Campaign to free Nepal’s elite journalist goes global
The campaign to free Kanak Mani Dixit has just gone global with the world’s biggest defender of media rights and freedom of expression now condemning the arrest of the 61 year old…
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The bullet monk of Kathmandu: Lharkyal Lama, a Buddhist lawmaker who broke many rules
Lharkyal Lama, a supposed follower of Lord Buddha’s teachings of peace and material detachment but who ironically represented the former-extremist Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) in the Nepalese parliament, was arrested yesterday for the possession of…
Nepal freezes bank lockers of 29 ‘powerful figures’, targeted names include ex-ministers to acclaimed journalist
Nepal’s anti-corruption watchdog, the Commission for Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA), has written to at least 29 powerful people in the country ordering them appear in front of the constitutional body within seven…
