One dies of cold

RAJBIRAJ: One Chhatturam, 50, of Jagatpur VDC-3 in Saptari district is reported to have died of cold. He died on Friday while being rushed for treatment, a primary health centre at Kanchanpur said. — HNS

Yadav’s appeal

SIRAHA: Speaking at a fourth Memorial Day of Hem Narayan Yadav held in Sirara on Saturday, General administration minister Ramchandra Yadav said the nation had gone through hard time due to the monopoly system and lack of full proportional electoral system. Stating that the armed groups of Tarai were seizing the rights of Madhesi communities by threatening to obstruct the CA election, he said, “The government is ready to talk with them if they are honest to let hold CA election in a peaceful environment.” — HNS

Torch rally held

BARA: Cadres of the Sanyukta Madhesi Morcha on Saturday staged a torch rally in Kalaiya of Bara to press for Madhes bandh on February 3 and 4. The torch rally went through the Kalaiya bazaar. — HNS

Gyawali’s take on polls

KAPILVASTU: UML leader Pradip Gyawali said on Saturday that the issue of holding CA polls is a matter of life and death for Nepalis. “There is unrest in the Tarai and the CPN-Maoist is being extremist while the Nepali Congress is adopting a status quoist attitude,” he said while addressing the seventh district convention of the pro-UML Democratic National Youth Federation on Saturday. Gyawali said the Maoists are still imparting war training to their party cadres. Local bodies would not reestablished and the Maoists’ PLA would not be integrated into the Nepal Army before the CA polls. — HNS

Boy shot dead

PHIDIM: One Bikram Mukhiya, 13, of Nagi VDC-3 was shot in the Amrise forest near the village on Friday evening. A bullet fired at a deer by Sriprasad Yonghang missed and hit Mukhiya. Both of them had gone to the forest for hunting. Chief of the district police office, Tarani Lamsal said Mukhiya died of the bullet injury in his abdomen. Sriprasad, 45, of the same VDC, surrendered himself to the police post at Gopetar on the same evening, Lamsal said, adding that the boy’s body has been handed over to the family after a post-mortem for cremation. — HNS

Sitaula’s take

ARGHAKHANCHI: Central Member of Nepali Congress and Minister for Home Affairs, Krishna Prasad Sitaula, has said election to constituent assembly, scheduled for April 10, would definitely be held. He was talking at an election meeting organised by NC, Arghakhanchi Committee. — RSS