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Upendra Yadav disowns Rs 5 million compensation promise A UDMF meeting on August 18, 2013 had made a four-point decision including a commitment to provide R... Read More
Elderly allowance at 65 won’t benefit senior citizens from districts with lowest life expectancy and Dalits The immediate past government led by Nepali Congress President Sher Bahadur Deuba in January decided... Read More
KP Oli is 38th prime minister, not 41st Several Nepali and foreign media outlets have reported that K P Oli is the 41st prime minister of N... Read More
Former Minister Kiranti’s statement partially correct Former Minister for Culture and State Restructuring Gopal Kiranti in an interview aired on Sagarmath... Read More
Factual errors in UML secretary’s tweet CPN-UML Secretary Yogesh Bhattarai has claimed that the government while appointing governors and na... Read More
Adhikari wrong about women’s representation in Federal Parliament UML leader and Rabindra Adhikari claims that the constitution does not say anything if the total num... Read More
Bajura, not Saptari, is the most backward district of Nepal After being elected to parliament from Saptari, Upendra Yadav, the chairman of the Federal Socialist... Read More
Three mistakes in RJPN poll manifesto The poll manifesto of the RJPN has claimed that the rules prohibited issuance of whip in the constit... Read More
Announcement to widen East-West highway was made by Congress-led govt Speaking at the ‘national economic debate’ organized by the FNCCI in Kathmandu, CPN-UML Chairman... Read More
PACT statement on Gagan Thapa’s agrobusiness flawed Nepali Congress leader Gagan Thapa was accused of misappropriating funds released by the Project for... Read More

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Nepal is among 25 countries that deny women right to pass on citizenship to children independently

Nepal is among 25 countries that deny women right to pass on citizenship to children independently In Nepal while there is a debate ongoing over whether to grant the women the right to confer citizen... Read More

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