- Friday, 20 June 2025
Kathmandu, June 20: Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli has expressed happiness for the discovery of natural gas in Dailekh district. Writing a post of his Facebook wall today, PM Oli has recalled his past days when he commenced the exploration of petroleum products in Dailekh during his time as the prime minister. “I have recalled the days of beginning the exploration of petroleum products in Dailekh. There were different opinions for and against (the decision),” the PM stated.
PM Oli mentioned that he has recalled the past days after the news of the storage of 1.12 billion cubic meters of methane gas in Dailekh. “This is a good news,” PM Oli shared.
The petroleum exploration work was started in some hilly districts in the country including Dailekh after the G-to-G agreement between Nepal and China during the Oli-led government in 2019.
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Area Police Office gets books
Rampur (Palpa), June 20: The Kaligandaki Foundation Nepal has provided books for the Area Police Office, Rampur, Palpa. The Foundation offered the books to establish a library at the police custody.
Foundation’s chairperson Nilkantha Bhandari shared that more than 150 books of different genres were given to the Area Police Office, Rampur. This is an effort to help establish a library since books inspire people to follow the positive way instead of committing crimes, he stated.
Police Inspector Ram Bahahadur Nepali said that a library would be set up at the police custody.
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Passenger bus swept into Binayikhola
Nawalpur, June 20: A bus carrying 38 passengers was swept by the rain-swollen Binayikhola (river) at Binayi Triveni Rural Municipality-1 in Nawalparasi Purva along the Narayanghat-Butwal section of the East West Highway.
Police Inspector of Area Police Office, Dumkibas, Rajan Timilsena said the bus (Bhe 1 Kha 4085) heading to Nepalgunj from Kathmandu was swept off the river last night.
Inspector Timilsena said the bus was swept away by the flashflood in the river. “The flood swept away the bus over the new diversion. We rescued all passengers immediately by taking an excavator,” he shared.
Altogether 38 passengers including three infants were travelling in the bus.
Inspector Timilsena stated that they could not take out the bus from the river due to continuous rainfall in the area. The quantity of the goods swept off the river is not confirmed yet.
Currently, the highway is completely obstructed due to the muddy road in Daunne area following the heavy rain since last night.
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Birgunj Inland Revenue Office collets Rs 8.52 billion in revenue
Birgunj (Parsa), June 20: The Birgunj Inland Revenue Office has collected more than Rs 8.52 billion in revenue in the first 11 months of the current fiscal year 2081/82 BS.
The collection is more than the Office’s target. During the review period, the Office was expected to collect slightly more than Rs 7.51 billion. Chief Tax Officer of the Birgunj Inland Revenue Office, Tikaraj Chaulagain, said the Office collected 113.36 percent of the total target set for the first 11 months of the running fiscal year.
According to the Office, the highest amount of the collection was received from the excise duty, which is Rs 4.5 billion.
Likewise, Rs 2.55 billion was collected under the income tax while Rs 251 million was received from the house rental tax.
Similarly, Rs 1.83 billion was collected against the target of Rs 2.22 billion under the heading of the value added tax (VAT) during the first 11 months of the current fiscal year, according to the Birgunj Inland Revenue Office.
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Kaligandaki corridor obstructed
Baglung, June 20: A landslide occurred at Dablyang in Baglung Municipality-10 has disrupted vehicular movement in the Kaligandaki corridor since last night.
The landslide has washed away a section of the road in Dablyang after a heavy rain taking place since Thursday night.
Assistant Sub-Inspector of Nepal Police Ganga Ram BK said that vehicular movement to the south part of the Baglung district headquarters were obstructed after the road disruption.
Likewise, the vehicles left for the long routes are also off the road.
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Chairman Upendra Yadav bats for formation of experts’ team to amend constitution
Kathmandu, June 20: Chairman of Janata Samajwadi Party (JSP) Upendra Yadav has said that constitution should be amended based on the suggestions offered by a team of experts.
“There is a need for amendment to the constitution for its better mileage. So, we should form a team of experts first for the constitution’s amendment. Constitution should be amended on the basis of recommendations given by that team,” Yadav told the RSS.
He argued that the government was reluctant to amend the constitution. “The issue of amendment was raised since the time of the constitution’s promulgation. But, this has been merely a talk. No issue is raised about the contents for amendment. It is not known the goal for constitution’s amendment,” Chairman Yadav added.
Yadav was of the view that electoral system should be the first priority of amendment to the constitution adding that existing electoral system was too expensive for our country. “The current electoral system ruins the nation,” he claimed.
The next is amendment to the form of governance, he shared.
Chairman Yadav said that the directly-elected executive presidential system should be our form of governance and the president should pick the cabinet members from among the experts.
He viewed that the parliament should formulate laws and carry out monitoring like parliamentary businesses. “The government and parliament should be separated,” Yadav stated.
Similarly, Yadav shared that the exercise of judiciary should be reviewed to end red-tapism there and empower it by providing enough resources.
Yadav stated that the local level should be brought under the scope of province government and the province should be made more powerful through constitution’s amendment.
The JSP Chairman claimed that the entire population has not taken ownership of the constitution though it consists of some crucial issues. “Some of the crucial issues of the constitution have not been implemented including federalism itself,” he opined. This is due to centralized and unitary mindset of some stakeholders, according to Yadav.
Federalism will not be implemented by unbuckling resources and powers from the centre, he added. “Neither there is a law nor a bureaucratic setup to implement federalism. Also there is a dearth of means and resources. How does a province government function under such a circumstance? The issue of special zone written in the constitution is also not implemented,” Chairman Yadav expressed his rues.
Regarding the demands of Madhesi community, leader Yadav said that equal participation in all state organs on the basis of population was the key demand of Madhesi community.
Likewise, he stressed the need for adopting meritocracy in all bodies of the state to bring about changes to people’s life.
On controlling youth drain, Yadav suggested that the state should run industries to create jobs and agriculture development should be prioritized along with assurance for good governance.
He also suggested the major political parties to work for ensuring good governance and asking them to practice ethical and value-based politics.
Similarly, he called for massive changes in the existing model of education and said that our education system should suit the changing context to enable people and make them efficient.
Likewise, agriculture and tourism are the two other areas that need serious interventions for the nation’s prosperity, he viewed. Moreover, we need to develop more energy to make Nepal a prosperous country in the world, Chairman Yadav said.
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