Media fiat challenged

KATHMANDU: A second PIL was filed on Wednesday challenging the renewal of the controversial Media Ordinance. Chairman of Freedom Forum Tara Nath Dahal along with several NGOs filed the PIL. — HNS

Plea for talks

KATHMANDU: Thamel Tourism Board (TTB) on Wednesday expressed concern over the deteriorating economic situation and asked the warring parties to solve the problem plaguing the country through talks. The country can prosper only under democratic rule, the board said in a press release, adding: “We ask the warring sides to sit for dialogue and pull the country out of the quagmire of curfew and blockades.” — HNS

CAR national held

KATHMANDU: Pintu Gomes, an Central African Republic national, was arrested by a team of police deployed at the Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA) on charges of involvement in illegal activities. According to the police sources, Gomes, who was in possession of $ 31,800, was apprehended on Tuesday night while he was trying to board a Biman Bangladesh airliner on his way to Dhaka. — RSS

Free health camps

LALITPUR: The Buddhist’s Education and Social Development Center, within three years of its establishment, has held free eye check up and obstetrics/gynecology camps for around 1,6000 prisoners of Bhadra Bandigriha, Central Jail and Women’s Prison. The prisoners were also provided with medicines and spectacles. At a programme organised here to mark the third anniversary of the Center, some 675 people of Ghimire village of Banepa near Nala underwent eye-check up and other operations. — RSS