Author: Himalaya Post

The Commission for Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) has arrested a civil servant with bribe money taken from a service recipient. Computer officer at the Inland Revenue Office, Chitwan Ram Kumar Adhikari was arrested by the CIAA province no. 3 office on Tuesday. Adhikari was arrested with Rs. 10,000 that he had taken as bribe for computer billing works from the office. He has been taken into custody at the CIAA office in Hetauda for necessary action, said the inland revenue office chief Shubha Prasad...

The sale and distribution of products by the Thapa Food Processing Industries in Butwal-13 has been suspended. The District Administration Office took the decision after a monitoring on Tuesday found the industry selling substandard rice in the market. The DAO led a team of commerce office, food and quality control office, Butwal sub-metropolis, Nepali police and media persons to carry out market monitoring. The transaction of the Thapa Food Industry has been suspended momentarily after the rice it was selling was found to be against the required standard, said DAO officer Manoj Pokharel. The DAO has begun monitoring of daily essentials in the market, especially of the staple food, rice after consumers complained of plastic-made rice being sold in the market. DAO officer Pokharel led the monitoring team, which will be giving continuity to the initiative in the days to...

The agitating fuel carrier truck drivers have resumed their work since Tuesday after an agreement was reached at the initiative of the Nepal Oil Corporation. The agreement has addressed the demand of the drivers to acknowledge the difference in the quantity of fuel due to difference in temperature at the time of filling and emptying. In the presence of NOC officials, the Nepal Petroleum Transport Entrepreneurs Federation and the Nepal Transport Workers Association, Aviation Fuel Transportation Unit Committee representatives signed on the agreement. Following the agreement, the truck drivers returned back to work from Tuesday. As per the agreement a committee shall be formed with representation of both the parties in order to address the demands of the drivers. The demand will be addressed within a month. The drivers had stopped transporting aviation fuel in protest against the double fine imposed by the NOC for loss of more than 50 liters of fuel from the truck in course of the transportation. Currently, 181 tankers are ferrying aviation fuel from the Indian Oil Corporation to Nepal. A locking system was imposed in order to stop leakage during the transportation of fuel, but it has not been fully...