Help sought

KATHMANDU: Dhurba Acharya, the treasurer of the Environment Conservation Initiative-Nepal, a community-based organisation working in the field of environment conservation, is awaiting a Good Samaritan who could help him get proper treatment for acute pneumonia he has been suffering from. A ventilator now supports Acharya, who is undergoing treatment in the Kathmandu Model Hospital, and doctors have said it would take a few days before he could be able to breathe easily on his own. The cost for his treatment is very high and, therefore, the ECI requests support of everyone for his treatment, a statement by the ECI said on Friday. Anyone wanting to help could call the ECI office at 4464898 or Devraj Dangal at 9841327798. — HNS

Contraband seized

Kathmandu: Activists of the Wildlife Conservation Nepal (WCN) helped the government authority confiscate wildlife contraband recently. Ritu Gurung, a programme officer at WCN, today said that they found three people - Chandra Lobhdar, Prem Lobhdar and Ishalu Lobhdar trying to sell 211 bits of tiger bones and a strip of leopard pelt at Kalanki Khasi Bazaar on Wednesday afternoon. — HNS

NHRC delegates

KATHMANDU: National Human Rights Commission member Sudip Pathak and the commission’s officiating secretary Dhruv Nepal will be participating in the Asia Pacific Forum and International Coordination Committee’s meeting in Geneva. They are leaving on April 9 for Geneva. The meeting is scheduled to be held from April 9-11, said the NHRC. Pathak will also participate in another meeting in Geneva, which will discuss Nepal’s human rights situation, it said. Pathak is expected to present the country’s human rights situation in the meeting. — HNS