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Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee Thursday morning accorded Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba a ceremonial welcome at the lawns of the Rashtrapati Bhawan in New Delhi, media reports from the Indian capital said. Deuba later laid a wreath at the samadhi of Mahatma Gandhi where he signed a visitor's book. Deuba and Vajpayee will hold formal talks later Thursday at the Hydrabad House on the second day the Nepali premier's six-day India visit. Vajpayee will hold a banquet for Deuba in the evening. nepalnews.com br March 21 Five scientists were honoured Wednesday for their invaluable contributions to science and technology through works carried out in Chemistry while six others were collectively given the ‘Sitaram Agrawal Award’ 2058 in recognition of their contributions in the field of scientific research. Scientists Ishwar Lal Shrestha, Biswonath Prasad Agrawal, Kamal Krishna Shrestha, Shree Krishna Shrestha and Mangala Manandhar were honoured at the outset of the seminar ‘Small Scale Biotic Experiment Technology’ jointly organized by the Nepal Chemical Society and Central Department of Chemistry, Tribhuvan University. Six other chemists Mohan Bikram Gewali, Kanti Shrestha. H. Baskota. SP Srivastab, S Kotata and G. Stobel were given the Sitaram Agrawal Award. Similarly Madan Kumar Kharel and Bharat Prasad Jaisi were given the Pandit Narayan Prasad Shrestha award for the year 2055 and 2056 BS respectively for emerging as toppers in the Chemistry discipline at the Central Department of Tribhuvan University. nepalnews.com, am Mar 20 KMC installs dustbins for ensuring cleanliness The Kathmandu Metropolitan city has installed 20 big dustbins on the road stretching from Tripureswor Eye Hospital to Teku Hospital Tuesday to ensure optimum level of cleanliness. According to the Municipal sources, the facility will be expanded to other parts of the town also. The KMC had around six months back installed 26 big dustbins in the hub of the capital city. But to its dismay it found that two of them were stolen, half of them were used to burn garbage and the majority of the bins landed with stolen locks and chains. The KMC however seems to be satisfied with the response it got in New Road where it has replaced the old big bins with 26 small handy bins made of fibre glass. Meanwhile it is learnt that the KMC has added ten more trucks to clear the garbage from the streets of Kathmandu. nepalnews.com am, Mar 20 Nepal maintains 156th position in FIFA world soccer rankings Nepal has maintained its 156th place in the latest world soccer rankings announced by FIFA, the soccer's world governing body in Zurich. India tops the South Asian ranking at 120. Bhutan is at the bottom of the list ranking 202 on the world list. Sri Lanka is 146, Bangladesh and Maldives jointly share the 148 position while Pakistan ranks 181 in the listing. France again tops the list. nepalnews.com br March 21 Central Bank dissolves Board of Directors of Lumbini Bank Limited In what may be seen as efforts to streamline the ailing economy, the Nepal Rastra Bank (NRB) Wednesday dissolved the Board of Directors of the Chitwan based Lumbini Bank Limited (LBL) to prevent it from swamping further, NRB sources said. The Board of the bank was dissolved for failing to abide by the NRB’s directives time and again, working against the interest of the depositors and failing to fulfill its liabilities, NRB press release said. The NRB has taken over the bank’s management for a period of one year at the moment. This is the second dissolution in less than a fortnight, the first being the dissolution of the Board of Directors of the Nepal Bank Limited, the oldest bank in Nepal. NRB is preparing to hand over the management of Nepal Bank Limited to an Irish Bank. The NRB has formed a three-member committee with Narayan Das Manandhar, as coordinator and Chief Executive Officer of LBL for a period of one year. The other two members are chartered accountant Shiva Nath Poudel and one representative from Employees’ Provident Fund. nepalnews.com, am Mar 21 Nepal to be a part of the Australian trade fair Nepali business entrepreneurs are keenly looking forward to take part in the international trade fair being organized in the Australian capital of Melbourne in May, Federation of Nepalese Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FNCCI) sources said. The anxiety of the Nepalese businessmen to be a part of the annual event is growing since they believe that new market avenues in Australia can be explored for Nepalese products. Nepalese products have been witnessing the narrowing down of global market and Australia, which has still not been affected by the global wave of recession could serve as a potential market for Nepal. The FNCCI is leading the Nepalese business team to participate in the annual event for the first time. nepalnews.com, am Mar 21Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba arrived in
New Delhi Wednesday to begin a six day friendly official visit of India.
