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2019 In Nepal
Events in the year 2019 in Nepal. Incumbents *President : Bidhya Devi Bhandari *Vice President : Nanda Kishor Pun *Prime Minister : Khadga Prasad Oli * Chief Justice : Om Prakash Mishra (until January 1), Cholendra Shumsher Rana (since January 2) *National Assembly (Nepal), Chairman of National Assembly : Ganesh Prasad Timilsina *House of Representatives (Nepal), Speaker of House of Representatives : Krishna Bahadur Mahara (until October 1) Events January * January 3 ** Resham Lal Chaudhary, one of the alleged perpetrators of the 2015 Tikapur massacre, Tikapur Massacre, is sworn in as a member of House of Representatives (Nepal), Pratinidhi Sabha. He was elected from Kailali District, Kailali - 1 in the 2017 Nepalese legislative election as a candidate of Rastriya Janata Party Nepal. ** Special Court sentences former Additional Inspector General of Armed Police Force (Nepal), Armed Police Force Rishav Dev Bhattarai to 9 months in detention for corruption. * January 8 - 2018тА ...
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Nepal
Nepal (; ne, рдиреЗрдкрд╛рд▓ ), formerly the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal ( ne, рд╕рдЩреНрдШреАрдп рд▓реЛрдХрддрд╛рдиреНрддреНрд░рд┐рдХ рдЧрдгрддрдиреНрддреНрд░ рдиреЗрдкрд╛рд▓ ), is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is mainly situated in the Himalayas, but also includes parts of the Indo-Gangetic Plain, bordering the Tibet Autonomous Region of China to the north, and India in the south, east, and west, while it is narrowly separated from Bangladesh by the Siliguri Corridor, and from Bhutan by the Indian state of Sikkim. Nepal has a diverse geography, including fertile plains, subalpine forested hills, and eight of the world's ten tallest mountains, including Mount Everest, the highest point on Earth. Nepal is a multi-ethnic, multi-lingual, multi-religious and multi-cultural state, with Nepali as the official language. Kathmandu is the nation's capital and the largest city. The name "Nepal" is first recorded in texts from the Vedic period of the India ...
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2017 Nepalese Legislative Election
General elections were held in Nepal in two phases on 26 November and 7 December 2017 to elect the 275 members of the fifth House of Representatives, the lower house of the Federal Parliament of Nepal. The election was held alongside the first provincial elections for the seven provincial assemblies. A political deadlock between the governing Nepali Congress and the winning left-wing coalition over the system used to elect the upper house led to delay in forming the new government. Following the announcement of final result by the Election Commission, K.P. Oli of Communist Party of Nepal (Unified MarxistтАУLeninist) was sworn in as Prime Minister on 15 February 2018 by the President according to Article 76 (2) of the constitution. He passed a Motion of Confidence on 11 March 2018 with 208 votes. Background The previous House of Representatives, elected in May 1999, was dissolved by King Gyanendra on advice of Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba in May 2002 in order to hold new e ...
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Commission For The Investigation Of Abuse Of Authority
The Commission for Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA; ne, рдЕрдЦреНрддрд┐рдпрд╛рд░ рджреБрд░реБрдкрдпреЛрдЧ рдЕрдиреБрд╕рдиреНрдзрд╛рди рдЖрдпреЛрдЧ) is an apex constitutional body for corruption control for the Government of Nepal. The Constitution of Nepal has empowered CIAA to investigate and probe cases against the persons holding any public office and their associates who are indulged in the abuse of authority by way of corruption. As a constitutional body, the authority vested on CIAA are as per the Article 238 and 239 of the Constitution of Nepal. Prem Kumar Rai is the Chief Commissioner of the Commission for Investigation of Abuse of Authority. Commissioners are Kishor Kumar Silwal, Jaya Bahadur Chand, Dr. Hari Poudel, Dr. Sumitra Shrestha Amatya. The Fundamental function of the Commission for Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) is to prevent corruption. The Commission is the only body to investigate, prosecute and bring actions against officials accused of ...
