Proposed
amendment on visit visa law is deeply flawed, by
Karan Kunwar and Indu Dhungana (rep 03/01/2021)
Nepal
waits for an unequal Citizenship Law : An
international policy perspective on gender-based
discrimination in the country’s citizenship Law,
by Ajay Pradhan (nt 19/12/2020)
Nearly
four lakh MRTDs personalised last fiscal (ht
07/12/2020)
Over
100 years of life without citizenship certificate
(rep 07/12/2020)
Denied
citizenship, stateless Nepal residents recount tales
of woe (ht 09/11/2020), Pass
bill soon : The failure to enact a new law should not
be a reason for depriving so many citizens of their
inherent right (ht 10/11/2020)
Government
preparing to invite bids for supply of national ID :
Although plans to collect details of citizens have hit
a snag, officials still plan to issue cards to those
whose details have already been collected, by
Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp 31/10/2020)
6.3
million Nepalis without citizenship (kh
05/10/2020) [A consequence of
the narrow minded patriarchal Hindu thinking of
Nepal's top Bahun politicians!!!], NRNA
Europe Meeting urges parliament for prompt passage of
law on Nepali citizenship (kh 05/10/2020)
Plan
to collect details of 10m people for National ID card
affected by pandemic : Officials now hope to take the
programme to sparsely populated areas in view of the
health crisis in major cities, by Prithvi Man
Shrestha (kp 01/10/2020)
Passports
department proposes a third bid for e-passports :
Officials warn of a passport shortage with the stock
likely to last just a few months, by Anil Giri (kp
15/09/2020)
Government
urged to guarantee citizenship rights of minorities
(ht 08/08/2020)
Four
international firms in fray for multi-million-dollar
e-passport bid: The plan to print the passports at
home hit a roadblock after Gokul Prasad Baskota, a
minister in the Oli Cabinet, was caught on tape
negotiating a Rs 700 million 'commission', by Anil
Giri (kp 01/08/2020)
Women
rights organisations urge Human Rights Council to take
up issue of women’s equality in citizenship rights:
National Women Coalition has called for a revision in
the constitution to redress discriminatory citizenship
law, by Binod Ghimire (kp 12/07/2020), Institutionalising
discrimination: A society that treats its sons and
daughters differently will never achieve prosperity,
by Bina Jha (kp 12/07/2020)
Imagining
a motherland: Gender and nationalism; The boundaries
set by the nation, state, families and societies often
do not allow a woman to become a citizen. This leads
to women not becoming the part of the nation but just
a national embodiment, by Swasti Gautam (rep
09/07/2020)
‘Citizenship
bill not inclusive’ (ht 02/07/2020), Patriarchy
and citizenship: Conspiracy theories flowed seamlessly
from Panchayat-era scholars to politicians, by
Pramod Mishra (kp 03/07/2020)
Protests
flare up in Province 2 against citizenship amendment
bill: Janata Samajbadi leaders warn of intensifying
their protests if the bill is not withdrawn (kp
01/07/2020)
Congress
to stand against seven-year provision for naturalised
citizenship, by Binod Ghimire (kp 01/07/2020) [The NC should do more to combat
the fundamental unequal treatment of women in Nepalese
citizenship law. But the party does not do this,
because its leaders are similarly patriarchal and
backward-looking as the politicians of all parties in
the country!]
What
defines a Nepali citizen? Nepal needs to understand
the realities of the 21st century. It needs to move
forward, not backward, by Sujeev Shakya (kp
30/06/2020)
Madhesis
are angry, worried and misinformed about the
citizenship law, by Jivesh Jha (rep 30/06/2020) [The authos obviously does not
understand that the real problem is the unequal
treatment of Nepali women and men!]
What
on earth do we want on citizenship? There is a lot of
whining and crying, lot of ifs and buts, unleashing of
hate against political leaders, nation and nationalism
but there is no solution, by Mahabir Paudyal (rep
22/06/2020), Becoming
citizens: We need to go beyond the spatio-temporal
debate on citizenship and ask whether its ideals are
being fulfilled (kp 23/06/2020) [The
question is not how many years foreign women married
to Nepali men have tom wait to obtain Nepali
citizenhip. The problem is the continued unequal
status and treatment of Nepali women as it has been
decided by a handful of male Bahuns and some male
Chhetris for centuries!!!]
