KATHMANDU, Aug 12: The Department of Passports (DoP) has sharply increased its e-passport production capacity, printing 5,878 passports in a single day—nearly four times its previous daily capacity...
Kathmandu. The main opposition party Nepali Congress has demanded a clear answer from the government, alleging that the government has interfered in the passport printing contract scandal. Address...
Kathmandu, Aug 1: To tackle the growing number of service recipients, the Department of Passport has stepped up by offering services in two shifts and even on public holidays. Today, the service i...
Authentication failures have disrupted passport, banking and multiple other services for people who applied for national ID cards after July 1. Widespread technical glitches have affected 13 gover...
By Our Correspondent, Baitadi, July 31: Residents of Baitadi no longer need to travel to the district headquarters to collect their passports, following the introduction of a doorstep passport deli...
Kathmandu, July 1 After days of uncertainty, Nepal has decided that two German companies will proceed with printing the country’s passports under the existing procurement contract. The decision c...
Kathmandu. Director General of Department of Passports, Tirtha Raj Aryal has defended the procurement process for the electronic passport printing and system contract, claiming it was conducted leg...
KATHMANDU, July 29: Nepal’s Department of Passports (DoP) has increased its electronic passport (e-passport) production capacity to around 1,500 passports per day in response to a surge in demand, ...
Kathmandu. Even on public holidays, the Department of Passports is witnessing a crowd of people applying for passports. There is a rush of service recipients at the department to get e-passports fo...
Technical glitches have cut passport production by two-thirds and delayed services, prompting the government to form an expert panel. The Prime Minister’s Office has formed a cross-ministerial pan...
By A Staff Reporter, Kathmandu, July 30: The Department of Passports (DoP) has increased its production capacity to meet the rising demand for electronic passports (e-passports), saying it is now p...
Kathmandu, July 1 With only about two weeks’ worth of stock remaining, confusion has emerged over the printing of new passports. Currently, the passport department has around 50,000 booklets in s...
KATHMANDU, July 14: The Public Account Committee (PAC) members have stressed the need for conducting a thorough discussion on e-passport printing at a parliament committee meeting.
Kathmandu. With the convenience of service seekers in mind, the Department of Passports has been operating services even on public holidays. According to the notice issued by the department, the p...
PM’s Office doubts German firms’ preparedness to roll out biometric passports, but Foreign Ministry believes they can meet the deadline. With the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) and the Ministry of ...
KATHMANDU, July 1: The German Embassy in Nepal has denied reports regarding Nepal’s Electronic Passport (e-passport) procurement and printing process, saying it did not seek clarification from Nepa...
Kathmandu. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs is preparing to amend the Passport Act, 2076, to make the process of issuing diplomatic and special passports federal-friendly. The bill submitted to the...
With French supplier exiting and existing stock depleting, the government is paralysed over whether to distribute passports supplied by German firms named in a corruption case. Nepal’s passport de...
KATHMANDU, June 23: A major corruption case filed by the Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) over Nepal’s multi-billion-rupee electronic passport procurement project has b...
Kathmandu. Siddhartha Thapa, who was implicated in the passport contract case, has been released on ordinary bail. The bench of Special Court Chairman Basudev Acharya and member Hemant Rawal ordere...
Anti-graft body accuses officials and two German firms of rigging the e-passport contract. Concerns grow over dwindling passport stocks and future supplies. Nepal’s anti-graft body, the Commission...
KATHMANDU, June 19: Members of the House of Representatives have expressed concern over recent news reports regarding the printing of e-passports.
Kathmandu. Lawmakers have criticized the government over delays in the electronic passport (e-passport) printing process, cost increases, and suspicions of corruption. At a meeting of the Public A...
Decision to scrap foreign technical support comes amid printer breakdown, server failures, and mounting card-production backlog. The government has cancelled a global tender for the operation, mai...
KATHMANDU, June 18: Nepal’s expanding investigation into alleged irregularities in the e-passport and passport printing procurement process has gathered pace, with the Commission for the Investigat...
Kathmandu. The German Embassy in Kathmandu has issued a clarification regarding the news that has appeared in the media about the Nepali passport purchase case and the subsequent developments. The ...
Anti-graft body charges passport department chief, government officials and two foreign companies over alleged irregularities in e-passport contract. The Commission for the Investigation of Abuse ...
Kathmandu. Regarding the controversy surrounding the passport contract case, the former director (Information Technology) of the Prime Minister and Council of Ministers Office, Manish Bhattarai, ha...
Kathmandu. The Commission for Investigation of Abuse of Authority has served a notice to former Foreign Minister and Congress leader Arzu Rana Deuba for an investigation into the e-passport purchas...
Kathmandu. The fire that broke out at a tea and snack shop near the Passport Department in Tripureshwor, Kathmandu has been brought under control. The fire, which started at 7:38 AM on Monday, was ...
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