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Joint secretary arrested over fake travel documents issued to Tibetans

Kathmandu, Aug. 3 -- The Central Investigation Bureau (CIB) of Nepal Police on Monday arrested Pushpa Raj Bhattarai, a joint secretary at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in connection with an alleged... Read More


17 years later, senior foreign ministry official charged over alleged misuse of travel documents

Kathmandu, July 30 -- In 2009, five Tibetans arrived at the German Embassy in Kathmandu carrying Nepal-issued travel documents and seeking visas to join relatives who had been granted asylum in German... Read More


Rayamajhi gets four years in prison, Khand two in fake Bhutanese refugee scam

Kathmandu, July 15 -- The Kathmandu District Court on Tuesday sentenced former deputy prime minister and CPN-UML leader Top Bahadur Rayamajhi to four years in prison for his role in the fake Bhutanese... Read More


Three arrested over alleged Bal Mandir property embezzlement

Kathmandu, July 9 -- Three people have been arrested for investigation over their alleged involvement in the misappropriation of property belonging to Bal Mandir in Naxal, Kathmandu. A team from the ... Read More


Court convicts Rayamajhi, Khand and 14 others in Bhutanese refugee scam

Kathmandu, July 8 -- Kathmandu District Court on Tuesday convicted former deputy prime minister Top Bahadur Rayamajhi, former home minister Bal Krishna Khand and 14 others in the fake Bhutanese refuge... Read More


Fourteen, including Top Bahadur Rayamajhi and Bal Krishna Khand, convicted in fake Bhutanese refugee scam

Kathmandu, July 7 -- The Kathmandu District Court on Tuesday convicted 14 individuals, including former deputy prime minister Top Bahadur Rayamajhi and former home minister Balkrishna Khand, in the fa... Read More


Court remands former minister Bishnu Paudel to seven days in money laundering probe

Kathmandu, June 23 -- The Special Court has granted investigators permission to keep CPN-UML Vice Chair and former finance minister Bishnu Paudel in custody for seven days. The Department of Money La... Read More


CIAA files Rs10.13 billion passport graft case against 18

Kathmandu, June 23 -- graft body, the Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA), has filed a corruption case against 18 defendants, including the Director General of the Department... Read More


How pressure from the prime minister's office is accelerating the passport investigation

Kathmandu, June 20 -- On a Monday morning in mid-June, officials from the Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority received an unusual summons: come to Singha Durbar. The request came fr... Read More


Unauthorised entry of Indian mil chopper into Nepali airspace in Darchula sparks diplomatic row

Kathmandu, June 14 -- A serious breach of sovereign airspace has occurred in the remote northwestern frontier of Nepal, after an Indian military helicopter carrying a high-ranking security official fl... Read More