Neupane appointed Minister for General Administration
National Assembly member Bhagwati Neupane has been appointed as the new Minister for Federal Affairs and General Administration.
President Ram Chandra Paudel has, on the recommendation of Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli, appointed Neupane to the post today.
She was appointed to the vacant post after outgoing Minister Raj Kumar Gupta resigned today following charges of corruption.
The Office of the President has stated that President Paudel appointed lawmaker Neupane to the post on the recommendation of the Prime Minister in accordance with Article 76 (9) of the Constitution.
Home Ministry transfers four joint secretaries, Tiwari appointed as DG of Immigration Department, Koirala recalled to Ministry
The Home Ministry has transferred four joint secretaries.
The Ministry on Tuesday appointed Joint Secretary Ram Chandra Tiwari, who is also the spokesperson of Home Ministry, as the Director General of the Immigration Department.
Similarly, Govinda Prasad Rijal, Director General of the Immigration Department, has been transferred to the Home Ministry.
According to a source, Bishnu Prasad Koirala, Head of the Immigration Office at the Tribhuvan International Airport, has been recalled to the Ministry of Home Affairs.
Koirala has been accused of failing to stop human trafficking through the airport.
Chief District Officer of Khotang Narahari Ghimire has been appointed as the Head of the Immigration Office at the Tribhuvan International Airport.
Israeli ultra-Orthodox party quits Netanyahu government over conscription
Israel’s ultra-Orthodox United Torah Judaism (UTJ) party has quit Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition over a long-running dispute on military conscription.
Six lawmakers submitted their resignations, following party leader Yitzhak Goldknopf’s earlier exit. The move came after UTJ’s Degel HaTorah faction accused the government of failing to uphold promises to exempt yeshiva students from mandatory service, according to Al Jazeera.
Their departure leaves Netanyahu with a slim 61-seat majority in the 120-member Knesset. It’s still unclear if fellow ultra-Orthodox party Shas will also step away.
Lawmakers demand investigation into 'visit visa' scam
Lawmakers have demanded an investigation into the 'visit visa' scam and the audio tape case involving a minister, and called for action against those responsible.
As soon as Speaker Devraj Ghimire began the proceedings of today's meeting of the House of Representatives, the MPs of the Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) and the Rastriya Prajatantra Party (RPP) stood up from their seats and protested.
After this, the Speaker granted time to Shiva Nepali, an MP from the RSP, to speak on behalf of his party.
Nepali demanded the implementation of the report released on January 25, 2022, by a team led by then Home Minister Balkrishna Khand, which called for an investigation into human trafficking from the immigration department.
RPP lawmaker Gyan Bahadur Shahi stated that if the ministers involved in various cases do not resign, the problem will not be solved. He emphasized that the Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority should initiate action against the guilty in the wake of an audio tape of some ministers' involvement in the bribery case.
While he was speaking, MP Sunita Baral from the CPN-UML demanded to remove the accusations against the Prime Minister's leadership spoken by lawmaker Shahi from the records of the Parliament.
Speaker Ghimire informed the House that he had taken note of the issues raised by the lawmakers.
