KATHMANDU: The Trimurti Niketan conferred Trimurti Award on two Indian littérateurs for their contribution in promoting Nepali language and literature. Krishna Singh Moktan and Mohan Thakuri of Darjeeling were honoured on the occasion of the seventh annual function of Trimurti Niketan. The awards carry a purse of Rs 25,000. Chief guest at the programme, Nepal Academy chair Bairagi Kaila, conferred honorary doctorates on Satya Mohan Joshi, coordinator of international relations committee for Trimurti Niketan. Kaila also released Natyasamrat, authored by Madhav Biyogi. Similarly, lit...
Published On: 2011-09-02

KATHMANDU: Main opposition Nepali Congress is to hold its Central Working Committee meeting tomorrow to discuss recent political developments. Issues related to peace process in the changed context and four-point deal reached between Unified CPN-Maoist and United Democratic Madhesi Front which paved the way for Dr Baburam Bhattarai to become the Prime Minister will also be discussed, according to Congress general secretary Prakash Man Singh. An informal meeting of NC’s top leaders has already expressed serious reservation over the pact, including move against forming a State Restruct...
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KATHMANDU: Police on Friday arrested Ranjit Tamang (17) of Kathmandu-3 who allegedly attacked Krishna Rana Magar in Basundhara. According to police, Tamang attacked Magar, a resident of Solukhumbu, with a khukuri following a dispute. Magar is recovering at a local hospital ...
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KATHMANDU: The District Administration Office, Kathmandu, has eased its August 17 prohibitory order imposed in areas leading to Shankhamul, Tinkune and Maitaighar Madala from the Constituent Assembly building. Kathmandu CDO Laxmi Prasad Dhakal said the decision of District Security Committee came into effect today. He, however, said the prohibitory order at both sides of the road from the main junction of New Baneshwor to the western gate of the CA building up to Thapagaun was still in place. Wary of potential security threats ahead of CA’s August 31 deadline, the DAO had declared va...
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KATHMANDU: Chief of General Staff, Lieutenant General Nepal Bhusan Chand and Director of Military Operations, Major General Daman Bahadur Ghale left here on Friday for Australia to participate in the 24th Annual International Military Operations & Law Conference (MILOPS) going to be held in Gold Coast of Australia from September 4-8. The United States of America is organizing the conference, the Public Relations Directorate of the Nepali Army (NA) stated in a press release today. One hundred and forty-six army officers from 24 countries including Nepal are attending the conference. Chief...
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KATHMANDU: The CPN-Maoist criticised the UCPN-Maoist for handing over the keys of arms containers to the Special Committee, saying the move has proved that the latter has started walking on the path of counter-revolution and revisionism. Issuing a press statement today, Matrika Prasad Yadav, co-ordinator of the party, said that his party condemned the decision to hand over the keys and added the UCPN-Maoist has already surrendered from the revolutionary path. Yadav was a leader of the former rebel Maoist party. After the party got unified with other fring communist parties and took up the na...
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KATHMANDU: The District Administration Office, Kathmandu, has issued a prohibitory order at both sides of the road from Baneshhwor Chowk to Western Gate of the Constituent Assembly (CA) building up to the way to Thapagaun partially by withdrawing the District Security Committee's decision made on August 11. The Chief District Officer (CDO), Laxmi Prasad Dhakal issued such order as per the committee's decision held on Thursday. The decision was made according to the Local Administration Act 2028. The decision will be effective from Friday. The security committee took the decision by consideri...
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KATHMANDU: The Bills on marginalized groups presented in the parliament are required to have further discussions, stakeholders said. Various stakeholders said this at an interaction organized by National Forum against Caste Discrimination (NFCD) on ‘Constitution drafting process in the context of the issues of excluded communities’ here on Thursday. Civil society leader Shyam Shrestha said the Bill on State Restructuring tabled in the parliament has been developed in line with the concept of centralized federal system and that the Bill could not assure the right to self determi...
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KATHMANDU: Kathmandu police has started mobilising elite squads on the outskirts of the metropolis in the wake of a spurt in the incidents of night-time theft, looting and robbery. Police described the move as a part of pre-Dashain security measures. According to a police official, the Metropolitan Police Range, Hanumandhoka, has deployed more than 115 plainclothes cops in the hinterlands, dividing them into six mobile groups for security patrol. Superintendent of Police Kedar Rijal, the Kathmandu police chief, said the records of previous years suggest that the outskirts are more vulnerab...
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KATHMANDU: Former Home Minister Bhim Bahadur Rawal is firm on not parting with the government-given luxury vehicle, which he has been using for quite sometime, and settling for a less expensive one. “I am using the vehicle as per the law. Why should I return it to the government,” he said in response to a query about his refusal to turn over the Mitsubishi Pajero numbered Ba 7 Cha 5555 despite the parliamentary Public Accounts Committee’s order to the Home Ministry to retrieve the government vehicles in his possession. “I never took the vehicle by force. The gover...
Published On: 2011-09-02