NCP
decides to make foreign women married to Nepali
nationals wait for 7 years after marriage to acquire
citizenship (rep 20/06/2020) [Any
unequal treatment of women and men is a blatant
violation of the principle of equality of the
Constitution and internationally recognised human
rights. The male Tagdhari, who dominate Nepal, show
here their archaic-patriarchal way of thinking, which
denies Nepalese women a free choice of partner and
life style. Only foreign wives of Nepalese men are
entitled to naturalization, whenever, but never the
foreign husbands of Nepalese women!]
Two
years on, parties are still undecided on naturalised
citizenship: State Affairs and Good Governance
Committee has given five days to the parties to arrive
at consensus or go for a vote, by Binod Ghimire
(kp 18/06/2020), As
parties wrestle over naturalized citizenship,
thousands don't yet have the document (repn
19/06/2020)
Ordinary
citizens won’t be be issued passports from today: The
service has been suspended following a request from
the Ministry of Home Affairs, officials said, by
Anil Giri (kp 17/06/2020)
Endorse
Citizenship Amendment Bill: MPs (ht 13/03/2020)
Department
calls global tender for e-passports, again: Ordinary
passport’s cover to be chocolate-brown in colour,
by Anil Giri /kp 03/03/2020)
2.5
million MRP booklets contract going to French firm
without bids: Yeti Holdings is local agent, by
Sunil Sapkota (rep 23/02/2020)
Nepal
faces looming passport and excise sticker shortage:
There is a stock of 570,000 ordinary passports, enough
to last nine months, according to the Department of
Passports, by Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp 22/01/2020)
Security
printing press proposals from Germany and France were
immature and incomplete, House committee concludes:
Parliamentary Accounts Committee wants the government
to either invite a fresh global bidding or revisit the
proposals, by Anil Giri (kp 29/01/2020)
Nepal’s
passport is among the weakest in the world—weaker than
North Korea’s: The dismal state of the Nepali passport
can largely be attributed to Nepalis hiding out
illegally in foreign countries while on temporary
visas, say officials, by Anil Giri (kp 14/01/2020)
As
passports start running out, complaint in House
committee complicates matters: Complainant tells the
Public Accounts Committee that Nepal does not need an
expensive security printing press, putting a hold on
the procurement process, by Anil Giri (kp
06/01/2020)
Occupy
Tundikhel Campaign: Campaigners organise story telling
session (ht 22/12/2019)
Negotiations
begin with Germany and France for setting up security
printing press: With less than 700,000 copies of
passports in stock, the government is in a hurry to
reach a deal at the earliest, by Anil Giri (kp
12/12/2019)
Government
anxious to find new vendor as passport numbers
dwindle: After cancelling a previous bids, the
government will now either call for expressions of
interest from foreign firms or an entirely new global
tender, by Anil Gii (kp 28/11/2019)
Dalit
family struggles to obtain citizenship (ht
21/11/2019)
As
passport crisis looms, government scrambles to
negotiate deal for secure printing press: With
Malaysia and Japan opening up to Nepali workers, the
current stock of passports is likely to last only six
months, officials say, by Anil Giri (kp
18/11/2019), Nepal’s
decision to scrap security printing tenders will have
major repercussions: The government needs to explain
why it thinks an expensive and opaque
government-to-government deal is better (kp
19/11/2019)
Department
of Passports cancels e-passport bid hours before the
end of tender deadline: The bidding process was
annulled after the direct intervention of Prime
Minister KP Sharma Oli, officials say, by Anil
Giri (kp 09/11/2019), After
aborting passport tender, government to sign security
printing deal with French firm: In what is set to be
the biggest deal signed by the KP Sharma Oli
administration, the French government will be
providing a soft loan of 200 million euros, by
Anil Giri (kp 13/11/2019)
Mass
printer starts printing smart driving licences after
overcoming technical glitches: More than 600,000
applicants are waiting for smart driving licences,
by Shuvam Dhungana (kp 02/11/2019)
Department
of Passports once again extends e-passport bid
deadline by a week: Such constant changes to the bid
documents will erode Nepal’s credibility, say
officials who are displeased with the government’s
process regarding the passport tender, by Anil
Giri (kp 31/10/2019)
Nepalis
are flocking to make passports after US makes it
mandatory for Diversity Visa application: The
Department of Passports is printing roughly 4,000
