MP’s views on polls

MAHOTTARI: Maoist MP Bharat Shah said on Friday that the constituent assembly election will be meaningless without a proportional electoral system. He said this while addressing a gathering of party cadres in Jaleshwor. “There is no meaning in holding a CA election if it cannot make the Madhesis all powerful, establish republic,” he said. — HNS

Highway blocked

DHADING: Locals of Tayalghar of Dhading on Friday blocked Tribhuvan Highway demanding compensation to the family of two girls who had been electrocuted on Thursday. Two girls, Saru KC, 17, and Sita KC, 9, were electrocuted when they happened to step on a wet patch of land near an electricity pole at 4 pm on Thursday. Relatives of the deceased blocked the highway by placing the bodies on the road. A team led by assistant CDO Krishna Prasad Adhikari was holding talks with the victims’ kin till late in the evening. — HNS

NEA office vandalised

BARA: Locals of Kalaiya-8 on Friday vandalised the Nepal Electricity Authority, Kalaiya branch office, claiming that the office ignored their request to repair the transformer in the locality. Locals vandalised NEA Kalaiya branch chief’s office and a vehicle causing loss of property worth Rs 200,000, the NEA said. — HNS

Two found dead

DHADING: Two persons, missing after being swept away by the Baguwakhola in Salyankot VDC, north of Dhading district, were found dead on Friday. Gore Gurung, 50, and Fatteh Gurung, 45, had been swept away on Thursday evening and were found dead at Baguwa bazaar on the banks of Baguwakhola on Friday afternoon, said a local resident Dipak Adhikari. — HNS

Office padlocked

POKHARA: Nepal Health Workers’ Union, Nepal Para Medical Association and Nepal CMA Association on Friday jointly padlocked the Western Regional Health Directorate, Pokhara, for three hours to protest against ‘nepotism and political biasness’ while publishing the result of

an examination for 30 posts of technical assistant. — HNS

Canada doubles aid

KATHMANDU: Canada has doubled its aid to Nepal, Canadian ambassador to Nepal, David Malone on Friday told Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala at Baluwatar. Malone is here to submit his credentials to the PM. Malone also told Koirala that Canada was soon going to open a visa office in Kathmandu. Also on Friday, Norwegian ambassador to Nepal Tore Toreng met Koirala and discussed the upcoming CA election. — HNS

Student missing

KATHMANDU: Bidhya Gautam (Wagle), 24, a student of MA second year at the Tribhuvan University Central Department of English in University Campus, Kirtipur, has gone missing since September 9. She had left her room for campus and never returned. Gautam, a resident of Tribhwan municipality-11 of Dang, was living on a rented room in Kathmandu. — RSS

Children’s day today

KATHMANDU: PM Girija Prasad Koirala on Friday said children should be made catalysts of nation building by prohibiting exploitation. In a message on the eve of the National Children’s Day, Koirala said it is the country’s responsibility to create an environment for developing

children as “change agents” for nation building. He said the country has entered a new democratic set-up and this has guaranteed the rights of children. — RSS