Ishwari Subedi

Due to the prolonged vacancies, several bodies have been operating under acting leadership, affecting their overall functioning and decision-making capacity.

Continuous slogan chanting, surrounding of the well, and repeated adjournments have once again revived a familiar question: is parliamentary obstruction a legitimate weapon of the opposition, or has it evolved into a distorted parliamentary culture?

After the Appropriation Bill for Fiscal Year 2025/26 was passed on Tuesday, the government is preparing to endorse dependent bills on Saturday. However, apart from budget-related legislation, the government seems unwilling to table other bills during the disruption, a source said.

The bill, registered on Tuesday, mentions that it aims to maintain the authenticity and reliability of electronic records and digital signatures, as well as protecting and properly using information, data, or details present in cyberspace.

A key provision of the bill allows for the issuance of a citizenship certificate based on the mother’s name in cases where the father is missing or where no information about him is available. This provision is in line with a series of past verdicts by the Supreme Court that have directed auth...

During Sunday’s meeting of the National Assembly’s Development, Economic Affairs, and Good Governance Committee, Chairperson Kamala Pant initiated a discussion to revise the committee’s earlier directive requiring DNA testing for betel nut exports. However, objections from her own...

Lawmakers elected in the last general election continue to face scandal after scandal. In the latest development, the Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) on Thursday filed a case at the Special Court against Madhav Kumar Nepal, Chairperson of CPN (Unified Socialist) and Mem...

Opposition parties, including the main opposition CPN (Maoist Center), have been obstructing the Parliament, demanding the formation of an investigation committee to identify thoseresponsible for the misuse of visit visas and calling for Home Minister Ramesh Lekhak to resign until the committee subm...

The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of the House of Representatives has been consistently writing to the Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) regarding various issues of financial irregularities. However, the PAC's monitoring has been weak and there has been minimal progress...

One scandal after another is being uncovered only after investigations are conducted. In this context, the bill to amend the Commission for the investigation of abuse of authority Act, 2048 (1991), which has reached its final stage in the House of Representatives' (HoR’s) State Affairs and Goo...