Call
to end impunity for crimes perpetrated against
journalists (ht 04/11/2017)
Woman
killed for refusing group sex proposal: Police (kp
04/11/2017)
Gandaki
Medical College padlocked over new mother’s death
(ht 04/11/2017)
19
govt sites breached in latest cyberattack (kp
04/11/2017)
Candidates'
lists infested with criminals, goons, by Manish
Gautam (kp 03/11/2017)
Justice
delayed
and denied: Many more cases like Dhungel’s will have to
be brought to justice before some kind of normalcy
returns, by Deepak Thapa (kp 02/11/2017)
Krishna
Adhikari's murder: Hearing put off for December 11
(kp 02/11/2017)
Murder
convict
Dhungel sent to prison: Maoist leader, who was walking
free despite being convicted eight years ago by apex
court, will remain behind bars for 12.5 yrs, by
Manish Gautam (kp 01/11/2017), Arrest
of Dhungel raises hope of justice for war-era victims
(kp 02/11/2017), Search
for
truth and justice continues in Nepal: ICJ; Says arrest
of Maoist leader Dhungel highlights weaknesses, as well
as promises, for conflict victims seeking accountability
(kp 02/11/2017), Belated
action:
In 2016, the Judgment Implementation Directorate of the
SC had also written to the Nepal Police to execute the
verdict, but the police never responded (ht
03/11/2017)
Dalit
activists demand justice for 14-year-old rape victim
(kp 01/11/2017)
Murder
accused girl, 16, kills self in police custody, by
Bharat Jargha Magar (kp 30/10/2017)
New
law sets five-year jail term for marital rape
(ht 30/10/2017)
Mother
of two flees abusive husband, by Basanta Pratap
Singh (kp 30/10/2017)
Protest
over minor’s death: One dead, over 50 hurt as locals
clash with police in Birtamod, by Lila Baral (kp
28/10/2017), Birtamod
staggers back to normalcy after all-party meet (kp
29/10/2017)
Crime
does pay: If there’s one thing we’ve learnt from
watching too many films it is that participation in
politics is natural progression for gangsters, by
Gunjan Upadhyay (rep 28/10/2017)
New
law criminalises acid attacks (ht 28/10/2017)
Hospital
vandals beware: People who engage in violent acts must
be punished according to the existing laws, by
Ghanashyam Chapagain (kp 26/10/2017)
Contempt
of
court writ filed against police chief: Petitioner says
failure to arrest murder convict Dhungel is wilful
disobedience by security force (kp 25/10/2017)
Woman
held for burning hubby (ht 25/10/2017)
Minor’s
decapitated body found (ht 24/10/2017)
Three-yr-old
girl raped, murdered (ht 23/10/2017)
NIC
Asia
cash stolen in cyber heist: Central bank confirms the
reported cyber theft from the SWIFT system of the
bank which took place during the Tihar vacation
(kp 23/10/2017), Hackers
steal from NIC Asia Bank via SWIFT, by Sagar Ghimire
(rep 24/10/2017), Bank’s
weakness helped criminals to hack into its system,
by Rupak D. Sharma (kp 24/10/2017), Digital
fortress: The cyber-attack on NIC Asia Bank points to
the ineptitude of banking security systems (kp
25/10/2017), Nepali
banks ‘not prepared’ to ward off cyber threats (kp
25/10/2017), Possibility
of insider involvement in illegal transfer of funds
(ht 25/10/2017), NRB
not
keen on learning lessons from cyber heist: The central
monetary authority has not monitored whether other banks
have taken measures to avoid stumbling into the pitfall
that brought troubles to NIC Asia Bank, by Rupak D.
Sharma (kp 26/10/2017)
Man
injured in Mhepi shooting (kp 22/10/2017)
Theft
case reported from various locations of Kathmandu
(ht 22/10/2017)
Four
foreign employment fraudsters in police net (kp
18/10/2017)
Two
Nigerian hackers among four held for e-mail, facebook
fraud (ht 18/10/2017)
88kg
gold smuggling: Congress PR candidate arrested; Police:
Those held earlier named Man Bahadur Tamang as point
person, by Manish Gautam (kp 17/10/2017)
Stolen
baby boy was sold to Siraha woman, by Shyamsundar
Shashi (kp 16/10/2017), Babies
as items to steal for some, throwaway for others, by
Suresh Yadav (rep 16/10/2017)
Two
brothers murdered over land dispute (kp 15/10/2017)
NRNA
member Arrested for duping Japanese prof (kp
15/10/2017)
‘Nagarjun
murder connected to gold smuggling’: Body of a man was
found on Oct 2 (kp 13/10/2017)
Plus
and minus: Just because the Maoists are subsumed within
the UML, it doesn’t mean their war crimes will be erased,
by Nilamber Acharya (nt 13/10/2017) [Please
do not conceal that war crimes were committed in the
same way by security forces and at least protected by
the then responsible politicians from NC, CPN-UML and
RPP as well as Gyanendra Shah!]
Bullion
trader shot dead in Sarlahi, by Aman Koirala (kp
12/10/2017)
Business
community in Morang demands security (kp 12/10/2017)
Pistol
seized from Godavari house, suspect at large (ht
12/10/2017)
Army
petitions SC over Kavre court verdict in Maina case,
by Bhasha Sharma (rep 11/10/2017), Set
it right: Nepal Army has to come clean on the Maina
Sunuwar case, as it is an emblematic one (kp
12/10/2017)
Nine
arrested for 'involvement' in murder and abduction,
by Rekha Bhusal (rep 11/10/2017)
Builder
shot dead in broad daylight in city: Police say three
persons arrested with bullets, pistol, by Chandan
Kumar Mandal and Anup Ojha (kp 10/10/2017), FCAN
President Gauchan shot dead in Kathmandu: Murder in
broad daylight is a threat to business, says private
sector (ht 10/10/2017), Criminals
Raising Head, by Bhimsen Thapaliya (rn 11/10/2017),
Builders
say
they feel threatened after Gauchan’s killing: Inform
prime minister about threatening calls they have been
receiving since the incident, by Chandan Kumar
Mandal (kp), Dark
days: Yesterday’s fatal shooting in the Capital demands
action against gun violence (kp 11/10/2017), No
headway in identifying culprits (ht 11/10/2017), FCAN
announces series of protests (ht 12/10/2017), Police
release sketches of murder suspects (kp 13/10/2017),
Agitating
contractors end all protests (ht 14/10/2017)
Six
held for abducting woman (kp 08/10/2017)
Murderers
of NC leader still on the run (ht 08/10/2017)
Man
held from Kirtipur for killing mother (ht 07/10/2017)
Smuggling
of goods from India rampant in Kailali (ht
06/10/2017)
Govt
bans essential services strike (ht 05/10/2017)
Law
on cards to treat attacks on docs as non-bailable
offence, by Manish Gautam (kp 05/10/2017)
Govt
to
crack down on illegal chemical trade: The guidelines are
expect-ed to control illegal imports of such
refrigerants and regulate the market for devices that
use these chemicals amid a thriving illegal trade
(kp 03/10/2017)
Safe
Migration: Reducing Human Trafficking, by Jhabindra
Bhandari (rn 03/10/2017)
Saw
mill owner murdered in Rautahat (kp 30/09/2017), 3
murdered in 10 days in Rautahat (ht 30/09/2017), Tensed
post-election scenario in Rautahat, four killed in 12
days (kp 01/10/2017)
Man
shot dead in Rautahat; two suspects arrested (kp
26/09/2017), Rautahat
youth shot dead (ht 26/09/2017)
Women
rights activist attacked for ‘witchcraft’, by
Shankar Acharya (kp 25/09/2017)
Closure
of OPD services in hospitals hits patients hard (ht
23/09/2017), OPD
services closed in hospitals for third day, by
Sabitri Dhakal (ht 25/09/2017), Doctors’
strike ‘inhuman’, says NHRC (ht 25/09/2017), Pregnant
women hit hard, by Anita Shrestha (ht 25/09/2017), OPD
services closed on fourth day of strike (ht
26/09/2017),
Patients
bear
brunt of docs’ strike: Hundreds of thousands of patients
across country deprived of medical services as doctors
refuse to budge, by Manish Gautam (kp 26/09/2017), Lives
in
peril: The strike goes against the provision of the
Essential Service Operation Act that forbids strikes in
hospitals and health centres (ht 26/09/2017), Docs
up the ante as govt renews call to end strike: NMA warns
of stern protest as patients suffer (kp 27/09/2017),
Malpractice:
Extreme demands have been made by both sides of the case
in holding doctors accountable (kp 27/09/2017), OPDs
closed for 5th day, thousands affected (rep
27/09/2017), Doctors
call off strike after 4-pt deal with govt; hospitals
reopen across country (kp 30/09/2017)
Nanda
Prasad’s last rites yet to be performed (ht
23/09/2017)
28
dead goats found in trunk of Kathmandu-bound bus, by
Anup Ojha (kp 22/09/2017)
Criminal
Code: Chhaupadi and community, by Mukesh Adhikari
(ht 21/09/2017)
Police
adopt new strategy to combat theft (ht 20/09/2017)
Hotline
for victims of sexual harassment (ht 16/09/2017)
Thawang
chief kidnapped by cadres of Chand-led party: CPN
members say they will release Ghartimagar after
interrogation, by Kashiram Dangi (kp 16/09/2017), Ghartimagar
released (kp 18/09/2017) [Bring
the culprits behind bars if you ever want to end
political impunity!!], Abduction
'experience' of Thabang Rural Municipality chief, by
Dinesh Subedi (rep 19/09/2017)
Smuggling
of 22 kg gold: Cops hunting for rural municipality chair
(ht 13/09/2017)
CIB
urges caution in wake of paedophile arrests (kp
12/09/2017), Nepal
Police intensifies vigilance against potential
paedophiles (ht 13/09/2017)
Lankan
women saved from traffickers: New phenomenon in trend of
Nepali men and women being trafficked via Colombo
(kp 11/09/2017)
70
booked for sexually harassing women (kp 11/09/2017)
Fourteen-year-old
dies in police custody (kp 09/09/2017)
Two
Indian nationals shot at (ht 08/09/2017)
Kidnapped
girl rescued in Dhading (kp 08/09/2017)
Second
suspect arrested in Budhanilkantha murder case (ht
07/09/2017)
Criminalisation
of Chhaupadi: Bajhang women sceptical about effective
implementation of law, by Basanta Pratap Singh (kp
06/09/2017), Saving
their
honor: While Chhaupadi ban is indeed a major step
towards women’s empowerment and emancipation in our
highly patriarchal society, it also has many hitherto
ignored ramifications, by Basant Kumar Chaudhary
(rep 06/09/2017)
Conflict
victims: The mechanical way of taking statements will
neither reveal the truth nor heal the trauma, by
Suman Adhikari (kp 06/09/2017)
Smuggling
rife at Biratnagar customs, by Ajit Tiwari (rep
06/09/2017)
Smuggled
gold worth over Rs 340m seized in biggest haul ever,
by Manish Gautam (kp 05/09/2017), Police
launch manhunt to nab Chinese couple (ht
06/09/2017), Gold
smuggling a cause for concern: If not checked, it could
foster shadow economy, by Pushpa Raj Acharya (ht
07/09/2017), Multiple
drivers used: Police (kp 08/09/2017), Police
nab five traders (kp 21/09/2017)
The
Wait Unto Death For Justice, by Nandalal Tiwari (rn
04/09/2017)
Murder
convict released at the order of Home Minister Sharma,
by Upendra Yadav (rep 01/09/2017)
The
disappeared: The state must deliver justice and
criminalise enforced disappearance as a crime against
humanity, by Ram Kumar Bhandari (kp 30/08/2017), Frustration
mounts among war victims’ families (kp 30/08/2017),
Hope
fades for families of disappeared (kp 31/08/2017), ICJ
calls for criminalising enforced disappearance (kp
31/08/2017)
Efforts
on to minimise VAW: State Minister Hussen (ht
30/08/2017) [Minimise??????]
Largest
case on hundi deals filed (kp 29/08/2017)
Women
on warpath over tardy probe (ht 29/08/2017)
Kin
of war victims from security forces seek ‘justice’,
by Anita Shrestha (ht 29/08/2017)
Nepal
Police plans to set up anti-trafficking bureau (ht
29/08/2017)
CIEDP
begins detailed study of complaints (ht 27/08/2017)
Absconding
human trafficker arrested (ht 27/08/2017)
Time
to end impunity: Nepal should immediately ratify the ICC
treaty to strengthen the national justice system, by
Raj Kumar Siwakoti (kp 25/08/2017)
Turning
black into white: The government needs to take a more
forceful approach if money laundering is to be curbed,
by Atit Babu Rijal and Manish Raj Kharel (kp 22/08/2017)
Dharan
jewellers making residents insecure (ht 22/08/29017)
Police
arrest main accused in 33kg gold haul (kp
22/08/2017), Alleged
gold smugglingmastermind brought to Nepal (ht
22/08/2017)
Rape,
murder cases up (ht 20/08/2017)
Panchthar
witnesses rise in crime (ht 20/08/2017)
Relief
distribution: SC orders govt not to adopt one-door
policy (kp 19/08/2017), Meagre
ration infuriates flood survivors, by Chandan Kumar
Mandal (kp 19/08/2017)
Rights
defenders object to Lama’s promotion (kp 18/08/2017)
Additional
2,264
cases registered with TRC: The second deadline for
insurgency victims to file their pleas ended on
August 11, by Binod Ghimire (kp 18/08/2017)
Parliament
passes criminal offences bill: Punishment for offenders
from higher social strata will be more severe (ht
11/08/2017), Jail
term till death for attempted murder, killing of
president (ht 11/08/2017) [???]
Illegal
sale of tobacco products continues unabated (ht
11/08/2017)
New
law criminalises Chhaupadi custom (kp 10/08/2017), Ending
bad blood: Criminalising the practice of Chhaupadi is a
milestone in Nepali women’s fight against patriarchy,
by Supriya Gurung (kp 11/08/2017)
13
arrested for sexual harassment on public transport in a
week (ht 10/08/2017)
Supreme
Court orders government to regulate sale, distribution
of acids, by Ram Kumar Kamat (ht 10/08/2017)
ICJ
calls for reforms in transitional justice bodies (kp
09/08/2017) [see discussion
paper by ICJ], Transitional
justice bodies failing to give fair deal to victims: ICJ
(ht 09/08/2017)
Drug
dealer’ dies in shootout with cops (kp 08/08/2017)
Bad
traffic: Women and children have become particularly
vulnerable to trafficking after earthquakes, by
David Kainee (rep 08/08/2017)
Parliamentary
panel finds govt officials involved in human trafficking
to Gulf countries, by Ashok Dahal (rep 08/08/2017),
MoFA
failed
to act, says House panel report: ‘Immigration officials
colluding with traffickers, state turning a blind eye to
the crime’ (kp 09/08/2017), MoFA
officials involved in trafficking: House panel, by
Sabin Mishra (ht 09/08/2017), Criminal
alliance:
A thorough investigation into the matter is required.
Otherwise trafficking in Nepali housemaids would
continue as usual (ht 10/08/2017)
Abductors
of 5-year-old boy arrested (kp 06/08/2017)
Government
forms special cell to tackle financial crime (kp
06/08/2017)
Kavre
transport operators warn of blocking Sajha (kp
05/08/2017)
Unidentified
gunmen attack tile shop (kp 05/08/2017)
MoF
forms Anti-Money Laundering Cell (ht 04/08/2017)
Internal
Need: While cross-border trafficking of Nepali women
gets attention, domestic trafficking does not, by
Kate Ryan (nt 04/08/2017)
Bharatpur
mayoral candidate’s son held (ht 03/08/2017)
Valley
recorded highest number of crimes in Bhadra last fiscal
(ht 03/08/2017)
Cops
make public two arrested for attempt to kill spouses in
Dolakha (ht 03/08/2017)
Efforts
to
bring Baker to trial in Nepal under way, say police:
Wildlife body parts, including skin, skulls and bones of
tiger, leopard and antelope as well as archaeological
items were seized from Baker’s house (ht 03/08/2017)
Sting
operation to discourage sexual harassment on public
transport (ht 02/08/2017)
Sub-metropolis
executive officer thrashed in Janakpur (ht
02/07/2017)
Call
bypass operators made public (ht 02/08/2017)
Father,
brother held over ‘honour killing’ (kp 01/08/2017)
Police
head constable gets life for murdering lover (kp
01/08/2017)
Female
suspect held behind cop’s death (kp 31/07/2017)
Boy,
17, arrested for raping 10-year-old girl (kp
31/07/2017)
Woman
allegedly
tortured for giving birth to a baby girl, by Manoj
Paudel (kp 30/07/2017)
Chhaupadi
still prevalent in hilly districts, by Govind KC
(rep 30/07/2017)
The
world
forgetting, by the world forgot: Transitional justice is
lost in transition in sluggish world of delays and
apathy, by Reena Chikanbanjar (ht 30/07/2017)
Reported
cases
of human trafficking doubled last fiscal (ht
28/07/2017), Countering
human
trafficking: Importance of coordinated effort, by
Alaina B. Teplitz (ht 28/07/2017), World
Day Against Trafficking In Persons, by Abgur Baba
Joshi (rn 30/07/2017)
Man
arrested
on human trafficking charge (kp 27/07/2017)
A
road to nowhere: Attitude of the state and major
political parties must change to reflect concern for
conflict victims’ demand for justice, by Ram Kumar
Bhandari (kp 25/07/2017)
Superstition
And Social Suppression, by Nandalal Tiwari (rn
24/07/2017)
Safe
house built for domestic violence victims gathering moss,
by Bira Gadal (rep 24/07/2017)
Woman
held
for murder (ht 24/07/2017)
Couple
held
on charge of killing daughter (kp 23/07/2017)
All
4
members of family found dead in Banepa restaurant,
by Rajkumar Parajuli (ht 23/07/2017)
Assault
on
couple caught on tape: 4 booked for attempted murder
(kp 22/07/2017)
Missing
woman
found dead, naked in Khotang jungle (ht 22/07/2017)
Nepal
lacks
law criminalising terrorism, says US; Tribhuvan
International Airport lacks baggage screening technology
(ht 21/07/2017)
Man
arrested for impregnating his own granddaughter, by
Yogesh Rawal (rep 20/07/2017)
DSP
Sharma
suspended (kp 20/07/2017)
Fuel
dealers’
syndicate affects supply, by Sujan Dhungana (ht
20/07/2017)
60
percent
people in Karnali unaware of Chhaupadi ban: Report
(kp 18/07/2017) [And govt and administration do nothing to
implement it!], National
disgrace:
A clean or dirty shed is not the issue, the issue is
women’s dignity and human rights, by Radha Paudel
(kp 18/07/2017), The
second
sex: Menstruation - a natural, physiological cycle -
should be destigmatised (kp 20/07/2017) [Why
do you not call male gender the second sex? Life is
given by women!], Call
to
enact laws against Chhaupadi practice (ht
20/07/2017)
11-year-old
pregnant girl banished from village, by Akson Rai
(rep 18/07/2017), Raped,
pregnant
and banished, 11-yr-old struggles for justice, by
Bidhya Rai (kp 19/07/2017), 11-year-old
rape
victim rescued (kp 22/07/2017)
Squatter
settlement
demolished, by Anup Ojha (kp 16/07/2017)
Missing
daughters:
At the root of sex-selective abortion lies the culture
of preferring sons, by Anjita Parajuli (kp
16/07/2017)
Witch
doctor
charged with rape (kp 15/07/2017)
The
murders
at Ranibari: This week the 15-year-old Ranibari dual
murder case ended with the two culprits sentenced to
life in prison. But some questions remain far from
answered, by Manish Gautam (kp 15/07/2017)
CIB
arrests
fugitive murder convicts after 23 years (ht
15/07/2017)
Cooperatives
operator
goes missing leaving depositors worried, by Madan
Wagle (ht 15/07/2017)
Kidnapping
incidents
continue unabated (ht 14/07/2017)
Chhaupadi:
A heavy burden, by Arun Bam (rep 14/07/2017)
Four
trucks
of ‘plastic rice’ seized (kp 13/07/2017)
Rape,
divorce
top cases in Dolakha (ht 13/07/2017)
Backlog
of
trafficking cases soaring: NHRC (ht 13/07/2017)
TRC
urges
PM not to discontinue district peace committees (ht
13/07/2017)
Dang
abduction
case: Rana Bdr found dead; 28-year-old murdered on the
same night as Shrestha; His suspected involvement in the
incident was unfounded, by Durgalal KC (kp
13/07/2017), Abducted
contractor
Gharti’s body found in Salyan forest (ht 13/07/2017)
Husband
surrenders
to police with wife’s decapitated head, by Krishna
Prasad Gautam (kp 12/07/2017), Banke
man
slits wife’s throat, beheads her, surrenders to police
(ht 12/07/2017)
Three
held
for gang raping a woman in Birgunj (ht 12/07/2017),
Woman
gang-raped; three held (rep 12/07/2017)
TRC,
CIEDP
seek continuation of local peace panels (kp
11/07/2017)
Main
accused
of Shrestha’s murder still at large (kp 11/07/2017),
Six
arrested
on charge of Shrestha’s murder, by Durga Lal KC (kp
12/07/2017)
Panel
to
probe kidney extraction (ht 11/07/2017)
Transitional
justice:
An uphill task, by Roshni Kapur (ht 10/07/2017)
Woman
thrashed
after her semi-nude photo posted on imo (ht
09/07/2017)
Chhau
shed
snakebite kills woman (kp 08/07/2017), Chhaupadi:
A tradition that continues to claim women's live, by
Govinda KC (rep 09/07/2017)
Nepal
Earthquake
and Human Trafficking: Nepal is a source country for
women, men and children subjected to forced labor and
sex trafficking, primarily across Asia and the Middle
East, by Prabin Manandhar (sp 07/07/2017)
No
roof
over their heads, by Anish Tiwari (kp 07/07/2017), Post-quake
reconstruction
fails to pick up pace, by Sanjeev Giri (kp
07/07/2017) [This
is a great failure by the state to render assistance
even though funds are there!!]
More
than a victim: Healing after harassment, by Priyanka
Gurung (rep 07/07/2017)
Five
held
on different charges (ht 07/07/2017)
Families
of
war victims to get relief (ht 06/07/2017) [And
when will those guilty be punished??]
Over
6,000
trafficked in 2015-16, says NHRC report (kp
05/07/2017) [see NHRC
report], NHRC
report
shows rise in human trafficking post-quake; 23,000 cases
of trafficking or attempt to traffic reported in FY
2105/016 (rep 05/07/2017), Modern
day
slavery: Trafficking is a thriving business whose
constant evolution makes it tough to combat effectively
(kp 07/07/2017)
Woman
stabbed to death by her husband (rep 05/07/2017)
Pokhara
High
Court sends a rapist teacher for 9 yrs in prison (ht
04/07/2017)
Smuggling
turning
into ‘lucrative business’, by Bhusan Yadav (kp
03/07/2017)
VAW
continues
to plague Nepali society (kp 02/07/2017)
1,381
face
action in four years for polluting Valley rivers (kp
02/07/2017)
TRC
opens
offices in seven provinces, members to lead, by
Binod Ghimire (kp 02/07/2017), Lost
in
reconciliation: There are widespread fears that the new
TRC offices in the provinces won’t deliver much (kp
03/07/2017)
German
national
arrested on paedophile charges, child rescued (ht
02/07/2017)
Abducted
Tulsipur
trader Shrestha found dead, by Drgalal KC (kp
01/07/2017), Businessman
Raj
Kumar Shrestha found dead in Salyan: Four persons
arrested, six at large (ht 01/07/2017)
Women
make
up majority of rights victims, shows study (ht
01/07/2017)
Drug-related
crimes
growing at an alarming rate: Police; Authorities call
for concerted efforts to control trafficking and abuse;
The average age of drug users, according to the
five-yeardata, is 27.07 years (minimum 13 and maximum 50
years) (kp 30/06/2017)
Nepal
being
used as human trafficking transit: US report;
Unregistered migrants are more vulnerable to forced
labour and sex trafficking (ht 30/06/2017)
KMC
tears
down Kasthamandap rebuilding structure (kp
30/06/2017) [???]
Three
injured
in Bajhang clash: The Maoist Centre threatens to
obstruct the vote count if the arrested party cadres are
not freed immediately (kp 30/06/2017) [Crimes
are not punishable if they are committed by party
cadres??]
