Home Minister Lekhak calls for coordination to improve prisons, child correction homes Home Minister Ramesh Lekhak has pointed out the need of coordination among federation, province and local level in improvement of prisons and child correction homes. Kathmandu 28 Jul, 2024
Probe holds child correction centre responsible for death, mayhem A joint investigation launched by rights organisations into the death of juvenile undertrial Kamal Basnet, 18, and the escape of other juvenile delinquents and undertrials from a child correction home at Sanothimi, Bhaktapur has blamed the child correction centre administration for the incident. Kathmandu 02 Sep, 2023
Daily allowance of inmates to go up by 33 per cent The government is set to increase the daily allowance of prisoners and detainees by 33 per cent, effective from the running fiscal. Currently, prisoners and detainees get daily allowance of Rs 60 each. Kathmandu 04 Aug, 2022
All prison go hi-tech to prevent jailbreak The Department of Prison Management has installed adequate number of closed-circuit televisions, walk-through gates and metal detectors in all 74 prisons across the country in a bid to boost their security and prevent possible jailbreak. Nepal 21 Nov, 2021
Over 49 lakh rupees spent on monitoring, travelling Bajura, February 16 Budhinanda Municipality in Bajura spent more than Rs 49 lakh on monitoring and travelling in the fiscal 2018-19. As per the recent report prepared by the Comptroller’s Office, the municipality has spent Rs 49,86,575 only on... Travel 17 Feb, 2020
ANFA unveils 10-team National League Lalitpur, May 31 The executive committee meeting of the All Nepal Football Association today introduced the National League and decided to organise the Martyrs Memorial A Division League and ANFA President Cup. The meeting, chaired by ANFA... 01 Jun, 2019
Government urged to improve state of jails Kathmandu, April 14 The 56th annual report (2018-19) of the Office of the Auditor General has painted a bleak picture of the implementation status of the government’s prison reform plan. The Home Administration Reform Roadmap-2017, unveiled by... Horoscopes 15 Apr, 2019
Incentive allowance proposed for traffic cops Kathmandu, March 14 The Ministry of Home Affairs has written to the Ministry of Finance, requesting the latter’s consensus on providing monthly incentive allowance to traffic police personnel in Kathmandu Valley. Kiran Bhattarai, press... Horoscopes 15 Mar, 2019
DoPM installs CCTVs to boost security in jails Kathmandu, February 20 The Department of Prison Management has installed adequate number of closed-circuit televisions in as many as 15 prisons of the country. According to the DoPM, it aims to increase surveillance to prevent incidents of... Horoscopes 21 Feb, 2019
�Open prison� concept to be implemented soon Kathmandu, January 18 The government is doing groundwork for making a legal provision to implement the concept of ‘open prison’. An open prison is a penal establishment where prisoners, who have served at least half their jail term and have... Horoscopes 19 Jan, 2019
Improve prison conditions: OAG Prisoners’ daily allowance was recently increased from Rs 45 to Rs 60 Kathmandu, August 21 The Integrated Report on Custody and Prison Monitoring, 2018, released by the Office of the Attorney General today has identified a wide range of... Horoscopes 22 Aug, 2018
Jailbirds to get Rs 60 daily allowance Some 19,000 inmates are living in 74 prisons across the country Kathmandu, May 30 The government has increased the daily livelihood allowance of prisoners to Rs 60 from existing Rs 45. The budget for the fiscal 2018/19 presented by Minister for... Horoscopes 31 May, 2018
