Government is found spending over Rs 800 billion out of the regular budget program approved by the parliament in the past three years. This has undermined the supremacy of the parliament posing a serious question on the accountability of the government, reports Republica.

DOLPA: Annapurna daily has highlighted the acute shortage of drinking water being faced by Dolpa people.

According to the report, locals in Tsu village of Tripurasundari Municipality have been facing dire shortage of drinking water after the sources of water went dry in the winter season.

Locals have to bring water on horses from distant places and even wait for hours to fill up their posts since there are limited numbers of water resources.

KATHMANDU: Rajdhani daily has highlighted the situation of Non-Government Organizations (NGOs) including the party unification of the Nepal Communist Party in today’s edition.

The daily has reported that over 45,000 NGOs operating in Nepal over with an objective doing welfare for the Nepali people have gone unbridled.

According to the report, staffers of the Social Welfare Council have been receiving a lot of money in the name of monitoring. However, the monitoring has not been effective.

KATHMANDU: Nepali Congress party has condemned the terrorist attack that claimed lives of 40 Indian soldiers in Pulawa of Kashmir on Thursday, reported Republica daily.

Terming the attack  ‘terrorist’, NC said,” We condemn such attacks carried out against humanity anywhere in the world,” said the report.

Meanwhile, the party wished peace for the departed soul and speedy recovery for those injured in the fatal incident.

KATHMANDU: Commissioner of the Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) Raj Narayan Pathak resigned from his post over bribery charges, a report in the Himalayan Times said.

Pathak tendered his resignation to President Bidya Devi Bhandari on Friday, said Chhabindra Parajuli, spokesperson for the Office of the President.

Pathak admitted on camera in a sting operation of receiving Rs 7.8 million in bribe settling cases being investigated by the CIAA, according to the report.

KATHMANDU: Prime Minister KP Oli has claimed that Nepali people will be able to travel by ship after a few months. PM Oli said so while inaugurating the Nepal Ship Office at Ekantakuna of Lalitpur on Thursday.

“Wait for some time, you can book ship tickets. Nepal will have a ship in the near future,” Annapurna daily quoted Oli as saying in its report.

“With the establishment of ship office, Nepal has entered the era of ship,” said Oli, adding, “Nepal government will also sign a deal with the southern neighbor on railways and waterways in future,” said the report.

KATHMANDU: Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli on Thursday said his government has laid a solid foundation for development in the past one year and that his administration now would focus on achieving the goal of ‘Prosperous Nepal and Happy Nepali’ envisioned by the government, reported The Kathmandu Post.

Addressing the nation, Oli highlighted the progress ranging from governance to foreign policy to economic indicators to institutionalization of federalism to formation of laws as the major achievements of his government in the past one year.

However, main opposition Nepali Congress rejected outright the facts and figures presented by Oli in his speech arguing that corruption has taken massive its toll on governance, while depressing economic indicators have spoiled the economic outlook, said the report.

KATHMANDU: Parliament is likely to initiate impeachment process against Raj Narayan Pathak, one of the commissioners at the anti-corruption agency, for allegedly receiving a bribe from the management committee official of an engineering college in Bhaktapur, reported Republica daily.

Nepal Communist Party (NCP) lawmakers including Yogesh Bhattarai urged Commissioner Pathak to immediately step down, warning of impeachment against him.

Pathak was picked as commissioner of the anti-graft body in 2015 by the Constitutional Council headed at the time by then prime minister Sushil Koirala.

KATHMANDU: Despite the formation of a two-thirds majority government for the first time in its democratic history, law and order situation has continued to deteriorate, a report in The Himalayan Times said.

According to Nepal Police , crime rate has gone up by 24 percent in the fiscal 2017-18 compared to the previous fiscal. A total of 39,315 cases of crimes were recorded in 2017-18 against 28,563 cases in the fiscal 2016-17.

Similarly, police recorded a total of 1,480 rape cases in the fiscal 2017-18, said the report.

KATHMANDU: Many people believe that Nepal Army (NA) is constructing Kathmandu-Nijgadh fast-track on its own. But the reality is that NA is not building it itself rather it has employed as many as 28 sub-contractors to build the project, reported Naya Patrika.

According to the report, NA receives the budget from the Nepal government, selects contractors and assigns them to build the project.

NA is currently undertaking five road construction projects including the fast-tract. The Office of the Auditor General, in its  report, often points out flaws in the projects carried out by NA, but they go unheeded.