KATHMANDU, Aug 7: The Department of Passports under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has started printing around 2,000 passports daily amid growing demand for passport services.
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...
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.
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...
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 31: The Department of Passports (DoP) has started operating in two shifts after a sharp rise in the number of service seekers, extending its services from morning until night.
Kathmandu. Before four in the morning, a crowd of people can be seen on the streets of Kathmandu. Some go to the Department of Passports in Tripureshwor in search of passports, some go to the Oil C...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
The Department of Passports received only 1,440 applications on Monday after technical problems affected the central server and service centres. As the controversy surrounding the new passport pro...
Kathmandu, June 16 The Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) has arrested Tirtha Raj Aryal, Director General of the Department of Passports. According to sources at the CI...
KATHMANDU, July 9: A man attempted self-immolation outside the Department of Passports in Kathmandu on Thursday.
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...
Foreign Minister Khanal cancelled his US visit after the passport row surfaced. The Department of Passports is all set to print and distribute the new passports procured from two German firms from...
The arrest of 16 individuals, including Department of Passports Director General Tirtha Raj Aryal, has turned the passport printing controversy into one of Nepal's most significant corruption inves...
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...
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, 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. There is an excessive crowd of service recipients applying for passports at the Department of Passports in Tripureshwor. The pressure on the department has increased since last week, es...
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. 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 ...
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 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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