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

KATHMANDU: A police team deployed from the Metropolitan Police Circle, Maharajgunj on Friday detained six persons, including three Indian nationals, for their alleged involvement in a string of thefts in the Capital. Police identified the suspected thieves as Lal Babu Jaisiwal (28) of Motihari, India and currently living at Teku Pachali; Satyendra Kumar Mahata (28) of Soraha, Motihari; Acchaya Kumar (18) of Patiya, Bihar; Jagga Prasad Jaisiwal (40) and Rajan Bahadur Karki (42) of Mahottari district, and Ramesh Shrestha (24) of Tulasi, Dhanusha district. Police confiscated five pairs of gold...
Published On: 2013-05-18

KATHMANDU: Nepali Congress General Secretary Prakash Man Singh has said that crucial decisions of erstwhile Baburam-led government should be scrapped to ensure the Constituent Assembly (CA) elections in a free and fair manner. Speaking at a cadres' meet in Kathmandu Constituency No. 1 today, Singh said an environment for elections would not be created until political appointments of the Baburam-led government were scrapped. He also said that NC would not turn back from its earlier stance on threshold of ballot imposed on political parties for their representation in the CA under the proport...
Published On: 2013-05-18

KATHMANDU: President Dr Ram Baran Yadav has urged the officials to make the Rastrapati Chure Conservation Programme a success. At a discussion programme with the top-level government officials involved in the Rastrapati Chure Conservation Programme at the Office of the President today, President Dr Yadav urged all to make the best contributions from the respective positions for effective implementation of the programme in the future. On the occasion, Finance Minister Shanker Prasad Koirala, other ministers, secretaries of different ministries, and advisors of the President were present. Dur...
Published On: 2013-05-18

KATHMANDU: Nepal Medical Association today demanded that the Health Professional Protection Act, 2009, be effectively implemented to ensure the safety of health workers. NMA President Dr Anjani Kumar Jha said the association had forwarded their demands seeking professional and personal security for health workers after recording a series of cases of physical attacks, vandalism and threats to health workers and health institutions. “Although the government has introduced a separate Act with clear provisions for punishment to those involved in attacking medical professionals and health ...
Published On: 2013-05-17

KATHMANDU: A two-day national consultation between policymakers and civil society leaders on Reproductive Health and Family Planning Beyond 2014 kicked off in the Capital today. The consultation is organised by International Council on Management of Population Programmes and Central Department of Population Studies at the Tribhuvan University with support of Packard Foundation, during which the stakeholders underscored that there were still many challenges in the area of reproductive health and family planning in the country. The national consultation is being hosted nearly for two decades to ...
Published On: 2013-05-17

KATHMANDU: Former Chief Justice Anup Raj Sharma today said that the Judicial Council, the body to appoint judges and initiate action against those judges who are not worth their salt, has failed to do its job and added that there was need to seek an alternative to this. “I advice lawyers to put pressure to create a new body under the new constitution as JC has failed to live up to its expectation,” Sharma said while launching a book, Parda Pachhadiko Nyaya, penned by THT journo Ananta Raj Luitel. The book is about judicial corruption and irregularities. Sharma also underlined to...
Published On: 2013-05-17

KATHMANDU: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex today marked the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia by organising different programmes in the Capital. The sexual minorities organised a dance programme at Rastriya Nachghar to showcase their talent and took part in a rally on the occasion. May 17 is marked across the world with demonstrations and call for tolerance towards LGBTI people. Meanwhile, the European Union has reaffirmed its commitment to equality and non-discrimination. “The European Union campaigns tirelessly for the respect of human rights,...
Published On: 2013-05-17

KATHMANDU: The Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority today held an interaction with executive chiefs of Kathmandu Metropolitan City, Lalitpur Sub-Metropolitan City, Bhaktapur Municipality, Madhyapur Timi Municipality, Kirtipur Municipality and secretary of their line ministries to discuss the reported rampant corruption in the government bodies. CIAA Chief Commissioner Lokman Singh Karki warned that the anti-graft body was receiving complaints regarding irregularities at government bodies, lethargic service delivery, lack of coordination among concerned agencies, road encroac...
Published On: 2013-05-17

KATHMANDU: A government secretary today warned of action against all those who are ‘causing textbook scarcity’ across the country. During an interaction with the officials from Janak Education Materials Centre, the printer of textbooks, Sajha Prakashan, the distributor of JEMC printed textbooks, Ministry of Education and the Department of Education today, Secretary Krishna Hari Baskota of the Office of Prime Minister and Council of Ministers today said ‘shortage of textbooks squarely means cheating 6.1 million students’ across the country, which violates children&rsqu...
Published On: 2013-05-17