This was evident in Rupandehi where, on Sunday( Oct 10), four people were killed in police firing and at least a dozen injured during a clash with squatters in the Motipur Industrial Area.... That the police administration continues to believe its approach is justified shows how the mediaeval notion of justice and security based on brute power is deeply ingrained in the institution.It is no news that Nepal's police personally have deep-rooted racial, communal and linguistic biases.... The brut

make good use of IT.... Different ministries and agencies failed to cooperate over computer systems

Joe Lockhart is a CNN political analyst.... View more opinion at CNN.( CNN) By the height of the Watergate scandal in 1974, virtually every major newspaper in America had called for President Richard Nixon's resignation.... During the investigation and impeachment of Bill Clinton in 1998, more than 100 newspapers called for him to resign....

The Tokyo Olympics can go ahead with spectators attending, a meeting of representatives from five bodies including the organizing committee and the International Olympic Committee( IOC) has ruled.... Each venue will allow 50% or less of their maximum capacity, with a 10, 000-person maximum limit.... The Olympic decision keeps the same maximum limits....

Japan's ruling and opposition parties have agreed on giving 100, 000 yen( about$ 875) in cash and coupons to young people aged 18 or under in the country.... Serious disparities have been brought to the fore by the coronavirus crisis.... The role of politics is to support people in hardship, but the agreement on the handouts leaves their purpose vague....

conservatives.... The four candidates differed in their views on selective surnames....

establishment.... Why now, and what different result is being expected?...

" We were able to present a choice for who would run the government, but the loss was due to my inadequacies," Edano said.... The party's comeback must entail not just new faces in the party leadership, but a thorough review, including about what shape the party should take.... In single-seat constituencies, where ruling and opposition parties were in many cases fighting each other in one-on-one battles, the CDP increased its number of seats by nine....

The Japanese government has decided not to appeal the Hiroshima High Court's ruling recognizing as hibakusha--A-bomb survivors--all 84 plaintiffs exposed to" black rain" that fell after the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima by the U.S. military.... With the government choosing not to appeal the high court decision, it will finally move toward providing relief to plaintiffs based on the ill effects they suffered.... With the high court ruling finalized, all plaintiffs will be given the hibak

Japan's largest opposition party, the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan( CDP), has announced its campaign pledges ahead of the Oct.... The latest offering is critical of the" Abenomics" economic policy mix in effect since the second administration of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, and it stresses measures to tackle social inequality.... But the CDP is still dogged by the negative image of its forebear, the now defunct Democratic Party of Japan( DPJ), which managed only a short-lived