Defending democracy

KATHMANDU, MAY 21 - Chief Commissioner of the Commission for Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) Lokman Singh Karki, who has instructed secretaries to submit their decisions and plan of action to the anti-graft body, is now preparing to ...

SOLUKHUMBU: Nepali film actor Arjun Karki, and national marathon runner Sanjya Pandey have successfully climbed the world's highest peak Mt. Everest. They stepped on the top of the peak at 7:30 this morning, said their team's liaison officer Ongchhu ...

MAY 14 - Amid intense public debate and controversy, President Ram Baran Yadav finally gave his consent to the appointment of Lokman Singh Karki as chief of the Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA). It must be rare in ...

KATHMANDU, MAY 15 - The Supreme Court on Wednesday asked the defendants, including Chairman of the Interim Election Government Khil Raj Regmi, to explain the nomination of former Chief Secretary Lokman Singh Karki as the chief of the Commission for ...

KATHMANDU: The Supreme Court today issued a show cause order in the name of the defendants in response to a writ petition seeking annulment of the appointment of former Chief Secretary Lokman Singh Karki to the post of the Chief Commissioner of the ...

KATHMANDU, MAY 08 - Miffed by the appointment of Lokman Singh Karki as the CIAA chief, senior civil society leaders on Wednesday picketed the Nepali Congress central office in Lalitpur to express their dissatisfaction. Addressing a programme ...

PARSA, MAY 11 - Nepali Congress Central Working Committee member Gagan Thapa on Saturday said that the appointment of Lokman Singh Karki as the chairman of the Commission for Investigation of Abuse of Authority was a blot in the nation's history.

Civil society members protest at MJF-L office KATHMANDU, MAY 10 - Civil society members on Friday staged a protest outside the office of the Madhesi Janadhikar Forum Loktantrik at Sanepa. They were protesting the appointment of former chief ...

KATHMANDU: The Supreme Court on Friday ordered to register the Public Interest Litigation (PIL) against the Constitutional Council (CC) decision to appoint Lokman Singh Karki as the chief of Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority ...