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The Constitution of Nepal has empowered CIAA to investigate and probe cases against the persons holding any public office and their associates who are alleged to indulge in the abuse of authority by way of corruption. [1] As a constitutional body, the authority vested on CIAA are as per the Article 238 and 239 of the Constitution of Nepal. [2]
Transparency International's 2023 Corruption Perceptions Index, which scored 180 countries on a scale from 0 ("highly corrupt") to 100 ("very clean"), gave Nepal a score of 35. When ranked by score, Nepal ranked 108th among the 180 countries in the Index, where the country ranked first is perceived to have the most honest public sector. [2]
In 1979, he made a sensation in the country by releasing his first novel Kalo Surya (Nepali: कालो सूर्य) (The Black Sun).Though the country was ruled by the corrupt people of the partyless panchayat system when writing against the system was a big crime, he fearlessly released his book which explains the exploitation and suppression from the so-called rulers of that system.
Students and youth, i.e. the intellectuals, were a strong base of protest against the government. [5] Under public pressure, King Birendra called for a national referendum in 1980 on the question of the system of government: retention of the existing panchayat system with suitable reforms, or the setting up of a multi-party system of government.
Better dead than Red – anti-Communist slogan; Black is beautiful – political slogan of a cultural movement that began in the 1960s by African Americans; Black Lives Matter – decentralized social movement that began in 2013 following the acquittal of George Zimmerman in the shooting death of African American teen Trayvon Martin; popularized in the United States following 2014 protests in ...
Scores of people march in Kathmandu as a protest over education reforms enter its third day.
Prosperous Nepal, Happy Nepali (Nepali: समृद्ध नेपाल, सुखी नेपाली, "Samriddha Nepal, Sukhi Nepali") is the motto put forward by Nepali Prime minister KP Sharma Oli in his second premiership. [1] [2] The National Planning Commission has published 55 index for meeting the motto till financial year 2080/81 ...
The government was presented with demands to institutionalise Nepal as a federal republic, therefore abolishing monarchy, formation of an interim government and the establishment of a constituent assembly. [15] On the 13 February 1996 the People’s War was declared in response to the perceived government failure to honour the insurgent's ...