Putin signs law to confiscate assets of those convicted of discrediting the Russian army The bill sailed through the lower and upper houses of the Russian parliament, and was unanimously endorsed by the upper house last week. World 14 Feb, 2024
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
Rape cases continue unabated despite harsher laws On March 10, two adults entered an empty house in Morang and kidnapped a 15-month-old girl from her bed. The two men Ajay Chaudhary, 25, and Mithun Chaudhary, 28, took the toddler to an isolated place and raped her. Nepal 21 Mar, 2022
EDITORIAL: Welcome ordinance The tendency on the part of the govt to bypass the parliament to bring new laws is unbecoming of a democratic norms President Bidhya Devi Bhandari is all set to authenticate two ordinances that will, hopefully, serve as deterrents to acid attacks in... 28 Sep, 2020
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
Food hygiene bill moots harsher punishment KATHMANDU, AUGUST 9 The Food Hygiene and Quality Bill, which was recently registered by the Government of Nepal at the National Assembly, proposes heavy punishment on any person or company found to be causing harm to the health of consumers through... Travel 10 Aug, 2020
�Harsher punishment against acid attackers� Kathmandu, August 3 Women and Social Welfare Committee of the House of Representatives has directed the home ministry to make some amendments to the legal arrangement and punishment related to incidents of acid attack, pointing out the need of... Travel 04 Aug, 2020
Help heads to NYC as experts predict over 100,000 US deaths NEW YORK: With refrigerated morgue trucks parked on New York City's streets to collect the surging number of dead, public health officials projected Tuesday that the coronavirus could ultimately kill more than 100,000 people across the US Some states... Women 01 Apr, 2020
One woman reports a rape every 15 minutes in India NEW DELHI: One woman reported a rape every 15 minutes on average in India in 2018, according to government data released on Thursday, underlining its dismal reputation as one of the worst places in the world to be female. The highly publicised gang... Art & Culture 10 Jan, 2020
Prominent Chinese pastor gets 9 years in jail for subversion SHANGHAI: The pastor of one of China's best-known unregistered "house" churches was sentenced to nine years in prison on Monday on charges of inciting subversion of state power, part of Beijing's crackdown on unregistered religious groups. Wang Yi,...