Dalit
beaten for entering temple (kp 29/06/2017), Dalit
thrashed
for entering temple in Bode Barsain Municipality (ht
29/06/2017)
Head
constable
saves hundreds from fatal bomb explosion (ht
29/06/2017), Policeman
risks
his own life to save voters from bomb explosion, by
Devendra Basnet (rep 29/06/2017)
Call
for
collaborative efforts to fight gender-based violence
(ht 29/06/2017)
Body
found
in ex-major general’s house; Itahari locals turn violent
(ht 28/06/2017)
Rape,
murder
accused arrested after five years on the run, by
Prachi Aryal (kp 27/06/2017), Rape-and-murder-accused
lands
in police net finally (rep 27/06/2017)
Elderly
woman
found dead after acid ‘attack’ (ht 27/06/2017)
IED
detonated
at house of UML candidate (kp 27/06/2017)
7
injured in explosion during Maoist Centre’s election
rally (kp 26/06/2017)
Dalit
fined Rs 2,000 for touching cowshed,
by Krishna Oli (rep
26/06/2017)
It’s
not right: Historically the security forces in Nepal
have used force, threats and torture to control the
population, by Praveen Kumar Yadav (rep 26/06/2017)
Drug
crimes
increasing at alarming rate (ht 26/06/2017)
TRC
hands
over 1,000 cases each to six provinces for probe (ht
25/06/2017)
CIEDP
to
collect ante-mortem data from tomorrow (kp
24/06/2017)
Domestic
violence,
a leading cause of suicide in Kavre (ht 22/06/2017)
Code
prepared
for collection of DNA evidence (ht 21/06/2017)
Many
wartime
rape victims have no access to justice, by Anita
Shrestha (ht 20/06/2017)
Girl
gang-raped (ht 20/06/2017)
2
Thai Embassy staff held after 13 years in Visa fee scam
(ht 20/06/2017)
34
pc
women victimised by kin (ht 19/06/2017)
Post-reconciliation
blues:
Bardia had highest number of enforced disappearances,
most of them picked up by the security forces. Their
whereabouts remain unknown, by CK Lal (rep
19/06/2017)
Fugitive
trafficker
sent behind bars (kp 19/06/2017)
UML
cadre
killed in clash with NC in Bajura (ht 19/06/2017)
Honey
trap
gang busted, two held (ht 19/06/2017)
Tikapur
incident
victims receive compensation (ht 17/06/2017) [And what about punishing those
guilty?], Tikapur
incident-accused
get hefty compensation: Resham Chaudhari receives Rs
17.4 million; Of the 46 accused in the killings, 22
including Resham are still at large, by Dil Bahadur
Chhatyal (rep 17/06/2017)
Blood
components being 'smuggled' to India, by Bishnu
Prasad Aryal (rep 16/06/2017)
Panchthar
man
arrested for raping teen daughter (ht 15/06/2017)
'Fake
banknotes entering circulation from rural areas', by
Santosh Pokharel (rep 15/06/2017)
Bajhang
women to vote for those pledging to end chhaupadi
(rep 15/06/2017)
EC
concerned
as officials detained (kp 15/06/2017)
Illegal
networking
business: QNet’s transactions worth in excess of Rs200
million: CIB (kp 14/06/2017)
Police,
villagers
clash over gang rape incident, by Rabindra Uprety
(kp 13/06/2017)
RJPN
cadres beat up 3 polling officers, vandalize vehicles
(rep 13/06/2017)
Over
100
nabbed over illegal network business: CIB files fraud
case against 14, the rest released on bail (kp
13/06/2017)
Businessman’s
whereabouts
still unknown (ht 12/06/2017)
Kin
of
poll-clash victim stage mute rally (ht 12/06/2017)
Motorcycle
thefts
on the rise (ht 12/06/2017)
Orientation
on
human trafficking issues (kp 11/06/2017)
Man,
40,
stoned in drunken brawl, dies (kp 11/06/2017)
Police
step
up vigilance against burglaries (ht 11/06/2017)
Woman
horrifically
attacked by hubby: 34-year-old mother of three suffered
burn injuries after her partner poured boiling oil on
her head, by Rajendra Manandhar (kp 09/06/2017)
Abducted
boy,
7, freed from India, 3 arrested (kp 09/06/2017)
Protest
over
two minor girls’ death (kp 08/067/2017)
12
years
on, Bandarmudhe victims await justice (kp
07/06/2017)
Three
held
for running illegal VoIP centre (ht 07/06/2017)
Politics
of
syndicates: The chief justice has made damning
accusations against Dahal and Deuba (kp 05/06/2017)
Truth
and
Reconciliation Commission Office set up in Biratnagar (ht
05/06/2017)
TRC
begins probe into war-era cases from Surkhet, by
Nagendra Upadhyaya (rep 05/06/2017)
Bharatpur
vote
counting fiasco: 90 ballot papers found torn, 70pc in
shreds, by Bimal Khatiwada (kp 02/06/2017)
74%
women in Jumla still sent to sheds during menstruation,
by DB Buda (rep 01/06/2017)
Musahars
deprived of allowance for not having toilets, by
Mithilesh Yadav (rep 01/07/2017)
318
Nepalis
languishing in foreign prisons (ht 01/06/2017)
Oxygen
bottle
theft rampant in high camps of Mt Everest (ht
01/06/2017)
Widow
and
kids of slain Tamang seek protection, by Rajendra
Manandhar (kp 31/05/2017)
Rally
taken
out in memory of martyr Krishna Sen (ht 28/05/2017)
TRC,
CIEDP
unlikely to accomplish task, by Lekhanath Pandey (ht
28/05/2017)
10
IC
racketeers arrested (kp 27/05/2017)
Temporary
cop
held for rights activist’s murder (ht 26/05/2017)
Police
blamed
for candidate’s death in Malkot firing (kp
25/05/2017)
Elderly
couple
killed for property in Dhangadi (ht 25/05/2017)
Chairman
of
Nepal Kumal Sangh attacked (kp 24/05/2017)
Rally
to
demand end to VAW in public places (kp 21/05/2017)
Who
will
deal with ‘disappearances’ registered as ‘death’ cases?,
by Lekhanath Pandey (ht 21/05/2016)
Maina
murder
case: Amnesty seeks review of Maj Basnet’s acquittal
(kp 20/05/2017)
Man,
80,
caught for four murders he committed 42 years ago
(kp 19/05/2017)
Male
victims
of child sexual exploitation overlooked,
by Anita Shrestha (ht
19/05/2017)
Govt
to drop charges in Kailali lynchings, other cases
(rep 19/05/2017) [???], Decision
on
Tharuhat, Madhes movement: NHRC objects to govt move;
NHRC says decision to grant amnesty to the guilty of the
dreadful incidents amounts to promoting a culture of
impunity (kp 20/05/2017), ‘Serious
criminal
cases have not been withdrawn’: The agitating Tharus and
Madhesis have long been demanding that cases related to
the political movements be withdrawn (kp 20/05/2017),
Tikapur
carnage:
UML condemns govt decision to drop cases; The main
opposition party terms the move a mockery of rule of law
and rank disregard for human rights (kp 20/05/2017),
NHRC
condemns
govt decision: Says culprits of criminal offences should
be brought to justice (ht 20/05/2017), Tikapur
carnage
victims cry foul, by Tekendra Deuba (ht 20/05/2017),
Dahal
government under fire over decision on withdraw criminal
cases, by Roshan Sedhai (rep 20/05/2017), Pardoning
murder (rep 20/05/2017), Petition
against
move to pardon Tikapur accused (kp 22/05/2017), SC
refuses
to issue interim order (ht 23/05/2017)
Re-examining
gender based violence, by Ayushma Basnyat (rep
19/05/2017)
24
Nepali
girls rescued from Delhi: The victims were rescued from
a house in Uttam Bihar by the Embassy of Nepal and Crime
Branch of Delhi Police, by Kamal Dev Bhattarai (kp
18/07/2017)
Kin
of
Maleth clash victims get Rs 1m each (kp 18/05/2017)
[And what about punishing the
guilty persons?? This is continued politics of
impunity!!]
NC’s
memo
against killing of its cadre (ht 17/05/2017)
Malkot
clash:
RPP candidate succumbs to bullet injuries (kp
16/05/2017)
Family
members of victim shot by APF seeking justice, by
Madhusudan Guragain (rep 16/05/2017)
Mother
accused of selling three children in Ilam, by Bhim
Chapagain (rep 16/05/2017)
Election
cancelled
in three centres; one killed (kp
15/05/2017), APF
accused
of killing youth in Kavre: Protest over murder disrupts
polling in Namobuddha (ht
15/05/2017), Dhading
CPN-UML
cadre beaten to death (ht 15/05/2017)
Blast
in Lamjung (ht 15/05/2017)
Three
arrested
in Pariyar murder (kp 16/05/2017)
Cylinder
bomb
goes off in Bhaktapur (kp 13/05/2017), IEDs
found
outside two candidates’ homes (kp 13/05/2017)
Woman
burns
self; four homes destroyed (kp 12/05/2017) [?]
Imposter
held
for swindling women (kp 12/05/2017)
UML
activist
killed in clash, by Rajendra Manandhar (kp
11/05/2017), ), Unidentified
groups
detonate explosive devices in three districts (kp
12/05/2017), Police
alerted
by recent acts of violence, by Manish Gautam (kp
12/05/2017)
Fine
on
smugglers gets steeper (kp 10/05/2017)
Cops
file
public offence case against 19 CPN M cadres (ht
09/05/2017)
6
Kuwait-bound women rescued, 3 traffickers held (kp
08/05/2017)
Teacher
accused
of molesting girl students (kp 08/05/2017)
Chand-led
CPN
supporters arrested with explosives (kp 08/05/0217)
IED
recovered
from NC candidate’s house, 5 held (kp 06/05/2017)
Human
trafficking
cases decline in Valley (ht 04/05/2017)
4
policemen suspended for abetting smugglers, by Laxmi
Sah (kp 02/05/2017)
Valley
sees
rampant cases of sexual exploitation of girls, by
Anita Shrestha (ht 02/05/2017)
Groom
involved in child married arrested (rep 01/05/2017)
Dad
kills
daughter, makes suicide bid, by Biplab Bhattarai (kp
30/04/2017)
Beware
of
beautiful dreams: Poverty, unemployment and lack of
awareness are among the many factors that feed human
trafficking, by Reena Chikanbanjar (ht 30/04/2017)
Woman
beaten
in captivity by husband, in-laws over dowry (kp
28/04/2017)
End
the
conflict: Political parties have been debating amnesty
while making no effort to strengthen the existing
justice system, by Ram Kumar Bhandari (kp
28/04/2017)
Catch
those
pirates: Intellectual property infringement must be
prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, by
Pratyush Nath Upreti (kp 26/04/2017)
Police
patrol
attacked, shotgun robbed (kp 25/04/2017)
CIB
probing
man on women trafficking charge (kp 25/04/2017)
Organ
trafficking
rife in Kavre, expanding to other districts (ht
25/04/2017)
People’s
Movement
victim living with paralysis (ht 24/04/2017) [To remember: Now DPM Thapa ordered
the brutal procedure of police forces in April 2006!!]
No
promising
leads in recent shooting cases (kp 23/05/2017)
Probe
into
war-era cases affected as CIEDP staffers deployed for
polls (ht 23/04/2017)
Organ
traffickers
‘run health camps’ to lure people (kp 21/04/2017)
Police
rescue
abducted man; two arrested (kp 20/04/2017)
Rise
in
crimes involving social networking sites worries police
(ht 20/04/2017)
Pokhara-based
banker
‘flees with millions of rupees’, by Lal Prasad
Sharma (kp 20/04/2017)
Arson
attack
on Dhobighat church (kp 19/04/2017), Christian
federation
demands swift action against attackers (kp
20/04/2017), Christian
community
demands security (ht 20/04/2017)
Circulation
of
fake Rs 500 notes rife in Pokhara, by Lal Prasad
Sharma (kp 19/04/2017)
3
ex-NA officials convicted of killing Maina Sunuwar:
Kavre court passes landmark verdict on a case that had
been dragging on for 13 years; Sentences former soldiers
in absentia to 20 years in jail for the murder of
teenage girl, by Nagendra Adhikari (kp 18/04/2017)
[The verdict remains symbolic as
long as they are not arrested and serve their
sentences!!], UN
welcomes
court verdict on Maina Sunuwar murder: Calls ruling a
significant step towards ensuring victims’ rights to
justice (kp 19/04/2017), Fresh
wounds:
Conviction of the perpetrators of war-era cases provides
hope for justice, but enforcement is key (kp
19/04/2017), Nepal:
Need
Effective Steps to Enforce Court Verdicts; Rule of Law
Should Prevail, Not Political Protectionism (Amnesty
International 20/04/2017), Maina
case
forwarded to High Court (kp 04/05/2017)
Caste
discrimination: Where Dalits can’t buy milk, by
Jagat Khadka (rep 18/04/2017)
Elderly
woman
attacked on ‘witchcraft’ charge (kp 18/04/2017)
Neighbours
attack
couple for witchcraft (ht 18/04/2017)
Vandals
set
ablaze NC’s Kailali office (ht 18/04/2017)
Rukum
struggling
to contain illegal poppy cultivation, by Hari Gautam
(kp 17/04/2017)
Bus
mafia
controlling Nepal’s transport (kp 17/04/2017), The
bus
mafia controlling Nepal’s smog-choked capital (ht
17/04/2017)
Boy,
14,
dies at police school; kin cry foul play , by Anup
Ojha (kp 16/04/2017)
Govt
delay
in releasing funds puts temporary cops at their wits’
end: With no cash in hand, recruits are facing hard time
managing food and lodging, by Manish Gautam (kp
15/04/2017)
The
Red
Line for Holi: In light of last month’s social media
furore regarding harassment during Holi, the authors
conducted a short poll to understand the extent and
dimension of the issue. Here is what they found, by
Supriya Manandhar and Nasala Chitrakar (kp 15/04/2017)
Court
to
govt: Arrest murder convict Bal Krishna Dhungel (kp
14/04/2017), SC
orders police to arrest murder-convict Dungel within 7
days (rep 14/04/2017), Arrest
Order Against Dhungel: A Blow To Prachanda, by Ritu
Raj Subedi (rn 16/04/2017)
Conflict-era
cases: Official’s error deprives a family of
compensation, by Bhim Chapagain (rep 13/04/2017)
Local
gangster
shot at in Boudha: Police claim to have identified
assailant, by Manish Gautam (kp 12/04/2017)
Nepal
Airlines
captain held with $93,600 (kp 11/04/2017), CIB
likely
to take up Awale case (kp 12/04/2017), Cpt
Awale
freed on bail (kp 17/04/2017)
DAO
employee
among 3 held for Abduction (kp 11/04/2017)
Dealing
with
crime (ht 10/04/2017)
16,808
persons
go missing in three years (ht 08/04/2017)
Cyber
crimes
of harassing women on rise, by Samipa Khanal (kp
07/04/2017)
Female
cop
files assault complaint against DSP (kp 07/04/2017)
Absconding
human
trafficking convict held after 18 years (ht
07/04/2017)
Even
with
health posts, Mugu women give birth in cowsheds (ht
07/04/2017)
Chand-led
Maoists
threaten aspiring candidates (ht 06/04/2017)
I/NGOs
told
to follow election code (kp 05/04/2017) [Those
providing relief to earthquake victims before the
elections shall be arrested????]
Two
murder
suspects held (kp 05/04/2017), 2
Chand-Maoist workers held for NC leader’s murder, by
Janak KC (rep 05/04/2017)
Security
in
mess as some in police turn criminals, by Manish
Gautam (kp 04/04/2017)
Fire
the
slowpokes: A new Truth and Reconciliation Commission
consisting of nonpartisan experts should be formed;
Nepal’s experience suggests that when perpetrators hold
the key to power, truth and justice for conflict victims
can be sidelined, by DB Subedi (kp 04/04/2017)
4
foreigners nabbed for stealing cash from ATMs (kp
04/04/2017)
Punish
human
traffickers, House panel directs govt: Committee
instructs government to punish traffickers sending women
to the Gulf for ‘maid’ jobs (kp 03/04/2017)
Police
constable
among six arrested for robbery (kp 03/04/2017)
Neighbours
thrash
Dalit boy for entering kitchen, by Prakash Adhikari
(kp 01/04/2017)
Woman
found hanging, father suspects murder, by Ramesh
Kumar Paudel (rep 01/04/2017)
NC
leader
murdered; Khalanga shut in protest (kp 30/03/2017)
Smuggling
of
Nepali women: House panel says immigration officials
involved; Finds nexus between DoI employees and
smugglers (kp 29/03/2017)
Drug
cartels
tapping women to smuggle cocaine through Nepal (ht
27/03/2017)
Give
justice:
Parliament should also take up this issue seriously if
the State remains apathetic to the CIEDP’s call (ht
27/03/2017)
Woman
arrested on charge of murdering husband, by Pabitra
Kumar Shah (rep 27/03/2017)
Conflict
victims
allowed to move SC against TRC Chairman Gurung: Apex
court quashes registrar's refusal order (ht
25/03/2017)
Police
clueless about gruesome murder of teenage girl (rep
25/03/2017)
Gunman
shoots
at teacher (kp 23/03/2017)
Two
held
for selling fake licences (ht 23/03/2017)
Six
arrested for stealing electricity (ht 23/03/2017)
Torture
victims
compensated, by Thakur Singh Tharu (kp 22/03/2017)
Eight
arrested for stealing millions (rep 22/03/2017)
Drive
to
control drug abuse, sale in western region (kp
21/03/2017)
Man
stabbed
to death, three others hurt (kp 19/03/2017)
Drug
offences
top crime chart in Nepal (ht 18/03/2017)
SSP
Khatri released on bail, 7 others sent into custody,
by Deepak Kharel (rep 18/03/2017)
‘Govt
fully
committed to stopping financial crime’ (kp
17/03/2017), ‘Govt
mulling
more stringent AML/TF rules’ (ht 17/03/2017)
UDMF
activists
vandalise sign boards (ht 16/03/2017), UDMF
cadres tear down local unit signboards, padlock offices,
by Mithilesh Yadav /rep 18/03/2017)
2
incidents of theft in Capital (kp 16/03/2017)
Woman
kills brother-in-law (rep 16/03/2017)
War-victims
demand
TRC office bearers’ resignation (ht 16/03/2017)
SLMM
activists
set passenger bus on fire (kp 15/03/2017)
Additional
14,988
conflict victims verified, by Prithvi Man Shrestha
(kp 15/03/2017)
Murder-convict
Dhungel
felicitated in Okhaldhunga: Dhungel and seven others had
been convicted for the murder. Six have already
completed their jail terms while the seventh, Pushkar
Gautam, is still in jail, by Anil Bhandari (rep
14/03/2017)
DoSM
drags
six firms to court over malpractice: The department
filed cases based on a provision in the Black-Marketing
and Social Offences Act 1975 (kp 14/03/2017)
Youths
vandalise
Seti Zonal Hospital (ht 14/03/2017)
Boy,
chained up for 17 years, in want of medical attention,
by Surendra Bhandari (rep 14/03/2017)
6-year
old girl roped to wooden bed for two years, by
Shankar Shrestha (kp 13/03/2017)
Man
allegedly
killed by co-workers (rep 13/03/2017)
Bill
moots
alternative punishment to prison (ht 12/03/2017)
Vehicles
vandalised
for defying bandh in Gaighat (kp
161
hooligans
under police surveillance (ht 10/03/2017)
New
bride forced out of home on charge of witchcraft
(rep 09/03/2017)
Is
Women's Day only for the well-offs?, by Jagat Kahdka
(rep 09/03/2017)
Woman
found
murdered (kp 07/03/2017)
Women
exploited
in entertainment sector (ht 07/03/2017)
Three
protesters
killed in police firing in Saptari, by Abadhesh
Kumar Jha (kp 07/03/2017), 3
dead as UDMF cadres clash with police, by Jitendra
Kumar Jha (rep 07/03/2017), CPN-UML’s
East-West
Campaign And PN Shah’s Sword, by Siddhi B Ranjitkar
(km 07/03/2017), Police
killings
spark protests: Morcha supporters enforce strike, shut
eastern Tarai districts, by Abdhesh Kumar Jha (kp
08/03/2017), Govt
recalls
Saptari CDO, security chiefs: Decides to deploy
additional 300 security personnel in the district,
by Manish Gautam (kp 08/03/2017), Congress
lawmakers
demand judicial probe (kp 08/03/2017), Family
members inconsolable after death of breadwinner, by
Mikthilesh Yadav (rep 08/03/2017), NHRC
concerned
over obstruction: Commissioner Ansari’s vehicle
vandalised (kp 10/03/2017), UDMF
cadres
torch bus for defying strike in Saptari (ht
10/03/2017), Death
toll
in Saptari incident rises (ht 10/03/2017), Probe
into
Maleth incident begins (kp 24/03/2017), Parliamentary
team
in Rajbiraj to study shooting incident (ht
24/03/2017)
HRC
begins
probe into teenager’s murder (ht 06/03/2017)
Shootout
at
Swoyambhu: Police rescue 3, arrest abductors after
gunfight (kp 05/03/2017)
Chhaupadi
tradition:
Women’s monthly exile continues (kp 05/03/2017)
CIB
submits
case to govt attorney (kp 05/03/2017), Gold
smuggling:
Case filed against 12 suspects (kp 06/03/2017), Court
records
statements of accused (kp 07/03/2017)
Health
staff
obstruct polio vaccination in many districts, by
Manish Gautam (kp 05/03/2017), 18
officials
booked for disrupting polio drive (kp 06/03/2017)
Surge
in
opium cultivation posing threat to security (ht
05/03/2017)
OAG
stresses
scientific investigation of crime (kp 04/03/2017)
Rape
tops
list of crime against women in Nepal (ht 03/03/2017)
Bhatta
asks
TRC secretariat to call meeting pronto (ht
03/03/2017)
Cashing
in
on tragedy: The growing epidemic of hospital vandalism
and attacks on health workers reflects extreme politics
and erosion of the rule of law in Nepal, by Sonia
Awale (nt 03/03/2017)
Teenage
girl’s
death sparks tension in Dharan: Locals claim that the
girl was murdered by her foster parents (kp
02/03/2017), Dharan
teen’s
death: Autopsy reveals she was sexually abused;
13-year-old Anusha of Punya Marga, Dharan, died while
being treated for insecticide poisoning on Monday
(kp 04/03/2017)
Man
found
dead under mysterious circumstances (kp 02/03/2017)
Daylight
thefts
on the rise in Valley (ht 01/03/2017)
Students
break
norms as FSU election nears: Padlocking, vandalism,
arson, clashes common at TU campuses (kp
28/02/2017), 12
injured as students clash (rep 28/012/2017), Explosion
at college in Gorkha, padlocking at another, by
Narahari Sapkota (rep 28/02/2017)
Experts
call for revising torture bill (rep 28/02/2017)
Fight
against dirty money: 50 laws need to be amended by 2018,
by Kuvera Chalise (rep 28/02/2017)
Eight
suspects
arrested in Tiwari murder case, by Madhav Dhungana
(kp 27/02/2017), Manoj
Pun anchored to Tiwari's murder: Police, by Sher
Bahadur KC (rep 27/02/2017)
16,717
drug
traffickers booked in six years, shows NCB data
27/02/2017)
Police
round
up four on charge of fraud: Rs 2.3 million without any
legal source of income was found in the accounts of one
of the arrestees (kp 26/02/2017)
Smuggling
of
medicinal herbs goes unchecked in Salyan, by Biplav
Maharjan (kp 26/02/2017)
Underage
marriage
bid thwarted in Sindhuli (ht 25/02/2017)
Police
arrest
six for robbing businessmen (kp 24/02/2017)
Pro-UDMF
students torch Thakur Ram College office, by Ritesh
Tripathi (rep 24/02/2017)
Politics
and
policing: Evidence suggests a strong police-politician
nexus has the potential to embolden criminal elements,
by Subindra Bogati (kp 24/02/2017)
Still
no
clue about missing woman’s whereabouts (ht
24/02/2017)
Newborns
battle
to survive in sheds, by Prakash Singh (ht
23/02/2017)
Progress
on
transitional justice precious little: AI (kp
23/02/2017)
Police
not taking VAW cases seriously: Victims, by Madan
Thakur (rep 22/02/2017)
School
vandalized after student's sudden death (rep
21/02/2017)
Families
of
the disappeared to side with CIEDP, by Dewan Rai (kp
20/02/2017)
CMBFL
loan
scam: Another fugitive in police net (kp 20/02/2017)
Caste-based
discrimination
still rife in Bajhang villages, by Basanta Pratap
Singh (kp 19/02/2017)
Teacher
beats up student unconcious, parents demand action
(rep 18/02/2017)
Four
held
with Buddha statue, animal paw: Police say the racket’s
link in Pokhara and other parts of the country has been
established (kp 17/02/2017)
Lamki
Multiple
Campus chief, deputy missing; abduction suspected
(kp 16/02/2017)
Excavations
in Chure go unabated with backing from authorities:
Locals face shortage of water, ruined farmland, by
Mithilesh Yadav (rep 16/02/2017)
Scholarship
students say medical colleges cheating them, by
Bishnu Prasad Aryal (rep 16/02/2017)
Missing
girl,
7, found murdered, by Manoj Paudel (kp 15/02/2017)
Parliamentary
panel
defines heinous crimes: Proposes sentence till death;
Ups life sentence to 25 years, by Rupesh Acharya (ht
15/02/2017) [Chhaupadi still
punished mildly and only if a woman dies; else, it's
still not treated as crime!!]
Chand-led
Maoists step up extortion drive (rep 15/02/2017) [Party leaders who order such crimes
have to be punished severely!!]
Three
girls rescued from Indo-Nepal border, by Nirmal
Ghimire (rep 15/02/2017)
Six
boys
gang-rape 17-year-old girl, film video (kp
14/02/2017)
Families
of Kotbada victims still await justice, by Shankar
Shrestha (rep 14/02/2017) [This
has been cold-blooded murder committed by the army and
those responsible have been well known from the very
first moment!]
TU
rector's vehicle set on fire (rep 14/02/2017)
'Consultancies
into human trafficking, money laundering', by Bishnu
Prasad Aryal (rep 14/02/2017)
Murder
convict
extradited from Saudi 18 years after the crime (kp
13/02/2017)
‘Keep
TRC,
CIEDP out of politics’, by Lekhanath Pandey (ht
12/02/2017)
Students
enforce
vehicular strike (kp 11/02/2017) [Vandalism
is a severe crime and must be punished accordingly!
Strikes cannot be forced by crime!]
Teenage
girl
raped, murdered in Sindhuli (ht 11/02/2017)
Trafficking
in
women, children on the rise (ht 11/02/2017)
Man
held for trying to sell woman (rep 11/02/2017)
Teenagers’
club foils child marriage (rep 10/02/2017)
Highway
robbery:
Nepal’s public transport is in the grip of cartels which
will do anything to prevent competition, by
Shreejana Shrestha (nt 10/03/2017)
Transitional
justice
act amendment: Draft defines disappearance, by Dewan
Rai (kp 09/02/2017)
2
temple priests held for abusing Dalit worshipper (kp
08/02/2017)
Toilets
off-limits to menstruating females in Bajhang, by
Jagat Khadka (rep 08/02/2017)
'Woman
killed for refusing to have sex' (rep 08/02/2017)
Girl
dies
after jilted lover attacks her with acid in Butwal: The
boy, who had returned from Dubai a month ago, is learnt
to have thrown acid after she refused his marriage
proposal, by Madhav Dhungana and Amrita Anmol (kp
07/02/2017), An
heinous
crime: Perpetrators of acid attacks deserve stronger
punishment than what the law provides for (kp
08/02/2017)
Boy,
3,
found murdered; aunt held (kp 07/02/2017)
No.
of
cyber crime cases topped 550 this fiscal: Police; The
MPCD says easy access to technology has resulted
in rise in number of such crimes (kp 07/02/2017)
SSP
Khatri
remanded in 4-day judicial custody (kp 07/02/2017)
Jajarkot
woman
found murdered: Family of 24-year-old Radhika Sunar has
claimed that she was murdered by her husband Dal
Bahadur (kp 06/02/2017)
Newborn
baby
goes missing from hospital ward in Birgunj: Relatives
accuse doctors, nurse, administration of negligence
(kp 04/02/2017), Whereabouts
of
missing infant still unknown (kp 05/02/2017), Missing
from
hospital, infant found after 48 hrs: Police say a
childless woman had taken away the newborn three hours
after delivery, by Bhusan Yadav (kp 06/02/2017)
Cooperative
in
Bajura collecting millions without registration (ht
02/02/2017)
Woman
set on fire by husband dies, by Arjun Oli (rep
02/02/2017)
INTERPOL
Red
Corner Notice against 14 Nepalis (ht 01/02/2017)
First
meet
on investigation concludes (kp 30/01/2017)
Sign
agreements
to extradite transborder criminals, govt told (ht
30/01/2017)
Nurses
being paid nominal salaries by private hospitals: NNC;
Montlhly pay of nurses a little more than Rs 3,000,
by Bishnu Prasad Aryal (rep 28/01/2017)
Aussie
envoy
launches smpartphone app Nidarr (kp 28/01/2017)
All
in
the family: Girls are not safe even within their own
homes, especially in households dislocated by the
earthquake, by Sahina Shrestha (nt 27/01/2017)
‘Foreign
fraudsters
targeting ATM kiosks’ (kp 26/01/2017)
Criminalizing
of Chhaupadi proposed in new legal code: Offenders may
get 3 months in jail (rep 26/01/2017) [This
is insufficiant against the severe suffering of the
women!]
TRC
presses
for firm govt commitment: Demands legal prerequisites
and logistics before term extension, by Dewan Rai
(kp 26/01/2017)), TRC
fails
to decide on term extension (ht 26/01/2017)
Panel
on
disappearances to seek 1-year term extension, by
Dewan Rai (kp 25/01/2017)
Schools
turning into playground for politicians, by Raju
Adhikari (rep 25/01/2017)
Violence
against women: 8 Banke women set on fire in 2 and half
yrs, by Kalendra Sejuwal (rep 24/01/2017)
12
NEA
officials among 16 held for electricity theft, by
Manish Gautam (kp 23/01/2017), Hunt
for
power pilferers on: SSP Sarbendra Khanal says
police are looking for other owners who earned
millions through meter tampering (kp 24/01/2017)
TJ
bodies
divided over extra tenure: The mandate of the TRC and
the CIEDP, formed to look into conflict-era cases,
expires on Feb 10, by Dewan Rai (kp 21/01/2017)
Hubby
sets wife on fire after dousing her in kerosene, by
Arjun Oli (rep 20/01/2017), Drunken
man sets wife on fire in Banke, by Arjun Oli (rep
21/01/2017)
3
among CA brawlers have become ministers: Vandals still
not punished two years on; Probe committee report not
published, by Ashok Dahal (rep 18/01/2017) [politics
of impunity!]
