ONCE-OVER
Scribes against fiat
BIRGUNJ: The Narayani zone-based journalists have declared ‘Kalam Satyagrah’ demanding the cancellation of the new media ordinance and the end of autocracy, at a journalists’ meet here on Saturday. Earlier, the meeting issued a seven-point Birgunj declaration urging the need for professional unity and commitment of all professionals. — HNS
Four students freed
POKHARA: Local administration on Saturday released four students who were arrested for waving black flags at the Minister for Education and Sports Radhakrishna Mainali on Friday, while Mainali was addressing the national convention of National PABSON in Pokhara. The police had arrested Mohan Pandit, Surya Ghimire, Taranath Adhikari and the President of NSU Prithivi Narayan Campus unit Kamalmani Dhakal. — HNS
Relatives worried
POKHARA: The relatives of two persons, Bikash Maharjan and Kamala Kalpali, both feared drowned at the Fewa lake on Thursday have arrived in Pokhara on Friday. It may take a couple of days yet to find the bodies, people involved in the search for bodies, said. — HNS
Six hurt in bus mishap
BIRTHAMOD: Around six persons were wounded when a bus, wending eastwards, met with an accident on Charpane-Durgapur section of the Mahendra Highway on Friday afternoon, police said. — RSS