A former UN official has been arrested on paedophilia charge from Kavre district.Canadian national Peter John Dalglish, 60, who had served as the country representative of the UN Habitat Afghanistan, was arrested by a team of Nepal Police Central Investigation Bureau (CIB) on Saturday.

Nepal Police Headquarters has begun withdrawing PSOs (Personal Security Officers) from VIPs and former bureaucrats following reports of their severe exploitation.

The Ministry of Home Affairs on Thursday directed Nepal Police Headquarters to recall Senior Superintendent of Police Dibesh Lohani from the Metropolitan Police Crime Division to allow for further probe into a gold smuggling case.

The House of Representatives on Tuesday endorsed the Health Profession Education Act that the President had promulgated as an ordinance, barring establishment of new medical schools in Kathmandu Valley for a decade.

The Tribhuvan University (TU) has yet to endorse the Institute of Medicine’s proposal on the number of seats and fee details for MD/MS programmes.

Nepal Police Headquarters has formed a high-level investigation team for the gold smuggling case that suspects the connivance of police officials.

Home Minister Ram Bahadur Thapa has expressed his concern at the appalling conditions in which prisoners are languishing in the country.

A majority of the bodies of passengers who died in the US-Bangla Airlines plane crash at the Tribhuvan International Airport last week have been handed over to their kin.

Doctors are conducting toxicology tests on crew members of US-Bangla Airlines that crashed at the Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA) on Monday.

Dr Govinda KC and his team filed a complaint in Judicial Council (JC) on Tuesday demanding it should probe the deeds of Chief Justice (CJ) Gopal Prasad Parajuli.

Activist and orthopaedic surgeon Dr Govinda KC and his team plan to file a Public Interest Litigation demanding Chief Justice Gopal Prasad Parajuli’s academic and birth certificates to be made public.

Nepal Medical Council (NMC) on Wednesday barred two doctors of Norvic International Hospital from practicing medicine for 30 days for their act of gross medical negligence.

The Health Ministry has decided to ask all the health facilities, especially hospitals, to make public the fees they charge for services.

Anti-corruption crusader and senior orthopaedic surgeon Dr Govinda KC has filed a direct application to Chief Justice Gopal Prasad Parajuli demanding that he should make public his citizenship details.

Former Deputy Inspector General (DIG) of Nepal Police and newly-elected lawmaker Nawaraj Silwal, who is in the most wanted list of police for a document forgery case, was spotted at the parliament building premises in New Baneshwor on Saturday.