Secretaries
with VDC budgets out of contact, by Jitendra Kumar
Jha (rep 18/01/2017)
Police
confiscate weapons and wildlife parts from forest
guard's house, by Madan Thakur (rep 18/01/2017)
Woman
found
murdered (kp 17/01/2017)
TRC
working to set up regional office in Dipayal (rep
17/01/2017)
Police
seize
15kg gold, arrest jeep driver (kp 15/01/2017)
Man
hacked
to death in Mahottari (kp 15/01/2017)
Mental
patient
languishing in iron cage (ht 14/01/2017)
Probe
launched
into illegal land registration (ht 14/01/2017)
IC
demonetization may have upped gold smuggling, by
Deepak Kharel (rep 13/01/2017)
Hindu-Muslim
dispute
upsets harmony of Kapilvastu village, by Manoj
Paudel (kp 11/01/2017)
Rampant
smuggling
through tia: Stakeholders blame lack of coordination
among govt agencies, by Rajesh Khanal (kp
11/01/2017), Gold
haul
at Tribhuvan International Airport: Probe to be turned
over to CIB: Nidhi (kp 12/01/2017)
Shahi,
Budha
get 1 month for smearing soot on Karki (kp
10/01/2017)
Long
road
to justice: Conflict victims have been waiting and
waiting for transitional justice bodies to act, by
Ram Kumar Bhandari (kp 10/01/2017)
Rautahat
woman
murdered mysteriously (ht 09/01/2017), Woman
found
dead; parents claim ‘murdered over dowry’, by Pawan
Yadav (kp 10/01/2017)
Victims
of
real estate scam demand justice (ht 08/01/2017)
Rs
11.68
bn compensation claimed from VoIP racketeers (ht
08/01/2017)
No
justice,
no peace: The commissions have made reasonable progress
in the transitional justice process, despite
non-cooperation from the government, by Dewan Rai
(kp 07/01/2017)
Polygraph
test
conducted on 1,314 suspects so far (ht 06/01/2017)
Wrongfully
shot
suspect turns out to be innocent: Victim's family
accuses police of shooting Shahi despite knowing he was
innocent, by Nirmal Ghimire (rep 06/01/2017)
Superstition-based
violence
on the rise (kp 05/01/2017)
Stop
the
scourge: We must come together as a society to
reject the woeful practice of dowry (kp 05/01/2017)
Living
in constant fear: Children learn from what they see at
home and outside. No wonder they believe gender
inequality is normal in society, by Aleena Udas
Sharma (rep 05/01/2017)
Transitional
justice:
Boundary dispute leaves bill to amend act in the balance,
by Dewan Rai (kp 05/01/2017)
14
Chandannath
idols recovered, by LP Devkota (kp 04/01/2017)
Mum
and
daughter dead, 2 girls hospitalised (kp 04/01/2017),
Mother
commits suicide after feeding poison to three daughters,
by Santosh Singh (rep 04/01/2017)
Private
drugs
sellers’ syndicate blocks procurement for hospital
pharmacy, by Bhusan Yadav (kp 03/01/2017)
Abduction,
murder
case still unsolved after 14 months (ht 03/01/2017)
Forest
guard
brutally killed, by Ananda Gautam (kp 02/01/2017)
Smugglers
after
Bajura’s rich herbs repository, by Arjun Shah (kp
01/01/2017)
48
rapes
recorded in three months (ht 01/01/2016)
1
SUV torched, another vandalised in Capital (kp
31/12/2016), Kohalpur
tense
after attack on YAN central member, by Thakur Singh
Tharu (kp 31/12/2016)
Settle
VAW cases within 3 months: CJ, by Nagendra Upadhyaya
(rep 31/12/2016)
Smuggling
of
medicinal herbs to China on the rise (ht 31/12/2016)
Rasuwagadhi
becoming
a ‘new transit for gold smuggling’ (kp 30/12/2016)
Police
probe
woman’s death (kp 30/12/2016)
Two
policemen
hurt in firing AT Nepal-India border (kp 30/12/2016)
Poisoned
greens: Farmers’ tendency to spray banned pesticides on
vegetables poses grave health risks to consumers, by
Vikash Raj Satyal (rep 28/12/2016)
Fraudulent
agents
tricking unwitting migrants in Delhi: Nepal Police
receives 281 plaints on fraud cases from Nepalis based
in various countries between Sept 2015 and Oct
2016, by Kamal Dev Bhattarai (kp 27/12/2016)
Man
on
police most wanted list arrested: Bijay Patel is
arrested by Indian police in Raxaul before being
handed over to a team from the Central Regional Police
Office, Hetauda, by Laxmi Sah (kp 27/12/2016)
Police
find new lead on stolen idols from Jumla, by Kamal
Pariyar (rep 27/12/2016), ‘I
was wrongfully shot by police’, by Nirmal Ghimire
(rep 30/12/2016)
Speech
impaired
minor gang-raped, by Bhim Bahadur Singh (kp
26/12/2016)
Supreme
Court
asks police again to arrest Dhungel, by Dewan Rai
(kp 26/12/2016), SC
body again tells police to arrest murder convict Dhungel,
by Nabin Khatiwada (rep 27/12/2016)
Girl,
14,
quits school to support mother, sister after quake: The
14-year-old says her family did not get housing aid
because her uncles took away the papers after her
father’s death, by Anish Tiwari (kp 25/12/2016)
Govt
set
to introduce bylaw to crack down on oil pilferage
(ht 25/12/2016)
Black
soot
smeared on suspended CIAA chief’s face, two held: The
Chand-led CPN-Maoist says the move was preplanned
(kp 23/12/2016), Suspended
CIAA
chief manhandled on SC premises (kp 23/12/2016)
Nepali
air
passengers being levied excess tax illegally: NTB has
been pocketing the sum since long (ht 23/12/2016)
Enforce
laws
to check VAW, say rights activists: Call for bringing
guilty to book (kp 22/12/2016), Violence
against
women unabated (ht 22/12/2016)
Children
vulnerable as rapes and murders soar, by Jitendra
Kumar Jha (rep 22/12/2016)
13
child
marriages stopped in 8 mths in Baitadi (kp
22/12/2016)
‘Parties
reluctant
to approve Rome Statute’: Rights activists say party
leaders fear they will be dragged into cases of human
rights abuses (kp 21/12/2016)
Youth
Association
Nepal Rupandehi chief shot dead: Durga Tiwari succumbed
to bullet injuries while undergoing treatment, by
Amrita Anmol (kp 20/12/2016), Police
arrest
3 in connection with Tiwari murder, by Amrita Anmol
(kp 21/12/2016), Police
play
down political motive in Tiwari murder, by Sher
Bahadur KC (rep 21/12/2016), Tiwari
cremated,
Rupandehi admin to recommend for martyr’s honour (kp
22/12/2016)
Embassy
alerts
Nepalis on trafficking trend via Thailand: Fraudsters
said to be trapping Nepalis by making them
overstay in Thailand and sending them to other countries
(kp 20/12/2016)
Chhaupadi
takes
away 15-year-old girl’s life in Achham, by Prakash
Singh (ht 19/12/2016), 15-yr-old
dies in Chhaupadi shed (rep 19/12/2016)
Domestic
violence in Jhapa: Girls more susceptible to domestic
violence, by Raju Adhikari (rep 19/12/2016)
Plug
loopholes:
A significant number of crime suspects being able to
give the police the slip is another way of saying that
impunity exists (ht 19/12/2016)
Police
bust
human trafficking racket (kp 19/12/2016)
Bajura
women
compelled to give birth in cowsheds (ht 18/12/2016)
9,975
crime
suspects give cops the slip in two years (ht
18/12/2016)
Man
held
with fake notes, by Aash Gurung (kp 18/12/2016)
8-year-old
boy
murdered after abduction, three suspects held, by
Abdhesh Kumar Jha (kp 16/12/2016), Neighbor
kidnaps
and murders minor, by Jitendra Kumar Jha (rep
17/12/2016)
CID
to
create central criminal record system (ht
16/12/2016)
Dowry
contributes
significant share in earnings of ministers, by Binod
Ghimire (kp 16/12/2016)
Student
rally
to protest ‘murders’ of two women (kp 15/12/2016)
UML
workers
injured in attack (ht 15/12/2016)
Youth
arrested
on charge of raping Mahottari teen (ht 14/12/2016)
Teenager
raped
by Baglung man in Gongabu (ht 14/12/2016)
Suspects
behind
robbery, murder spree captured: Police believe the
terror reign of the gang in Rupandehi since 2011 has
ended with the arrest of Pasawan and Bishwokarma, by
Amrita Anmol (kp 14/12/2016)
Group
of
teenage girls foils underage marriage: According to the
District Women and Children Office, about 52 percent of
girls in Bajhang marry before their legal age (kp
13/12/2016)
Mystery
surrounds death of a woman accused of 'practicing
witchcraft', by Madhusudan Guragain (rep
12/12/2016), NHRC
probes
death of Dalit woman in Kavre (kp 13/12/2016), Probe
Pariyar’s
death, says NHRC (kp 21/12/2016), Speedy
justice
sought for Laxmi Pariyar’s family (ht 22/12/2016)
Months
on, Special Court struggles to serve notices to ex-APF
chiefs (rep 12/12/2016)
25
arrested
after attack on police post in Bouddha (kp
12/12/2016), Mob
vandalises
Nayabasti police beat (ht 12/12/2016), Bauddha
cop beat vandalized over cabbie's 'suspicious' death
(rep 12/12/2016), Police
arrest
suspects in taxi driver’s death (ht 14/12/2016), Police
finally
crack taxi driver death mystery, nab five suspects
(ht 15/12/2016)
Violence
taking
its toll on women, girls (ht 12/12/2016)
Vegetable
market
in Baneshwor demolished: Structures pulled down after
vendors refused to vacate land as per court order,
by Anup Ojha (kp 11/12/2016), Government
officials
demolish Baneshwor vegetable market (ht 11/12/2016)
Sexagenarian
sent to jail over attempted rape charge (rep
10/12/2016)
Three
arrested for stealing Rs 3.5 million (rep
10/12/2016)
The
gods
will be angry: In the remote mountains of western Nepal,
women still deliver babies in dirty, cold and stuffy
cowsheds, by Mina Sharma and Prakash Singh (nt
09/12/2016)
NIC,
UN
Women, Zonta Club stand against VAW (kp 08/12/2016),
Violence
against
women: Central role of health workers, by Giulia
Vallese and Jos Vandelaer (ht 08/12/2016)
Kin
of
deceased vandalise Chitwan Medical College: The patient
had died due to eclampsia (ht 08/12/2016)
Chand
Maoist
men held with huge cache of ammunition (kp
08/12/2016)
Business
community
in Bhairahawa condemns murder bid on Neupane (kp
08/12/2016)
High
Court
upholds verdict in torture case (kp 07/12/2016)
Man
kills woman after attempts of abortion fail (rep
07/12/2016)
Where
mothers
give birth in cowsheds, by Prakash
Singh (ht
05/12/2016)
Scant
incentive fails to impress informers of gold smuggling,
by Kamal Pariyar (rep 05/12/2016)
Rs
6m
robbed in cash, gold (kp 05/12/2016)
Diesel
smuggling
reports: Ministry intensifies checks of tankers, by
Rajesh Khanal (kp 05/12/2016)
Government
fails
to amend TRC Act to facilitate transitional justice
process, by Lekhanath Pandey (ht 04/12/2016), TJ
act
amendment: Old definition of murder retained in proposed
bill; Murder redefined as ‘all kinds of killing’ from
‘act of killing under control’, by Dewan Rai (kp
05/12/2016)
Rolpali
women
seeking justice (ht 04/12/2016), Rolpali
women seeking justice, by Kabita Upadhyay (rep
05/12/2016)
Domestic
violence
on the rise in Sindhuli (ht 03/12/2016)
TRC
records
295 complaints on sexual assaultRights activists say the
real number could be higher: A human rights lawyer
Rukmani Maharjan says many victims have not shared their
stories with their partners, by Dewan Rai (kp
02/12/2016)
Violence
against
women: Slippery path to justice, by Wenny Kusuma and
Kirti Thapa (ht 02/12/2016)
#IWalkFreely:
Survey
reveals young women in Nepal are exposed to greater
dangers than just cat calls and wolf whistles, by Asmita
Gauchan (nt 02/12/2016)
Police
arrest fugitive for duping foreign job aspirants
(rep 02/12/2016)
'Little
progress
made against Chhaupadi', by Menuka Dhungana (kp
01/12/2016), Reform
begins
at home: Behavioural changes are needed to remove the
stigma associated with menstruation (kp 02/12/2016)
SC
orders
TRC to investigate all complaints: Court scraps standard
guidelines for shelving complaints while the TRC
regulations remain, by Dewan Rai (kp 30/11/2016)
Something
amiss: Violence on women (rep 30/11/2016)
Six
Nepalis arrested for transporting explosives from India,
by Kamal Pariyar (rep 30/11/2016)
Violence
against women continues unabated, by Santosh Singh
(rep 29/11/2016), ‘1
in
7 suffered abuse in the past 12 months’ (kp
30/11/2016)
"Complaints
against police helping in effective policing", by
Kamal Pariyar (rep 29/11/2016)
CIEDP
calls
for clarity on defintion of disappearance, by Dewan
Rai (kp 28/11/2016)
Women
working
in informal sector: Rights groups call for law to combat
internal trafficking; Poor young girls are being forced
to work in massage parlours and dance bars in city areas
with fake offers of respectable jobs (kp 28/11/2016)
Tansen
locals protest against police for failing to arrest
murderers (rpp 28/11/2016)
Final
hearing
in Adhikary murder case deferred (ht 28/11/2016)
28
ancient
idols stolen from Chandannath, by LP Devkota (kp
28/11/2016)
A
burning issue: Violence against women is detrimental not
only to the victim but to the whole community (kp
25/11/2016), Women
suffered
more violence at home than outside last year: Worec
report, by Pratichya Dulal (kp 26/11/2016), Violence
against
women continues unabated (ht 27/11/2016)
Police
arrest two agents trying to settle rape case (rep
25/11/2016)
Govt
told
to probe fraud cases in foreign job sector (kp
25/11/2016)
Transporters
start
installing security locking system in fuel tankers: The
system is expected to control possible leakage of petro
products, by Sujan Dhungana (ht 25/11/2016)
Rape
of
5-year-old girl revealed after two months: The girl’s
family did not report the incident fearing stigma
(kp 24/11/2016)
Corporal
punishment
rampant in pvt schools (ht 24/11/2016)
Chhaupadi
takes
its toll on women in Achham (ht 24/11/2016)
Bajhang
village
ends Chhaupadi, by Basanta Pratap Singh (kp
23/11/2016)
One
injured
in explosion (kp 22/11/2016)
Chhaupadi
practice:
Achham woman’s death concerns PM (kp 20/11/2016)
Act
amendment
delay stymies TRC: Term expiring in two months, by
Nabin Khatiwada (rep 19/11/2016)
Prosecution
in
serious rights violations, says PM, by Dewan Rai (kp
18/11/2016)
262.82
kg
smuggled gold seized in three years (ht 18/11/2016)
Social
stigma
related to sexual violence still rampant in society
(ht 17/11/2016), Women’s
security
is responsibility of all citizens, says DPM Nidhi
(ht 17/11/2016)
More
children
lost, abandoned (ht 17/11/2016)
Stakeholders
ignored
while framing TRC Act amendment bill,
by Lekhanath Pandey (ht
17/11/2016)
Police
shoot
dead armed man in Rautahat, by Laxmi Sah and Pawan
Yadav (kp 15/11/2016), Police,
robbers
exchange fire (ht 15/11/2016)
Police
highhandedness
becomes viral (ht 15/11/2016)
KU
VC’s
office vandalised (kp 15/11/2016), Ruling
Maoist party's students vandalise KU VC's office, by
Madhusudhan Guragai (rep 15/11/2016), ANNISU-R
leader
held for vandalising KU VC office (kp 17/11/2016), ‘PM
attends
KU convocation after his party cadre was freed’ (kp
23/11/2016) [???]
Illegal
export
of boulders rampant (ht 15/11/2016)
Banda
affects
normal life nationwide (kp 14/11/2016),
295
detained for vandalism during banda (rep 14/11/2016)
Quake
victims in Laharepauwa camp brace for another winter
under tents, by Nirajan Paudel (rep 14/11/2016) [Those responsible in government and
administration should be punished severely!]
CIAA
riding roughshod over right to privacy: Sophisticated
gear used to collect private and confidential
information on people not related to any investigations,
by Deepak Kharel (rep
14/11/2016)
Police
step
up vigilance to check ATM fraud (ht 13/11/2016)
Karki
‘ran
safe house’ to spy on people: Multiple sources say
police complicit in CIAA chief’s shenanigans (kp
12/11/2016)
Elderly
couple
beaten to death for ‘witchcraft’, by Krishna Thapa
(kp 11/11/2016)
Police
probe
suspected ‘murder-suicide’ (kp 11/11/2016)
Legal
hurdle
delays probe into TRC cases, by Dewan Rai (kp
10/11/2016)
Nepal
Police
hails ban on IRs 500, 1000 notes: Expects the move will
help put an end to smuggling of fake Indian currency
using Nepali territory (ht 10/11/2016)
Assaulted
by
hubby, woman in hospital for past 1 month (kp
09/11/2016)
Final
hearing
in Adhikary murder case deferred (ht 09/11/2016)
Husband
who burnt wife alive refuses to divorce her, by
Kalendra Sejuwal (rep 09/11/2016)
6
Bangladeshis held for suspicious activity (kp
09/11/2016)
Impeachment
and
impunity: Impeachment of CIAA chief would be an
important symbolic step, but it must not be used to hide
or side-step widespread systemic impunity in Nepal’s
body politic, by Kul Chandra Gautam (rep 09/11/2016)
Defrauders
in
net, PIN change suggested (kp 08/11/2016), Romanian
gang active in ATM fraud shifts focus to Nepal, by
Kamal Pariyar (rep 08/11/2016), A
stitch in time: Greater vigilance and stricter
enforcement of regulations are needed to curb
electronic crimes (kpm 09/11/2016), Banks
told
to make card transactions more secure, by
Bibek Subedi (kp 09/11/2016), Data
of
clients not compromised, say local banks: All the
reported cases related to ATM fraud involved
accountholders of foreign banks (ht 11/11/2016), ATM
skimmers had criminal records, by Kamal Pariyar (rep
28/11/2016)
Attempts
to
cover up rape case riles rights activists, locals
(ht 08/11/2016)
Tackling
Human Trafficking, by Rupa Sharma ‘Neha’ (rn
08/11/2016)
Manipal
teachers
strike to press their demands: Students say classes have
not taken place since August 23, by Lal Prasad
Sharma (kp 08/11/2016), Teachers’
agitation
hits students hard (ht 08/11/2016)
Decomposing
body of woman found in Bhaktapur (rep 07/11/2016), Decomposed
body identified to be of a girl killed by her lover
(rep 09/11/2016), 19-year-old
man
held for girlfriend’s murder: The victim’s body was
found inside a jute sack in a field in Bode recently (kp
10/11/2016)
Govt
set
to add 17 more shelters for trafficking victims (kp
06/11/2016)
‘Resource
crunch
affecting probe into conflict-era cases’ (ht
06/11/2016)
Women
hesitant to report cases of sexual harassment, by
Gyanu Sapkota (rep 05/11/2016)
Two
arrested
over Itahari shootout: DSP Naresh Raj Subedi says the
main suspect is on the run (kp 03/11/2016), Police
capture
main accused of Itahari shootout (kp 04/11/2016)
More
women
face domestic violence (ht 03/11/2016)
Disappearance
cases:
CIEDP to start exhumation of burial sites, by
Lekhanath Pandey (ht 29/10/2016)
CIEDP
proceeds
investigation with no clear law, by Dewan Rai (kp
27/10/2016)
More
than
laws needed: A number of factors prevent Nepali women
from reporting marital rape, by Saloni Maheshwari
(kp 25/10/2016)
Maoist
Centre
whip to vote for Karki’s impeachment (kp
24/10/2016), Discussion
after
motion is tabled tomorrow (kp
24/10/2016), Central
bank
releases Rs8b in Ncell profit: Permission for FY2011-12
dividend repatriation at suspended CIAA chief Karki’s
behest, sources claim (kp
24/10/2016), CIAA
releases
frozen bank lockers sans NRB consent (kp
24/10/2016)
AHW
accused
of selling medicines that patients should get for free
(kp 23/10/2016)
Two
more
held for explosions at Capital schools: Police say the
duo had planted explosive devices outside two schools in
Jorpati on September 20 (kp 22/10/2016)
Three
arrested
for fraud, trafficking: Owners of two educational
consultancies are being investigated after seven of
their Europe-bound clients were stranded in Russia
(kp 20/10/2016)
Human
trafficking
up through border entry points in far-west (ht
20/10/2016)
Missing
man
found dead (kp 20/10/2016)
Recalled
SPs
told to rejoin duty, by Manish Gautam (kp
20/10/2016) [Political
intervention tp prevent legal investigation!]
Kathmandu
crime
rate highest across nation (ht 19/10/2016)
Drug
convict
nabbed 20 years after crime (ht 19/10/2016)
CIEDP
asks
complainants to provide further information: The
commission, which has received 2,893 complaints so far,
has sent letters to all the petitioners across the
country, by Dewan Rai (kp 18/10/2016)
Illegal
mustard
oil imports put local producers on brink (kp
18/10/2016)
Disappearances
truth
and reconciliation act: Amendment proposal stirs a fresh
debate; Proposal to restore the constitutional rights of
attorney general to decide whether the perpetrator is to
be prosecuted as directed by the Supreme Court, by
Dewan Rai (kp 17/10/2016)
Passengers
complain
of high transport fares during Dashain (ht
17/10/2016)
Man
killed
in police action was ‘involved in Kedia abduction’:
Ahmad had been involved in criminal activities such as
abduction and robbery, by Bhushan Yadav (kp
16/10/2016)
‘Chhaupadi-free’
village
still follows repealed tradition (ht 16/10/2016)
Smuggling
of
goods on the rise in Rautahat (ht 16/10/2016)
18
types
of reparation schemes proposed for war-era crimes,
by Lekhanath Pandey (ht 15/10/2016)
Vehicles
fleecing
passengers (ht 15/10/2016)
Woman’s
murder
sparks protest, by Dilliram Khatiwada (kp
14/10/2016)
Dalits
deprived
of social security allowance (ht 14/10/2016)
Woman
rescued
from traffickers’ clutch (ht 10/10/2016)
Husband
arrested in connection with wife's suicide case (rep
09/10/2016)
80
girls,
women raped in past three months, says SMN report (ht
08/10/2016)
an
arrested
for attempting to murder ex-wife (ht 07/10/2016)
Rupadiya
border
a transit point for human trafficking (ht
07/10/2016)
Crime
growth lowest in decade: IGP Aryal (rep 07/10/2016)
400
women, children saved from trafficking in eight months
(rep 06/10/2016)
A
temple in Janakpur where women are not allowed (kp
05/10/2016)
Public
vehicles
overcharging passengers (ht 05/10/2016)
Dalit
man
from Bajhang tortured for ‘defiling temple’ (kp
04/10/2016)
Bill
seeks to make parties pay for their cadre's vandalism,
by Ashok Dahal (rep 04/10/2016) [This
has been overdue for long! Besides, the culprits have to
be punished!]
Take
action:
Govt needs to wake up to the misery caused by the
transport syndicate (kp 04/10/2016)
Legal
lapses: "If there were more cases of domestic violence
and sexual assault against men piling up at our offices,
the court would have no choice but to work on building
stronger laws", interview with advocate Sushma
Gautam (rep 30/09/2016)
Govt
calls taxi drivers' demands irrational: 56 protesting
cabbies arrested, released, by Kamal Pariyar (rep
29/09/2016) [There is no
difference between politicians and taxi drivers: Both
think they have the right to break the law and cheat the
people!]
Five
officials
transferred from CIEDP: CIEDP Chairman Lokendra Mallick
says the decision has upended everything they had
planned and been working on until now, by Dewan Rai
(kp 29/09/2016) [?? Preventing justice in every possible way!!]
Women's
shelter
demolition: Women’s rights defenders draw PM Dahal’s
attention (kp 29/09/2016)
Police
intercept 21 children from Nepal-India border in Baitadi,
by Bira Gadal (rep 29/09/2016)
MPs
spar
over withdrawing Tikapur carnage cases (kp
29/09/2016), House
witnesses
heated exchange on case withdrawals (ht 29/09/2016)
19
killed
in Dhading bus accident: Vehicle lacked road permit;
Most victims quake survivors returning home with house
rebuilding cash, by Harihar Singh Rathour (kp
28/09/2016), Bus
operators
told to pay for treatment of injured (kp
29/09/2016), Tragic
accident:
We see that the provision of safer journeys is not
followed by the transport operators who seem to care
only about earning handsome profits (ht 29/09/2016)
46
per
cent victims of sexual violence minors, report says
(ht 28/09/2016)
Transitional
justice:
Writ against criteria for dropping complaints, by
Dewan Rai (kp 28/09/2016)
‘Witch’
accused
tortured, fears filing complaint: A single mother from
Dada Gaun in Salyan is tied to a post and tortured for
hours on witchcraft charge by her relatives, by
Pratichya Dulal (kp 27/09/2016)
Conflict
victims
concerned about TRC Act bill amendment (ht
27/09/2016)
Seeking
justice:
Without a credible transitional justice roadmap, path
will be open for specific and personally targeted
prosecution, by Hari Phuyal (kp 26/09/2016), Ensure
justice:
Past instances have proved that some of the cases not
related to political agitation were withdrawn under
political pressure (ht 26/09/2016)
Child
rape
rate alarming: Report (kp 26/09/2016)
Ministry
working
to amend Act: The Act which came into effect in 2007
does not acknowledge trafficking can take place inside
the country (kp 26/09/2016)
Hearing
on
Krishna Prasad Adhikari’s murder starts, by Bimal
Khatiwada (kp 26/09/2016), Chitwan
Dist
Court completes hearing, by Bimal Khatiwada (kp
28/09/2016)
Sandalwood,
herbs
smuggling up in Bajhang, by Basanta Pratap Singh (kp
25/09/2016)
Torture
in
detention in Dipayal: Army offers mea culpa for barring
NHRC from probe; Says not letting investigating
officials enter NA barracks a mistake, by Dewan Rai
(kp 23/09/2016)
Blasts
outside
schools cause panic: No injuries, minor damage; Police
arrest 2 persons, identify them as Maoist Communist
Centre members, by Pratichya Dulal and Manish Gautam
(kp 21/09/2016), Heinous
act:
Swift, stern and well-publicised action has to be taken
against the perpetrators (kp 21/09/2016), Two
behind IED explosion at schools chargesheeted (rep
22/09/2016), Schools
remain open defying threat (rep 22/09/2016)
Court
records
Ganga Maya’s statement: It is the fifth time the court
has ordered the petitioner to appear before the court to
testify (kp 19/09/2016), Ganga
Maya
says suspects should take ploygraph test (kp
21/09/2016), Punish
my
son’s murderers, says Gangamaya, by Tika Ram Rimal
(ht 22/09/2016)
Female
feticide rampant in far-west (rep 16/09/2016)
Girl,
5,
killed by boy, 9, for taunting (kp 15/09/2016)
Cases
of
human trafficking on the rise: Reports (kp
14/09/2016)
Woman
attacked
by in-law dies (ht 14/09/2016)
Herbs
smuggling
goes unchecked: Villagers say the smugglers are taking
advantage of lax security in border areas like Limsa
where the local police post is vacant from the time it
was attacked during Maoist insurgency, by Bhim
Bahadur Singh (kp 14/09/2016)
Paedophilia
case:
American man arrested, five children rescued (kp
12/09/2016)
3
girls raped in a week (kp 12/09/2016)
Human
trafficking
on rise after earthquakes (ht 10/09/2016)
With
banking crimes on rise, new bill takes tougher tack,
by Sagar Ghimire (rep 10/09/2016)
Transitional
justice:
Commissions should be made strong: TRC chair, by
Dewan Rai (kp 09/09/2016)
Nab
the
serial killers: Accidents cannot be prevented but they
can and should be minimised so that five innocent people
do not die every day, by Shyam KC (kp 09/09/2016)
It’s
not
over yet: Nepal should hold people accused of torture
and other ill-treatment accountable through fair trials
in its own courts, by Champa Patel (kp 09/09/2016)
Narjit
Sir:
A school teacher whose hand was cut off by Maoists 20
years ago has another generation of students as pupils,
by Prabir Dadel (nt 09/09/2016), The
tears
never stop: Nutan Thapa still cannot hold back her tears
when she remembers her father, by Om Astha Rai (nt)
Man
arrested
for trying to get his Indian son-in-law Nepali
citizenship as dowry: The accused had bribed officials
at Rangeli Municipality to prepare fake birth
registration paper for his son-in-law, by Binod
Bhandari (kp 08/09/2016)
Dad-son
duo
held for rape, forced abortion: Police say the father
aided his rapist son abort the baby after learning that
the minor girl was pregnant (kp 08/09/2016), Paying
for
torture: Col Lama’s acquittal only underscores how
difficult closure of war-era cases can be (kp
08/09/2016)
Man
hacked
into pieces: Police round three suspects (kp
08/09/2016)
Nepal
emerging
as major hub for drug trafficking (ht 08/09/2016)
UK
court
acquits Lama of charges, by Nabin Pokharel (kp
07/09/2016), Col
Lama’s
acquittal: Setback for moment, but ‘victory in long run’,
by Dewan Rai (kp 08/09/2016), Col
Lama
returns home: The case of Col Kumar Lama, who was
acquitted this month by a UK court, is the first
war-time crime tried abroad (21/09/2016) [The
case is not cleared at all though the army wants to
celebrate and honour him!]
