KATHMANDU: Police on Friday arrested six alleged burglars for their involvement in property crimes recently reported in various parts of the Kathmandu Valley. They identified the burglars arrested at Balaju as Lal Babu Jaiswal (28), Satyandra Kumar Mahata (28), Akshyay Kumar (18) and Jagga Prasad Jaiswal (40) of Bihar, Rajan Bahadur Karki (42) of Mahottari and Ramesh Shrestha (24) of Dhanusha. Gold ornaments, precious stones and equipment used for breaking doors and padlocks were seized from their possession First-aid training BHAKTAPUR: Nepal Red Cross Society conducted a four-day Earthqu...
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KATHMANDU: The Pashupati Area Development Trust (PADT) has asked the government to provide more than Rs 1 billion in order to attract foreign tourists in and around the Pashupatinath Temple, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, by developing necessary infrastructure there. A meeting of the PADT’s performance appraisal committee decided to ask the government for Rs 1 billion and 3.6 million to develop urgently-needed infrastructure, according to the PADT. “We need the sum immediately to give the heritage site a facelift,” said Narottam Vaidya, PADT treasurer. “We will begin r...
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BHAKTAPUR: Police rounded up a four-member ring involved in cheating people by promising them US dollars for Nepali rupees at a cheaper exchange rate, from Nikosera, Madhyapur Thimi, yesterday. The detaines are Dankrishna Bhujel (22) of Sindhupalchowk, Ram Bahadur Tamang (50) of Dhading, Pramila Tamang (54) of Bhojpur and Urmila Magar (34) of Udayapur. Police say the organised racket of two women and two men had swindled several people in the Kathmandu Valley in the past two years. Police had launched a special operation against such swindlers in the wake of increasing complaints. The frau...
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KATHMANDU: It seems the Mahasen Cyclone in the Bay of Bengal has had a slight affect in the weather pattern of the Kathmandu Valley as the temperature has remained below normal for the past few days, said the Weather Forecasting Division. The cyclone hit the bay on Wednesday and has created low pressure zone in Bihar, which has pushed the moisture to Nepal, resulting in rainfall almost every day and cloudy sky, said WFD, senior forecaster Rajendra Prasad Shrestha. As a result, the maximum temperature in the valley has plummeted compared to the temperature around this time last year. The Eas...
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KATHMANDU: Minister for Health and Population Vidyadhar Mallik and Health Secretary Dr Praveen Mishra will attend the 66th session of World Health Assembly, to be held in Geneva on May 20-28. In a press statement, National Health Education, Information and Communication Centre at the Health Ministry said about 3,000 delegates are expected to attend the session, which will draft a resolution on 17 neglected tropical diseases. Delegates from all 194 WHO member-states will take part in WHA. ...
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KATHMANDU: In a first in the Kathmandu Valley, the Metropolitan Traffic Police Division and its 33 units yesterday nabbed 3,800 drivers for violating traffic rules and fined them Rs 1,000 each. It was the highest number of drivers facing music on a single day in the valley for violating rules, officials said. Of the offenders, 75 drivers were driving under the influence of alcohol, while others were caught violating lane discipline, seat belt rules, pick-up and drop rules, and traffic signals. The Motor Vehicles and Transport Management Act, 1993 calls for ‘zero tolerance’ agai...
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KATHMANDU: Nepal Media Society, a guild of publishers, has flayed the attack on Dev Shrestha, chief administrator of the Rajdhani daily. On Friday, trade unionists aligned to the CPN-Maoist had attacked Shrestha at the daily’s gate at Kupandol and threatened to kill him. The society urged the government to take stringent action against the attackers. Man found dead KATHMANDU: Balaram Poudel (42) of Ramkot was found dead in Swoyambhu on Friday. A preliminary investigation shows excessive consumption of liquor for the death. Police said it was not a case of murder. They have sent the b...
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KATHMANDU: CPN-UML Vice-chairperson Bamdev Gautam said that the ethnic federalism based on single identity would end the existence of the country. Addressing the ninth conference of CPN-UML, Bardiya-Kathmandu Liaison Forum in Kathmandu on Saturday, Vice-chairperson Gautam further said the unscrupulous elements, who are opting to finish off the nation for their victory, are maneuvering to establish single identity-based federalism. He claimed that the single identity-based federalism would divide the country into small principalities and consequently end up the national existence. He argued ...
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KATHMANDU: Police on Saturday briefly detained Samjhana Basnet (36) of Makhan Tole and two others on charge of manhandling on-duty traffic cops. Police said the traffic personnel intercepted a scooter at Putalisadak Chowk at around 8:15 am after they saw two persons on the pillion ride, and sought the blue book and license from Basnet who was riding the two-wheeler. Instead of showing the documents, she misbehaved with constables Govinda Rana and Bikash Giri, tore their uniforms and hit Giri on his head with her helmet, police said. Giri has sustained some bruises on his face. A police te...
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KATHMANDU: A police team from the Metropolitan Police Circle, Boudhha carried out a raid at a gambling den in Patitar near Bouddha of Kathmandu, and picked up six persons on the charge of gambling and operating the illegal business. Police said on Saturday that they swung into action following a tip off. Rs 16,600 in cash, playing cards and other logistics were confiscated from the site. ...
Published On: 2013-05-18