passports every day now, compared to around 900
earlier, officials say, by Anup Ojha (kp
24/10/2019)
Department
of Passports modifies tender for e-passports after
reservations from Asian bidders: New amendments to the
tender have reduced requirements regarding past
experience in printing passports so as to create a
more level playing field, by Anil Giri (kp
05/10/2019)
Around
1,600 children deprived of citizenship: Lack of
citizenship certificates has put the lives of many
youths on hold in Nawalparasi (West), by Nabin
Paudel (kp 24/09/2019)
Asian
firms oppose e-passport bid process, saying conditions
favour American and European companies: One
requirement states that only companies that have
already printed over five million passports in at
least three countries over the last 10 years are
eligible for bidding, by Anil Giri (kp
16/09/2019), French
firm and embassy express displeasure over Nepal
government's call for passport tender
The French Embassy in Kathmandu has written two
letters to the government over the call for tenders
despite an agreement with France, by Anil Giri (kp
18/09/2019)
Women's
battle for citizenship continues: The new proposals
regarding the Citizenship Amendment Bill still treat
women as second-class citizens (kp 16/09/2019)
Citizenship
debate has reached another low, rights activists say:
New provisions in the citizenship amendment bill could
further limit equal citizenship rights for women,
by Bhrikuti Rai (kp 12/09/2019),
Lawmakers
continue to debate marital naturalisation in
Parliament (ht 12/09/2019) [Women
and men should be legally treated absolutely equally,
regardless of whether they are foreigners or not!
Nepal is not the property of men!], Panel
to decide on naturalised citizenship (ht
13/09/2019), Government
proposes national identity cards to end contention
over naturalised citizenship: Ruling party backs the
proposal to issue ID cards until citizenship is
granted, but the opposition Nepali Congress has sought
time to reach a decision, by Binod Ghimire (kp
14/09/2019), Govt
floats options on naturalised citizenship, by
Jagdishor Panday (ht 14/09/2019), Panel
set to include 7-year threshold for naturalization of
foreign brides (rep 14/09/2019), Ruling
party’s indecision delays finalisation of the bill to
amend Citizenship Act: Cross-party top leadership will
discuss the matter with an aim to find a solution,
by Binod Ghimire (kp 15/09/2019)
Ongoing
Parliament session unlikely to pass citizenship bill,
by Jagdishor Panday (ht 10/09/2019)
Citizenship
amendment bill: Panel member objects to report’s
provision, by Jagdishor Panday (ht 04/09/2019)
Global
tender called for 5 million e-passports: Department of
Passports plans to issue biometric electronic
passports by the end of 2020, by Anil Giri (kp
31/08/2019)
Naturalised
citizenship: ‘Law for foreign women married to Nepali
men shouldn’t end’ (ht 29/08/2019) [Okay,
but most important is that there ist absolutely no
difference between the legal tratment of women and
men! The current citizensip law clearly violates the
fundamental rights of the Nepali citizens!], Initiative
from speaker urged to pass bill (ht 30/08/2019)
Bill
related to national ID card endorsed (ht
28/08/2019), Decks
cleared for NIC: Chances of obtaining fake citizenship
papers will lessen once the NIC comes into full
operation within three years (ht 29/08/2019)
End
gender discrimination in citizenship bill: NHRC
(ht 24/08/2019)
National
ID card to include biometric information: Foreigners
and NRNs to get only ID card , by Jagdishor Panday
(ht 16/08/2019), Bill
proposes including iris data on national ID card:
About 117,000 cards already distributed will need
updating, by Ashok Dahal (rep 16/08/2019)
Citizenship
based on fake documents scrapped in Jajarkot (kp
15/08/2019)
Opposition
lawmakers demand halt to National ID card
distribution: At the parliamentary State Affairs and
Good Governance Committee, lawmakers question the
government why the cards were issued when the bill
regarding the same is being discussed at the federal
parliament, by Tika R. Pradhan (kp 10/08/2019)
Rajendra
Mahato slams govt for giving false impression of his
citizenship being revoked, by Rajendra Mahato (ht
06/08/2019)
Citizenship
bill stuck in SAGGC, by Ram Kumar Kamat (ht
04/08/2019)
With
parties still divided on Citizenship Amendment Bill,
parliamentary sub-committee fails to make headway: The
primary bone of contention remains the provision
related to obtaining naturalised citizenship
through marriage, by Tsering D. Gurung (kp
06/07/2019) [The main problem
is the male superiority delusion of the patriarchal
high-caste political elite and their misguided
national identity thinking!]