Police
book
118 taxis for fleecing passengers (kp 06/09/2016)
Ex-minister
Gupta
held (kp 06/09/2016), Police
inspector,
ex-minister Gupta partners in crime (kp 07/09/2016)
Call
for
concrete steps to combat human trafficking: A report by
the National Human Rights Commission states that around
16,500 Nepalis were trafficked in the last two years
(kp 04/09/2016), National
Anti-Trafficking
Day: Sex Trafficking Under Our Nose, by Sunil Sainju
(rn 04/09/2016), Fight
against
human trafficking: Calls louder for SAARC convention
revision (kp 05/09/2016), Chief
Justice
for stern law against human trafficking: Ranju Jha,
chairperson of parliament committee for women and
children, calls for collaboration from all sides to
fight trafficking (kp 06/09/2016), The
human
trail: Improving economic conditions in the country is
key to curbing trafficking (kp 06/09/2016)
Police
bureau
spreading net to nab smugglers, by Pragati Shahi (kp
03/09/2016)
Killer
roads: Traffic Police attribute 90 percent of all road
accidents in Nepal to transport syndicates, by David
Kainee (rep 03/09/2016)
Hiding
hidden
wounds: After facing years of abuse in Indian brothels,
rescued young women have to then struggle to fight
stigma back home in Nepal, by Shreejana Shrestha (nt
02/09/2016)
Epicentre
of
trafficking: Long before the earthquake hit last year,
the districts around Kathmandu were already hotbeds of
trafficking, by Om Astha Rai (nt 02/09/2016)
Women
trafficking continues unabated (rep 31/08/2016), A tell-tale
story of a Nepali woman trafficked to Oman, by Rohit
Rai (rep 31/08/2016)
Revenge
plot backfires as police arrest three for misleading
report, by Kamal Pariyar (rep 31/08/2016)
24
dowry
cases in six months: WOREC (ht 30/08/2016)
‘28pc
women
suffer VAW by intimate partner in lifetime’ (kp
28/08/2016)
Woman
raped
at knifepoint (kp 28/08/2016)
Probe
terrifies
kin of Nepali Army personnel, by Tekebdra Deuba (ht
28/08/2016)
Public
bus
operators fleecing passengers (ht 28/08/2016)
Illicit,
spurious
liquor flowing freely in Valley (kp 28/08/2016)
6-year-old
abducted
girl raped, murdered (kp 26/08/2016)
Face-to-face:
Driver
meetHome Ministry for strict
implementation of lawHome Ministry for strict
implementation of laws Maoist activists who set fire to
his taxi and destroyed his livelihood, by Shreejana
Shrestha (nt 26/08/2016)
Highways
of
death: Transport syndicates guarded by greedy politicians
and corrupt bureaucrats kill six Nepalis on the road every
day, by Santa Gaha Magar (nt 26/08/2016), Cartelling
of
carnage: The bloodbath on Nepal’s highways is a direct
result of Kathmandu’s syndicated politics (nt
26/08/2016), This
syndicated state, by Gunjan Upadhyay (rep 26/08/2016)
Motorbike
thefts
increase slightly (ht 26/08/2016)
Probe
Dalit
youth’s murder: PM (kp 25/08/2016)
Travellers
at
the mercy of bus syndicate on Tansen-Butwal route:
Vehicles not affiliated to Western Nepal Bus Operators
Committee are not allowed to pick up passengers on the
road, by Madhav Aryal (kp 25/08/2016)
18
Susta
villagers face murder charge, by Narayan Sharma (kp
25/08/2016)
Family,
neighbors 'torture' woman for 16 years, by Ritesh
Tripathi (rep 24/08/2016)
Ramdulari
Rana
murder case: Panel tells Home Ministry to probe (kp
23/08/2016)
Syndicates
rule roost in Pokhara, by Santosh Pokharel (rep
22/08/2016)
Pregnant
woman
beaten, thrown out of house: Victim’s husband and
father-in-law arrested for questioning (kp 22/08/2016)
Laser
emitters
target NAC aircraft at TIA, by Rajan Pokhrel (ht
22/08/2016)
Stolen
artefacts
recovered (kp 22/06/2016)
5pc
of
2,846 plaints ineligible for second phase of inquest:
The commission will probe only those incidents that are
directly linked with the armed conflict between 1996 and
2006, by Dewan Rai (kp 22/08/2016)
Authorities
urged
to check smuggling of female Nepali workers (kp
21/08/2016)
Motorcycle
thefts
on the rise in Saptari (ht 21/08/2016)
Syndicate
continues
to flourish unabated: Worn-out vehicles carry passengers
thrice their seating capacities (kp 20/08/2016)
Govt
‘selling’
rice meant for quake victims, by Tekendra Deuba (ht
20/08/2016)
Mockery
of martyrdom: Most of those who have been declared
martyrs after 2007 are actually the victims of police
brutality and angry mobs, by David Kainee (rep
18/08/2016)
Ministry
intensifies
market monitoring, by Rajesh Khanal (kp 17/08/2015)
Not
enough
reporting about cybercrime in BFIs: Police (kp
17/08/2016)
Dahal
for
swift crackdown on black marketing, by Tika R.
Pradhan (kp 16/08/2016)
Four
murdered
in separate incidents (kp 15/08/2016)
Philippine
woman
rescued from abusive husband (kp 14/08/2016)
Amendment
to
transitional justice act: Proposed bill sets new
definition of murder; Stakeholders say it specifies
crimes of certain nature as pardonable, by Dewan Rai
(kp 13/08/2016)
Human
trafficking
cases on the rise in Doti (ht 13/08/2016)
Overall
crime
rate remains unchanged (ht 13/08/2016)
13-year-old
girl
raped in Rautahat (ht 12/08/2016)
Uproar
over
bid to free criminals: Leaders in Parsa demand
exoneration of persons involved in serious crimes during
Madhes protest (kp 11/08/2016)
Female
feticide:
Unpardonable crime, by Ajay Shankar Jha and Roshan
Kumar Jha (ht 11/08/2016)
Bound
pregnant
woman rescued in Bajura (ht 11/08/2016)
Woman
assaulted
over ‘dowry’ (kp 10/08/2016)
Abducted
5-year-old
from Bihar rescued in Morang (kp 09/08/2016)
Trafficking
charge:
Police seek original documents from Spanish embassy,
by Kamal Dev Bhattarai (kp 09/08/2016)
Theft
on
the rise in Dhangadi in recent days (ht 09/08/2016)
Reports
of
rape rise by 6.3 per cent in Valley (ht 08/08/2016)
Police
raid
four shops for selling counterfeit goods, by Prithvi
Man Shrestha (kp 08/08/2016)
Money
laundering
risk: ‘Nepal second most vulnerable in SAsia’ (kp
06/08/2016)
Human
trafficking
cases increase by seven per cent (ht 05/08/2016)
Sanghai,
others
sent to 7-day custody (kp 03/08/2016)
Five
trafficked
Nepalis rescued from Micronesia (ht 03/08/2016)
Quake-hit
girls
falling into trafficking trap: According to Maiti Nepal,
trafficking in the earthquake-affected districts has
increased after the earthquakes (kp 02/08/2016)
UK
court
acquits Col Lama on one count of torture: Trial
continues with hearing on second count postponed until
Sept (kp 02/08/2016), ‘A
watershed
moment for Nepal’s transitional justice’: Rights
defenders say the trial in a British court proves that
universal jurisdiction does get attracted, by Dewan
Rai (kp 03/09/2016)
Police
seize
contraband drugs worth Rs1.32b: A member of Sanghai
Group among five persons held, by Manish Gautam (kp
01/08/2016), Business
family
involved in drug smuggling: NCB (ht 01/08/2016), Pharmaceutical
companies
under
scanner: Given a dramatic surge in import of chemicals
used to produce Amphetamine, a contraband, many firms
thought to be misusing it (kp 02/08/2016)
‘In
camera’
hearing brings relief to victims, witnesses, by
Shiva Puri (kp 01/08/2016)
Tikapur
revisited: Those who masterminded the attack that led to
the henious killings of eight unarmed policemen are
walking free with political protection, by David
Kainee (rep 01/08/2016)
794
persons
held in Makawanpur (ht 01/08/2016)
Man
hacked
to death in Dharan (kp 31/07/2016)
Two
women
rescued (kp 29/07/2016)
Theft,
robbery
cases on steady rise (ht 29/07/2016)
20
traffic police facing bribery charges undergo polygraph
test, by Kamal Pariyar (kp 27/07/2016)
Woman
attacked
on ‘witchcraft’ charge (kp 26/07/2016)
Shutdown
affects
public (kp 26/07/2016), Bandh
cripples
life nationwide (ht 26/07/2016) [Every
bandh is a fundamental crime! Its organisers should be
punished severely!]
UK
court
ruling on Col Lama due next week, by Dewan Rai (kp
25/07/2016)
Woman
held
for helping her nephew cover up teen’s rape (kp
24/07/2016)
NHRC
reminds
govt to prosecute Godar massacre: The state security
force killed five Dhanusha youths on suspicion of
helping the insurgency in 2003, by Dewan Rai (kp
24/07/2016)
Five
held
for force-feeding faeces to woman (kp 22/07/2016)
Rape
victim
claims police let off one of her assaulters: Says the
man has been coercing her to take money and not press
charge (kp 21/07/2016)
AI
report
shows police torturing detainees: Report claims police
arrested villagers arbitrarily, tortured and
coerced them into signing confessions (kp
20/07/2016) [see AI report: Nepal
-
Torture and Coerced Confessions], Bhatta
demands
answer from TRC chair (ht 20/07/2016), Nepal
Police
dismisses AI report as false, biased (kp 28/07/2016)
3
die in separate attacks (kp 20/07/2016)
Complaint
registration
ends: TRC has over 52k cases to decide in 7 months
(kp 18/07/2016)
Abducted
Bhaktapur
girl rescued (kp 17/07/2016)
3
arrested in Rajbiraj for raping 15-yr-old girl (kp
15/07/2016)
Govt
employees
beat up client (kp 15/07/2016)
Punish
cops
involved in misleading the case: House panel; The
committee says police personnel investigating the murder
of Ramdulari Rana have been accused of distorting
evidence and protecting the perpetrators (kp
13/07/2016), Woman
seeks
justice in capital for slain daughter-in-law, by
Kamal Pariyar (rep 13/07/2016)
Woman
rescued
from forest after two months: The 72-year-old was left
in a cave by her son and daughter-in-law, by Prakash
Adhikari (kp 13/07/2016)
5
arrested in separate rape incidents, by Basanta
Pratap Singh (kp 12/07/2016)
FNJ
condemns
threat against journalist Koirala: Japan-based Nepali
Anoj Shakya threatens journalist Ashwini Koirala over a
news published in Saptahik weekly (kp 11/07/2016)
Nepal
ranked
11th in skewed child sex ratio (ht 10/07/2016)
Col
extradition
may be affected: Experts say criminalising torture and
setting up a competent court equivalent to the UK court
to continue Col Lama’s trial are fundamental bases on
which the extradition process can be negotiated, by
Dewan Rai (kp 10/07/2016)
Stigma-free
life
is what we want: Survivors (kp 10/07/2016)
Fugitive
VDC
secretary held with Rs 2.4 million (kp 10/07/2016)
Another
Maoist
MP under scanner, by Kamal Dev Bhattarai (kp
09/07/2016)
Janakpur
appellate
court orders probe into Tarai protest death: Rambibek
Yadav was allegedly gunned down by security personnel
during a protest in Jaleshwor, Mahottari (kp), Oli
proposes
fresh deal on power sharing, urges NC to join govt
(kp 08/07/2016)
Probe
sought
into MPs’ alleged role in forgery, human trafficking
(kp 07/07/2016)
Wife,
daughter
convicted in ex-lawmaker’s murder (kp 07/07/2016)
Prez
pardons
jail time for shooter (kp 06/07/2016) [??
Is this the Nepali idea of justice?]
Chand
Maoists
on extortion drive (ht 06/07/2016)
Unidentified
group
torches excavator at road project site (kp
06/07/2016)
Still
in
the Middle Ages: Torture has yet to be criminalised and
it is seen as a legitimate method of investigation,
by Randhir Chaudhary (kp 05/07/2016)
Licence
to
kill? Use of licensed arms to commit crime rife: In
majority of arrests, criminals using ‘legally acquired
weapons’, by Manish Gautam (kp 03/07/2016)
Gangster
Manange,
henchman arrested (kp 02/07/2016)
Nepal
fares
well in trafficking report (kp 02/07/2016)
‘Quake-hit
people
at higher risk of trafficking’: Traffickers using media
and mobile technology to exploit the victims (ht
02/07/2016)
Arrested
doctors’
cases handed over to govt attorneys: Preparations underway
to file charge-sheet against 36 doctors at district
courts, including 12 in Kathmandu (kp 01/07/2016)
45,000
cases
registered at TRC so far (kp 01/07/2016)
7
men sentenced in absentia in 2014 gang rape case (kp
30/06/2016)
Sikta
irrigation canal crumbles during trial run, by Arjun
Oli (rep 29/06/2016), 'Use
of substandard materials led to collapse of canal',
by Arjun Oli (rep 30/06/2016), Trial
and
failure: Big infrastructure should be prevented from
becoming a Damocles sword (kp 01/07/2016), Quality
of
work questioned, by Janak Nepal and Thakur Singh
Tharu (kp 04/07/2016)
Man
gets
three years in jail for committing marital rape (kp
28/06/2016)
A
horrible business Trafficking has become a low-profit,
high-risk enterprise, but traffickers are not aware of
this, by Jonathan Hudlow (kp 28/06/2016)
Transitional
justice:
At least 15 plaints registered against Col Kumar Lama,
by Basanta Pratap Singh (kp 28/06/2016)
CIB
launches
fresh manhunt to nab criminals on the run: Arrests six
murder convicts n Some committed crime 20 years ago
(kp 26/06/2016)
Fatal
attraction:
Traffickers are luring girls with foreign job offers
after the old tricks stopped working, by Durga
Gautam (kp 26/06/2016)
14
children
‘trafficked’ from Dhankuta rescued in Capital, by
Pragati Shahi (kp 25/06/2016)
‘Arrest
fear’
cited for cancelled tour: Maoist Centre chief Dahal
cancels Australia trip at the last moment, by Dewan
Rai (kp 24/06/2016) [Obviously, he feels guilty!]
Six
held
for raping girl, 19 (kp 23/06/2016)
Critics
question
CIEDP approach, by Dewan Rai (kp 23/06/2016)
Sexual
violence
victims wary of case, by Pratichya Dulal (kp
22/06/2016), Victim
wrongs:
Secrecy shrouding sexual assault cases has prevented
understanding of 10-year conflict (kp 23/06/2016)
Serial
killer
nabbed after 20 years on the run (kp 21/06/2016)
‘Punish
perpetrators
of sexual violence’ (ht 20/06/2016)
Woman
forced
out of house by in-laws ‘over dowry’ (ht 19/06/2016)
Flesh
trade
flourishing along highways (ht 19/06/2016)
Injured
Yarsha
pickers rescued (kp 18/06/2016)
APF
men
accused behind gang rape of mute woman, by Manoj
Poudel (kp 16/06/2016), NHRC
probes
into gang-rape (kp 17/06/2016), Punish
them:
The security agencies must take rape cases seriously,
more so when accused are within (kp 17/06/2016), Rape
victim
has nightmares: Activists wary of attempts to weaken the
case (kp 19/06/2016), Deaf-mute
rape
victim responding to treatment: Lawmakers vow to bring
Armed Police Force personnel involved in the ‘barbaric
act’ to justice, by Kokila KC (ht 22/06/2016), Rape
of
speech-impaired woman: House committee orders thorough
investigation (kp 09/07/2016), Security
chiefs
assure action against culprits (ht 09/07/2016) [And why has nothing happened even
after almost three weeks?]
73
children,
women rescued from Birgunj in 3 months: Most of the
victims are from quake-affected districts: Police,
by Bhusan Yadav (kp 15/06/2016)
Too
scared
to talk: Conflict victims face a number challenges and
receive threats when giving testimony, by Suman
Adhikari (kp 14/06/2016), Procedural
ambiguity
halts TRC probe, by Lekhanath Pandey (ht 14/06/2016)
Chand
Maoists
torch 10 Ncell base towers: Telecom company says about
250k customers hit (kp 12/06/2016), 7
Chand Maoist cadres held on arson charge (kp
14/06/2016)
Woman
shot
dead (kp 12/06/2016), 20-year-old
woman
shot dead in suspected love rage in Doti (ht
12/06/2016)
Violent
cases
across country: Taxi torched at Tinkune n Two Sajha
buses vandalised n 99 persons rounded up in total
(kp 10/06/2016)
Depositors
at
receiving end as co-op operators flee with cash, by
Bhusan Yadav (kp 10/06/2016)
Decade-long
civil
war: Victims against amnesty for sex abusers (kp
09/06/2016)
Road
to
nowhere: The violent attack on an INGO office this week
is based on a now-defunct ideology (kp 09/06/2016)
Taplejung
businessman
found dead (kp 09/06/2016)
Krishna
Prasad's
murder: Ganga Maya says her fast won’t stop, by
Dewan Rai (kp 07/06/2016)
‘Terrorism
financing
through Nepal overstated’: The NRB official said the
magnitude of risk is not like as mentioned in the report
since it has not given any concrete evidence, by
Bibek Subedi (kp 07/06/2016)
Initiate
the
investigation: The state should probe the killings that
took place during the Tarai unrest, all of them, by
Randhir Chaudhary (kp 07/06/2016)
Importers
evading
tax by submitting bogus bills: Importers have been
submitting fake handwritten bills showing lower prices
and payingmuch less customs duty (kp 07/06/2016)
Registered
cases
outnumber Peace Ministry’s count: TRC chair says he
won’t disappoint conflict victims, by Dewan Rai (kp
06/06/2016)
6
held over women trafficking in two weeks (rep
06/06/2016)
Govt
pushing
for pre-emptive amnesty for war crime accused: The
government seems to be pushing for general amnesty even
before facts are established and due process is met,
by Dewan Rai (kp 03/06/2016)
Periodic
blues, by Ayushma Basnyat (rep 03/06/2016)
Chand's
Maoist
party sets fire to excavator, by Arjun Oli (rep
03/06/2016)
TIA
emerging
as major drug transit hub (ht 03/06/2016)
Victims’
plaints
at CIEDP top 1,500, by Dewan Rai (kp 02/06/2016),
96
complaints
in Tanahun (kp 02/06/2016)
Talk
therapy:
Gender-based violence in Nepal is deeply rooted in
social norms, values and cultural practices, by
Binita Shrestha (rep 01/06/2016)
UML,
Maoists
for narrowing down list of offences of serious nature;
Crimes to come down from nine to four: rape, torture,
disappearance and cold-blooded murder, by Dewan Rai
(kp 31/05/2016)
Number
of
complaints of disappearances exceed official data,
by Lekhanath Pandey (ht 31/05/2016)
Vehicles
fleecing
passengers in rural Udayapur (ht 31/05/2016)
Boy
frees
himself from abductors: Kuse Kumar Mahato of
Dhungrekhola VDC in Sarlahi gives the slip to his
abductors (kp 30/05/2016)
Tanker
driver
beaten to death (ht 30/05/2016)
Footballer
Bimal
Gharti Magar’s sister found dead, by Narayan Sharma
(kp 27/05/2016), Football
striker
Bimal Gharti’s sister found dead Police suspect murder,
arrest her boyfriend, by Shreeram Sigdel (ht
27/05/2016), ‘Hanging
cause
of teen’s death’: Doctors say investigators should
ascertain if it was suicide or murder, by Manish
Gautam (kp 28/05/2016), Relatives
rule
out suicide: Boyfriend's overbearing nature had Manisha
under stress, say friends, by Kalpana Bhattarai (rep
28/05/2016), Manisha's
death
becomes more mysterious after polygraph test of her
boyfriend, by Kalpana Bhattarai (rep 02/06/2016), Case
against
Chaudhari ‘for Ghartimagar murder’ (kp 21/06/2016)
Four
rape
cases registered within a month, by Narahari
Sapkopta (rep 27/05/2016) [related to Gorkha district]
More
than
100 complaints filed in Kavre district (ht
27/05/2016)
Birgunj
businessman
abducted (kp 27/05/2016), Traders
terrified
after Kedia’s abduction: Kidnappers took advantage of
the open border and lax security situation, says a
representative of the Birgunj Chamber of Commerce and
Industry, by Bhusan Yadav and Laxmi Sah (kp
28/05/2016), Businessmen
picket
police premises, demand prompt rescue, by Upendra
Yadav (rep 28/05/2016), Abducted
Kedia
rescued from Bihar: A suspected Indian national held,
by Bhusan Yadav (kp 30/05/2016), Cops
suspended
over Kedia’s abduction (ht 04/06/2016),
12
arrested
for Kedia’s abduction (kp 08/06/2016), Kedia
abduction
accused paraded (ht 09/06/2016)
17
girls,
women murdered in a month, says report (ht
26/05/2016)
3
foreigners, 1 Nepali caught with 2 kg cocaine (kp
26/05/2016)
2
rape victims disowned by families (kp 25/05/2016)
Lifting
ban
on IRs 1,000 abd 500 spawns fake notes in market, by
Kamal Pariyar (rep 25/05/2016)
Daughter-in-law
goes
missing after dowry dissatisfaction, by Ritesh
Tripathi (rep 24/05/2016)
Communities
add
to misery of rape victims: Communities get involved in
pressuring rape victims and their families to settle the
cases at village level, by Ramesh Khatiwada (rep
23/05/2016)
Documenting
torture:
In the current institutional practices of documentation,
the poor and the marginalized can't even report their
human right violation, by Jeevan R. Sharma (rep
23/05/2016)
Nepal
Police’s
forensic lab to be upgraded (ht 21/05/2016)
Badarmudhe
incident
unnecessarily publicized: TRC member, by Ramesh
Kumar Paudel (rep 21/05/2016) [??]
Teenager
girl
being trafficked to Pakistan rescued (ht 20/05/2016)
Woman
robbed
by biker who offered her lift (ht 20/05/2016)
Police
arrest
4 for transferring subsidized diesel, by Ritesh
Tripathi (ht 20/05/2016)
Victims’
response
spurs on CIEDP, by Dewan Rai (kp 18/05/2016)
Ex-Maoist
MP
assaulted (kp 18/05/2016)
Travel
warning:
The way Pushpa Kamal Dahal exploded at the possibility
of prosecution suggests that neither will justice be
done nor will it seen to be done, by Aditya Man
Shrestha (rep 17/05/2016)
Arun
Singhaniya
murder: One of accused admits to killing; Tells court
suspended lawmaker Sanjay Kumar Sah was also involved,
by Shyam Sundar Shashi (kp 17/05/2016)
Four
cases
of theft reported in Kathmandu Valley (ht
17/05/2016)
Dashdhunga
mystery
still haunts the country (rep 17/05/2016)
Woman
burnt
alive in Kanchanpur (kp 16/05/2016)
Criminal
cases
decline in western development region (ht
16/05/2016)
Poacher
kills
self in police custody (kp 15/05/2016)
Three
houses
looted in Siraha (kp 15/05/2016)
MPCD
cracks
down on hundi operators (ht 14/05/2016)
Tracing
the
missing: In spite of strict laws against child
trafficking, the scourge remains rife (kp
13/05/2016)
Victims
outraged
at 9-point deal (kp 12/05/2016), Two
ex-Army
chiefs accused of war crimes, by Thakur Singh Tharu
(kp 12/05/2016)
Two
statues
of medieval period stolen (kp 12/05/2016), Thefts
of
idols on rise in Bhaktapur (ht 12/05/2016)
Two
held
with pangolin scales (kp 11/05/2016)
Police
parade
juveniles with garland of shoes, by Nagendra
Upadhyay (ht 11/05/2016) [The public parading of persons accused of crimes,
as it is normal with Nepali police, is a grave violation
of fundamental human rights!!]
Panama
papers:
19 Nepalis listed in database of shell companies
released by ICIJ (kp 10/05/2016), Authorities
to
probe into names in Panama Papers: Say first task is
finding out who these people are, by Bibek Subedi
(kp 11/05/2016) [??], Nepalis
linked
to Panama leak preferred British Virgin Islands (ht
11/05/2016), 7
Nepalis named in new Panama Papers revelations (rep
11/05/2015), ‘All
my
investments are legal’ (kp 12/05/2016)
Two
migrant
workers rescued from TIA: Foreign employment agency
offices raided (kp 10/05/2016), Minister
joins
raids aimed at thwarting women trafficking, by Kamal
Pariyar (rep 10/05/2016), Human
trafficking:
Police suspect travel cos’ involvement (kp
11/05/2016)
Mother,
daughter
rescued from hotel in Khotang (ht 09/05/2016), Four
arrested
for assault, sexual abuse in Khotang (ht 11/05/2016)
Missing
boy
found dead (kp 09/05/2016)
Smuggling
of
river products up (ht 09/05/2016)
CEDAW:
Govt
‘blocks’ civil society’s report (kp 08/05/2016)
‘Maoist-UML
accord
violates SC ruling, CPA: Conflict victims, rights
defenders seek annulment, by Dewan Rai (kp
07/05/2016), CVCP
concerned
about nine-point deal: Says there can be no amnesty for
heinous crimes (ht 07/05/2016)
Hindu
Morcha
Nepal on ‘extortion drive’ (ht 07/05/2016)
Transitional
justice:
Surveillance making conflict victims wary, by
Prakash Adhikari (kp 06/05/2016) [?!]
Baptism
by
fire: While the government has tried to tackle domestic
violence, burn violence in particular has never even
been on their agenda, let alone their list of priorities,
by Cilla Khatry (rep 06/05/2016)
Nepal
urged
to act speedily on Tarai abuses (kp 06/05/2016)
VDC
secy,
tech asst ‘on the run’: Bindulal Chaudhary and Dhirendra
Yadav are out of contact for the last 10 days with Rs 2.2
million (kp 05/05/2016), VDC
secy
decamps with Rs 2.2 million in social security funds,
by Jitendra Kumar Jha (rep 05/05/2016)
Still
trapped:
Around 16,500 Nepalis, mostly women and children, have
been trafficked from Nepal in the last two years alone,
by David Kainee (kp 05/05/2016)
Dailies
prioritising
VAW news (ht 03/05/2016)
ANNISU-R
declares
closure of Valley schools (ht 03/05/2016)
Man
killed
on witchcraft charge, by Krishna Thapa (kp
02/05/2016)
Dadeldhura
DPO
tightens security (ht 02/05/2016)
‘Recognise
work
in informal sector’ (kp 01/05/2016)
Man
in
drunken stupor sets fire to wife, by Shreejana
Shrestha (rep 30/04/2016), Woman
allegedly
set ablaze by husband died after four days, by
Shreejana Shrestha (rep 03/05/2016)
Kusawaha
gets
10 yrs for killing fellow UML leader, by Laxmi Sah
(kp 28/04/2016), Khatun
misbehaves
with Bara district judge (ht 28/04/2016)
Panchthar,
Ilam
girls vulnerable to human trafficking (ht
28/04/2016)
Missing
teen’s
body brought home after months of absence (ht
28/04/2016)
Fake
engineering
degree racket busted, five held: The fake engineer
episode comes on the heels of recent arrests of doctors
possessing fake academic degrees (kp
28/04/2016), After
quacks,
it’s bogus engineers’ turn now (ht 28/04/2016), Five
more
bogus engineers held (kp 29/04/2016), More
engineers
caught with fake degrees (kp 30/04/2016)
Four
family
members found murdered (kp 28/04/2016), Police
arrest
Salyan family murder suspect (kp 29/04/2016)
They
are
sufferers too: Women victims of sexual violence during
the Maoist conflict must get due priority, by Neetu
Pokharel and Som Niroula (kp 27/04/2016)
Women
victimized
by polygamy hesitate to go to court, by Chhabilal
Tiwari (rep 27/04/2016)
Convicted,
prosecuted
Maoists form protest group (rep 27/04/2016)
Human
trafficking
through Birgunj up (ht 27/04/2016)
Om
Hospital
vandalised (kp 27/04/2016)
Khara
conflict
victims demand justice (ht 26/04/2016) [The
NA will demand their names and addresses immediately!?]
