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ByPublished: 12:00 am Apr 02, 2008
NSU flays attacks
KATHMANDU: Nepal Students’ Uni-on on Tuesday condemned the attack on NSU leaders at Dadeldhura and NC candidate in Rasuwa by Maoists on Monday. NSU president Pradip Poudel warned the Maoists to correct their activities. — HNS
German MPs in Kavre
KAVRE: A team of six German MPs on Tuesday met the conflict-hit people and at Panchkhal village development committee here. They met Devi, whose daughter Maina Sunar was murdered by army men during the conflict; Til Kumari Dahal, whose husband Arjun Dahal was killed by Maoists; Krishna Singh Tamang, who was held captive for nine months at his home and rehabilitated teachers Purushottam Sapkota, Govinda Poudel and Krishna Prasad Dhakal. Earlier, the team met INSEC representative Bhoj Raj Timilsina and learnt about human rights condition in the district. — HNS
Two killed in mishap
PALPA: Two persons were killed and three others were injured when a jeep heading to Pokhara from Palpa met with an accident near Lahasune of Chidipani VDC-2 of Siddhartha highway on Tuesday. Parbati Thapa of Lamachaur-16 died on the spot, while Kripa Thapa, 20, died while she was being rushed to Tansen based Mission Hospital, police chief Bhim Prasad Dhakal said. — HNS
Bomb explodes
BARA: A bomb planted by Janatantrik Mukti Morcha - Jwala (JTMM-J) in Nitanpur chowk of Bara’s Chhata-pipra VDC went off on Monday night leaving no casualty here, Jitpur police post said, adding that a NA team also found another socket bomb, which they disposed on Tuesday. — HNS
Maoists nab four
TANAHUN: CPN-Maoist nabbed four persons with weapons and handed them over to the police on Tuesday afternoon while they were coming to attack the Dumre-based constituency no 1 contact office of the Maoists. The Maoists said the group came from the party office of the Nepali Congress to attack them. However, NC said it had no knowledge of the
incident. — HNS