KATHMANDU: Kantipur daily has highlighted issues related to Pathak corruption video case and misuse of government Email account for opening ‘adult site’ in today’s edition.

Similarly, it has prioritized the transfer of Secretary Krishna Prasad Devkota which took place after he disobeyed to certify an Indian vehicle as Chinese, says the report.

According to the report, government E-mail accounts are found to have been used for opening porn websites. Official E-mail accounts of Inland Revenue Department, Armed Police Force and Nepal Telecom, Nepal Agriculture Research Council among others have been misused for opening adult sites.

E-mail Management Directive, 2018 bars the use of government E-mail accounts for carrying out personal businesses.

KATHMANDU: Bankers have concluded that a newly introduced provision regarding monetary policy by Nepal Rastra Bank (NRB) will impact on the interest rate. The NRB has introduced the new provision through the mid-term review of the Monetary Policy for Fiscal Year 2018/19, a report in Naya Patrika said.

Nepal Bankers’ Association (NBA) has objected to some of the provisions introduced by the central bank following the half-yearly review of its monetary policy, saying that it will have an adverse impact on the banking sector.

Issuing a statement on Wednesday, NBA claimed that it will adversely affect the current interest rate.

NRB has recently introduced some new provisions aimed at reducing interest rate and avoiding liquidity in the market after reviewing its half-yearly monetary policy.

KATHMANDU: Agitating students on Wednesday smeared soot on the face of Bauwa Lal Sah, assistant dean of Education Faculty, Tribhuvan University, and handed him over to the police after he was allegedly caught for sexually harassing a 16-year-old girl on the TU promises.

According to the report, the girl asked Sah, 46, the way to the Balkhu-based Office of the Controller of Examinations. Sah gave her wrong direction, followed her secretly and tried to advance her in a isolated area.

She needed to go to Balkhu-based office to collect transcript for her uncle after depositing the cash at Nepal Bank Ltd on the TU premises.

KATHMANDU: Ex-British Gurkhas have threatened to disrupt the recruitment of Nepalis in the British Army if their demands are not met by March 19, reported Republica daily.

They turned down ‘an offer’ from the British government for a marginal hike in their perks and benefits, said a senior official representing the ex-British Gurkhas on Wednesday, adding, “The offer still discriminates against Nepali servicemen who have long been struggling to gain equal status in the British Army.”

The warning from the ex-Gurkhas’ organizations comes just ahead of the British Minister of State for the Armed Forces Mark Lancaster’s four-day Nepal visit.

In last November, the British government has offered to increase perks and benefits of the Gurkha pensioners by 10 to 34 percent depending on the positions they held in the British Army.

KATHMANDU: The future of hundreds of Nepali students enrolled at an Australia-based technical institution has hung in the balance as the country’s regulator for vocational and training sector deregistered the college after it failed to comply with the existing education rules, a report in the Kathmandu Post said.

Around 90 percent of the 1,000 students at Australian Institute of Business and Technology are from Nepal.

The Australian Skills Quality and Authority, the regulatory body, on Tuesday revoked the vocational and training accreditation of the technical institute, the report says.

KATHMANDU: An uncertainty has gripped the main opposition Nepali Congress (NC) after the top leaders could not strike a deal on the new statute and the dissolution of Nepal Students Union, the student wing of the party,  Annapurna daily reported.

NC has not been able to give a final touch on the statute over the differences between the top leaders.  It had been endorsed by the Mahasamiti meeting.

The party’s Central Working Committee is divided over whether to elect a representative of the General Convention directly or from the lower level.

KATHMANDU: The Kathmandu Post has reported that over 95 percent of private hospitals have been operating from rented residential buildings without safety measures.

The hospitals were supposed to be shifted to their own safe buildings equipped with safer physical infrastructures by 2018-19.

The Association of Private Health Institutions of Nepal (APHIN), an umbrella organization of private hospital operators, had signed a memorandum with the Ministry of Health and Population in 2013.

KATHMANDU: Following a row with Bina Magar, a line minister, Water Supply Secretary Gajendra Thakur was transferred on Tuesday, Republica daily has highlighted in today’s edition.

The dispute between Minister for Water Supply Magar and Secretary Thakur surfaced over whether to let the Italian company to complete the remaining work of the Melamchi water supply project.

Thakur is believed to have been transferred to a reserve pool for now, said the report.

KATHMANDU: The Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) has formed a three-member panel to investigate the bribery allegation leveled against its former commissioner Raj Narayan Pathak, reported The Himalayan Times.

The panel has been given three months deadline to complete its investigation and submit a report.

Office of the Attorney General Agni Prasad Kharel had advised the anti-graft body to carry out investigation into the allegations leveled against Pathak after the latter sought the legal opinion on the matter.

Pathak had allegedly received Rs 7.8 million bribe for settling corruption cases sub judice in the CIAA.

KATHMANDU: Maiti Nepal, a non-profit organization dedicated to helping sex trafficking victims, has rescued as many as 179 Nepali nationals from India, who were being trafficked to Iraq via Myanmar, reported Annapurna daily.

According to the report, 147 are women and 32 are men among those rescued.

Women Commission based in New Delhi, Manipur Police and local non-government organization had taken initiation in the rescue of these Nepalis while they were being taken to Iraq via Imphal, the provincial capital city of Manipur and Myanmar, says the report.