Elderly
accuse
VDC secy of misuing social security funds, by
Jitendra Kumar Jha (rep 26/04/2016)
Naya
shakti
member held for running lottery scam (kp 25/05/2016)
NA
seeks
details of complainants: Transitional justice
commissions turn down request, by Lekhanath Pandey
(ht 24/04/2016) [Unbelievable
demand by the army!!], File
complaints
without fear, TRC member tells conflict victims (ht
24/04/2016) [??]
‘131
VAW
cases recorded in a month’ (ht 23/04/2016)
Police
step
up crackdown on unscrupulous taxi drivers (ht
22/04/2016)
Young
girls
facing harassment unaware of legal remedy, by Isha
Pandey (rep 22/04/2016)
Golden
1,000
days public awareness campaign launched (ht
22/04/2016)
Man
held
for ‘rape, murder’ of 8-year-old, by Madhav Aryal
(kp 20/04/2016)
Army
took
her little girl away, claims one mother in Baglung, by
Prakash Baral (kp 19/04/2016)
Far
too
common: Reports from human rights organisations suggest
that Nepali police and armed forces regularly practice
torture, by Jeevan Raj Sharma (rep 19/04/2016)
CEDAW
convention:
Civil society to send alternate report (kp
19/04/2016)
Over
31,000
families rebuild on their own: One year since disaster,
survivors are frustrated at slow govt response, by
Bhadra Sharma (kp 18/04/2016) [Now,
NRA and government have a new job: Controll of NGOs and
private persons who try to help the victims!! The
inaction of the state fulfils the criminal offence of
failure to render assistance!!]
Now
TRC
starts registering cases: 125 complaints received in the
first day, by Binod Ghimire (kp 18/04/2016)
Hearing
begins
on Krishna Prasad murder case, by Bimal Khatiwada
(kp 18/04/2016), Chitwan
court
completes recording statements (kp 20/04/2016)
Youths
demand
safe city for women (ht 17/04/2016)
Man
accused
of niece’s murder held after 20 years (ht
17/04/2016)
Three
girls
raped in a week in Dharan (kp 16/04/2016)
Cops
get
five years in jail for raping teens (ht 16/04/2016)
Police
alerted
to changing modus operandi of criminals (ht
16/04/2016)
CIEDP
takes
plaints amid questions about process: 15 registered on
the first day as rights defenders call for law
criminalising disappearances, by John Narayan
Parajuli (kp 15/04/2016), Victims
can
now file complaints to CIEDP, by Lekhanath Pandey
(ht 15/04/2016)
Girl’s
complaint
stops wedding (ht 15/04/2016)
Hit-and-run
driver
nabbed after 15 hrs (kp 15/04/2016)
Police
in
hunt for Nepali ringleader of int’l drug racket: Nepal
used as hub to push drugs to several countries, by
Manish Gautam (kp 15/04/2016), Police
uncover
Nepali involvement in 'ice' smuggling, by Kamal
Pariyar (rep 15/04/2016)
Bhojpur
man
arrested for killing wife (kp 13/04/2016)
Man
arrested
for thrashing wife (ht 13/04/2016) [The
families who married this girl at the age of four have
also to be punished severely!!]
Child
marriage
cases high in Jumla village, by LP Devkota (kp
13/04/2016)
Youth
thrashed
by police admitted at ICU, by Arjun Oli (rep
13/04/2016)
Man
injured
in robbers’ attack (kp 13/04/2016)
Many
destitute
children trafficked to India: CIB; Central Child Welfare
Board says 237 children have gone missing in the wake of
last April’s earthquake (kp 12/04/2016)
Government
agencies
to coordinate actions against dirty money (kp
12/04/2016)
Police
beat
up journo (kp 11/04/2016)
Maoist,
Madhesi
civil servants' trade union officials resort to
vandalism (rep 11/04/2016)
Rs7.94
b
in 22 yrs committed for investment by British Virgin
Islands: NRB and DoI point to each other for investment
records, by Rudra Pangeni (rep 09/04/2016), There’s
a dirty nexus between businessmen and politicians,
interview with Mahan Prasad Adhikari (kp 11/04/2016)
Six
arrested
with Indian bills worth over IRs 10m: Police say many
terrorist groups have been found using counterfeit
currency as a means to fund their illegal activities,
by Manish Gautam (kp 09/04/2016)
Double
taxation
hits Ramechhap folks (ht 08/04/2016)
Court
tells
police to file case in Ganesh murder by 4 months: Second
murder case against Bal Krishna Dhungel , by Nabin
Khatiwada (rep 08/04/2016)
Teenager
leaves
home to escape ‘forced marriage’, by Bhusan Yadav
(kp 07/04/2016)
Public
transport
is living hell for young women, by Isha Pandey (rep
07/04/2016)
Alleged
gangster
nabbed with two guns, 158 bullets and drugs (ht
07/04/2016)
‘High
time
Nepal opened own probe’, by Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp
05/04/2016), Panama
papers
finger seven Nepalis, by Kuvera Chalise (rep
05/04/2016), Panama
Papers
leak sets off alarm bells in Nepal: Govt agencies to
step up surveillance; To probe whether Nepalis hold
offshore accounts, by Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp
06/04/2016)
Court
hearing
for murder-accused UML leader begins, by Suresh
Yadav (rep 05/04/2016), Report
on
kid-selling racket shocks govt: Sun reveals Nepali
children being sold to UK families (ht
05/04/2016), UK
paper
exposes slave trade in post Nepal-quake children: Indian
dealer demands NRs 800,000 per child (ht
05/04/2016)
Quake
survivor
children ‘being sold’ in Britain (kp 05/04/2016)
Regmi’s
murder
accused held, two others absconding (ht 05/04/2016)
1995
Italian
tourist murder case: US dweller fugitive in net, by
Manish Gautam (kp 04/04/2016)
Mules
fox
cops with varied methods, by Manish Gautam (kp
03/04/2016)
Minor
rape
accused held after 5 weeks (kp 02/04/2016)
Six
Nepalis
jailed in India for child trafficking (ht
02/04/2016)
Alternative
politburo
member of UML presented in court (ht 01/04/2016)
Singhaniya
murder
suspect arrested: Chandradeep Yadav is said to be the
mastermind behind 2010 murder of media entrepreneur Arun
Singhaniya, by Shyam Sundar Shashi (kp 31/03/2016),
Sah
linked
to Singhaniya murder, by Shyamsundar Shashi (kp
06/04/2016), Suspended
MP
among four brought to Janakpur for probe (ht
06/04/2016), Suspended
lawmaker
Sah masterminded the murder: Police, by Shyam Sundar
Shashi (kp 07/04/2016), Sah
on
hunger strike, alleges 'wrongful implication', by
Suresh Yadav (rep 09/04/2016), Murder
case
filed against suspended lawmaker Sah at Dhanusha court,
by Shyam Sundar Shashi (kp 11/04/2016)
Involvement
of
youths in serious crimes on rise in Khotang, by
Daman Rai (rep 31/03/2016)
Two
bodies
of infants found: Police suspect the newborns could have
been abandoned after they were born of an illicit
relationship, or born out of wedlock or rape (kp
30/03/2016)
Conflict
victims
want firm commitment from TJ bodies: They also warn of
withdrawing support to Truth and Reconciliation
Commission unless it will make the process
victim-centric (kp 30/03/2016)
Two
women
held with liquid cocaine worth over Rs 50m (kp
29/03/2016)
Man
beats
mother to death in Dang (kp 27/03/2016)
Victims
initiate
unofficial truth-telling activities_ The victims as well
as international bodies have voiceed doubts over the
credibility of the transitional justice mechanisms
(rep 26/03/2016), TRC
says
it will collaborate with victims’ platform: The TRC
expedites its effort to reach out to the victims to make
transitional justice credible and successful, by
Dewan Rai (kp 28/03/2016)
Criminals
thriving
behind wall of internet, social networks (ht
26/03/2016), Users
warned
over rise in crimes involving social networking sites
(ht 26/03/2016)
Three
arrested
for gang rape, murder of 20-yr-old (ht 25/03/2016),
Press
code
violated (ht 25/03/2016)
Venisha
murder
suspects nabbed: She was found dead in Nagarkot on
February 26 (kp 25/03/2016), Girl
killed
for 'refusing sex', by Kamal Pariyar (rep
25/03/2016)
Two,
including
an NC leader’s murder accused, arrested (ht
25/03/2016)
Police
initiates
campaign against vehicle harassment (kp 25/03/2016)
MPCD
campaign
against trafficking gets int’l support (ht
24/03/2016)
Teenager
who
hacked 200 websites held (ht 24/03/2016)
Boy
foils
middleman's plan to send mom abroad, gets thrashed,
by Rohit Rai (rep 23/03/2016)
Police
detain
328 persons and 1661 vehicles for Holi holliganism
(rep 23/03/2016)
One
year
after: The TRC and the CIEDP have not laid the
groundwork for ensuring truth and justice, by Suman
Adhikari (kp 22/03/2016), TRC
to
receive complaints from April 17: War-era crimes probe
to start June 15 (rep 22/03/2016)
Rampant
smuggling
of betel nuts: Mechi Customs Office intensifies
monitoring, by Parbat Portel (kp 21/03/2016)
Agents
cheating
migrant workers with tourist visas, by Devendra
Basnet (rep 21/03/2016)
Rape
case
filed 11 days after incident: Rapist had threatened
victim’s family not to file FIR (ht 20/03/2016)
Morcha
insists
govt drop charges against its leaders, by Roshan
Sedhai (kp 20/03/2016) [??]
Man
beats
father, uncle to death: Mom, aunt hurt in attack of
reportedly mentally-ill person, by Aash Gurung (kp
20/03/2016)
CIEDP
to
start taking plaints from mid-April: Case registration
through Local Peace Committees; The regulations have
been
finalised, but an Act to criminalise acts of
disappearance is yet tos be brought (kp 19/03/2016)
Woman
murders
daughter in cold blood (kp 18/03/2016)
Succour
for
victims of trafficking: Listening to those who’re hard
of hearing; New law has been brought to ensure facts
don’t get lost in translation in courts, by
Pratichya Dulal (kp 17/03/2016)
Dalits
in
Saptari deprived of social security allowance (ht
17/03/2016)
2
held for minor’s abduction: According to police, there
is no evidence of rape or molestation (kp
17/03/2016), Police
rescue
abducted girl, arrest kidnappers (ht 17/03/2016)
Panchthar
trader
found murdered (kp 17/03/2016), Missing
trader
found dead (ht 17/03/2016)
SC
quashes
2 petitions related to war-era cases: Paves way to
arrest Maoist cadres accused of murder; the move allows
district court to proceed with its arrest warrant, probe
and prosecution as per criminal justice process, by
Dewan Rai (kp 16/03/2016)
The
black
money: Nepal was ranked as having the 64th largest
underground economy of 162 countries and the second
largest in South Asia after Sri Lanka, by Nirmal
Kumar Raut (rep 16/03/2016)
Tricksters
misusing
CIB name (kp 16/03/2016)
Mahanagar
bus
vandalised, by Anup Ojha (kp 15/03/2016)
TRC
talks
of oversight mechanism: The TRC discusses with conflict
victims on setting up an oversight body to avoid
possible interference from power centres (kp
14/03/2016)
MP
Lama
caught for bullets in bank locker (kp 14/03/2016), UCPN-M
lawmaker
Lharkyal Lama arrested: 14 bullets found from his Nepal
Investment Bank locker, by Tika R. Pradhan (kp
14/03/2015), MP
Lharkyal
Lama held after 14 bullets found in bank locker: Lama
says he was framed, by Kamal Pariyar (rep
14/03/2016), Suspended
MP
Lharkyal Lama’s house raided (kp 15/03/2016), Lama
denies
polygraph test (kp 16/03/2016), Old
cases
against Lama to be reopened (ht 17/03/2016), Lharkyal
Lama’s
remand extended for three days (ht 19/03/2016), Lharkyal
Lama
freed on bail, re-arrested on fraud charge: Accused of
duping youths of Rs 21.9 million (ht 22/03/2016), Former
MP
Lama released on Rs 3m bail (kp 24/03/2016)
Infant
body
found on riverbank sent to TUTH (kp 13/03/2016)
CPN
Maoist
men held for arson (kp 13/03/2016)
Probe
into
Tarai violence: UN; Expresses concern over Nepal’s
piecemeal progress in transition to peace, by Dewan
Rai (kp 12/03/2016)
Woman
attacked
with acid in Dang: 32-yr-old was tending grocery store
(kp 12/03/2016), Police
still
clueless about perpetrator behind Thursday’s acid attack,
by Devendra Basnet (rep 12/03/2016), Two
held
on acid attack charge (kp 14/03/2016)
Man
kills
co-tenant for molesting his wife (ht 11/03/2016)
Lahan
hospital
selling unwanted newborn to childless women, by
Mithilesh Yadav (rep 10/03/2016)
Man
‘thrown
into’ furnace, by Bechu Gaud (kp 06/03/2016)
Teacher
held
for caning students (kp 06/03/2016)
DAO
raids
DJPL, Lomus Pharma: Arrests senior officials, seals
distribution units, by Manish Gautam and Rajesh Khanal
(kp 05/03/2016), Drug makers
warn
of shutting factories if arrestees not released (kp
06/03/2016), Police
release
pharma officials: The arrestees have been released on
condition that they will present themselves to
the police when demanded (kp 07/03/2016), Unethical
demand:
Demanding that they should be released unconditionally
suggests that the business community does not want the
rule of law to prevail when it comes to any of their
members (ht 07/03/2016)
Online
violence
against women: Nepal lacks adequate laws to deal with
increasing violence and harassment of women in cyberspace,
by Sahina Shrestha (nt 04/03/2016), Trapped
in
the Net: The parallel universe of social media is
inhospitable terrain for women, by Rubeena Mahato (nt
04/02/2016)
Charge
sheets
filed against 12 fake docs: The Central Investigation
Bureau seeks three-year jail terms, by Manish Gautam
(kp 03/03/2016), District
Court
takes statements from 3: Statements from nine other
doctors to be recorded before the court delivers
verdict today (kp 04/03/2016)
Singhaniya
murder
case: 6 years on, suspects still at large, by Shyam
Sundar Shashi (kp 03/03/2016)
2
more trafficking arrests (kp 02/03/2016)
Nepal
rejects
UN suggestions on TJ-related cases: Govt tells UN
Human Rights Council it is yet to be prepared to
enact conventions ratified earlier, by Dewan
Rai (kp 01/03/2016)
108
VAW
cases reported in one month (ht 01/03/2016)
Hotelier
found
murdered (kp 01/03/2016)
Maoist
victim
living with a bullet lodged in head, by Durgalal Kc
(kp 01/03/2016)
Child
workers
flee carpet factory due to poor condition, sexual
harassment (kp 29/02/2016)
Lalitpur
brick
kiln found using child labor, by Deepak Kharel (rep
29/02/2016)
Opium
farming
goes unchecked in Bara, by Laxmi Sah (kp 29/02/2016)
Women
freed
from traffickers’ clutches, by Devendra Bhattarai
(kp 28/02/2016)
Policing
the
police: The police must obey the law while enforcing the
law, by Dipendra Adhikari (kp 28/02/2016)
Bajhang
police
arrest fake doctor, by Basanta Pratap Singh (kp
28/02/2016)
‘Illicit
trade
in arms leading to growth in crime’, by Prakash
Acharya (ht 28/02/2016)
A
collective crusade: There can be no justice for recent
atrocities so long as past atrocities remain shrouded in
a cloud of impunity, by Bidushi Dhungel (nt
26/02/2016)
Woman
held
for masterminding father’s murder, by Manish Gautam
(kp 25/02/2016), Woman
arrested
for plotting father’s murder: Admits she hired hitmen
after he refused to give her money to open a beauty
parlour (ht 25/02/2016)
‘New
forms
of violence emerging in society’ (ht 25/02/2016)
Transitional
justice
delayed: NHRC continues to seek action in war-era cases,
by Dewan Rai (kp 25/02/2016)
Boy
hurt
in teacher’s beating (ht 25/02/2016)
Valley
police
raid manpower agencies, arrest eight suspects: Certain
manpower agencies have been forcing migrant workers into
unpleasant jobs (ht 25/02/2016), Manpower
agencies
protest against ‘uninformed raids’: Shut offices
decrying what they call ‘police raj’; service seekers
affected (kp 26/02/2016)
Rice
meant
for relief rotting in food corporation godown (ht
24/02/2016)
Police
probing
witchcraft-related attack: A 23-year-old woman is
assaulted and made to eat human faeces by her husband
and in-laws, by Abdhesh Kumar Jha (kp 23/02/2016)
Police
free
district court judge accused of sexual assault, by
Mukesh Kumar Das (rep 23/02/2016), 2
district judges in dock over ‘sexual misconduct’: SC
summons the duo - JC conducting investigation, by
Bhadra Sharma and Rabindra Upreti (kp 24/02/2016), SC
suspends
two judges accused of sexual assault, by Mahesh
Kumar Das (rep 24/02/2016), Sexual
offence-charged
judges fail to show up (kp 25/02/2016)
Absconding
multi-billion
dollar fraudster in police net (rep 23/02/2016)
Daylight
thefts
keep police on their toes (ht 22/02/2016)
Action
sought
against institutions issuing fake health certificate to
migrant workers (ht 22/02/2016)
Computer
crime:
As Nepal moves towards a digital democracy, there is a
need to develop a safer cyberspace, by Mahesh Singh
Kathayat, Manish Pokharel and Bimalpratap Shah (kp
21/02/2016), Cyber
crime
incidents on rise (ht 21/02/2016)
Robbers
kill
man (kp 20/02/2016)
Maina
Sunar's
memorial: ‘Transitional justice faces threat’, by
Dewan Rai (kp 18/02/2016), Krishna
Prasad
murder: Ganga Maya’s condition ‘critical’ (kp
18/02/2016)
Fake
earthquake
victims disrupt data collection, by Harihar Singh
Rathaur (kp 18/02/2016)
Minor
raped
on school premises, suspect arrested (ht 17/02/2016)
India
rescued
more than 160 trafficked Nepalis after earthquake
(ht 17/02/2016)
Syndicate
supporters
vandalize buses in Pokhara, by Keshavsharan
Lamichhane (rep 17/02/2016)
Two
involved
in murder of 16-year-old remanded to custody, seven sent
to rehab (ht 16/02/2016)
4
killed in 7 years for witchcraft, by Pratap Bista
(kp 15/02/2016)
Two
held
with foreign currencies worth Rs 7.7m (kp
15/02/2016)
Birtamod
bus
park turning into crime hub, by Govinda Chandra
Chhetri (ht 14/02/2016)
Daytime
burglaries
up in Valley: Police (kp 13/02/2016)
Cong
cadre
shot dead (kp 13/02/2016)
Teacher
accused
of thrashing student with pipe, by Arjun Oli (rep
13/02/2016)
Police
arrest
two persons threatening to kidnap schoolchildren for
ransom (ht 13/02/2016)
Sitting
on
hands awaiting financial leg-up: TRC and CIEDP have
received only token budget from government; Conflict
victims voice frustration at slow pace of work, by
Dewan Rai (kp 12/02/2016)
3
persons arrested for murder (kp 12/02/2016)
86-year-old
man
burnt alive over witchcraft charge: Police say the
accused, Krishna Bahadur Tamang, splashed petrol on
Hasta Bahadur Tamang before setting him on fire, by
Pratap Bista (kp 11/02/2016)
Kidnapped
boy
found murdered (kp 11/02/2016)
Girl
jailed
for fabricating rape case (ht 11/02/2016)
VAW
spikes
women’s suicide (ht 10/02/2016)
Neha
Pun
murder accused made public (kp 09/02/2016), Neha
murdered
after gang-rape, police hiding truth: Pun Society
(ht 11/02/2016)
Measures
taken
against human trafficking (ht 09/02/2016)
One
year
on, transitional justice bodies yet to sharpen their
focus, by Dewan Rai (kp 08/02/2016),
Support
us
in time or lose control of Maoist war-era cases: TRC;
Transitional justice bodies alert govt, political
leaders against transitional cases coming under
international action, by Kamal Pariyar (rep)
08/02/2016, TRC
urges
govt to solve war-era cases, by Prakash Acharya (ht
08/02/2016), Govt
employees
reluctant to join truth commissions: Govt had sanctioned
100 positions for the TRC and 70 for the CIEDP, by
Dewan Rai (kp 09/02/2016)
12
doctors
held for doing just what the doctor didn’t order: Arrested
from different districts for possessing fake school
certificates, by Manish Gautam (kp 07/02/2016), Fake
degrees:
Rajbiraj doctor rounded up; Dr Manoj Kumar Sah, who was
held on fake degree charge, returns to work after the
police found his qualification to be genuine, by
Manish Gautam (kp 08/02/2016)
NC
district
leader shot dead, by Shyamsundar Shashi (kp
07/02/2016), NC
regional
representative murdered: Underground outfit by the name of
Janatatrik Tiger Janashakti Party claims responsibility
for the shooting (ht 07/02/2016), Killers
of
Congress leader still at large (ht 08/02/2016)
Couple
admits
to making up rape claim to settle scores with neighbours
(ht 07/02/2016)
Women
demand
action against Shah’s killers (ht 06/02/2016)
Apex
court
tells govt to formulate laws to protect rape victims
(ht 05/02/2016), Ruling
for
law to protect rape survivors hailed (kp 06/02/2016)
Protest
against
murders (ht 05/02/2016)
A
lost opportunity: Nepal’s transitional justice
mechanisms have failed to involve victims in their
activities, by Ram Kumar Bhandari (kp 03/02/2016)
CIEDP
bill
will criminalise disappearances, by Dewan Rai (kp
02/02/2016)
Woman
gang
raped, suspects at large: Police say unidentified gang
of about six tied the woman’s husband and children and
took her away in the middle of the night (kp
02/02/2016), Woman
raped
in Rautahat (ht 02/02/2016)
12
girls,
women raped in a month, says Report (ht 02/02/2016)
Teachers
out
of contact after police thrashing (ht 02/02/2016)
Five
persons
held on abduction charge, by Pratap Bista (kp
02/02/2016)
Bill
on
increasing quantum of punishment for murder in House,
by Prakash Acharya (ht 01/02/2016)
10
hurt
as SLMM cadres and police clash in Janakpur: The clash
erupted after the SLMM supporters started hurling
Molotov cocktail targeting the house of a Nepali
Congress lawmaker, by Shyamsundar Shashi (kp
01/02/2016), SLMM
cadres
attack NC leaders’ homes, by Shyamsundar Shashi (kp
02/02/2016)
Taken
from
Nepal: Holistic legislation is needed to deal with the
rising incidence of human trafficking, by Saloni
Maheshwari (kp 31/01/2016)
Fugitive
arrested
from TIA (ht 31/01/2016)
Looters
murder
local youth: Robbers attack three locals, kill one
(kp 31/01/2016)
Drug
trafficker
held in Parsa (kp 31/01/2016)
CIEDP
demands
war-era dossiers: Around 77 percent of 1,400 disappeared
cases were committed by the state and 10 percent by the
rebel Maoists, by Dewan Rai (kp 30/01/2016) [!!], Three-decade
long
wait for disappeared son (ht 30/01/2016)
Cops
attacked
during NC ward committee convention (ht 30/01/2016)
Assaults
against
women in camps ‘on the rise’, by Pratichya Dulal (kp
29/01/2016)
Govt
not
cooperating with TRC: Spokesperson; Bhatta warns of
internationalising cases of rights violations if there
was no environment for commission to perform its duties,
by Nagendra Adhikari (kp 29/01/2016)
Man
convicted
on six counts nabbed after 14 years (ht 29/01/2016)
Teen
with
disability rescued from barn (ht 28/01/2016)
Eight
held
for child abduction, murder (kp 27/01/2016)
Humla
women
giving birth in cowsheds, by Prakash Singh (ht
27/01/2016)
TRC,
CIEDP
remain idle for lack of regulations: Transitional
justice bodies rendered defunct as Maoists oppose some
provisions, by Kamal Pariyar (rep 27/01/2016)
Court
reopens
Maina murder case: She was tortured to death by NA
officials during the Maoist insurgency (ht
26/02/2016)
106
VAW
cases recorded in a month (ht 26/01/2016)
Spurt
in
rape cases alarms Gorkha, by Narahari Sapkota (rep
26/01/2016)
Woman
hired
hitman to murder her husband (ht 26/01/2016)
Kin
of
Doramba massacre victims hopeful of justice, by Tika
Prasad Bhatta (kp 25/01/2016)
MRPs
forged
for migrant workers under illegal status, by
Shreejana Shrestha (rep 25/01/2016)
‘Conflict
victims
feel justice denied’, by Lekhanath Pandey (ht
23/01/2016)
Threat
bars
victim of rape from court visit, by Kamal Panthi (kp
22/01/2016)
‘Woman
abused
by employer in Lebanon’, by Parbat Portel (kp
22/01/2016)
Woman
kills
stepsons (kp 22/01/2016)
6
arrested for running fake currency racket (kp
22/01/2016)
Girl
gang-raped,
murdered, by Janak KC (rep 21/01/2016)
NAMS
official
among 4 held for hatching false alibi: Member Secretary
of NAMS and 3 Bir Hospital officials are arrested for
falsifying evidence to protect a rape convict, by
Manish Gautam (kp 21/01/2016), Bir
Hospital
staffers held for forging medical documents: They had
produced fake evidences to secure the release of a man
serving term in Central Jail for attempted rape (ht
21/01/2016), Bir
officials
remanded to custody for forging papers over rape case
(rep 21/01/2016)
Toddler
branded
with heated rod to avert black magic, by Giriraj
Baskota (rep 21/01/2015), Witch
doctor
held for singing child (ht 22/01/2016), Toddler
who
was branded with spatula hospitalized, by Giriraj
Basjota (rep 22/01/2016), Shaman
charged
with attempt to murder (ht 23/01/2016)
Man
held
for trying to burn wife alive (kp 21/01/2016)
Govt
agencies
found involved in smuggling of fuel: NHRC, by Dewan
Rai (kp 21/01/2016)
Kids’
murder
scares locals (kp 20/01/2016)
Crime
flourishing
in Madhes: Six including 2 abducted children murdered,
by Ajit Tiwari (rep 20/01/2016)
Bogus
Avatari
Lama absconds with millions (ht 20/01/2016)
Tanahun
police
probes 12 murder-accused (ht 20/01/2016)
KSL
Report
rejects influence of traditional common law principles
(19/01/2016)
Girl
raped
in Panchthar (ht 19/01/2016)
Rights
defenders
seek revision to transitional justice Acts (kp
18/01/2016)
Human
trafficking
charges pressed against sex trade operators (rep
18/01/2016)
Cops
‘trying
to extort’ businessman arrested (ht 18/01/2016)
Police
step
up patrolling amid rampant smuggling, by Bhushan
Yadav (kp 18/01/2016)
INTERPOL
issues
Red Corner Notice against banking fraudster Karki,
by Kamal Pariyar (kp 18/01/2016)
Human
trafficking
via Delhi-Colombo route rife, by Devendra Bhattarai
(kp 17/01/2016)
Child
abducted
in Mahottari (ht 17/01/2016)
Acid
attack
victims struggle on their long road to recovery: The
only help Bindabasini has received to date is a computer
training course and Rs 35,000 provided by Burn Violence
Survivors-Nepal, an NGO, by Pratichya Dulal and
Garima Chauladain (kp 16/01/2016)
SC
quashes
govt’s decision to withdraw criminal cases against 227
individuals, by Ram Kumar Kamat (ht 15/01/2016)
Court:
reopen
Maina Sunar murder case (kp 14/01/2016), Kavre
District
Court reopens Maina Sunar murder case, by Nabin
Khatiwada (rep 14/01/2016)
Six
held
for domestic violence (ht 14/01/2016)
Constituency
budget
allegedly distributed among lawmakers' favorites, by
Jagat Khadja (rep 14/01/2016) [This
had to be expected!!]
Four
money
changers booked in Jhapa: Charging exorbitant fees,
by Parbat Portel (kp 13/01/2016)
Serious
warning:
It seems that the real conflict victims have not come
forward to both the commissions due to their distrust of
the commissions formed under a political compromise
(ht 13/01/2016)
‘Loan
shark’
singer faces music: Rekha Shah arrested for lending
money for what’s called ‘meter interest’, by Manish
Gautam (kp 12/01/2016)
Promise
of
peace: It is important to understand that transitional
justice and traditional justice systems are two
different things, by Yogendra P. Paneru (kp
12/01/2016)
TRC
plans
to set up its own local offices: Sceptical about plaints
recorded by peace committees, by Dewan Rai (kp
09/01/2016) [??]
The
Gods
are still leaving: Despite their theft finding national
and international limelight, antiques from Nepal remain
vulnerable as ever, by Sewa Bhattarai (kp 09/01/2016)
Apex
court
denies clemency to murder convict Dhungel: Issues
mandamus order to send Maoist leader to prison for life,
by Dewan Rai (kp 08/01/2016), No
clue
for staff supply at NRA (kp), UCPN-M
urges
SC to reverse order (ht 22/01/2016) [Long
live impunity and glorification of murderers!!]
Jobless
southerners
take to smuggling gasoline, by Abdesh Kumar Jha (kp
07/01/2016)
Police
officer
shot dead (kp 05/01/2016)
TRC
team
meets conflict victims in Rukum: Locals demand probe
into killings and torture by State and Maoist rebels
(ht 02/01/2016)
Govt,
political
parties not cooperating, says CIEDP (kp 01/01/2016)
Over
400
girls missing in India: The Nepalgunj office of Maiti
Nepal says most of the girls were under 18, by
Thakur Singh Tharu (kp 01/01/2016)
Police
rescue
3 girls after 19 days in 'captivity': Two women arrested
on kidnapping charges (rep 01/01/2016)
Madhes
sees
sudden spike in crimes, by Santosh Singh (rep
01/01/2015)
13
girls,
women raped in a month: Report (ht 31/12/2015)
CDO
warns
journalists (ht 31/12/2015)
UML
district
leader killed, by Aman Koirala (kp 30/12/2015), CPN-UML
leader
Yadav killed (ht 30/12/2015)
Morcha
wants
murder suspect released: Amar Yadav is in police custody
on suspicion of his role in the murder of Dinesh
Kushawaha two months ago (kp 30/12/2015)
Woman
gets
20-yr jail for human trafficking charge (kp
30/12/2015)
Relief
items
vanish from warehouse, by Sudip Kaini (kp
30/12/2015)
Woman
raped,
murdered (kp 29/12/2015)
Human
trafficking:
‘Jurisdiction overlap hinders prosecution’ (kp
29/12/2015)
Fuel
adulteration
at pumps: DoCSM moving slowly despite irregularities
(kp 29/12/2015)
Kantipur
van
torched (kp 28/12/2015)
Mining
co’s
machines set on fire, by Harihar Singh Rathaur (kp
28/12/2015)
Crossing
borders:
Nepalis being trafficked all around the world should
alert the government (kp 25/12/2015)
Jail
term
for acid attacker: Punishment not enough: Victim, by
Pratichya Dulal (kp 24/12/2015), Acid
attacker
sentenced to 10 years in jail (ht 24/12/2015)
NOC
drivers
among 15 held for selling fuel from tankers, by
Harihar Singh Rathaur (kp 23/12/2015)
More
boys
than girls victims of ‘non-touching’ sexual abuse
(kp 22/12/2015), Send
Paudel
to judicial custody: SC (ht 22/12/2015)
Police
posts,
govt offices in Rautahat, Sarlahi vandalised, by
Shiva Puri and Aman Koirala (kp 22/12/2015), Students
attack
police posts, offices torched (ht 22/12/2015)
Krishna
Prasad
murder case: SC revokes appeals court bail for accused
(kp 22/12/2015)
Schoolboy
killed
in police firing; curfew imposed in Gaur (ht), Protester
killed
in police firing in Gaur: Indefinite curfew clamped in
the Rautahat district headquarters, by Shiva Puri
(kp 21/12/2015)
Police
draw
blank in idol theft case, by Anup Ojha (kp
21/12/2015)
Bus
found
torched under mysterious circumstances (ht
21/12/2015)
7
suspected robbers arrested (kp 21/12/2015)
Mother,
daughter
found murdered, by Shiva Puri (kp 20/12/2015)
Male
security
personnel accused of sexual assault, by Shyamsundar
Shashi (kp 20/12/2015)
Motorcyclist
set
on fire in Birgunj, by Bhusan Yadav (kp 19/12/2015)
Unrest,
embargo
prove bonanza for smugglers (kp 19/12/2015)
Krishna
Prasad
murder case: NHRC to govt: Bring culprits to justice
(kp 18/12/2015)
Dish
Home’s
Bhaisepati transmission unit torched, by Manish
Gautam (kp 17/12/2015)
Four
kidnappers
sentenced to jail, by Manish Gautam and Binod
Ghimire (kp 16/12/2015)
When
danger
lurks close to one’s home: Relatives and friends
involved in most trafficking cases, by Praticgya
Dulal (kp 15/12/2015)
Two
bodies
found (kp 14/12/2015)
Chand
party
owns up Arun III arson (kp 14/12/2015)
Six
women
rescued from traffickers at TIA, 2 held (kp
11/12/2015)
18-year-old
Surkhet
woman gang-raped (kp11/12/2015)
Man
held
for carjacking (kp 11/12/2015)
Many
VAW
cases go ‘unreported’, by Pratichya Dulal (kp
10/12/2015)
Birgunj
hospital
vandalised (kp 08/12/2015)
Man
kills
4 children, bodies found buried (kp 30/11/2015)
Statute
of
limitations on rape extended to 180 days (kp
30/11/2015)
Two
teenage
girls found dead, by Ramesh Chandra Adhikari (kp
29/11/2015)
Court
of
inquiry instituted (kp 28/11/2015)
Govt
broadens
definition of rape (kp 28/11/2015)
A
horrible business: Nepal needs accurate data and urgent
action to ensure that human trafficking does not
continue to persist at disturbing rates, by Sarah
Ivy Hurtes (kp 27/11/2015)
Man
ferrying
fuel set on fire in Morang, by Pradip Manyangbo and
Abdhesh Kumar Jha (kp 27/11/2015)
26,000
litres
of smuggled fuel seized, by Madhav Dhungana and
Rajesh Khanal (kp 27/11/2015)
Bomb
hurled
at radio station (kp 27/11/2015)
Over
half
of rape survivors are minors: Study, by Pratichya
Dulal (kp 26/11/2015), Looming
shadows:
Data on the increase in sexual assaults of children is
alarming (kp 27/11/2015)
Journos
killed,
disappeared: FNJ urges TRC to look into cases (kp
26/11/2015)
Pumps
found
dispensing less fuel to motorists (ht 25/11/2015)
WHO
calls
for ending violence against women and girls (ht
25/11/2015)
Tarai
protests
continue: Protesters, cops injured in Sunsari clash:
Ambulance vandalised, by Bedraj Paudel and Abdhesh
Kumar Jha (kp 22/11/2015)
Protests
turn
violent in Tarai districts: Truck carrying drugs torched
in Birgunj, dozens of vehicles vandalised, by Bhusan
Yadav and Abdhesh Kumar Jha (kp 21/11/2015), UDMF
agitation
turns violent: Medicine laden truck torched; Ambulance
carrying sick child vandalised (ht 21/11/2015), UDMF
cadres
vandalize ambulance, torch drugs truck, by Binod
Subedi, Ritesh Tripathi and Madan Thakur (rep 21/11/2015),
Brutal
blockade
takes toll on thirteen-year-old heart patient, by
Arjun Poudel (rep 21/11/2015)
Sale
of
adulterated fuel rampant: Vehicle entrepreneurs,
passengers at the receiving end (ht 19/11/2015)
Chhaupadi
practice
still continues in Dailekh villages: Arjun Shahi of
Rakam in the district says VDC offices banned the
superstitious practice without proper preparations,
by Prakash Adhikari (kp 18/11/2015)
School
headmaster
shot at (kp 17/11/2015)
Eleven-year-old
raped
after playing bhaili (ht 16/11/2015)
Unrest
in
Madhes boon to smugglers, by Upendra Yadav (rep
16/11/2015)
Amnesty
for
war crimes: Govt’s disregard for court order upsets
victims of conflict (kp 16/11/2015)
SLMM
cadres
torch UML district party office in Parsa (kp
14/11/2015), UML
Parsa
party office vandalised, torched (ht 15/11/2015)
Agitating
UDMF
cadres torch truck in Birgunj (ht 13/11/2015)
Two
women
found dead in Mahottari, by Mahesh Kumar Das (rep
13/11/2015)
Women
in
entertainment sector rue police brutality, by
Pratichya Dulal (kp 12/11/2015)
Govt
limits
TRC posts to 100 against 144 proposed (kp
11/11/2015)
Kin
demand
arrest of Dev’s ‘killers’ (ht 09/11/2015)
Armed
group
extorting cardamom traders, by Ananda Gautam (kp
08/11/2015)
UDMF
cadres
set motorbike on fire, by Santosh Singh (rep
07/11/2015)
Woman
hospitalised
with serious head trauma inflicted by husband (kp
06/11/2015)
Criminal
activities
drop across country: Police (ht 06/11/2015)
Public
vehicles
fleecing passengers (ht 02/11/2015)
Kathmandu
tenants
suffer humiliation from landlords amid fuel crisis,
by Anjali Subedi (rep 02/11/2015)
Man
arrested
with fake currency notes, printer, by Aman Koirala
(kp 01/11/2015)
Former
minister
Kandel survives bid on life, by Narayan Sharma (kp
31/10/2015)
Two
held
for rape cases (kp 29/10/2015)
12
held
for black marketing petrol: Over 2,100 litres of petrol
confiscated (ht 29/10/2015), Black-marketing
of
fuel on the rise, by Mahesh Kumar Das (kp
29/10/2015)
‘SLMM
cadres
beat a man to death’, by Bhusan Yadav (kp
28/10/2015), Tarai
protestors
set man ablaze for carrying petrol, by Amar Khadka
(rep 28/10/2015)
Illegal
fishing
goes unchecked in Makwanpur, by Pratap Bista (kp
27/10/2015)
Seized
engines
reported due to adulterated fuel, by Thakur Singh
Tharu (kp 27/10/2015)
Transporters
fleece
Dashain travellers, by Madhav Aryal, Aman Koirala
and Agandhar Tiwari (kp 26/10/2015)
Protesters
vandalise
dozens of vehicles in Saptari (rep 26/10/2015)
2
held on murder charge in Tanahun, by Madan Wagle (ht
25/10/2015)
UCPN-Maoist
cadre
injured in Dhading khukuri attack (ht 25/10/2015)
Tarkeshwor
women
unsafe in public spaces, shows safety audit: Women
Safety Audit conducted at Tarkeshwor in Kathmandu shows
women felt unsafe in open ground, health post, temples,
bus station and schools, by Pratichya Dulal (kp
19/10/2015), Women
Safety
Walk held at Dharmasthali (ht 19/10/2015)
Govt
to
provide counselling to CAPs: The project aims to provide
support services to the needy, by Kokila KC (ht
19/10/2015)
Police
unveil
strategy to combat organised crimes (ht 19/10/2015)
Morcha
protesters
vandalise industry, by Bhusan Yadav (kp
18/10/2015)
Raid
on
armed outfit’s ‘shelter’: Police seize six weapons,
explosives from the hideout in Taplejung forest, by
Ananda Gautam (kp 18/10/2015)
Nepal:
Investigate
Deaths During Terai Protests: Hold Perpetrators to
Account (Human Rights Watch 16/10/2015), Tarai
protest
killings: HRW urges govt to book culprits; The rights
body has pointed out use of arbitrary force and
extrajudicial killings by police against protesters
(kp 17/10/2015)
Skipper
Thapa
among five held, by Adarsh Dhakal (kp 15/10/2015), Match-fix
footballers
hit with treason charge (kp 16/10/2015), Fix
this
now: Players accused of throwing away football matches
should be dealt with severely (kp 16/10/2015), Police
to
book tainted footballers for treason (ht)
Smuggling
of
precious stones on the rise in Jajarkot villages, by
Bhim Bahadur Singh (kp 15/10/2015)
Criminal
cases
up after police post relocation, by Rabindra Uprety
(kp 14/10/2015)
Gendercide:
Nepal
needs serious advocacy against sex-selective abortion to
put an end to it, by Geha Nath Khanal (kp
13/10/2015)
Vehicles
booked
for cheating passengers (ht 12/10/2015)
Study:
Many
women feel unsafe at home (kp 12/10/2015), The
lurking
fear Much needs to be done in the Tarai to make women
feel safe in their houses (kp 14/10/2015)
Armed
group
robs three passengers buses in Salyan, by Devendra
Basnet (kp 10/10/2015)
Administration
turns
blind eye to gasoline smuggling, by Rajendra Nath
and Thakur Singh Tharu (kp 08/10/2015)
Drug
smugglers
held with press ID, by Bhusan Yadav (ht 08/10/2015)
Two
arrested
for trying to sacrifice a woman (kp 07/10/2015)
CJ
calls
for efforts to fight human trafficking (ht
07/10/2015)
Nepal
tourism
board scam: NTB director released on bail (kp
07/10/2015)
Man
murders
wife, uncle, by Raj Bahadur Shahi (kp ß5/10/2015)
Woman
murdered
for refusing marriage (kp 04/10/2015)
New
law
to protect women branded ‘witches’ in offing (ht
03/10/2015)
Smuggling
of
small arms continues unabated in Valley (ht
03/10/2015)
Girl
displaced
for protesting against forced marriage:
Thirteen-year-old Jamuna Rai of Tamilcha-1 in Udayapur
says she has kicked out of her village for refusing to
accept marriage with a 52-year-old man, by Dilliram
Khatiwada (kp 02/10/2015)
Man
gets
44 years for selling wife (ht 02/10/2015)
Six
unidentified
bodies found (kp 02/10/2015)
Mobile
app
to counter violence against women (kp 29/09/2015)
Women
not
safe anywhere: WOREC (ht 28/09/2015)
Smuggling
of
gold into Valley continues unabated (ht 28/09/2015)
Girlfriends
involved
in murder of amorous youth, by Prabhat Kumar Jha (ht
27/09/2015)
Human
trafficking
spreading far and wide: Police (ht 26/09/2015)
Police
rescue
seven women being trafficked to Iraq via India (ht
24/09/2015)
Gender-related
violence
up in Makawanpur (ht 24/09/2015)
Three
held
on church explosion charge, by Parbat Portel (kp
23/09/2015)
Three
vehicles
including ambulance vandalised in Taplejung (kp
23/09/2015)
District
court’s
verdict upheld: The District Court had decided to slap
two-year jail term for the murderers of journalist
Dekendra Thapa, by Prakash Adhikari (kp 18/09/2015)
[This shows how little worth a journalist's life
has in the opinion of politicians and judiciary!],
SC
upholds
Sanjay Sah’s conviction (ht 18/09/2015)
Police
crack
down on thefts in capital (ht 18/09/2015)
Rape
incidents
on rise, by Amrita Anamol (kp 17/09/2015)
4-yr-old
among
four killed in Rupandehi police firing (kp
16/09/2015)
Tikapur
protest
deaths: Murder case likely against 22 people, by
Mohan Budhair (kp 16/09/2015)
Smuggling
rife
in Kailali after Tikapur incident: Armed Police Force
from border areas has been mobilised to inner towns of
Kailali district after the deadly Tikapur riot, by
Mohan Budhair (kp 15/09/2015)
Web
of
lies: The govt still needs to be more vigilant about
human trafficking (kp 15/09/2015)
Jewellery
shops
booked for quality violations (kp 15/09/2015)
Bomb
hurled
at THT scribe’s house (ht 14/09/2015)
Lalpatta
fast
becoming transit point for drug smugglers (ht
14/09/2015)
Captors
held,
3 hostages freed, by Lila Baral (kp 13/09/2015)
Tarai
protest:
14-yr-old among five killed in police firing (kp
12/09/2015), Six
killed
in police firing in Janakpur, Jaleshwor, by Brij
Kumar Yadav (ht 12/09/2015),
APF
ASI
lynched in Mahottari (ht 12/09/2015)
The
Human
Business: Human trafficking is a serious issue that is
largely going unchecked, by Shreejana Shrestha (rep
11/09/2015)
4
dead, scores hurt as police, protesters clash (kp
10/09/2015), Four
killed
in police firing in Mahottari, Saptari, by Brij
Kumar Yadav and Byas Shankar Upadhyaya (ht
10/09/2015), Protestors
try
to burn police personnel alive in Biratnagar (kp
10/09/2015), ‘Excessive’
use
of force concerns rights groups (kp 10/09/2015)
Police
arrest
two on charge of committing property crimes (ht
10/09/2015)
Saudi
diplomat
accused of raping, locking up Nepali women in India
(ht 10/09/2015), Women
allegedly
‘raped’ by Saudi diplomat return home: CIB launches
investigation to nab their traffickers (ht
11/09/2015), Rights
activists
demand Saudi embassy to punish diplomat (kp
12/09/2015), ‘Diplomatic
immunity
shouldn’t trump justice’ (kp 14/09/2015), CIB
probes
Saudi diplomat rape case: The victims claim they were
raped first by their employer, who police believe has a
first secretary rank in the embassy, then by up to six
men at once, by Manish Gautam (kp 15/09/2015), Victim’s
daughter-in-law
arrested, by Manish Gautam (kp 17/09/2015), Alleged
traffickers
of Gurgaon rape victims held (ht 17/09/2015)
Man
beaten,
force-fed human excreta on witchcraft allegation, by
Bharat Jarghamagar (kp 09/09/2015)
Tharu
leader
killed by his son (kp 09/09/2015)
Clamour
for
probe into teenager’s murder; victim’s kin seek justice
(ht 09/09/2015), Relatives
demand
action against Tanahun teenager’s murderer(s) (ht
11/09/2015), Ale’s
kin
force shutdown in Damauli (ht 12/09/2015), One
dies,
two injured in protest over Ale’s death (ht
13/09/2015), Two
dead
as demo continues into sixth day (ht 14/09/2015), Inspector
suspended,
17 others booked for mischief (ht 16/09/2015)
NC
party
office torched in Janakpur: Protestors torch 2 police
beats in Jaleshwar, by Suresh Yadav and Mahesh Kumar
Das (rep 08/09/2015)
Police
nab
two for banking fraud (kp 07/09/2015)
Missing
American
woman ‘murdered’ (kp 06/09/2015), American’s
murderer
confesses (ht 09/09/2015)
Robbers
target
trucks stranded along border, by Bhusan Yadav (kp
06/09/2015)
Love
triangle
ends in shocking murder, suspect nabbed (ht
05/09/2015)
UDMF
cadres
set fire to land office, jeep (ht 04/09/2015)
Man
brutally
thrashes wife: The woman claims to have been regularly
beaten up by family members, twice being hospitalised in
past, by Lawadev Dhungana (kp 03/09/2015)
Red
Cross
ambulance vandalised (ht 03/09/2015)
Counterfeit
currency
racket busted in capital: One arrested, fake Nepali
banknotes worth Rs 135,000 seized (ht 03/09/2015)
Longer
jail
term sought for ex-minister Gupta (ht 02/09/2015)
CIEDP
asks
govt to criminalise enforced disapperances (kp
01/09/2015)
Nepali
Congress,
UML tie their CA members’ hands: Prohibit them from
registering individual amendment proposals (ht
01/09/2015) [Unbelievable
procedure! According to the interim constitution, the CA
members first of all have to represent the
interests of their social groups and not those of their
party leaders!!], NC,
UML
discourage lone charter amendment bids, by Kamal Dev
Bhattarai (kp 01/09/2015) [Long
live the highly undemocratic state of Nepal!!]
New
Delhi
traffickers: CIB to file ‘one more case’, Police want to
provide max compensation to victims and ensure culprits
face maximum punishment (kp 31/08/2015)
UDMF
cadres
vandalise offices in Janakpur during demos (ht
31/08/2015)
Man’s
head
shaved for stealing Rudraksha bead, by Dipendra
Shakya (kp 30/08/2015)
Tarun
Dal
town Chair among seven injured in attack (ht
30/08/2015)
VAW
cases
up substantially (ht 29/08/2015), Domestic
violence
tops VAW charts: As per the report, 58 percent of the
total alleged perpetrators are husbands and another 15
percent of abuse comes from other family members (kp
30/08/2015)
All
wrong:
Human traffickers have been good at persuading poor
parents in quake-hit districts to part with their
children, by Giri Bahadur Gurung (rep 29/08/2015)
Three
buses
torched (ht 29/08/2015)
Keeping
it
in the family: Approximately 4 in 5 of all rapes are
committed by someone the victim knows, and 98 per cent
never go to jail, by Anjana Rajbhandary (nt
28/08/2015), Behind
closed
doors: Only 20 per cent of rape involving family members
get reported, by Namrata Sharma and Aruna Upreti (nt
28/08/2015)
Teenage
girl
found dead at Gaushala guesthouse: Murder-accused nabbed
within two hours of the incident (ht 28/08/2015)
Nine
held
for banking fraud: They embezzled more than Rs 330
million from Agricultural Development Bank (ht
28/08/2015)
Seven
being
probed for killing cop in Kailali (ht 28/08/2015)
New
opium
epicenter: Farmers in western Nepal are lured to grow
opium by Indian middlemen, by Damodar Bhandari (nt
28/08/2015)
Five
more
held for Tikapur killings, by Tekendra Deuba (ht
27/08/2015)
Con
man
in police net (ht 27/08/2015)
Thief
injured
while trying to flee (ht 27/08/2015)
Everyday
aggression:
Govt must introduce stringent measures in the Domestic
Violence Act (kp 26/08/2015)
Chand-led
Maoists
unleash donation drive in Khotang (ht 26/08/2015)
Don
Rigaj
presents self at court (ht 25/08/2015)
Traffickers
of
27 Nepali Women arrested (ht 24/08/2015)
Shaman
in
custody for rape (ht 24/08/2015)
I
shot Justice Bam to land party vice-chair, ministership:
Magar, by Kamal Pariyar (rep 24/08/2015)
Domestiv
violence:
Provisions too weak to protect victims, by Pratichya
Dulal (kp 23/08/2015)
Head
teacher
held for sexual harassment (ht 23/08/2015)
Villagers
thrash
an entire Dalit family (ht 23/08/2015)
Vehicles
booked
for overcharging pilgrims (kp 23/08/2015)
Govt
in
dilemma over Col Lama’s defence, by Lekhanath Pandey
(ht 22/08/2015)
Kathmandu
sees
rise in polygamy cases (ht 22/08/2015)
Goon
killed
in ‘encounter’, by Manish Gautam (kp 21/08/2015)
[including "Ghainte’s political nexus" to NC], Ghainte’s
death:
Observers, locals contest police claims (kp
22/08/2015), Ghainte
opened
fire at cops: HM (ht 22/08/2015)
Kin
admits
to killing five of family (ht 21/08/2015)
Human
traffickers
‘active’ in earthquake-hit villages, by Nagendra
Adhikari (kp 21/08/2015)
Annapurna
Post
office vandalised (ht 21/08/2015)
Banking
fraud
convict nabbed, jailed (ht 20/08/2015)
Crackdown
on
edu consultancies: Police raid 22 firms, detain owners,
by Manish Gautam and Binod Ghimire (kp 19/08/2015), Owners
of
edu consultancies sent to custody, Manish
Gautam and Binod Ghimire (kp 20/08/2015), 23
educational
consultancy owners arrested in raid (ht 20/08/2015),
11
more
illegally operated education consultancies booked
(ht 22/08/2015)
Protester
dies
in Saptari firing; 7 hurt in Taulihawa, by Jitendra
Khadka and Manoj Poudel (kp 19/08/2015), Protester
killed
in police firing, by Byashshankar Upadhyay (ht
19/08/2015), Protests
continue,
man dies in Saptari firing, by Jitendra Kumar Jha
(rep 19/08/2015), Saptari
death
sparks stir, by Jitendra Khadka (kp 20/08/2015), Protesters
shot
at cops in Saptari, says Gautam (ht
20/08/2015) [??]
1047
bandas
in 5 yrs as wide criticism falls on deaf ears, by
Kamal Pariyar (rep 19/08/2015)
Murder
suspect
held (ht 19/08/2015)
Two
held
for manhandling APF men (kp 19/08/2015)
Fake
victims
start returning relief amount, by Tika Prasad Bhatta
and Nagendra Adhikari (kp 18/08/2015)
Locals,
APF
clash in Nawalparasi (kp 18/08/2015)
Trafficking
survivor
reunites with family: Sagar’s father had washed his
hands of his 3 young sons after losing his wife in the
April 25 earthquake (kp 17/08/2015)
Murder
accused
CPN-UML leader sent to prison (ht 17/08/2015)
Bajhang
teen
escapes rape attempt inside ambulance, by Mohan
Shahi (kp 16/08/2015)
Congress
local
leader murdered in Pokhara (kp 15/08/2015), Nepali
Congress
Kaski leader murdered, by Bharat Koirala (kp
15/08/2015), NC
leader
Ramji cremated, action pledged (ht 16/08/2015), NC
leader
held on charge of murdering fellow party worker, by
Lal Prasad Sharma (kp 16/08/2015)
Dalit
couple
unable to complete puja at Swargadwari, by Devendra
Basnet(rep 15/08/2015)
Government’s
bid
to prevent ‘bride’trafficking (ht 15/08/2015)
Man
murders
wife over relief funds (kp 14/08/2015)
Rapist
caught
in the act (ht 14/08/2015)
8
fuel pumps sealed for short measures (kp 13/08/2015)
CPN
Maoist
cadres thrash DoFE chief (kp 13/08/2015)
Makawanpur
Campus
vandalised, torched (ht 13/08/2015)
Doctor
faces
action for sex-selective abortion (kp 12/08/2015), Doctor
ousted
for three months: Nepal Medical Council has suspended
gynaecologist Dr Nutan Sharma for determining sex of
foetus (ht 13/08/2015), Interim
order
allows Dr Sharma to practice (kp)
Civil
and
Criminal Codes to rid Jari (kp 12/08/2015)
3
ex-MPs convicted for PP misuse (kp 12/08/2015)
Protest
in
Surkhet turns violent, 2 killed, by Motilal Poudel
(kp 11/08/2015), Incident
occured
while protecting lives, properties: Home Ministry
(kp 11/08/2015), 15
hurt
in Surkhet police firing (ht 12/08/2015), NHRC
begins
probe into Surkhet violence (ht 14/08/2015), Kin
of
deceased refuse to accept bodies in Surkhet (ht
16/08/2015), Kin
of
dead take bodies (ht 18/08/2015)
Two
arrested
for abducting 8-yr-old boy (kp 11/08/2015)
200
fake
quake victims booked (ht 11/08/2015)
Soldier
arrested
for killing wife, dumping daughter (ht 10/08/2015)
Body
found
in forest, by Tika Prasad Bhatta (kp 09/08/2015)
Nepali
women
trafficked to Syria, by Devendra Bhattarai (kp
08/08/2015)
Elderly
held
on rape charge (ht 08/08/2015)
Eight-year
jail
term mooted for acid attackers: New bill proposes to
fine perpetrators up to Rs 3 Lakh (ht 08/08/2015)
72-year-old
convict
nabbed for raping maid (ht 07/08/2015)
Police
help
Dom family gain access to village well, by Bharat
Jarghamagar (kp 06/08/2015), Dalits
barred
from well: Ministry seeks clarification from Siraha
authorities (kp 08/08/2015), Rights
groups
clamour for legal remedy to Dom family, by Bharat
Jarghamagar (kp 08/08/2015)
Kin
of
girl found hanging say she was murdered (ht
06/08/2015)
Cyber
crime
threatens Kathmandu (ht 06/08/2015)
Woman
with
speech impairment gang raped, by Rajendra Manandhar
(kp 05/08/2015)
Raped
minor
dies in Bir Hospital: Activists seek justice for victim,
punishment for perpetrator (ht 05/08/2015), 14-year-old
raped,
force-fed toilet cleaning solution, dies: Perpetrators
use political pressure to make victim’s family drop
charges, by Pratichya Dulal (kp 06/08/2015)
Transitional
justice
act: ‘Amendment must’ for effective TRC, CIEDP (kp
05/08/2015)
Protests
for
equal rights: House asks govt to clarify police action
(kp 05/08/2015)
Call
for
awareness drive to combat superstition (kp
05/08/2015)
A
step forward: Implementation of Witchcraft Act is
crucial to assure vulnerable women (kp 04/08/2015)
Nepali
girl's
China dream turns into nightmare: Rescue efforts a tough
task in lack of identity, address details, by Kamal
Pariyar (rep 04/08/2015)
Three
women
killed in 20 days (ht 04/08/2015)
Former
CA
member held for public offence (ht 04/08/2015)
27
Nepali
women to return home after their release, by Devendra
Bhattarai (kp 03/08/2015), CIB
to
investigate Delhi trafficking (kp 04/08/2015), 27
rescued
Nepali women return home (ht 05/08/2015), Victims
hindering
investigation: CIB (kp 07/08/2015)
Police
step
up security measures to combat crime (ht 03/08/2015)
Woman
arrested
for banking fraud: She was on the run since May 2014;
Fined Rs 22m (ht 03/08/2015)
TRC
will
not look into the cases sub-judice at the court,
interview with Surya Kiran Gurung (kp 03/07/2015)
Three
people
murdered in separate incidents (kp 03/08/2015)
Rape
victim
in critical condition: Eight cases in Rautahat in 4
months, by Shiva Puri (kp 02/08/2015), 10-year-old
girl
raped in Rautahat (ht 02/08/2015)
Foreign
job
fraud cases increase (ht 02/08/2015)
Unity
honchos
in net after 5 yrs on the run: Held from Himanchal
Pradesh, India, by Manish Gautam (kp 01/08/2015), Unity
Life
International MD, director nabbed (ht 01/08/2015), Chhetri
brothers
were hatching another big plot, by Manish Gautam (kp
02/08/2015), Chhetri
brothers
sent to Nakhu Jail (kp 03/08/2015)
Foreign
employment
fraudster arrested (ht 01/08/2015)
Dept
stores
found selling expired food (kp 01/08/2015)
Criminal
cases
up in Tanahun (ht 01/08/2015)
Investigate
police
beating of 14-yr-old in Janakpur: NHRC; Dinesh Sah, who
suffered serious head injury, is undergoing treatment in
a Biratnagar-based hospital (kp 30/07/2015) [The
brutal beating of people with wooden sticks by police is
a fundamental crime in general!!]
