{"id":49213,"date":"2026-06-09T21:26:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T15:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=49213"},"modified":"2026-06-09T21:26:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T15:41:07","slug":"newly-appointed-minister-pun-assumes-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/newly-appointed-minister-pun-assumes-office\/","title":{"rendered":"Newly-appointed Minister Pun assumes office"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Kathmandu, June 9: Newly appointed Minister for Science, Technology and Innovation, Mahabir Pun has assumed the office at Singha Durbar-based Ministry today itself.<\/p>\n<p>On the occasion, Minister Pun expressed commitment to push advancement of the science and technology.<br \/>\nHe shared, &#8220;Advancement of science and technology is not possible in a slow pace. So activities will be carried out round the clock to spur its development&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Newly appointed Minister Pun mentioned that he would remain in the ministerial post not more than three years, even though the government is for five years.<\/p>\n<p>He opined that responsibility would be transferred to the emerging generations by laying solid foundations for the science and technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu, June 9: Newly appointed Minister for Science, Technology and Innovation, Mahabir Pun has assumed the office at Singha Durbar-based Ministry today itself. On the occasion, Minister Pun expressed commitment to push advancement of the science and technology. He shared, &#8220;Advancement of science and technology is not possible in a slow pace. So activities will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49216,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,11,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main-news","category-national","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49213"}],"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=49213"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49217,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49213\/revisions\/49217"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}