CHITWAN: Six persons were arrested for trying to smuggle timber from Udayapur Community Forest at Jutpani VDC in eastern Chitwan on Wednesday morning. A joint team of District Forest Office and Armed Police Force Gadhimai Battalion caught them with four cubic feet timber and saws. The arrestees are Sanjeev Sitaula, Sujan Gurung and BInod Lama of Jutpani-3, Yam Bahadur Magar of Shaktikhor-8 and Ashok Lama and Apanu Shrestha of Pithuwa-1. Officials also seized a motorbike (Na 5 Pa 6874), three mobile phone sets. The arrested have been kept in the custody of the forest office. ...
Published On: 2011-07-20

KAWASWOTI: A pedestrian died on the spot when a truck hit him in Tilakpur of Nawalparasi along the East-West highway on Wednesday morning. The truck (Lu 1 Kha 3904) en route to Butwal from Narayangarh mowed down Gopal Prasad Poudel, 70, of Tilakpur-2, informed District Traffic Police Office. The truck was lying in the paddy field while driver is under police control. Meanwhile, Federation of Nepali Journalists (FNJ), Nawalparasi chapter demanded the immediate reinstatement of presenter of Ghatana Ra Bichar Programme of the Radio Nepal, Narayan Pangeni. Radio Nepal management has sacked him ...
Published On: 2011-07-20

CHITWAN: The District Development Committee (DDC), Chitwan has decided to exempt export tax being collected from various areas. Contractors have been collecting such taxes by setting up posts in Gondrang and Bhorle of Chitwan. Earlier, the DDC has also imposed tax on the export of vegetables, fruits, herbals and bones, horns and feet of animals for meat. Some of the contracts signed earlier to this effect have also been scrapped with the mounting pressure by farmers in the latest days, informed Local Development Officer, Basanta Adhikari. The DDC has already signed agreement of Rs. 1 milli...
Published On: 2011-07-20

RAUTAHAT: Locals have been terrorised with wild elephant rampage reining in Mahadevdanda of Chandranigahapur-3 of Rautahat for the past couple of days. A herd of elephants in the number of 40-45 has been uprooting the trees and destroying the crops cultivated by villagers in Mahadevdanda of Chandranigahapur VDC-3 since past few days The rampaging elephants have also dismantled the barbed wire placed by District Forest Office in 20 hectares of land under the President Chure Bhabar Conservation Project, according to Assistant Forest Officer Dharmendra Saha. The wild elephants also broke down ...
Published On: 2011-07-20

DHANGADHI: As many as 24 people were injured after tension ran high at Padma Hospital here following the death of Kamal Panta (40) of Kailali, Geta VDC-3 in the hospital on Tuesday. Panta died in the operation theatre today when Dr Mansingh Mouni was trying to remove a rod inserted in his arm two years ago after an accident. Accusing the hospital of deliberately killing Panta, his kin and locals resorted to vandalism. They set hospital documents on fire and vandalised an ambulance, a hearse and furniture. Armed police and Nepal police tried to bring the situation under control. A clash ...
Published On: 2011-07-19

KATHMANDU: UCPN-M Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal and NC President Sushil Koirala today agreed to initiate talks from tomorrow on issues of peace, constitution and implementation of the five-point deal. Dahal had visited Koirala to wish him speedy recovery after the latter returned from a one-month long health check-up in the US on Friday. Koirala complained that internal conflict in UCPN-M had created a deadlock and urged him to resolve it, said NC Vice President Ram Chandra Paudel, who was present at the meeting. In response, Dahal assured Koirala he would settle the issues at the earliest...
Published On: 2011-07-19

KATHMANDU: Unified CPN-Maoist Secretary CP Gajurel today said a new government under Maoist leadership would be formed after August 31. Since the agreement signed prior to formation of the Jhala Nath Khanal-led government stresses rotational government leadership, a government led by the Maoist party will be formed in line with the pact, he said at an interaction today. He said the five-point agreement signed by the three major parties while extending the CA term also stated the prime minister would resign to pave the way for consensus government. “The PM has to resign after August 31 ...
Published On: 2011-07-19

KATHMANDU: Following revelation of UCPN-M Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal’s proposal before its presentation at the central committee meeting, the Bhattarai-Baidhya alliance today held marathon meetings. Though the leaders had agreed to send Vice Chairman Narayan Kaji Shrestha to replace Deputy Prime Minister Krishna Bahadur Mahara, leaders are debating who will lead the Home Ministry. Both the Baburam Bhattarai and Mohan Baidhya factions were positive about giving Shrestha the Home portfolio, said a politburo member. Commenting on Dahal’s to be presented proposal, politburo member D...
Published On: 2011-07-19

KATHMANDU: Nepali Congress Parliamentary Party (PP) leader Ram Chandra Paudel today accused senior leader Sher Bahadur Deuba of raising the issue of changing the Parliamentary Party leadership at a time when the positive message of unity was spreading in the party. He termed Deuba’s call for change of PP leader ‘ill-timed’, which had created division in the party. After he met NC President Sushil Koirala today morning, he said Koirala was clear about not changing the PP leader now. “He told Deuba yesterday the party should not get entangled in the issue now, but shoul...
Published On: 2011-07-19

Itahari/Hetauda : Assistant level government employees and drivers today closed almost all government offices in Sunsari expressing dissatisfaction with the recent increment in their salary. Employees affiliated with Nepal Rastriya Karmachari Sangathan, Rastriya Swotantra Karmachari Milan Kendra and Sawari Chalak Association closed the offices today morning. The situation in district headquarters grew tense after agitating employees tried to close the District Administration Office as well. The employees staged a sit-in in front of the DAO gate and barred CDO Chudamani Gautam and Assista...
Published On: 2011-07-19