Nepal 1 on air again

KATHMANDU: More than five months after the Nepal 1 television channel shut down, it resumed operations on Thursday. The channel was banned by the government immediately after the royal takeover on February 1. It, however, continued its broadcast in other countries.

— HNS

London blasts flayed

KATHMANDU: The British ambassador to Nepal, Keith George Bloomfield, has condemned Thursday’s terrorist attacks in London. “We condemn these barbaric attacks,” a British Embassy press release quoted the envoy as saying. — HNS

Wrestler Bairagi freed

RAUTAHAT: Ten inmates of the Rau-tahat district jail, including Upendra Das Bairagi, the winner of a bronze medal (wrestling) in the SAF Games, were freed on Friday, the CDO said. Bairagi was jailed one-and-half-years ago on charge of being a Maoist. — HNS

Student leaders freed

BAGLUNG: Four students, including a local UML leader, who were arrested by security forces for burning an effigy of “regression” were released on Friday. Police sources said the released

include Krishna Pathak, district member of CPN-UML, Govinda Nepali, central member of ANNFSU, Durga Prasad Sharma, district president of ANNFSU-U and Yam Bahadur KC, district member of ANNFSU. — HNS