Krishna Gyawali
July 19, 2021
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On April 21, the Supreme Court ordered the constitutional anti-corruption body, Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority, to stop carrying out sting operations to arrest government staffers receiving bribes. Since the decision, the anti-graft body has relatively been inactive as it has been dealing with minor cases and culprits who have committed major crimes take a sigh of relief.
Following the ruling, the CIAA, until July 15, had filed 16 complaints at the Supreme Court. Out of the 16, four cases were related to bribery while the remaining 12 were corruption cases rising up to Rs 400,000. The only major case registered at the CIAA is the one against officials of the then Tax Settlement Commission.
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Nepal Plane Flies Passengers To A Wrong Destination, Report Cites Error In Flight Numbers
Buddha Air’s flight U4505 was expected at the arrival airport of Janakpur at 3:15 pm and the airplane never made it. Instead, it reached Pokhara airport.
A commercial plane bound for Nepal’s Janakpur reached the wrong city on December 23, alarming and confusing all 69 passengers on board. Nepal’s leading airliner Buddha Air got caught up in a strange miscommunication after routes were interchanged for the private carrier that ended up the plane 255 kilometres from the destination city, in Pokhara, PTI reported the incident, citing sources of Kathmandu Post. Buddha Air’s flight U4505 was expected at the arrival airport of Janakpur at 3:15 pm and the airplane never made it. This led to further investigation and the plane was reported to have flown to the wrong city altogether.
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The weather was not quite favourable for the flights on Friday so carriers were making use of every available weather window to take the passengers on board as quickly as possible and take off, the report said.
Nepal-based airline Buddha Air plane landed at an airport 250 miles from its intended destination due to a communications mix-up.
On December 18 Buddha Air flight from Kathmandu s Tribhuvan International Airport had been scheduled to land at the southern city of Janakpur, but instead travelled to the city of Pokhara, about 250 miles away.
The weather was not quite favourable for the flights on Friday so carriers were making use of every available weather window to take the passengers on board as quickly as possible and take off, the report said.
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Aviation experts say such incidents may happen, but they happen quite rarely.
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KATHMANDU: Passengers bound for Nepal s Janakpur were in for a surprise after they ended up in Pokhara, 255 kilometres away from the actual destination, after a rare flight mix-up by a leading private carrier, according to a media report on Sunday.
The incident happened on Friday to 69 passengers travelling on Buddha Air, The Kathmandu Post reported.
The weather was not quite favourable for the flights on Friday so carriers were making use of every available weather window to take the passengers on board as quickly as possible and take off, the report said.