An internal probe finds evaluation criteria were leaked; with new bidding, the completion deadline has been pushed to May 2024.

Committees formed to recommend names are waiting for consensus among parties, officials and experts say.

This is the first arrest since the country criminalised Chhaupadi in August 2017.

Officials say winter session will commence soon, but no one knows when.

Different reports show encroachment of school lands is increasing across the country.

The current delay means students will have to wait a few more years to shift from makeshift structures.

They claim the government is inviting international intervention by politicising the transitional justice process

There is ambiguity over whether Deputy Speaker can chair the first House meet in Speaker’s absence.

The decision comes at the last hour after the government threatened to arrest operators of medical colleges.

The statement from four prominent human rights organisations is stronger than ones issued in the past, indicating the international community may be gradually losing faith in Nepal’s system.

College operators refuse to budge and insist the set fee ceiling is not scientific.

Thirteen years after the peace deal, victims of the decade-long Maoist insurgency continue to wait for justice.

Given the growing dissatisfaction within the party and his failing health, Oli was finding it increasingly difficult to manage both the government and the party.

Since the recommendation committee has become a rubber stamp for the political parties, no independent decision is forthcoming, rights activists and victims say.

Conflict victims object to political interference, saying they won’t accept the officials selected without following the due process.