{"id":431038,"date":"2026-06-09T21:17:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T15:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/?p=431038"},"modified":"2026-06-09T21:17:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T15:32:11","slug":"newly-appointed-minister-pun-assumes-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/2026\/06\/09\/431038.html","title":{"rendered":"Newly-appointed Minister Pun assumes office"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Kathmandu: <\/strong>Newly appointed Minister for Science, Technology, and Innovation, Mahabir Pun, has assumed office at the Singha Durbar-based Ministry today. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/06\/Mahabir-Pun.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-431039\" srcset=\"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/06\/Mahabir-Pun.jpeg 1000w, https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/06\/Mahabir-Pun-300x150.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/06\/Mahabir-Pun-768x384.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>On the occasion, Minister Pun expressed commitment to push the advancement of science and technology. He shared, &#8220;Advancement of science and technology is not possible at a slow pace. So activities will be carried out round the clock to spur its development&#8221;. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Newly appointed Minister Pun mentioned that he would remain in the ministerial post for not more than three years, even though the government is for five years. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He opined that responsibility would be transferred to the emerging generations by laying solid foundations for science and technology. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>RSS<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the occasion, Minister Pun expressed commitment to push the advancement of science and technology. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":431039,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,3,4,2],"tags":[],"reporter":[],"class_list":["post-431038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-en-cover","category-english","category-en-news","category-top-stories-main"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431038"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=431038"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":431040,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431038\/revisions\/431040"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/431039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431038"},{"taxonomy":"reporter","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reporter?post=431038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}