EDIITORIAL: Give medicine easily Acid attacks on girls and women across the country have come down following the strict law enacted three years ago when CPN-UML leader KP Oli was the prime minister. Opinion 13 Sep, 2023
Anti-acid attack law helping victims, but not so well ​​​​​​​Acid attack victims on Monday met CPN- UML Chair KP Sharma Oli and urged him to play a role to address the problems they face at hospitals and in their daily life. Kathmandu 12 Sep, 2023
Ordinance moots 20-year jail term for acid attack KATHMANDU, SEPTEMBER 25 The Ministry of Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs has prepared the draft of two ordinances proposing to increase jail term for acid attackers to 20 years and to regulate the sale and distribution of acid. Under the... Travel 26 Sep, 2020
New deterrent provisions on the cards Punishment for acid attack perpetrators seen as too less KATHMANDU, SEPTEMBER 19 Acid attack victim Muskan Khatun’s plea to Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli has moved the PM to bring stringent laws to curb such attacks. Khatun told THT she was... Travel 20 Sep, 2020
Nepal govt to bear acid attack victims' cost of treatment, medicine, education, living KATHMANDU: Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli today declared that the Government of Nepal would bear the cost of treatment for the acid attack victims, their education and the cost of living. PM Oli assured that the government would take all the... Travel 10 Sep, 2020
EDITORIAL: Regulate acid sale Apart from regulating the sale of acid, the perpetrators of acid attacks should be meted out strict punishment as a deterrent When the entire nation was celebrating 110th International Women’s Day on March 8, a 51-year-old woman, Bedamati Devi... 12 Mar, 2020
Female comic superhero fights India's sex traffickers, challenges stigma MUMBAI: A female superhero will use her powers to fight sex crimes in India and the stigma that trafficking survivors face, in the third instalment of a comic series due to be released this week. Priya, a rape survivor-turned superhero who flies...