‘Unfair
citizenship laws put children at risk of becoming
stateless’ (ht 29/06/2019)
Citizens’
enrolment for national identity cards to start next
month (ht 21/06/2019)
After
a long wait, nomadic Rautes finally getting
citizenship, by Nagendra Upadhyaya (rep
18/06/2019), Nomadic
Rautes to get citizenship cards (rep 20/06/2019)
1,358
get citizenship from mobile camps (ht 15/06/2019)
On
sex and citizenship: The debate on citizenship goes
from nationalist rhetoric to plain misogyny, by
Subina Shrestha (kp 14/06/2019)
Senior
citizens in rural areas deprived of citizenship
certificate: Without citizenship, people are denied
job opportunities and social security allowances,
by Ramesh Chandra Adhikari (kp 14/06/2019)
Govt
told to issue citizenship by descent to Birgunj
denizen (ht 08/06/2019)
State
and Citizenship: The geographical location of Nepal
between two emerging superpowers has been used as an
excuse to deny women the rights they deserve as equal
citizens of Nepal, by Swati Gautam (rep
30/05/2019)
Kaski
DAO issues citizenship through mother’s nationality
(ht 26/05/2019) [The has to be
normal everywhere in the country!!]
Supreme
Court overturns own decision on Home Ministry’s
citizenship notice: Thousands of people continue to be
in limbo until the full court decides the case, by
Bhrikuti Rai(kp 08/05/2019), SC
stays citizenship distribution (rep 08/05/2019), ‘Apex
court creating confusion on citizenship circular’:
Divergent decisions can erode credibility of the
judiciary: Province 2 chief attorney (ht
11/05/2019)
People
deprived of citizenship (ht 02/05/2019)
Resolve
the citizenship dispute (kp 02/05/2019)
Arrest
warrants
issued against nine people for abetting Indian
national’s bid to acquire Nepali citizenship: Ward
chairman and ward secretary among those implicated,
by Arjun Rajbanshi (kp 01/05/2019)
Party
proposes 7 yrs residency for foreign spouses seeking
citizenship (rep 01/05/2019)
They
are citizens too: Nepali mothers should be able to
pass citizenship on to their children via their name,
by Pratik Gurung (kp 30/04/2019)
A
viral video sparks a social media conversation about
misinformation, and identity, by Tsering D Gurung
(kp 30/04/2019) [on a video in
the Internet which spreads hatred and false
information and criticises even minimal changes to the
still extremely discriminatory citizenship law]
Home
ministry’s circular on citizenship protested (ht
30/04/2019)
Citizenship
bar for children of ‘1997 citizens’: SC rules it out
for children of those who became citizens by birth in
1997, by Ram Kumar Kamat (ht 27/04/2019)
Sarlahi
district office overwhelmed with applications
for citizenship by descent, by Om Prakash Thakur
(kp 24/04/2019)
Democratic
Citizenship, by Dev Raj Dahal (rn 23/04/2019)
Musahar
people deprived of citizenship certificates, by
Bharat Jarghamagar (kp 20/04/2019)
Gumba
residents deprived of citizenship certificate (kp
19/04/2019)
People
queue up for citizenship cards (ht 19/04/2019)
Family
denied relief for lack of citizenship: None of the
family members of the deceased has Nepali citizenship
certificate, by Shankar Acharya (kp 13/04/2019)
Meet
NCP lawmaker whose kin are stateless, by Ram Kumar
Kamat (ht 13/04/2019)
Citizenship
relief
for children of citizens by birth: District
administrative offices told to grant them citizenship
by descent, by Roshan S Nepal (ht 04/04/2019) [The cheering can only come from
male persons! Concerning the right to citizenship
through the mother everything remains unchanged! Women
continue to be treated as unequal and inferior
persons! Long live the patriarchal state of Nepal!!],
Supreme
Court stays govt circular allowing citizenship by
descent (ht 09/04/2019) [The
circular upholds the inequality of women either!],
‘Offsprings
of citizens by birth entitled to citizenship by
descent’ (ht 12/04/2019) [But
still with patriarchal bias!], Supreme
Court upholds Home Ministry’s decision to grant
citizenship by descent, by Bhrikuti Rai (kp
17/04/2019)
Is
Nepal’s
progressive trans rights movement bracing for a
setback? LGBTIQ community expresses reservations about
provisions in the citizenship bill which, according to
them, can result in further discrimination against
sexual minorities, by Asmita Manandhar (kp
31/03/2019)
‘We
represent diversity’: Chauvinists can learn from the
New Zealand prime minister and change their way,
by Pramod Mishra (kp 28/03/2019), Rage
and
reason: We need to bring around every actor from the
plains as well as the hills to agree on some basic
fundamentals of citizenship. Otherwise, citizenship
debate will prolong indefinitely, by Mahabir
Paudyal (rep 28/03/2019) [There
is only one solution: Make it equal without any
patriarchal fantacies based on gender, ethnicity and
region!]
