Academicians take issues with the preface of the book as well where the education minister has attempted to justify why the book was needed and how he himself was once part of a campaign to ‘protect the territory’.

With the academic year truncated, private school operators, who are planning to start classes after Tihar, say that this is not the time to put additional burden on students.

The Health Ministry, however, says the decision was taken after evaluating the market price and there is a mechanism for quality control.

There are fears Covid-19 may present an excuse to further delay investigation into war-era cases of rights violations.

Members of the group have been rearrested multiple times despite courts ordering their release citing the lack of evidence.

Local governments blame the centre for waiting for months to announce the decision and hindering children’s education.

Since 2008-09, governments have spent nearly Rs 12 billion on several literacy campaigns and yet 24 districts are still not fully literate.

There has not been a single investigation in the five years since transitional justice commissions were formed and its term is expiring again in nine months.

The latest of such examples is police in Garuda Municipality, Rautahat refusing to register a complaint against the death in custody of 19-year-old Bijay Mahara

While Article 78 (4) bars him from going to Cabinet for losing elections, Article 76 (9) may allow him to become minister once he is sworn into the National Assembly. But opinions among legal experts are divided.

The provision, says a provincial minister, will provide free and compulsory education as envisioned by the constitution.

Nepal Communist Party decides to send Bamdev Gautam, who lost parliamentary elections in 2017, to the National Assembly.

Deuba has to first contend with Nidhi and Shrestha from his own faction while Poudel has the challenge of first appeasing those from his alliance if he is to challenge the incumbent.

Education experts, however, warn that a large number of children do not have mediums to access distance learning.

Even 14 years after the end of the civil conflict and five years since the formation of the Commission of Investigation on Enforced Disappeared Persons, not a single family has been told what happened to its loved one.