Parliamentary committee directs govt to retrofit old parliament building
KATHMANDU, March 23: A parliamentary committee has directed the government to retrofit and repair the old parliament building located at Singha Durbar.
KATHMANDU, Oct 29: The Human Rights and Peace Society protested in front of the Parliament building in New Baneshwar on Sunday demanding making the Amendment Bill related to the transitional justice process under consideration in the Parliament human rights friendly.
In the demo
Binu Yadav, a survivor of rape and sexual violence, was arrested in front of the parliament building on Wednesday.
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KATHMANDU, Feb 28: A ‘Cooker Bomb’ was detected in front of the federal parliament building at New Baneshwar in Kathmandu.
The Nepal Army has been informed to dispose the bomb, according to the police.
Various political parties have announced to enforce ‘Nepal Banda’ opposing the ratification of the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) compact.
The government on Sunday ratified the MCC-Nepal compact.
A large fire is raging at the Houses of Parliament in the South African city of Cape Town.
Video footage shows a plume of black smoke filling the sky, with huge flames coming out from the roof of the building.
Dozens of firefighters are at the site battling the blaze; it is not yet clear what caused the fire.
It comes hours after Archbishop Desmond Tutu's state funeral at St George's Cathedral, near parliament.
Officials said the fire started on the third-floor offices and quickly spread to the National Assembly (the parliament's lower house) chamber, reports the BBC's Nomsa Maseko in Cape Town.
No injuries have been reported and there's no indication of what may have started it, our correspondent adds.
Fire and rescue service officials said it could take another four hours to put the fire out completely because of the carpets and wooden floors in the building.
The minister responsible for government infrastructure, Patricia de Lille, earlier said the fire in the Chamber of the Council of Provinces (the upper house) had been contained, but the National Assembly was still burning.
BBC