Legal
omission:
The draft constitution should include a provision
against untouchability practised during menstruation,
by Chandra Bhadra (kp 30/07/2015)
Record
shows
most city crime occurs from 6pm to midnight (ht
30/07/2015)
‘Little
progress
in fighting trafficking’ (kp 29/07/2015), Nepal
needs
to up efforts to fight trafficking (ht 29/07/2015)
2
police held on theft case (kp 29/07/2015)
Crime
cases
up in Janakpur (ht 29/07/2015)
15
girls,
women raped in a month, says SAS (ht 28/07/2015)
Women
thrashed
on the charge of witchcraft (ht 28/07/2015)
Awareness
drive against Chhaupadi (ht 28/07/2015)
Domestic
violence
up (ht 28/07/2015)
Fertiliser
contractors
short-changing farmers (ht 28/07/2015)
Ex-FNCCI
chief
Pandey among 21 pardoned by president, by Manish
Gautam (kp 28/07/2015) [??], Lawmakers
criticise
Pandey’s amnesty (kp 02/08/2015), Executive
overreach:
Government has shown height of irresponsibility by
granting pardon to corruption convict, sending the
message that well-connected criminals can go scot free,
by Roshan Kumar Jha (rep 04/08/2015)
Woman
found
murdered: Man arrested for cannibalism, by Durgalal
KC (kp 27/07/2015)
VAW
cases
up in private spaces: WOREC (ht 27/07/2015)
21
Dubai-bound
Nepali women held in India, by Devendra Bhattarai
(kp 27/07/2015)
15
booked
for arson, vandalism: Police initiate legal action
against leaders, cadres of CPN Maoist (ht
27/07/2015)
Irregularities
found
in weighing loads on trucks, by Keshav Adhikari (ht
27/07/2015)
Husband,
in-laws
beat woman to death ‘for not making chapatis’ (ht
26/07/2015)
Boy
murdered
in suspected child sacrifice, by Devendra Baduwal
and Bechu Gaud (kp 26/07/2015), 10-year-old
boy
murdered in the name of sacrifice: Police arrest five;
All admit to killing the minor, by Shreeram Sigdel
(kp 26/07/2015), 11
remanded
in custody, by Bechu Gaud (kp 27/07/2015), Child
sacrifice
traumatises locals, by Bechu Gaud (kp 27/07/2015), ‘Book
Those
involved in boy sacrifice’ (kp 03/08/2015), Villagers
demand
harsh punishment, by Bechu Gaud (kp 04/08/2015)
VAW
cases
being settled at village level in far-west a cause for
concern Stakeholders say perpetrators must be brought to
book, paying money to victims to silence them is against
law, by Prakash Singh (ht 26/07/2015)
Man
held
for uploading video of sex with girlfriend on Internet
(ht 26/07/2015)
Saudi
govt
prepares to deport Magar: Envoy, by Manish Gautam
(kp 26/07/2015)
Tricked
and
trafficked: Human traffickers are now ferrying Nepalis
to more places around the globe. Both the
profiles of their usual victims and the way they are
going about their business has changed, by Manish
Gautam (kp 25/07/2015)
Banda
affects
life; enforcers commit arson, vandalism (kp
25/07/2015), “They
burned
my taxi while I was inside” (kp 25/07/2015)
Book
guilty
of Godar incident: NHRC (kp 25/07/2015), NHRC
wants
action against indicted officials (ht 25/07/2015)
Undercover
cops
nab two with 7.3 kg opium: Largest drug seizure so far
in the Kathmandu Valley (ht 25/07/2015)
Women-only
hearing
for rape victims on the cards: Panel led by Commissioner
Manchala Jha has prepared victim-friendly procedure for
recording statements (kp 24/07/2015)
Trafficking
bid
foiled (ht 24/07/2015)
NP
to
make crime investigation more effective (ht
24/07/2015)
AHRC
condemns
use of undue force by police (kp 23/07/2015)
ANNFSU
(R)
torches school bus (kp 23/07/2015), CPN
M
torches school vehicle (ht 23/07/2015), Modern
Indian
School
bus arsonists nabbed (kp 29/07/2015)
Man
caught
on rape charge (kp 20/07/2015)
Woman
held
for murdering newborn (ht 20/07/2015)
20-yr-old
Man
arrested for murdering wife (kp 19/07/2015)
Villagers
turn
against mother, daughter for filing rape case, by
Nirajan Poudel (rep 18/07/2015)
Cocaine
through
Kathmandu: The TIA has turned into a transit hub of
choice for cocaine traffickers, who funnel their cargo
from here to cities in the US and Europe, by Manish
Gautam (kp 18/07/2015)
161
held
in oneweek as part of MPCD’s drive (ht
18/07/2015)
Crimes
‘drop’
in Capital (kp 17/07/2015), Rape,
attempted
murder cases up: Overall crime rate fell by 17.87 per
cent in Kathmandu (ht 18/07/2015)
106
women
and children missing in Parbat, by Chhabilal Tiwari
(rep 17/07/2015)
Swami
held,
disciples stage protests, by Bhusan Yadav, Bechu
Gaud and Pragati Shahi (kp 16/07/2015), CNP
officials
release Swami Krishna (kp 23/07/2015)
Rotten
relief
rice ‘on sale’ at Dolakha store, by Rajendra
Manandhar (kp 16/07/2015)
Cases
of
daylight robbery on rise (ht 16/07/2015)
‘Criminology
tools
can curb illicit trade in artefacts’ (ht 16/07/2015)
Man
killed
7 months after his daughters’ murder (ht 15/07/2015)
Sub-engineer
caught
in bribe scandal (kp 14/07/2015)
Cops
hard
put tackling cyber crime (ht 13/07/2015)
Subsidised
rice
‘sold’ midway: Locals say foodstuff being ferried to
Humla from Gamgadhi was sold to hotels in Bam and
Chankheli in Mugu, by Raj Bahadur Shahi (kp
12/07/2015)
Man
held
at TIA with hashish in stomach: The contraband in
capsules weighs around one kilogram (ht 12/07/2015)
Kavre
DAO
orders police to arrest bogus quake victims, by Raj
Kumar Parajuli (ht 12/07/2015), DAO
begins
action against bogus victims (kp 13/07/2015)
Serial
fraud
offender in police net (ht 12/07/2015)
Digitising
crime
fighting: The Nepal Police have been increasingly turning
to digital technology to help improve the services they
provide, by Manish Gautam (kp 11/07/2015)
APF
under
scrutiny for thrashing locals (ht 11/07/2015)
Mum
kills
self, daughter; 2 poisoned kids critical (kp
10/07/2015)
Mother
caught
while dumping her newborn: Four-day-old baby boy rescued
alive, sent to hospital; Woman in custody, gives
conflicting statements to police (ht 10/07/2015)
Superstition
taking
its toll on women (ht 10/07/2015)
Police
to
strengthen drive to curb crime in public vehicles (ht
10/07/2015)
Woman
jailed
for life for child sacrifice (kp 09/07/2015)
Youth
arrested
on cyber crime charges (ht 09/07/2015)
‘Jail
escapee’,
who was arrested on Saturday, was never in jail! Had
walked free by ‘convincing’ someone else to go to
Sindhupalchowk Prison in his place (kp 09/07/2015)
Chand-led
Maoists
on donation drive (ht 09/07/2015)
Woman
expelled
from her house (kp 08/07/2015)
Three
held
on fraud charge, by Shiva Puri (kp 08/07/2015)
Man
murders
mother’s lover (kp 07/07/2015)
Family
murders
mentally ill woman (ht 07/07/2015)
Male
teacher
bags maternity allowance (ht 07/07/2015)
Gaighat
girl
raped, murdered (ht 06/07/2015)
Nepalis
being
sent to Afghanistan illegally, by Devendra Bhattarai
(kp 05/07/2015)
Neighbours
beat
woman for ‘practising witchcraft’ (ht 05/07/2015)
‘Strengthen
criminal
justice system’ (ht 04/07/2015)
Rapist
grandfather
sent to prison (ht 04/07/2015)
Man
held
for faking own abduction to avoid paying loan (ht
04/07/2015)
Adhikari
murder
Case in apex court (kp 03/07/2015)
Rejected
pulses
found in Chitwan godown, by Bimal Khatiwada (kp
03/07/2015)
Minister
Parajuli
finds his job on line over unseemly act (kp
02/07/2015), Minister
in
hot water for paddy field antics: His ‘indecent’ behaviour
draws flak in Parliament (ht 02/07/2015), Under-fire
Agriculture
Minister Parajuli quits (kp 03/07/2015), Woman
says
minister was not misbehaving (kp 03/07/2015), Paddy
field
antics cost minister Parajuli job (ht 03/07/2015), Action
sought
against Parajuli (ht 03/07/2015)
Save
our
daughters: To add to the grief of losing loved ones, young
women have to go through the trauma od sexual mistreatment,
by Sudeshna Thapa (rep 02/07/2015)
Journalist
arrested
for ‘no reason’ (kp 02/07/2015)
DAO
to
curb relief anomalies: To monitor whether genuine
victims are benefiting (ht 02/07/2015), Irregularity
in
ID card distribution: Ward secretary accused of giving
fake cards to Congress loyalists (ht 02/07/2015)
Black
market
in zinc sheets spreads amid high demand (kp
02/07/2015)
Youth
arrested
for Rs 1.2 million fraud (ht 02/07/2015)
Extortion,
robbery
plot foiled; four in police net ( 01/07/2015)
Ex-DSP
Chand
sent to judicial custody (kp 29/06/2015), Former
DSP
Chand presented at court: To be tried for aiding killers
of media entrepreneur Jamim Shah, who was murdered in
February 2010 (ht 29/06/2015)
Human
trafficking
in Pokhara on the rise, by Lal Prasad Sharma (kp
29/06/2015)
Police
on
high alert against human trafficking (ht 29/06/2015)
12
suspects
arrested in Lalitpur for involvement in crime (ht
29/06/2015)
Thieves
made
public (ht 29/06/2015)
Police
start
drive against human trafficking, by Harihar Singh
Rathaur (kp 28/06/2015)
Torture
in
police custody declining (ht 28/06/2015)
Over
100
VAW cases reported every month (ht 27/06/2015)
Six
months
on,girl’s kin refuse to receive body: Demand fair probe,
saying the teenager died in mysterious circumstances
(ht 27/06/2015)
Adhikari
murder
case: Appellate Court upholds lower court decision (ht
27/06/2015), Nepal
Police
replies to Ganga Maya Adhikari: Says Interpol help has
been sought to bring main accused home (ht 27/06/2015)
Incidents
of
unsafe migration, trafficking up after quake (ht
27/06/2015)
Man
held
with Rs 6.1 million,prayer beads (ht 27/06/2015)
Joint
efforts
needed to combat violence, say stakeholders (ht
26/06/2015)
Accused
rapists
held (ht 26/06/2015)
UML
district
leader’s main murder convict arrested (ht 26/06/2015)
Police
dismantling
drug racket (ht 26/06/2015)
Opium
cultivation
rampant in mid-west (ht 25/06/2015)
Man
shoots
brother dead over property dispute, by Mohan Budhair
(kp 24/06/2015)
Elderly
beaten
to death (kp 24/06/2015)
Absconding
in-laws
accused of killing woman (rep 22/06/2015)
Yarsa
smuggling
incurs millions of loss annually, by Kalendra Sejuwal
(rep 23/06/2015)
5
dead, 30 fall sick after consuming poisonous liquor
(kp 22/06/2015)
Six
persons
held with two pistols: Police say potential armed
robberies in city foiled (ht 22/06/2015)
Dark
matter:
If law enforcement agencies are serious about reducing
human trafficking they should remain watchful of the dark
web, by Bimal Pratap Shah (kp 21/06/2015)
Five
held
for giving fake details, taking cash relief (ht
21/06/2015)
7
held for ‘child trafficking’, by Harihar Singh Rathour
(kp 20/06/2015)
Human
trafficking
on rise in Nuwakot after earthquake (rep 20/06/2015)
Six
nabbed
for providing false info to get relief, by Harihar
Singh Rathour (kp 20/06/2015)
Hope
of
acid attack victims dashed (ht 20/06/2015)
Wife
accuses
lawmaker of domestic violence Says she was tortured for
not bringing SUV (ht 19/06/2015)
Four
girls
rescued, trafficker nabbed (ht 19/06/2015)
Human
trafficking,
black marketing cases up (ht 18/06/2015)
Eight
arrested
for thefts 34 electronic gadgets confiscated (ht
17/06/2015)
Woman
critically
injured in hubby’s attack (kp 16/06/2015)
Cop
held
for rape attempt (ht 16/06/2015)
Livestock
office
sells meat of dead she-goats, by Pavitra Kumar Shahi
(16/06/2015)
Murderer
sentenced
to life in prison (kp 15/06/2015)
Murder
case
filed against 13 (ht 15/06/2015)
Nepal
nach
dem Beben: "Leichte Beute für Menschenhändler", von
Simone Utler (Spiegel 14/06/2015), Quake
victims
in fear of child traffickers, by Nirajan Paudel (rep
15/06/2015)
Student
hospitalised
after teacher thrashes him for not doing assignment
(ht 12/06/2015)
Five
arrested
for misappropriation (kp 11/06/2015), Case
filed
against five for selling relief materials in Kavre (ht
12/06/2015)
Nepali
girls
trafficked to Punjab post quake, by Gaurav Thapa (kp
10/06/2015), Rescued
women
recount their stories (ht 10/06/2015)
16-yr-old
gang-raped (kp 10/06/2015)
Ganga
Maya
threatens to resume hunger strike (ht 10/06/2015)
Stolen
relief
materials seized,eight arrested (ht 10/06/2015)
Four
die,
18 fall ill after drinking illicit moonshine in Siraha
(kp 10/06/2015), One
more
dies after consuming toxic liquor (kp 11/06/2015)
Two
arrested
for abducting, burying 10-year-old boy (ht 09/06/2015)
Text
messages
to warn people against trafficking, by Pratichya Dulal
(kp 08/06/2015)
Seven
arrested
for banking fraud (kp 08/06/2015)
Four
charged
in separate rape cases (kp 07/06/2015)
Convicted
fugitive
held after 4 years (kp 06/06/2015)
Cops
teach
quake victims self-defence skills (ht 06/06/2015)
11
held
for witchcraft beating (ht 05/06/2015)
Three
held
for banking fraud (kp 05/06/2015
85-year
jail
for Samanta Shrestha’s killer (ht 03/06/2016)
Suitcase
containing
decapitated body found in sewer line (ht 02/06/2015)
Women
living
in tents learn to fend off sexual harassment (kp
01/06/2015)
Burglars,
buyers
of stolen goods in police net (ht 01/06/2015)
Banking
offence
convict arrested: Sentenced to six years in jail, fined Rs
133 million (ht 01/06/2015)
Human
trafficking
risk ‘increases’ (kp 30/05/2015)
3
sentenced to life in prison for kidnap, murder, by
Laxmi Sah (kp 30/05/2015)
Theft
cases
on rise in post-quake situation: Police say they have
cautioned general public to remain alert (ht
29/05/2015)
Series
of
robberies mark quake aftermath, by Chandni Hamal (rep
29/05/2015)
Youth
flees
with girlfriend after killing grandma: Cops suspect the
youth killed his grandma after she disapproved of his
marriage (ht 29/05/2015) [a
case of caste discrimination?]
Time
to
prey: Escaped traffickers are back in business luring
quake survivors with promises of a better life for their
children, by Bhrikuti Rai (nt 29/05/2015)
Rape,
abuse
reported in encampments, by Pratichya Dulal (kp
28/05/2015)
Abducted
boy
freed after 4 wks (kp 28/05/2015)
Chakrapath
Fuel
Centre booked for adulteration (kp 28/05/2015)
SC
registers
petition seeking review of TRC, CIED acts, by Durga
Dulal (rep 25/05/2015)
Police
constable
thrashed while in custody of DPO (ht 25/05/2015)
Theft,
burglary
after quake: Criminal cases filed against 23 people
(kp 21/05/2015), Thieves
capitalising
on post-disaster situation: Police have arrested 15
persons on charge of property crime in city (ht
21/05/2015)
Gang
raids
houses in Saptari, two injured (ht 20/05/2015)
Landlords
hiking
rent, asking tenants to vacate, by Thomas Bogaty (ht
19/05/2015)
Five
rape
cases filed after April 25 earthquake in Kavre (ht
18/05/2015)
Thieves
targeting
unattended houses (ht 07/05/2015)
Man
injures
five guests in Khukuri attack (kp 25/04/2015)
UML
leader
among 25 face arrest order, by Shyam Sundar Shashi
(kp 24/04/2015)
Will
murder
case against UCPN-M leader be revived? (ht
24/04/2015)
Rape
accused
arrested (ht 23/04/2015)
Journo
singh’s
murderer gets life sentence (kp 23/04/2015)
Fuel
adulteration
case: Govt to take legal action (kp 23/04/2015)
Battered
and
bruised: Strict enforcement of the law is crucial to
reducing violence against women (kp 22/04/2015)
Ex-female
cop
sold off in Bangkok seeks justice, by Anjali Subedi
(rep 22/04/2015)
Death
penalty
sought for rapists in statute (ht 22/04/2015)
SC
seeks
update on probe against Agni Sapkota (ht 22/04/2015)
Suspect
held
18 yrs after Fr Gaffney’s murder (kp 22/04/2015), Fr
Gafney’s
suspected killer nabbed after 18 years (ht
22/04/2015)
Students
vandalise
TU department (kp 22/04/2015)
Orchid
smuggling
goes unchecked in Udayapur, by Dilliram Khatiwada
(kp 22/04/2015)
Chand-led
outfit
Beat up advocate (kp 22/04/2015)
CPN
M
cadres seize 1,500 ropani land (20/04/2015)
Incidents
of
violence on the rise in Dhading (ht 20/04/2015)
Five
held
with arms for planning to eliminate recruiting agent:
After failing to murder the agent, they had planned to
kidnap a businessman in Narayanghat, by Pawan Yadav
(kp 20/04/2015)
One
murdered
for eve-teasing (ht 20/04/2015)
Minor
murdered
in Bara, kin stage protest (ht 19/04/2015)
Call
for
swift justice in VAW, domestic violence cases (ht
19/04/2015)
CPN
Maoist
captures land in Sindhupalchowk (ht 18/04/2015)
A
city of price-tags: It seems as though Birgunj is
capable of putting a price tag on everything, including
on the future of its girls, by Darshan Karki (kp
18/04/2015)
‘Punish
rapists
strongly’ (ht 17/04/2015), Teenager
gets
five years in prison (ht 17/04/2015)
Kin
of
woman who died allege murder (ht 17/04/2015)
Stakeholders
call
for ending corporal punishment (ht 17/04/2015)
Report
on
conflict time rights violation out (ht 16/04/2015)
Probe
into
Birgunj shooting hits snag (kp 15/04/2015)
‘Majority
of
crimes happen in capital on Friday’ (ht 15/04/2015)
Looters
gun
down trader, injure three (kp 15/04/2015)
Two
persons
nabbed for Prithvinagar dacoity (ht 15/04/2015)
Armed
robbers
shoot one dead, injure three, by Govind Chhettri (ht
14/04/2015)
‘Kin,
acquaintances
perpetrate sexual violence’ (ht 13/04/2015)
Man
sent
to jail (ht 13/04/2015)
Case
filed
against acid attacker (kp 13/04/2015), Perpetrator
sent
to jail until final hearing (ht 17/04/2015)
Indian
nat’l
gets Nepali passport by forging docs, by Laxmi Sah
(kp 13/04/2015)
Cycle
rally
organised to raise awareness against VAW cases (kp
12/04/2015)
Cops
suspended,
held for raping teens (ht 12/04/2015), Police
lodge
rape case against two cops (ht 13/04/2015)
Couple
found
dead in Chabahil (kp 12/04/2015)
Police
destroy
poppy cultivation in Salyan (kp 12/04/2015)
Rapist
sentenced
to 10 years in jail, by Rajendra Manandhar (kp
11/04/2015)
Violence
against
women on the rise in Chitwan (ht 11/04/2015)
Absconding
‘murderer’
held (kp 11/05/2015), Man
arrested
for murdering wife (ht 11/04/2015)
Newborn
found
dead (ht 11/04/2015)
Bardiya
teenage
girl gang-raped (kp 10/04/2015)
Police
constable
held for rape (ht 10/04/2015)
Caste
as
culprit: Was the recent acid attack on two schoolgirls
an outcome of a lover’s rejection or of being rejected
by society?, by Hritika Rana (kp 10/04/2015)
Accused
of
Ranibari case in custody (kp 10/04/2015)
CPN
Maoist
captures land (kp 10/04/2015)
Cops
fail
to bust gangs involved in vehicle theft, by Janak
Nepal (kp 09/04/2015)
Bhaktapur
court
sentences murderer to life in prison (ht 09/04/2015)
Taxi
set
on fire with cabbie inside, motorbike torched (ht
08/04/2015), I
have nothing left now (kp 08/04/2015)
Violence
against
women: Rape cases rising, by Roshan Kumar Jha (ht
07/04/2015)
Cases
of
sexual violence rising in Makawanpur (ht 07/04/2015)
Official
receives
‘death threat’, by Nagendra Adhikari (kp 07/04/2015)
Domestic
violence
forcing children onto streets, by Chandni Hamal (rep
06/04/2015)
Human
trafficking
ring busted, trafficker arrested (ht 06/04/2015)
Amend
TRC
Act in line with SC verdict, demand victims (kp
05/04/2015)
Malaysian
woman
held with cocaine (kp 05/04/2015), Malaysian
woman
held with 11 kg cocaine (ht 05/04/2015), Women
being
used as drug mules (kp 06/04/2015)
Convicted
rapist
held, sentenced to life in prison (ht 04/04/2015)
Five
killed,
six raped in three months in Saptari (ht 04/04/2015)
Sixteen-year-old
girl
‘gang-raped’ in Saptari (kp 03/04/2015), Kin
of
rape victim accuse police of refusing FIR (ht
03/04/2015)
Elderly
woman
beaten to death (kp 03/04/2015)
Class,
no
bar: Violence against women is prevalent in high income
families too, they are just better at hiding it, by
Sahina Shrestha (nt 03/04/2015)
Rage
against
rape: What should the punishment for our ‘soul
snatchers’ and ‘life spoilers’ be?, by Chandra
Bhadra (kp 03/04/2015)
Wives
file
cases against husbands for polygamy (ht 03/04/2015)
Right
groups
start 3rd VAW drive: Right activists claim the
government has failed to uphold international convention
on gender discrimination (kp 03/04/2015)
Three
arrested
with forged papers for land ownership, by Bhim
Ghimire, Shiva Sharma and Lal Prasad Sharma (kp
03/04/2015)
Pregnant
woman
murdered, by Rajendra Manandhar (kp 02/04/2015)
Abducted
minor
freed after a year, by Rabindra Upreti (kp
02/04/2015)
Woman
found
dead in Dhumbarahi (ht 02/04/2015)
Brothel
keeper
arrested after 17 years of conviction (ht
02/04/2015)
Chain-snatchers
rob
4 ladies (kp 02/04/2015), Chain-snatchers
held (ht 05/04/2015)
Three
held
with gold (ht 01/04/2015)
Woman
found
dead after dowry dispute, by Amrita Anmol (kp
31/03/2015)
Domestic
jobs
abroad: Women continue to fall prey to traffickers,
by Roshan Sedhai (kp 31/03/2015)
13-year-old
girl
raped (kp 30/03/2015)
Murderer
nabbed
after seven months (kp 30/03/2015)
Transitional
justice:
Ensure our participation: Victims (kp 30/03/2015)
Kin
seek
probe into Pyuthan bomb blast (ht 30/03/2015)
Capital
punishment:
There is a need to revive the provision of death penalty
for inhuman crimes like rape-cum-murder and gang rape,
by Khagendra N. Sharma (kp 29/03/2015) [Capital
punishment is an inhuman crime itself! So many innocent
people are murdered time and again by this way!]
