RAJBIRAJ: Home Minister Madhav Prasad Ghimire’s failure to turn up in Saptari today due to adverse weather has fuelled the protest sparked by the murder of Sadrul Miya Haque. Miffed by Ghimire’s failure to visit the district till evening although he was scheduled to arrive in the afternoon, irate locals today shut the bazaars and disrupted vehicular movement chanting slogans against the minister. Earlier, an agreement had been reached that the matter would be resolved in the presence of the minister at a meeting today. “Security personnel were deployed from early morning a...
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RAUTAHAT : Police on Thursday arrested 100 Sadbhavana Party cadres from Garuda of Rautahat for organising a chakkajam and disrupting vehicular movement on the highway. The party’s central member Shreeman Narayan Mishra condemned police interference in their ‘peaceful’ agitation. “It was just for an hour and we were protesting peacefully when police descended upon the site and began thrashing and detaining our friends,” he said, adding, more than 100 persons including party central members Chandrika Prasad Singh, Yogendraraya Yadav and Bishnu Narayan Chaudhary were...
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JHAPA: Limbuwan student unions in the district today padlocked Mechi Multiple Campus in Bhadrapur indefinitely. Demanding a fully proportional electoral system in the Free Student Union election, Limbuwan aligned student unions including Federal Student Union, Limbuwan Student Council, and CPN-M aligned ANNISU-R jointly shut the campus today. They padlocked the office of the election committee, campus administration, accounts section, and also burnt all election related documents. Student organisations which are participating the FSU poll, are demanding a conducive environment in the camp...
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KATHMANDU: The health of Sadbhavana Party Chairman Rajendra Mahato, who has been staging a fast unto death since Tuesday, deteriorated today. Chief of Emergency Department at Bir Hospital Dr Dhruva Prasad Singh, who checked up Mahato’s health said the level of sodium in the SP leader’s blood had dropped. What is however more worrisome is that the doctor found acetone positive in the fasting leader’s urine, which could affect Mahato’s kidneys and other vital organs of the body, Singh said. He advised Mahato to discontinue his fast. “He is diabetic and therefor...
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KATHMANDU: Unified CPN Maoist Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal today charged that Nepali Congress and CPN-UML did not want elections. “Both the NC and UML are working to foil the election on different pretexts,” Dahal alleged at a picnic organised by Newa Rastriya Mukti Morcha at Chovar, to mark its establishment day. He said NC and UML floated the idea of threshold, which is not practiced anywhere in the world, so as to foil the election. Dahal said Nepal is going to hold election to the Constituent Assembly, not parliamentary election. Claiming his party was for holding election...
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KATHMANDU: An 80-year-old Japanese who underwent heart surgery in January reached the summit of Mount Everest today, becoming the oldest person to scale the world’s highest mountain. Yuichiro Miura and his party, including his second son Gouta, arrived at the summit at around 9:00 am, according to Miura’s website, besting the previous age record by four years. But he may not have his name on the title very long: Nepal’s Min Bahadur Sherchan, the former record holder who turns 82 on June 20, is on the mountain again and trying to reach the summit. Just today, the Cabinet w...
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KATHMANDU: The Cabinet today appointed former Secretary Rabindra Kumar Shakya as Vice-Chairman of National Planning Commission. Shakya, a PhD from Mumbai University, had been working as an independent researcher since his retirement 15 years ago. Talking to THT today, Shakya, however, said he is yet to receive the appointment letter. “I had no clue that I would be appointed NPC Vice-chair. When I met Chairman Khil Raj Regmi last time, we only discussed some issues related to planning. He did not tell me he wanted to give me this responsibility,” Shakya added. The government...
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MAHENDRANAGAR: Seven persons, including 3 Indian nationals, lost their lives in a road accident in Darchula today. Forty-one others were injured, 13 seriously, when a bus heading to Darchula from Mahendranagar veered off the road and fell 50 metres below the road into a river at Gokuleshwor, Thulasaini at about 6:00 am. Police have identified the deceased as Gopalsingh Khatri, 32, of Sarmoli, Darchula, Narasingh Dhami, 38, of Kharkada, bus owner Krishna Bhatta, 40, of Mahendranagar and driver Karan Saud, 26, of Sarmoli. According to SSP Chhabilal Banjade of Mahakali Zonal Police Office, I...
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PARASI: Blaming the police administration of being apathetic to their demand to bring the rapist of a teenage girl to book, an agitating group of women in Sunwal, Nawalparasi, today warned their agitation would spread throughout Lumbini zone. The women have been protesting almost everyday demanding stern action against the culprit. The women, who were picketing the District Police Office in Nawalparasi to pile pressure on the authority, which allegedly did nothing even after a rape case was filed revealing the perpetrator’s identity, warned of agitation throughout the zone, on Thursday...
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ILAM: Nepali Congress President Sushil Koirala on Thursday urged his cadres to always work keeping in view the national interest. “After the Sugauli treaty, this is the first time the country is undergoing a transition period. So at this critical juncture, I expect you all to work keeping national interest at the centre of your heart,” said Koirala inaugurating the newly-built BP Park in Ilam. He also unveiled a life-size statue of late BP Koirala on the occasion. He did not mince words in attributing the present crisis to the UCPN-Maoist, he said the incumbent Khil Raj Regmi-led g...
Published On: 2013-05-23