Minister of State for Commerce Rajipratap Rudi received him at Indira Gandhi
International Airport on arrival. Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee will
give him a formal ceremonial The second position of Minister for Physical and Planning and Housing in government was confirmed Wednesday when the Royal Palace announced Chiranjivi Walge will look after Deuba's prime ministerial and other ministerial responsibilities in his absence. All national parties in parliament, except the main opposition NCP-UML, were included in Deuba's official delegation. Parliamentarians of the ruling Nepali Congress party, Rashtriya Prajatantra party and the Nepal Sadbavana party are in the prime ministerial delegation. nepalnews.com br March 20 Queen inaugurates centre for blind and disabled Queen Komal Wednesday inaugurated a training and skill development centre for the disabled and an art gallery in Kirtipur. The Queen later inspected the newly constructed centre and an art gallery constructed on six ropani of land. Dark and Light Blind Care of Netherlands and Mariko Memorial Foundation of Japan contributed Rs.18 million and Rs.6.2 million respectively for the construction of the centre and the gallery. Fifty disabled are currently honing their vocational skills at the centre established in 1991. nepalnews.com br March 20 Maoists kill a civilian in Dang The body of Shankar Gharti was found in Tulsipur in Dang Wednesday after Maoists abducted him from his home one day earlier, police said. An abandoned sophisticated gun was found overnight near Ranipokhari in the capital, police said. Army bomb disposal units deactivated banner bombs at Sangha on the border between Bhaktapur and Kavre Wednesday morning, eyewitnesses said. nepalnews.com br March 20 Security forces shot dead 25 more armed Maoists in operations in nine districts Tuesday, the Defence Ministry said Wednesday. Nine rebels were killed in two separate encounters in Rukum, four in Bardia and one each in Bhojpur, Syangjha, Rolpa, Kailali, Surkhet, Dolpa and Gorkha, an official said. Regional commander Ram Chandra Pandey was killed in Gorkha, the Ministry said. Four guns, two pistols, 25 magnum rifle bullets, equipment to set up booby traps, seven kgs explosives and weapons were recovered in searches Tuesday, officials said. Concealed food grains were recovered from
Gorkha and Taplujung, the Defence Ministry said. Five rebels were arrested
in Taplejung and Kailali, officials said. The Ministry confirmed seven
policemen were killed and seven others were injured in a rebel attack on a
police outpost overnight in Kailali where police repulsed insurgent attacks
on two more outposts, the Ministry said. Prime Minister Sher Bahadur
Deuba left for New Delhi Wednesday on a six day friendly visit to
India. Deuba will ask India to
curb the activities of Maoist rebels based in India during talks with Prime
Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee. An agreement is expected to be initialed
during the visit to start the A 32 member business delegation headed by FNCCI president Rabi Bhakta Shrestha is accompanying the prime minister. nepalnews.com br March 20 Seven policemen killed, seven others injured in Kailali One month after a deadly attack on Mangalsen killing 54 army men, Maoists Tuesday night attacked a police outpost in Kailali and killed seven policemen and injured seven others, three seriously, Home Ministry officials said. Rebels in their hundreds leveled
the outpost at Lamki where they also looted banks,a co-operative, and bombed
a sub-station of the Nepal Electricity Authority and a petrol bomb, fresh
official reports said. There were rebel casualties in the shoot-out ,
eyewitnesses said. Rebels also attacked another police outpost at Sukkhada
in the district. Security forces are conducting a search in the area
following the attack. Insurgents set up roadblocks before attacking
the settlement. Nepali youths in dire need of reproductive health education: report The Family Health International (FHI) in its report released Tuesday has highlighted the need expressed by youths in the age group 10-24, to step up sex education and reproductive health education in Nepal. Despite the widely felt need for information on reproductive health and sex, young Nepalese have few sources of information, the report says. The FHI prepared the report with the support of USAID-Nepal after conducting interviews of 556 youths living in the rural as well as urban parts of Nepal. According to the report, the adolescents in Nepal are opting for fewer children than their elders. They at the same time feel that they have the control over the decision as to how many children they should have. Parents seem to have a great deal of influence on the timing of the first birth soon after marriage. Parents also exert control over the care of pregnant wives. But the status of daughter-in-law is so low and resources so scarce in many Nepali households that she and her baby may not get enough to eat, the report says. Young adults in Nepal recognize that child bearing at an early stage can have harmful consequences for mothers and children alike. They believe that waiting until they are older to marry will help prevent some of these problems and allow them the maturity they need to take care of their family, according to the report. The report points out that the greatest obstacles hindering the improvement of adolescent reproductive health in Nepal are poverty and gender inequality. These problems will not be eradicated soon, but it is still necessary to acknowledge them as critical factors and to try to develop programmes that will not perpetuate them, the report says. nepalnews.com, am Mar 20 Nash appointed British ambassador to Afghanistan Ronald Nash has been transferred to Afghanistan as Great Britain's first ambassador to the war-torn nation since the Soviet invasion in 1979, an announcement said. Nash is currently British ambassador to Nepal
where he has been serving since 1999. He will take us his assignment next
month. "The appointment of an ambassador represents an upgrade to the
UK's diplomatic presence and demonstrates our support for the Afghan interim
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