22.15
million citizenship certificates distributed so far:
Home ministry (rep 27/03/2019)
His
mother
is a Nepali.He has been refused citizenship for 10
years: Between 2009 and 2017, Nepal has issued 13
naturalised citizenships to those born to a Nepali
mother and a foreign father. Many are waiting, hoping
to be the next, by Tsering D Gurung (kp
25/03/2019)
On
the
wrong side of history: Defending unequal citizenship
rights is defending the Khas-Arya man’s status, not
the state sovereignty, by Amish Raj Mulmi (kp
22/03/2019)
Citizenship
bill
clause on sex change certification alarms LGBT
community: Sexual minorities fear losing hard won
victories if officials approve amendment
demanding a ‘proof’ of sex change in the citizenship
bill, by Bhrikuti Rai (kp 18/03/2019), Right
to choose: A citizenship amendment that demands proof
of gender reassignment is unfair to the trans
community (kp 19/03/2019), Allow
self-declaration (ht 21/03/2019)
Debate
on
women’s citizenship rights rages as House takes up
amendment bill: Activists say lawmakers’ reluctance to
grant equal citizenship rights to women is reflective
of the deep-rooted patriarchal beliefs in society,
by Tsering D Gurung (kp 08/03/2019), Women
are being denied equal rights in the name of national
security and sovereignty: Binda Pandey (kp
08/03/2019) (interview)
Oli,
Dahal initiate process of building consensus on
citizenship bill, by Rewati Sapkota (ht
26/02/2019) [Women and men as
well as their descendants must be treated equal in
each an every respect!]
Citizenship
bill stuck in House panel‘: Some more discussions
needed before bill is sent to HoR’, by Anita
Shrestha (ht 24/02/2019)
They
have
a home. They don’t have a country: In a tiny village
in western Nepal, arcane laws and government
bureaucracy have left families without citizenship and
pushed them further into poverty, by Tsering
Ngodup Lama (kp 09/02/2019)
Youth
denied citizenship despite SC order (ht
05/02/2019)
No
NRN citizenships through Nepali missions abroad
(rep 05/02/2019)
Nepal
Citizenship bill: Female lawmakers decry unequal
provisions, by Jagdishor Panday (ht 30/01/2019), Nepal
Citizenship Bill faces hurdles to passage in HoR,
by Rewati Sapkota (ht 31/01/2019), Contentious
issues of citizenship bill discussed in House
committee, by Jagdishor Panday (ht 02/02/2019)
Discussion
begins on Citizenship Act (kp 25/01/2019)
SAGGC
for political consensus on citizenship,
by Jagdishor Panday
(ht 13/01/2019)
Address
our concerns in citizenship bill: NRN (ht
28/12/2018)
58
lakh citizens to get national ID cards (ht
25/12/2018)
Police
bust fake citizenship racket in Dhanusha: Seven
including four DAO officials arrested, vy Suresh
Yadav (rep 17/12/2018)
Call
to amend citizenship provisions (ht 10/12/2018)
House
committee seeks details of citizenships by birth
issued post-2007 (rep 08/12/2018)
Seven
Indians use fake details to get citizenship, by
Abadhesh Kumar Jha (kp 06/12/2018)
Cross-border
children in citizenship logjam, by Karishma
Chaudhary (kp 04/12/2018)
‘Foreign’
citizens
may affect security: Thapa; Defending the proposal to
amend Citizenship Act-2006, the home minister claims
that a large number of non-nationals have got
Nepali citizenship, by Tika R Pradhan (kp
19/11/2018) [The problem is
Nepal's definition of "national", especially the
discrimination against women, ethnic and regional
groups!]
