Maoist vehicle seized

Dhangadhi: Police on Friday night seized a vehicle bearing a Maoist registration number plate (Seti-Mahakali Autonomous Republic 001). The vehicle had hit a person and injured him critically the same night, the Kailali district police office said. Shankar Bista was severely injured when the vehicle hit him at Chatakpur of Dhangadhi. The vehicle was intercepted and seized at the Traffic Chowk. Police found out that the Maoists had seized the vehicle from the Dhangadhi office of the Nepal Telecom during the insurgency. The vehicle was being used by Maoist leader Lekhnath Bhatta. — HNS

Textbook shortage

Biratnagar: Students in government schools of Morang district are yet to buy textbooks though the new academic session began a month ago. There is a lack of textbooks published by the Janak Educational Material Centre and distributed by Sajha Publications in most of the classes in the government schools. No textbooks for grade VI and X and textbooks for grade IV-English is available in the markets, book entrepreneur Dolendra Siwakoti said. A large number of people from the rural areas of Sunsari come to ask for textbooks, said an owner of a bookstall, said. Textbooks will be made available in two weeks, said chief of the eastern regional office of Sajha Publications, Tanka Khatiwada. — HNS