{"id":31125,"date":"2025-09-14T20:29:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T14:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=31125"},"modified":"2025-09-14T21:51:26","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T16:06:26","slug":"bhandari-appointed-first-woman-attorney-general-of-nepal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/bhandari-appointed-first-woman-attorney-general-of-nepal\/","title":{"rendered":"Senior advocate Bhandari appointed Attorney General"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Kathmandu, Sept 14: Senior advocate Sabita Bhandari has been appointed Attorney General, the official legal advisor to the government.\u00a0She is the first Attorney General in Nepal&#8217;s history.<\/p>\n<p>President Ramchandra Paudel made the appointment upon the recommendation of Prime Minister Sushila Karki. Spokesperson at the Office of the President, Pradip Koirala, informed in a press note, &#8220;Sabita Bhandari is appointed as the Attorney General in accordance with Article 157 (2) of the Constitution of Nepal on Sunday.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Bhandari is the daughter of senior advocate Krishna Prasad Bhandari. She had also served as an Information Commissioner.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, the President had approved the resignation tendered by Attorney General Ramesh Badal who was appointed by the previous government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu, Sept 14: Senior advocate Sabita Bhandari has been appointed Attorney General, the official legal advisor to the government.\u00a0She is the first Attorney General in Nepal&#8217;s history. President Ramchandra Paudel made the appointment upon the recommendation of Prime Minister Sushila Karki. Spokesperson at the Office of the President, Pradip Koirala, informed in a press note, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31126,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national","category-main-news","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31125"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31125"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31136,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31125\/revisions\/31136"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}