Indo-Nepal security meet

Nepalgunj: Officials of Nepal and India have agreed to wage a joint fight against terrorism. Security officials from bordering districts of Nepal and India took part in the meeting, which was organised on Thursday in the Srawasti district of India. The officials agreed to control arms smuggling across the border, check girl-trafficking and criminal activities and hand over criminals caught on either side of the border to the concerned country, said Banke CDO Dilliraj Joshi, the head of the Nepali delegation.—HNS

Advocate Khatri freed

Kathmandu: Advocate Kalam Bahadur Khatri, who was taken under preventive detention in Nepal Electricity Authority’s Training Centre at Kharipati Bhaktapur some 20 days back, was released on Thursday following an SC order. Responding to a habeas corpus petition, a division bench of justices Bhairav Prasad Lamsal and Hari Jung Sijapati had ordered the Ministry of Home, the Kathmandu District Administrative Office (KDAO), the Police Headquarters and the training centre to free Khatri. —HNS

Five protesters released

POKHARA: Five protesters arrested in Pokhara on Tuesday were released on Thursday. They are Srijana Sharma, Krishna Bahadur Nepali, Mina Gurung and Raju Bhujel of CPN-UML, and Bhakta Bhadur Pariyar of NC, according to NC district committee, Kaski. Meanwhile, 18 persons belonging to different political parties are still under house arrest. — HNS

More funds sought

NARAYAGADH: Representatives of the Majhi, Bote and Musahar communities of Gaindakot VDC, Nawalparasi, speaking at a programme organised at Gaindakot on Wednesday, said that a bigger budget should be allotted to them. Altogether 433 people of these backward communities have been living in the VDC, they said, grudging that a mere 0.9 per cent of the budget was allotted to them in the fiscal year 2058/59. — HNS