Probe panel formed

KATHMANDU: The probe commission formed by the government to study the murder case of two school students Ritesh Rauniyar and Ashish Manandhar Sunday handed over its report to Minister for Industry and Commerce Asta Laxmi Shakya, who is given the responsibility of Home Ministry in the absence of Home Minister Bamdev Gautam. The report was handed over to minister Shakya by the head of the three-member commission Bodhari Raj Pandey, former justice of Appellate Court.

The bodies of the students were found in the jungle on November 26 after 12 days. — HNS

Cabinet meet deferred

KATHMANDU: An emergency cabinet meeting called on Sunday to seek political consensus on the issuance of ordinances has been postponed for Monday. The meeting was scheduled for Sunday morning to discuss two ordinances — those on Commission on Disappearance and amendment to the Social Behaviour Reform Act — issued recently by the government. “The meeting was postponed to forge consensus among political parties on the issuance of ordinances. Leaders of coalition partners held a discussion on the ordinances early in the morning at the Prime Minister’s residence,” Minister for Industries Asta Laxmi Shakya said. The ministers, who had reached the Office of Prime Minister and Council of Ministers, returned after learning that the meeting had been postponed. — HNS