Rapist
held
after more than two years (ht 29/03/2015)
5
Dhading murder cases: 23 held, 30 still at large, by
Harihar Singh Rathour (kp 28/03/2015)
Man
held
for raping 12-yr-old girl in Rautahat, by Madan
Thakur (rep 27/03/2015)
CA
panel
instructs govt to adopt chemical castration (kp
26/03/2015), Gautam
backs
chemical castration for rapists (ht 26/03/2015)
TRC:
Col
Lama could be extradited without treaty (kp
26/03/2015)
Bam
murderer
held in SArabia (kp 26/03/2015), Absconding
shooter
nabbed in Saudi Arabia (ht 26/03/2015)
Stones
hurled
at Mahat’s vehicle (kp 26/03/2015), Stones
hurled
at Mahat’s vehicle in Pokhara (ht 26/03/2015)
6
held for aiding Indian nat’l get Nepali citizenship,
by Thakur Singh Tharu (kp 26/03/2015)
Bulgarian
national
held for using fake ATM cards, by Manish Gautam (kp
26/03/2015)
Four-year-old
rape
victim hospitalised again after health deteriorates
(ht 25/03/2015)
Rape
convict
gets 15-year jail term (kp 25/03/2015)
Man
accused
of daughter’s rape, flees (kp 24/03/2015)
Case
unsettled:
I submit that the case of six-year-old Pooja’s rape and
subsequent death remains grossly unsettled, by
Sandhya Regmi (kp 24/03/2015)
Lack
of
data on conflict-era sexual violence hampers support
(rep 24/03/2015)
4
women rescued while being trafficked to India, by
Bhawani Bhatta (kp 24/03/2015), Seven
rescued
from being trafficked at Nepal-India border (ht
24/03/2015)
Men
march
in city to call for end to VAW (ht 24/03/2015), Gender
violence (ht 24/03/2015)
Two
killed
in attack on school meeting (ht 24/03/2015)
‘Most
domestic
violence cases are reconciled’ (ht 23/03/2015)
Man
hurt
in ‘rape attempt’ dies (kp 22/03/2015)
Men
too
are victims of gender-based violence: However, police
statistics show more than 90 per cent women are
subjected to abuse (ht 22/03/2015)
‘Acid
attacker’
in police net: Investigators say consequences of his
unrequited love had made him revengeful, by Manish
Gautam (kp 21/03/2015), ‘Jilted
lover’
arrested for acid attack on teenage schoolgirls (ht
21/03/2015), Acid
attack:
BK remanded in custody (kp 23/03/2015)
Move
Forward In Rape Cases, by Roshan Kumar Jha (rn
21/03/2015)
Simraungadh
shooting:
Victim’s family gets Rs 1 million (kp 21/03/2015)
A
legislative emergency: Following the recent acid attack
in Basantapur, stronger and more specific legislation is
needed, by Binayak Basnyat and Bikalpa Raj Bhandari
(kp 20/03/2015), Nepal
Women's
Union seeks life term for rapists (ht 20/03/2015)
Examinee
survives
rape attempt (ht 20/03/2015)
Rape
victims
show suicidal tendencies, by Devendra Basnet (rep
19/03/2015)
Bara
rapist
gets 35 years in prison, by Laxmi Sah (kp
18/03/2015), 35-year
jail
term for Bara minor’s rapist, killer, by Ram Sarraf
(ht 18/03/2015), Life
term
for Bara rapist, by Ritesh Tripathi (rep
18/03/2015), Victim’s
family
against legal reprieve for rapist, by Laxmi Sah (kp
19/03/2015)
Rape
accused
teacher remanded in custody (kp 18/03/2015)
Police
crack
major human trafficking racket, by Manish Gautam (kp
18/03/2015), Women
trafficking
ring busted, seven arrested: Were long involved in
‘selling’ Nepali girls in foreign countries (ht
18/03/2015)
Halchok
Fuel
Station found cheating on quantity (kp 18/03/2015),
Govt
seals
police, army-run fuel pumps (ht 18/03/2015), Army,
police
form panels to probe irregularities, by Rajesh
Khanal (kp 19/03/2015)
Experts
call
for better definition of rape in Criminal Code Bill
(kp 16/03/2015)
Bad
to
worse: Rape has become the most common violence
inflicted on women in Nepal and over the world, by
Mukesh Khanal (rep 16/03/2015)
Attempts
to
‘settle’ rape case foiled, by Ananda Gautam (kp
16/03/2015)
Husband,
father-in-law
held for sexual abuse of woman (ht 16/03/2015)
More
women
go missing in Kailali district (ht 16/03/2015)
Two
suspects
of Ranibari murder held after 12 yrs (kp
16/03/2015), Two
nabbed
for 2002 killing of couple (ht 16/03/2015)
Opium
farms
destroyed in Rukum (ht 16/03/2015)
Three
minors
raped in four days (kp 15/03/2015)
Minor
girls
raped in Jhapa, Terhathum: Alleged rapist held (ht
15/03/2015)
Rights
activists
demand stern action against culprits (ht 15/03/2015)
Kathmandu
not
safe for women, girls: MPCO says 67 cases of rape
reported in seven months (ht 15/03/2015)
Police
set
to launch mobile app for complaint registration: The app
can be used to inform police about crime College student
goes and accidents with photos (kp 15/03/2015)
Six-year-old
raped
in Tehrathum, by Lawadev Dhungana (kp 14/03/2015)
Incidents
of
sexual violence on rise (ht 14/03/2015), Rapes
rising:
Rapists who come from powerful families are never
punished; The poor victims never get justice, by
Roshan Kumar Jha (rep 14/03/2015)
Army
man
held for killing fellow soldier (ht 14/03/2015)
Chand-led
CPN
M on donation drive in Kavre (ht 14/03/2015)
Govt
to
punish outlets cheating customers, by Rajesh Khanal
(kp 14/03/2015)
Acid
attack
on teenage girls: Police say victims not cooperating;
Kin dismiss claim; Describe charge as cops’ tactic to
hide their failure (ht 13/03/2015), ‘Bring
guilty
to book at the earliest’ (ht 13/03/2015), ‘No
clue
on acid attackers’ (kp 14/03/2015), Even
after
three weeks cops draw a blank: Law enforcement agency
says it is investigating the case from three different
angles (ht 14/03/2015), Girls
prepare
for exam on hospital bed, by Weena Pun (kp
17/03/2015)
Accused
rapist
nabbed (ht 13/03/2015)
Teacher
arrested
for sexual harassment (ht 13/03/2015), 11
injured
in scuffle over allegation teacher sexually abused
student (ht 14/03/2015)
Hundreds
rally
in Kathmandu against brutal rape, acid attack, by
Anup Ojha (kp 12/03/2015), Protest
against
rape of minor continues (ht 12/03/2015), Protesters
clash
with cops in Bara: Body of seven-year-old rape victim
who died on Sunday yet to be cremated, by Laxmi Sah
(kp 13/03/2015), Activists
injured
in Kalaiya Protest (ht 13/03/2015), Bara
victim’s
body yet to be cremated (kp 14/03/2015), Kalaiya
locals
demand death penalty for rapist: Continue protest;
Refuse to perform final rites of seven-year-old victim
until demands met (ht 14/03/2015), Final
rites
for 7-yr-old bara rape victim, by Laxmi Sah (kp
15/03/2015), Agitation
against
rape called off (ht 15/03/2015)
Domestic
violence
up in western region (ht 12/03/2015)
Number
of
women going missing in Kailali on the rise, say police
(ht 12/03/2015)
4
held with gold hidden in rectum (kp 12/03/2014)
Boy
killed,
kmc vehicles burnt (kp 12/03/2015)
Financial
crime:
‘Involvement of staff, directors key challenge’ (kp
12/03/2015)
Four
girls
raped in a month (kp 11/03/2015)
Kalaiya
rape
culprits: Leaders press for life sentence (kp
10/03/2015), Strict
action
sought against man who raped minor (ht 10/03/2015),
Rape
victim’s
death sparks protests, by Laxmi Sah (kp 11/03/2015),
Public
condoles
death of minor rape victim (ht 11/03/2015), Rape
victim’s
kin demonstrate (ht 11/03/2015), Protesters
stage
sit-in with rape victim’s body, by Laxmi Sah (kp
12/03/2015)
‘Janajatis
more
prone to foreign job fraud’ (kp 10/03/2015)
Opium,
pot
farming goes unchecked in remote villages, by Pratap
Bista (kp 10/03/2015)
Police
bust
major gold smuggling racket, by Manish Gautam (kp
10/03/2015)
Dozens
of
Nepalis suffer in St Lucia as racketeers dupe, by
Roshan Sedhai and Anup Ojha (kp 08/03/2015),
More
Nepali
students left in lurch in St Lucia, by Roshan Sedhai and
Anup Ojha (kp 09/03/2015), Lost
in
Lambirds: The students smuggled to St Lucia deserve an answer
from the state (kp 10/03/2015), Victims
await
court hearing, by Anup Ojha (kp 11/03/2015)
Two
schoolgirls
have been missing for month (ht 08/03/2015)
Phoney
VDC
secretary swindles three months’ salary (ht
08/03/2015)
Marijuana
smuggler
shot dead, by Bimal Khatiwada (kp 08/03/2015)
OHCHR
hails
SC verdict on TRC amnesty provision (kp 07/03/2015),
OHRC
hails
SC ruling on rights violation cases: Apex court had
upheld international standards rejecting TRC, CIEDP’s
role in securing amnesty (ht 07/03/2015), Apex
court
ruling on transitional justice mechanism: UCPN (Maoist)
objects to curbs on commissions’ jurisdiction (kp
10/03/2015), Down
comes
the gavel: Conflict victims are waiting for the Supreme
Court verdicts to be implemented, by Ram Kumar
Bhandari (kp 10/03/2015)
Lama’s
repatriation
unlikely under current law, by Lekhanath Pandey (ht
07/03/2015), House
panel
summons PM, CoAS in Lama’s case (kp 13/03/2015), Parliamentary
panel
summons PM, army chief: To ask what is being done to
bring Colonel Lama back (ht 13/03/2015), House
panel
asks govt to repatriate Col Lama (kp 14/03/2015), Extradite
Lama,directs
House panel (ht 14/03/2015), Govt
hesitant
to send witnesses to London: Fears they may be arrested
by British police, by Lekhanath Pandey (ht
14/03/2015) [???], Chances
of
Col Lama’s release from UK ‘slim’, by Dewan Rai (kp
16/03/2015) [No wonder as long
as the Nepali state promotes impunity!!], Beside
the
mark: Instead of Col Lama’s repatriation, TRC must
prioritise needs of victims (kp 16/03/2015)
Man
confesses
to slitting wife’s throat (ht 07/03/2015)
Sit
down,
please: Reserved or not, I will be battling for a seat
and some males would not miss an opportunity to poke and
grab, by Prateebha Tuladhar (kp 06/03/2015)
Police
raid
marriage bureaus sending girls to China, Korea, by
Kamal Pariyar (rep 06/03/2015), China,
Korea
marriage racket busted, by Chahana Sigdel (kp
07/03/2015), Korean
national
among three arrested for involvement in bride
trafficking (ht 07/03/2015), CIB:
Chinese,
Koreans pay up to Rs 2.5m to marry Nepali girls, by
Kamal Pariyar (rep 07/03/2015)
Corrosive
laws:
Lenient punishment is not a deterrent for heinous crimes
like acid attacks, by Binita Dahal (nt 06/03/2015)
Couple
held
for feeding urine to woman on witchcraft charge (ht
05/03/2015)
Students
vandalise
campus in Rajbiraj (ht 05/03/2015)
Woman
assaulted
on witchcraft charge (kp 03/03/2015)
Robbers
gang-rape
Dhanusha woman, by Shyam Sundar Shashi (kp
02/03/2015)
Means
and
ends: Critical engagement with the transitional justice
commissions will permit victims to tell their stories,
by Simon Robins (kp 02/03/2015)
Man
accused
of theft suffers severe abuse, by Parbat Portel (kp
02/03/2015)
Nepali
raped,
murdered: India to provide compensation, by Kamal
Panthi (kp 02/03/2015)
71-yr-old
Canadian
gets 7 years for paedophilia (kp 02/03/2015)
Neutralising
acid:
Why is civil society concerned only when acts of
gender-based violence take place in Kathmandu?, by
Pratyush Nath Upreti (kp 01/03/2015)
Woman
kills
9-year-old son: She had quarelled on phone with husband
in India (kp 01/03/2015)
Murderers
out,
victims’ kin upset, by Janak Nepal and Thakur Singh
Tharu (kp 28/02/2015)
Transitional
justice
act: Court rescinds amnesty clause (kp 27/02/2015) [!!!!!], SC
annuls
discretionary powers of TRC, CIED, by Nabin
Khatiwada (rep), SC
rules
out general amnesty for serious rights violation, by
Ram Kumar Kamat (ht 27/02/2015), Transitional
justice:
Implement SC decision: ICJ (kp 28/02/2015)
Man
gets
three yrs for cheating conflict victims’ compensation,
by Laxmi Gautam (ht 27/02/2015)
Border
smuggling
on rise for lack of female cops (ht 27/02/2015)
One
step
ahead: Nepal Police must be commended for their stellar
work in apprehending assassins behind Justice Bam’s
murder, by Kishor Kumar Lama (kp 27/02/2015)
10
held
for running illegal Dhukuti (kp 27/02/2015)
Woman
who
sold girl for IRS 150 and radio held after 35 years,
by Devendra Basnet (rep 26/02/2015)
Enforce
laws
to curb VAW: NHRC (ht 26/02/2015)
Five
India
bound women rescued at border (kp 26/02/2015)
Amnesty
report:
Transitional justice law entrenches impunity (kp
26/02/2015) [see AI
Nepal
report], Impunity
deepening
roots in Nepal: AI (ht 26/02/2015)
Ruckus
in
CA: Probe panel fails to identify culprits (ht
25/02/2015) [?????]
Col
Lama’s
hearing begins in UK, by Navin Pokharel (kp
25/02/2015)
Dhading
Cops
arrest 45 fugitives, by Harihar Singh Rathaur (kp
24/02/2015)
Former
ministers
yet to clear lakhs in dues: Drew dashainbonus they were
not entitled to between 1998 and 2001, by Rajan
Pokhrel (ht 24/02/2015)
Funds
in
foreign banks: Lax law prevents govt from extracting
information, by Rupak D. Sharma (ht 24/02/2015)
2
schoolgirls hurt in acid attack, by Gaurav Thapa (kp
23/02/2015), Acid
thrown
on teenage girls in heart of city (ht 24/02/2015), Action,
restorative
justice sought (kp 24/02/2015), Corrosive
violence:
Incidents like Sunday’s acid attack can be devastating
to women’s sense of security (kp 24/02/2015), NHRC
asks
govt to bring culprit to book (ht 24/02/2015), Students
protest
acid attack (ht 25/02/2015), Protest
continues
for justice, rehabilitation of victims, by Weena Pun
(kp 25/02/2015), State
of
siege: Sunday’s acid attack is the product of a
rapacious mentality that sees women as objects to be
possessed, by Pranaya Shamsher JB Rana (kp
25/02/2015), Panel:
Book
assailant, cover expenses, by Weena Pun (kp
26/02/2015), Acid
attack
on girls draws condemnation (ht 26/02/2015), Hunt
for
acid attacker intensifies, by Kamal Pariyar (rep
26/02/2015), Police
draw
blank even after five days of incident (ht
27/02/2015), Victims
demand
strict laws, action, by Bedraj Poudel (kp
28/02/2015), Govt
to
regulate acid sale, distribution (kp 28/02/2015), Inconsistent
information
hampers probe: Gautam (kp 03/03/2015), Students
march
demanding justice for acid attack victims (kp
04/03/2015)
Women
unsafe
in their own homes (ht 23/02/2015)
CIB
dealt
with 103 crimes in three months (ht 23/02/2015)
7-year-old
raped,
admitted to ICU (kp 22/02/2015), Protests
against
spike in rape, murder in Bara, by Laxmi Sah (kp
23/02/2015), Bara
police
arrest 28-year-old man, by Laxmi Sah (kp
25/02/2015), Rapist
of
a minor made public, by Ritesh Tripathi (rep
26/02/2015), 6-year-old
rape
victim alive but ‘brain dead’, by Shreejana Shrestha
(rep 28/02/2015), 7-year-old
rape
victim critical: doc (kp 03/03/2015)
Eastern,
central
regions top crime registration rate (kp 22/02/2015)
Far
West
‘transit’ for wildlife smugglers, by Bhawani Bhatta
(kp 22/02/2014), Illegal
trade
of pangolin grew ‘eight-fold’ (kp 22/02/2015)
Women
complain
of groping on staff buses (ht 21/02/2015)
House
panel:
Probe Swiss accounts: Committee also asks govt to
initiate measures to sign pact with Switzerland for
mutual legal assistance, by Rajesh Khanal (kp
16/02/2015), House
panel
issues ambiguous fiat: Doesn’t specify which govt
authority should launch probe, by Rupak D. Sharma
(ht 16/02/2015)
Kantipur
vehicle
torched in Bara: Newspaper distribution obstructed for
two days; FNJ condemns act (kp 14/02/2015), Kalaiya
agitation
takes ugly turn Agitators vandalise UML office, set
newspaper vehicle on fire (ht 14/02/2015)
Man
held
for cheating young women (ht 14/02/2015)
Investigating
Offshore Accounts: Political Will Power Is Needed,
by Pranav Bhattarai (rn 14/02/2015)
Pumps
found
selling poor quality fuel, by Rajesh Khanal (kp
14/02/2015)
Women
facing
dowry torture from in-laws (ht 13/02/2015)
Relatives
involved
in forced child labour, trafficking (ht 13/02/2015)
Two
thieves
held, four laptops seized, by Manish Gautam (kp
13/02/2015)
Bike
theft
cases down,221 plaints so far this fiscal (ht
13/02/2015)
Rape
victim
offered million rupees to keep mum (ht 12/02/2015)
Bir
union
secy among three held for duping doc (kp
12/02/2015), Doctor
cheated
of six million rupees (ht 12/02/2015)
Witchcraft
victims:
Entire family suffers inhumane treatment, abuse, by
Raj Kumar Karki (kp 12/02/2015)
Reconciliation
out
of court leading to rise in crime (ht 11/02/2015)
Recently-married
girl
burnt to death in Siraha (ht 10/02/2015), Kin
demand
probe into woman’s death (kp 12/02/2015)
Technical
institute
operator held for fraud (ht 10/02/2015)
Smugglers
traffick
rural kids to work in brick kilns, by Dilliram
Khatiwada (kp 10/02/2015)
Over
371
foreign drug offenders in Nepal jails, by Kamal
Pariyar (rep 10/02/2015)
‘Rs
5.4b
held in Swiss bank in ’07’: ICIJ reports 8 unnamed
Nepalis parked the illegal cash in HSBC’s private
banking arm in year 2006-07, by Prithvi Man Shrestha
(kp 10/02/2015), HSBC
helps
Nepalis hide 54 million US dollars in ill-gotten wealth,
by Rupak D. Sharma (ht 10/02/2015), Swiss
connection:
Govt must investigate Nepali accounts in foreign banks
(kp 11/02/2015), Investigate
it (ht 11/02/2015)
5
traders found selling illegal gold (kp 10/02/2015)
‘Sharp
shooters’
used in kidnapping of trader, by Awadhesh Kumar Jha
(kp 10/02/2015)
Five
arrested
with 5.23 kg gold, cash (ht 09/02/2015)
Teachers
beaten
up, school vandalised (ht 09/02/2015)
INTERPOL's
most
wanted Nepali poacher brought to Nepal, by Kamal
Pariyar (rep 09/02/2015)
Fear
of
abuse keeping girl students out of school: Rising cases
of violence against women a bane of those who wish to
pursue studies, by Prakash Singh (ht 08/02/2015)
CPN
Maoist
cadres held on extortion charge (kp 08/02/2015)
Man
arrested
with fake Nepali currency notes (ht 08/02/2015)
Suspended
SP
lawmaker’s house raided (ht 08/02/2015)
Nepal
urged
to accede to Rome Statute (kp 07/02/2015)
Sexual
harassment
on public vehicles on the rise: Women commuters say they
feel unsafe (ht 06/02/2015)
More
women
in far-west region approaching court to seek justice
(ht 06/02/2015)
7
held with ancient Buddha statue, by Rajendra Nath
(kp 06/02/2015)
Woman
looted
of Rs 1.8m in broad daylight (kp 05/02/2015), Woman
robbed
of Rs 19 lakh in heart of capital (ht 05/02/2015)
Court
orders
compensation for youths thrashed by cops (ht
05/02/105)
Cops
suspended
for illegal detention (ht 05/02/2015)
Jailed
for
marrying underage girl (ht 04/02/2015)
Bank
security
guard killed (ht 04/02/2015)
Man
hacks
wife to death (kp 03/02/2015)
Around
4,000
girls rescued every year (ht 03/02/2015)
3
cops convicted for torturing man in custody, by
Thakur Singh Tharu (kp 03/02/2015)
Publicly
humiliated
Dalit couple seeks justice, by Dilli Ram Khatiwada
(kp 02/02/2015)
Man
accused
of ‘abetting’ suicide of girlfriend (kp 02/02/2015)
CIB
cautions
people against SMS, mobile phone lottery scams (ht
02/02/2015)
‘Witchcraft’
victim’s
family face social boycott,
by Mohan Budhair (kp
01/02/2015)
Man
arrested
for raping minor (kp 01/02/2015)
Woman
shot
dead over domestic tiff, by Kashiram Dangi (kp
01/02/2015)
Q1
crime
statistics show upward trend: More offences reported in
the first quarter of this fiscal compared to previous
years (ht 01/02/2015)
CIB
catches
two alleged frauds (ht 01/02/2015)
Rhino
poacher
‘held’ in M’sia (kp 01/02/2015), Poacher
who
killed ‘20’ rhinos, by Pawan Yadav (kp 16/02/2015)
In-laws,
husband
selling women to Indian brothels, by Upendra Yadav
(rep 31/01/2015)
Fake
driving
licence racket busted, by Kaushal Ghimire (kp
31/01/2015), Police
bust
fake driving license racket, by Kamal Pariyar (rep
31/01/2015)
School
buses
‘smuggle’ drugs, by Awadhesh Kumar Jha (kp
31/01/2015)
Local-police
collaboration
helps curb crime, by Kaushal Ghimire (kp 30/01/2014)
Donation
makes
gangster Chakre Milan ‘special guest’, by Sudeep
Kaini (kp 30/01/2015)
Woman,
relatives
get life sentence for murder (ht 30/01/2015)
Nepal
asked
to redress teen’s murder case (kp 29/01/2015)
Conflict
era
cases: Govt disregards NHRC’s request (kp
29/01/2015)
Child
trafficking
goes unchecked in central, western Tarai districts
(kp 29/01/2015)
Four-year-old
killed
after kidnap, by Laxmi Sah (kp 28/01/2015), Minor
killed
in Kalaiya after abduction (ht 28/01/2015)
Woman’s
throat
slit (ht 28/01/2015)
Poaching,
illegal
trade in protected rare species up (ht 28/01/2015)
Agents
found
putting goods into customs cleared cargo (kp
28/01/2015)
Mega
Bank
fraud: Mastermind turns himself in to police; Surrender
follows arrest of his three accomplices last week
(ht 28/01/2015)
Youths
departing
for foreign jobs swindled (ht 27/01/2015)
Hubby,
in-laws
accused of killing woman; cops turn down complaint
(kp 26/01/2015)
Five
wildlife
crime suspects nabbed: Rhino horn, leopard hide seized
from their possession (ht 26/01/2015)
Four
con
artists arrested: Used to cheat unsuspecting people on
the pretext exchanging dollars (ht 25/01/2015)
Unbecoming
Behaviour: Stop Hooliganism In Constituent Assembly,
by Pranav Bhattarai (rn 24/01/2015)
Rape
attempt
foiled, 3 nabbed, by Pawan Yadav (kp 24/01/2015)
Child
marriages
rampant in Pyuthan, by Devendra Barma (ht
24/01/2015)
Police
dig
out TDBL's missing Rs 21 million, by Kamal Pariyar
(rep 24/01/2015)
Man
involved
in many thefts arrested (ht 24/01/2015)
Three
in
police net for Rs 20.99 million Mega Bank fraud: Were
rounded up over a period of one week; Notes found buried
in Dhading (ht 24/01/2015)
Two
arrested
for rape, one at large (ht 23/01/2015)
Three
street
robberies in two days in capital (ht 23/01/2015)
32-yr
jail
for raping minor, by Kamal Panthi (kp 22/01/2015)
Convicted
drug
dealer arrested after 9 years (kp 22/01/2015)
CA
vandalism
draws criticisms on social media (kp 21/01/2015), Who
resorted
to brawl in CA? (kp 21/01/2015)
Attacks
on
media condemned (kp 21/01/2015)
214
kg
hashish seized, by Bimal Khatiwada (kp 19/01/2015)
‘Tip-top’
man,
tiptoeing with laptops, by Manish Gautam (kp
18/01/2015), Serial
laptop
thief in police net: Had burgled computers from 28
offices, companies in capital (ht 18/01/2015)
Law
on
abrogation of criminal charges (ht 18/01/2015)
Explosives,
pistol
recovered after blast (kp 18/01/2015)
Woman
detained
with IED, firearm (ht 18/01/2015)
Man
thrashes
wife whenasked to end illicit affair (ht 17/01/2015)
Police
say
polygraph tests proving to be successful (ht
17/01/2015)
In-laws
arrested
in woman’s death (kp 16/01/2015)
Man
burns
alcoholic wife to death (ht 15/01/2015), Hubby
admits
to killing wife for her ‘drinking habit’, by Mohan
Budhair and Ganesh Chaudhary (kp 18/01/2015)
Man
deceives
wife into signing divorce papers (rep 15/01/2015)
Trafficked
victim
escapes from brothel (kp 14/01/2015)
Rape-accused
acquitted (ht 14/01/2015)
Court
frees
man wrongly jailed for two weeks, by Thakur Singh
Tharu (kp 14/01/2015)
CIB
nabs
three swindlers (ht 12/01/2015)
Fake
driving
licence use widespread, say police (kp 11/01/2015)
Organised
crime
in guise of political outfit, say police: Police suspect
the group could also have been backed by mainstream
political parties, by Lawadev Dhungana (kp
11/01/2015)
Teachers
suspended
for making sexual advances (ht 10/01/2015)
Rapist
father
gets 34-year prison term, by Rajendra Nath (kp
09/01/2015)
Sexual
abuse
against children on rise, by Rekha Bhusal (rep
09/01/2015)
Rescued
kids
handed over to parents (kp 09/01/2015)
Trafficking
victims
shunned by own family: Most of the victims said they
were forced to take shelter at Maiti Nepal after their
families turn their backs on them, by Mohan Budhair
(kp 08/01/2015)
Child
marriage
rife among Chepangs, by Narahari Sapkota (rep
08/01/2015)
Chand-led
CPN
Maoist steps up donation drive: Industrialists say
cadres of Chand party ask for tidy sum when they visit
them in person (kp 08/01/2015)
Group
issuing
fake citizenship certificates held (kp 08/01/2015)
Rapist
father
jailed for 18 years (ht 07/01/2015)
NHRC
recommends
action against APF personnel (ht 07/01/2015), Govt
told
to Take action against Erring cops (kp 08/01/2015)
Perpetrator
who
shot father of gang-raped minor held (kp 07/01/2015)
Police:
Financial
issue behind tourists’ abduction, by Lal Prasad
Sharma (kp 07/01/2015), Abduction
bid
foiled: Kidnapped Indian nationals rescued from hotel,
by Bharat Koirala (ht 08/01/2015)
Man
detained
for raping his daughter (ht 06/01/2015)
Man
murders
landlady in cold blood (kp 06/01/2015)
Two
arrested
for rape (ht 04/01/2015)
75
VoIP
centres busted: 31 foreigners among 129 racketeers held
(ht 04/01/2015)
Law
proposes
pardon for convicts (ht 04/01/2015)
‘Political
motive’
behind Justice murder: Crime mastermind Thapa, a cadre
of then Chure Bhawar Party, had high aspirations, by
Manish Gautam (kp 04/01/2015), Verdict
on
Chure Bhawar Ekata Party cost Justice Bam his life,
by Basant Sharma (ht 04/01/2015), Diffusion
notice
against Sanjay Ismali Magar, by Manish Gautam (kp
07/01/2015), Diffusion
notice
issued against on-the-run killer: Sanjaya Ismali Magar,
one of the two who opened fire, is in Saudi (ht
07/01/2015)
Bodies
of
3 kids found in pool (kp 04/01/2015), Woman
accused
of killing her children held (ht 18/01/2015)
Drunken
man
murders father-in-law, niece (kp 04/01/2015)
NOC
lifts
ban on oil thieves: House panel to govt: Reverse
decision (kp 03/01/2015)
Home
truths:
Targeted govt programmes in the Tarai against domestic
violence are required (kp 02/01/2015)
Rapist
jailed
for 16 years (ht 02/01/2015)
New
Maoist
party into extorting money (ht 02/01/2015)
Man
arrested
for raping five minors (kp 01/01/2015) |