Prime minister's resignation sought on moral grounds

The CPN-Maoist Centre, the Nepali Congress, and the Samajbadi Janata Party-Nepal on Friday sought Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli’s resignation on moral grounds.

Nepal 20 Mar, 2021

CIAA summons whistle-blower in Baskota audiotape scandal

KATHMANDU, SEPTEMBER 2 Nine months after Bijay Prakash Mishra, a Swiss company agent, leaked an audiotape in which the then Minister of Communications and Information Technology Gokul Prasad Baskota was heard demanding bribe from a Swiss company for...

Nepal 03 Sep, 2020

European firms step up COVID-19 vaccines work, UK team starts human trials

Oxford clinical trial is latest of handful already begun Three European firms join forces for vaccine research Swiss company hopes to get vaccine into use this year LONDON/ROME: Scientists in Britain began clinical trials of a potential...

World 24 Apr, 2020

Explosion at former minister Baskota's under-constrution house

KATHMANDU: An improvised explosive device (IED) went off at an under-construction house belonging to former Minister for Communications and Information Technology Gokul Prasad Baskota, in Madhyapur Thimi Municipality-1 this morning. According to...

Kathmandu 11 Mar, 2020

Baskota sues Mishra for defamation

Kathmandu, February 28 Former minister of communications and information technology Gokul Prasad Baskota, who has been accused of negotiating kickback from Bijay Prakash Mishra, a Swiss company agent in the security press procurement deal, today...

Kathmandu 29 Feb, 2020

Voice in kickback tape not Baskota’s, claims PM

Kathmandu, February 27 Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli today defended Gokul Prasad Baskota, who has been accused of negotiating kickback with Bijay Prakash Mishra, a Swiss company agent, in the security press procurement deal. Addressing a...

Nepal 28 Feb, 2020

EDITORIAL: Furnish replies

It is a serious lapse on the part of the PM not to take prompt action against Baskota involved in the kickback scam It has been exactly one week since Gokul Prasad Baskota stepped down as minister for communications and information technology on...

Opinion 27 Feb, 2020

SC’s five-year strategic plan must be scrapped

Former justice of Supreme Court Bala Ram KC wants the five-year strategic plan of the Supreme Court scrapped so that judges can focus on delivering qualitative judgment rather than the number of cases. Ram Kumar Kamat of The Himalayan Times spoke to...

Nepal 24 Feb, 2020

Oli urged to make public his views on tape scandal

Kathmandu, February 21 With the audiotape scandal forcing resignation of Minister of Communications and Information Technology Gokul Baskota, a close aide of Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli, legal eagles have said the PM needs to tell the nation his...

Nepal 22 Feb, 2020

NC drags PM’s name in press kickback scam

Kathmandu, February 21 The main opposition Nepali Congress alleged that the needle of suspicion in the Gokul Prasad Baskota audiotape scandal pointed towards Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli, as Baskota was heard asking Bijay Prakash Mishra, an agent of...

Nepal 22 Feb, 2020

Swiss embassy issues clarification

KATHMANDU: The embassy of Switzerland in Kathmandu on Thursday said in a statement that it had not requested any meeting with Minister of Communications and Information Technology Gokul Prasad Baskota. Baskota resigned from his post after the...

Nepal 21 Feb, 2020

Communication Minister in soup over controversial audio-tape leak, resigns

KATHMANDU: Minister for Communication and Information Technology Gokul Prasad Baskota has tendered his resignation. Speaker of the House of Representatives (HoR) Agni Prasad Sapkota informed the House of this recent development. "We will definitely...

Kathmandu 20 Feb, 2020