Woman
may lose citizenship taken after her marriage with
Indian national, by Dilliram Khatiwada (kp
16/11/2018)
'Citizenship
for sale': Criminals can buy Nepali citizenship while
genuine people are deprived of the document, by
Jitendra Kumar Jha (rep 11/11/2018)
Elderly
hopeful of allowance after getting citizenship (rep
04/11/2018)
NCP
MPs for political rights to NRNs; Demand goes against
constitutional spirit: Nembang, by Ashok Dahal
(rep 02/11/2018)
Majority
of Susta residents do not have citizenship (kp
25/09/2018)
Locals
elated after receiving citizenship at their doorsteps,
by Mohan Gurung (rep 25/09/2018)
Manohara
squatters demand citizenship (ht 22/09/2018)
Citizenship
bill
unlikely to be passed this session: Parliament passed
15 bills related to fundamental rights on Sunday, but
stateless people will not be able to enjoy the
fundamental rights, by Ram Kumar Kamat (ht
18/09/2018)
Students
deprived of higher education due to lack of
citizenship (rep 15/09/2018)
They
are citizens too: Gender equality was sacrificed in
the name of preserving social and cultural values,
by Bharati Silawal Giri (kp 14/09/2018)
Citizenship
Bill stricter than charter: Karna (ht 23/08/2018)
[There must not be any
different treatment between foreign wives of Nepali
men and foreign husbands of Nepali women! Everything
else is male delusion!]
Children
of citizens by birth denied citizenship share their
plight (ht 23/08/2018)
End
inequalities:
Children of Nepali women, irrespective of who she is
married to, should unquestionably be entitled to
citizenship by descent (ht 20/08/2018)
Nepal’s
suffragette moment, by Om Astha Rai (nt
17/08/2018)
Bill
to amend citizenship act: Ruling party lawmakers
object tweaks to law, by Tika R. Pradhan (kp
14/08/2018) [The male
Tagadhari politicians will take care that women will
never be equal to men!], ‘Citizenship
bill discriminates against women’, by Jagdishor
Panday (ht 15/08/2018), Women
rights activists hit streets against
'discriminatory'provision in citizenship bill (rep
18/08/2018), Amendments
registered to citizenship bill, by Jagdishor
Panday (ht 18/08/2018)
Good
news for NRNs, kids of citizens by birth: Govt to
amend citizenship act (ht 09/08/2018)
Province
2 govt asked to wait until Citizenship Act amended
(rep 07/08/2018)
Saptari DAO involved in fake citizenship racket:
Police probe, by Jitendra Kumar Jha (rep
07/06/2018)
Obtaining
citizenship in mother's name no more a challenge in
Myagdi, by Hari Krishna Gautam (rep 03/06/2018)
Lawmakers
raise
Madhesis’ concern about citizenship denial in House:
Say statelessness hits their studies, chances of
getting jobs (ht 19/05/2018)
Police
probe citizenship fraud by Indian man, by Abadhesh
Kumar Jha (kp 02/05/2018)
Left
alliance, government differ on NIC distribution,
by Rewati Sapkota (ht 26/04/2018)
‘5.4
million people stateless in Nepal’ (ht
22/04/2018), ‘Over
5
million people without citizenship’: Laws governing
citizenship discriminated by gender among factors
contributing to statelessness (kp 26/04/2018)
Call
to book 450 people for taking citizenship with fake
documents, by Kamal Panthi (kp 18/04/2018)
‘Over
30 Bhutanese nationals obtained Nepali citizenship,
by Shiva Puri (kp 15/04/2018)
An
unresolved agenda: Current lawmakers have the
opportunity to end the discrimination faced by women
on citizenship rights, by Anjita Parajuli (kp
20/03/2018)
Active
Citizenship in Democracy, by Dev Raj Dahal (rn
13/03/2018)
Citizenship
a far cry for most Madhesi daughters-in-law (rep
06/03/2018)
Indian
wives of Madhes: Biased citizenship laws have been