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Telia Company
Telia Company AB is a Swedish multinational telecommunications company and mobile network operator present in Sweden, Finland, Norway, Denmark, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. Telia also owns TV4 Media which includes TV4 in Sweden, MTV Oy in Finland, and C More Entertainment after acquiring them in 2019. The company is headquartered in Solna and its stock is traded on the Stockholm Stock Exchange and on the Helsinki Stock Exchange. History Telia Company in its current form was first established as TeliaSonera, as the result of a 2002 merger between the Swedish and Finnish telecommunications companies, Telia and Sonera. This merger followed three years after Telia's failed merger attempt with Norwegian telecommunications company Telenor, now its chief competitor in the Nordic countries. Before privatisation, Telia was a state telephone monopoly. Sonera, on the other hand, had a monopoly only on trunk network calls, while most (c. 75%) of local telecommunication was provided by ...
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Axiata Group
Axiata Group Berhad, commonly known as Axiata, formerly known as TM International Berhad, is a Malaysian multinational telecommunications conglomerate with extensive operations in Asia. The group Axiata's primary business is in investment holding and the provision of telecommunication and consultancy services on an international scale. Their main focus being emerging markets in ASEAN and South Asia. Formerly known as TM International Bhd (TMI), the company was incorporated on 12 June 1992 and was the mobile and international operations arm of Telekom Malaysia Bhd (TM). Following the de-merger of TMI from TM, the company was listed on the Main Board of Bursa Malaysia Securities Berhad in 2008. On 2 April 2009, TMI underwent a rebranding exercise, launching its new name, Axiata, and a new logo. Their new tagline, Advancing Asia, was also launched, reflecting the direction of the company in focusing their expansion within Asia. Axiata has controlling interests in mobile ope ...
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Ncell
Ncell Axiata Limited (previously Ncell Private Limited) ( ne, рдПрдирд╕реЗрд▓ рдЖрдЬрд┐рдпрд╛рдЯрд╛) is a mobile service provider from Nepal. Ncell is Nepal's second largest telecommunications company, after Nepal Telecom. The company was founded in 2004 AD and has been providing telecommunications services ever since. It has been the most successful company in the history of telecommunications in Nepal. In addition to growing revenue, it has maintained a high level of service quality. The journey begins in the year 2004 A.D. There was only one major telecom operator at the time, Nepal Telecom. Nepal Telecom has been providing PSTN and GSM services since the beginning. Investing in telecommunications and competing with governmental agencies was a major risk at the time. However, they were able to expand their service and establish a high-quality network, and within 15 years, they had become a leading telecom operator offering 2G and 4G mobile communication. In addition, it has ...
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Supreme Court Of Nepal
The Supreme Court of Nepal ( ne, рд╕рд░реНрд╡реЛрдЪреНрдЪ рдЕрджрд╛рд▓рдд) is the highest court in Nepal. It has appellate jurisdiction over decisions of the seven High Courts (including eleven Benches of the High Courts) and extraordinary original jurisdiction. The court consists of twenty Justices and one Chief Justice. Composition The Supreme Court is composed of the Chief Justice, twenty Justices. The Chief Justice is appointed by the President on the recommendation of the Constitutional Council. S/he is appointed from among the justices having at least three years as a Supreme Court justice. Justices of the Supreme Court are appointed by the President of Nepal on the recommendation of the Judicial Council. The Judicial Council is a five-member independent body headed by the Chief Justice along with a minister of law and justice, most senior justice of supreme court and two distinguished jurists representing the Prime Minister and Nepal Bar Association. The Chief Justice an ...
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Provincial Assembly Of Gandaki
The Provincial Assembly of Gandaki Province also known as the Gandaki Province Sabha, (Nepali: рдЧрдгреНрдбрдХреА рдкреНрд░рджреЗрд╢ рд╕рднрд╛) is a unicameral governing and law making body of Gandaki Province, one of the seven provinces in Nepal. The assembly is seated at the provincial capital Pokhara in Kaski District at the Urban Development Training Centre. The assembly has 60 members of whom 36 are elected through first-past-the-post voting and 24 of whom are elected through proportional representation. The term of the assembly is five years until dissolved earlier. The present First Provincial Assembly was constituted in 2017, after the 2017 provincial elections. The next election will take place when the five year term ends by November 2022. History The Provincial Assembly of Gandaki Province is formed under Article 175 of the Constitution of Nepal 2015 which guarantees a provincial legislative for each province in the country. The first provincial elections were condu ...
