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Attorney General Khamma Bahadur Khati has insisted on cooperation among judicial bodies.

While inaugurating a newly constructed building of the District Government Attorney Office of Chitwan, here today, he said cooperation and support among judicial offices were vital to see a robust justice delivery system.

He said a lack of coordination among the attorney offices, police, and court would cause problems in executing justice. As he said, people’s faith on judiciary has been declining and it must be prevented.

He was of the view that none (survivors) should be denied of justice upon their request for the same. “Weak investigations will have its implications on the entire justice-delivery process.”

The Attorney General admitted lack of required human resources in district attorney offices has hampered the government efforts to ensure prompt justice to the people. The proportion of judge to government attorneys at present is 1:2.

On the occasion, deputy attorney general Krishna Jeevi Ghimire said they are working on a plan to address the issues of human resources crunch while district judge Hemant Rawal said a hostile statement is one the challenges judiciary is facing in course of executing justices and said it happens when survivor is or feels unsafe to demand justice. He was of the view of ensuring safety of survivors and protecting required evidences to see an effective judiciary.

The foundation stone of the building was laid on January 28, 2020 and it cost Rs 49.87 million to complete the project. The three storey-building spreads on 10 kattha of land (one kattha is equivalent to 3645 sq.ft) at Bharatpur metropolis-10.

Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba completed his one year in office on Wednesday.

On the occasion, the government made public the list of achievements it made in one year.

He was appointed the Prime Minister on July 13, 2021 by the mandamus order of the Supreme Court which overturned then KP Sharma Oli’s decision to dissolve the House.

The Prime Minister’s Secretariat has made public 42 achievements that have been accomplished by the Deuba government in his one year.

The government has become successful in ending political instability and misgovernance, in taking the country ahead in a democratic method, holding the local level elections on time and administering Covid-19 vaccines to all eligible citizens, the Secretariat said.

In the report released on the occasion of its 100-days, the government said that it adopted a foreign policy based on national interest to strengthen ties with all the countries and made an arrangement for the treatment of those injured in the various movements.

Similarly, the Secretariat said that the government has announced a monthly allowance of Rs 5, 000 to patients with kidney and spinal injuries and decided to provide a one-time payment of Rs 10,000 each for 500,000 poor house households.

Likewise, the government has endorsed the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), decided to provide old age allowance under the social security program from the age of 68, started farmers' pension program, decided to provide 98 types of medicines free of cost to the people under the poverty line and increase salary of civil servants by 15 percent.

The government said that it decided to withdraw the State Partnership Program (SPP) and started selling electricity to India among others.

International Liaison Department head of the Chinese Communist Party Liu Jianchao paid a courtesy call on President Bidya Devi Bhandari on Wednesday.

The meeting was held at Sheetal Niwas in Kathmandu this afternoon, the Office of the President said.

Leading an eight-member delegation, Lui arrived in Nepal on Sunday.

He held separate meetings with Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba and Foreign Minister Narayan Khadka on the same day.

The Chinese leader also held meetings with CPN (Maoist Centre) Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal, CPN-UML Chairman KP Sharma Oli and CPN (Unified Socialist) Chairman Madhav Nepal among others.

The Sri Lankan president, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, has fled to the Maldives on a military jet hours before he was due to resign on Wednesday, following days of extraordinary scenes including his presidential palace and office being taken over by anti-government protesters, The Guardian reported.

Following his departure, the prime minister’s office said a state of emergency had been declared as protesters continued to try to storm government offices.

The airforce confirmed that Rajapaksa, his wife and two security guards boarded a military aircraft in the early hours of Wednesday morning, after he invoked executive powers to enable his escape.

“Under the provisions of the constitution and on a request by the government, the Sri Lanka air force provided a plane early today to fly the president, his wife and two security officials to the Maldives,” a statement said.

On their arrival in the Maldives capital of Malé at 3am, they were greeted at the airport by the president, Mohammad Nasheed, and his wife. At the time of his departure on Wednesday morning, the president still had not submitted a letter of resignation.

Protesters, activists and lawyers have called for the president to be prosecuted, along with various Rajapaksa family members, over alleged corruption and human rights abuses.

However, while he is still president, Rajapaksa enjoys immunity from arrest. It is believed that Rajapaksa will not officially resign until he reaches his final destination of the United Arab Emirates, which has long been a haven for disgraced leaders.

As news of his departure to the Maldives broke on Wednesday morning, protests broke out across the city of Colombo as people demanded he step down immediately, according to the Guardian.

There was a heavy security presence outside the office of the prime minister, Ranil Wickremesinghe, and teargas and water cannon were deployed by police as the crowds gathered to demand the prime minister also step down.

Rajapaksa’s escape to the Maldives followed a dramatic 24 hours in which he unsuccessfully tried various means of leaving the country. He was blocked from boarding a commercial flight to Dubai on Monday night after airport staff refused to stamp his passport in the VIP area of the airport. India also refused to give permission for a military airport transporting him to land on its soil.

The president’s younger brother Basil Rajapaksa, who served as finance minister, was also prevented from boarding a flight to Dubai en route to the US where he is a dual citizen. Basil was also reported to have left the country on Tuesday night.

Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who was elected in 2019, has been resisting calls for his resignation for months, as Sri Lanka has sunk deeper and deeper into a financial crisis for which he is widely blamed.

Rajapaksa and five family members who held senior government posts stand accused of widespread corruption and economic mismanagement which left the country without any foreign currency to import food, fuel and medicines, and pushed inflation to record levels. According to the UN, the island of 22 million people is facing a humanitarian crisis, The Guardian reported.