Change of stance by opposition Maoists regarding integration and rehabilitation of former People’s Liberation Army rebels continues to affect the fragile peace process in Nepal.
Two days after UCPN (Maoist) chief Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’ announced possibility of solving the vexed issue within four months, the party did a flip-flop on Friday.
Maoist members of the special [...]

An investigation by environment body Greenpeace has revealed immediate radiation risk to people at a scrapyard in west Delhi’s Mayapuri area where a person died after exposure to radiation last month.
“The investigation has identified hotspots more than 5,000 times natural background radiation,” an expert said after a Greenpeace team visited Mayapuri on Friday morning.
The government [...]

People with more than Rs 10 lakh annual income may not get the tax relief originally proposed in the Direct Taxes Code, as the Finance Ministry is for tweaking slabs across the board to offset concessions elsewhere.
Under the first draft of DTC — which when implemented will replace the archaic Income Tax Act, 1961 — [...]