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Deepak Manange
Rajiv Gurung, known by his criminal alias Deepak Manange ( ne, рджреАрдкрдХ рдордирд╛рдЩреЗ), is a Nepali gangster and politician, who was elected to Gandaki Provincial Assembly in the 2017 elections from Manang (B) constituency as an independent candidate. He became the minister of sports in the provincial government in April 2021. Gurung started out as an extortionist in the tourist district of Thamel in the early 1990s. He made an arch-enemy out of fellow gangster Chakre Milan when he led a gang attack against Milan in 2004. He was convicted of assault in 2008 for a separate incident and sentenced to one year. In 2013, he was convicted of attempted murder for the 2004 incident and sentenced to five years. He had yet to complete his sentence when he ran for office in 2017, and was therefore legally ineligible to stand in the election. He was on the run in early 2018 but was arrested by April. The Supreme Court released him on bail in December and he took his oath of office i ...
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Bibeksheel Sajha Party
The Bibeksheel Sajha Party ( Nepali: рд╡рд┐рд╡реЗрдХрд╢реАрд▓ рд╕рд╛рдЭрд╛ рдкрд╛рд░реНрдЯреА) is a political party in Nepal. It was the sixth largest party of Nepal by popular vote after 2017 Nepalese general election. Presently, its the fifth largest party in Bagmati provincial assembly. Background It was originally founded on 26 July 2017 from the merger of Sajha Party and Bibeksheel Nepal Dal, but the party split on 11 January 2019. The two parties merged for a second time on 9 December 2020. Recently, Bibeksheel Sajha Party has adopted Rabindra Mishra's document 'Changing Course: Nation Above Notion' that proposes abolition of federalism and a plebiscite on secularism. Mishra has been provide the role of chief executive to the party president concluding that granting equal rights to the president and the coordinator led to difficulties in running the party. The document was passed by two third majority of central committee. History On 26 July 2017 it was announced th ...
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Govinda K
Govinda (), also rendered Govind and Gobind, is an epithet of Vishnu which is also used for his avatars such as Krishna. The name appears as the 187th and the 539th name of Vishnu in '' Vishnu Sahasranama''. The name is also popularly addressed to Krishna, referring to his youthful activity as a cowherd boy. Vishnu, or Krishna, is regarded as the supreme God in the Vaishnava tradition and also by much of the pan-Hindu tradition. Etymology In the word "Govinda", "Govu" means ''Indriyas''. Govinda therefore means the all-pervading, omnipresent ruler of the sense organs, or ''Indriyas''. "Govu" also means 'Vedas'. Hence Govinda is the supreme being who can be known through the Vedas. Govinda can also be translated as "protector of cows". Interpretations ''Govinda'' is a name of Krishna and also appears as the 187th and 539th name of Vishnu in the Vishnu Sahasranama, the 1,000 names of Vishnu.''Sri Vishnu Sahasranama'', commentary by Sri Sankaracharya, pgs. 69 and 115, translat ...
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Manang Marshyangdi Club
Manang Marshyangdi Club ( ne, рдордирд╛рдЩ рдорд░реНрд╕реНрдпрд╛рдЩреНрджреА рдХреНрд▓рдм) is a Nepali professional football club based in Kathmandu, that competes in the Martyr's Memorial A-Division League. The club is record champion of Nepalese football, having won 8 National Championship Titles. Historically, they have a fierce rivalry with Three Star Club and Nepal Police Club, a departmental team. The other rival includes New Road Team. Manang Marshyangdi Club has its origins in Pokhara, for which it hosted selsected home matches at Pokhara Rangasala since 2021тАУ22 Martyr's Memorial A-Division League. However, officially, the club is based in Swayambhu, Kathmandu. Kit colours For much of Manang's history, their home colours have been sky blue & white shirts as they use the Argentinian football team jerseys and white shorts, though this has not always been the case. Their current colours are: Jerseys : Blue & White/Green & White/Red Shorts : Black & White/Green & White / ...
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