created to promote ethnic homogeneity in Nepal, by
Kalpana Jha (kp 22/02/2018)
Fake
citizenship rackets thrive in Tarai, by Jeetendra
Kumar Jha (rep 21/02/2018)
Grant
citizenship through mother’s nationality: NHRC (ht
15/02/2018)
Quest
for citizenship hits District Office hurdle, by
Thakur Singh Tharu (kp 11/02/2018)
Supreme
Court issues show cause notice in favour of petitioner
in citizenship case (ht 10/02/2018)
Citizenship
with fake papers: Ward chief among 5 people under
probe for forgery, by Tika Prasad Bhatta (kp
19/01/2018)
Villagers
deprived of state facilities (ht 01/01/2018)
Photo
expo on Nepalis sans citizenship (ht 24/10/2017)
Probe
into citizenships provided to non-Nepalis getting
nowhere, by Kiranman Bajracharya (rep 12/10/2017)
Musahars
ask for citizenship with candidates seeking votes,
by Mahesh Kumar Das (rep 14/09/2017)
Interim
order against IoE, TU (ht 22/08/2017) [continued
discrimination on the basis of gender and citizenship!]
Barrier
to gender equality: Eliminating citizenship
discrimination in Nepal is essential, by Wendy Yu
(kp 20/08/2017)
Citizenship
cards distributed at people’s doorsteps (ht
13/08/2017)
Denial
of citizenship top complaint at home ministry (ht
06/08/2017)
EC’s
voter registration boosts citizenship applicant
numbers, by Basanta Pratap Singh (kp 03/08/2017)
Children
of Nepali citizens by birth still being denied
citizenship for lack of laws (ht 01/08/2017)
Tikapur
sees rise in number of people seeking citizenship
certificates, by Yogesh Rawal (rep 26/07/2017)
National
ID
card will be gender inclusive, says Minister Sharma
(kp 25/07/2017)
EC
for
distributing citizenship along with voter registration,
by Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp 21/12/2016)
Citizenship
provision:
Constitution is already discriminatory, but with this
amendment, it will also become patriarchal, by
Subin Mulmi (kp 13/12/2016)
Citizenship
and
naturalisation: Madhesis do not want provisions that
might compromise their relations with people across
the border, by Praveen Kumar Yadav (kp 29/11/2016)
Don’t
discriminate
against naturalised citizens, says Yadav (ht
22/11/2016)
‘Naturalised
citizens
cannot be allowed to hold key constitutional posts’
(ht 20/11/2016) [Okay, but
then treat children of both Nepali men or Nepali
women, who are married to foreigners, equal!!],
Govt
planning
to bring constitution amendment bill next week
(ht), Panel
fails
to send Parbat restructuring report (kp
20/11/2016)
No
solution
in sight: The argument that naturalized citizens by
marriage be treated as ‘special’ is fraught as we are
dealing with people of two different countries, by
Mahabir Paudyal (rep17/11/2016) [??
The problem is the continued different treatment of
two genders, men and women by the
constitution!!]
All
citizens
should have equal rights, says TMDP leader Lal
(ht), Clinging
to
creed: A diverse country cannot live in peace and
harmony by making one religion constitutionally
superior to another, by Pramod Mishra (kp
10/11/2016)
Morcha
leaders
clear air on naturalised citizenship: Blame major
parties for ‘uncalled for controversy’, by Roshan
Sedhai (kp 09/11/2016), Ripples
Of Naturalised Citizenship Issue, by Narayan
Upadhyay (rn 09/11/2016)
Citizenship
issue
tough nut to crack: According to the new
constitution, only citizens by descent can hold the
constitutional positions (kp 08/11/2016), NC
not
for retaining interim statute provisions: Shekhar;
Says a majority of leaders are against naturalised
citizens holding key posts, by Sarin Ghimire (kp
08/11/2016)
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