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Opposition to protest Sunday's violence Five opposition parties condemned Sunday's violence in which several opposition leaders and students were inured in clashes with police during illegal torch processions and said they will protest the excesses Monday, the parties said. Leaders of five opposition parties protesting alleged regressive actions by King Gyanendra will lead the protests from Ratna Park at 5 in the afternoon, the parties said. They blamed police for infiltration and violence. Meanwhile, the opposition has called for a blackout in the city for 30 minutes beginning 7:30 PM in protests against the King on the fifth day of an indefinite protest. nepalnews.com br May 12 Five Japanese and three Sherpas of the Tokyo University Agriculture Alpine Club Everest/Lhotse Expedition climbed the 8516 meters high Lhotse, world's fourth tallest peak, Saturday from the difficult west face, the Ministry of Tourism said. Expedition leader Taro Tanigawa, Kenta Hirose, Koji Nagakubo, Yuishi Yoshida, Kazusida Nakamura, Phu Tenzing Sherpa, Lakpa Dorje Sherpa and Da Gyalzen Sherpa climbed the peak, the Ministry said. nepalnews.com br May 12 RPP leaders criticize govt. decision to restrict army movement Two leaders of the Rastriya Prajatantra Party Dr. Prakash Chandra Lohani and Rabindra Nath Sharma have criticized the government for restricting the army patrols within the periphery of five kilometers around their barracks. The Royal Nepal
Army (RNA) has been bestowed with the responsibility of overseeing the
security of the country and thereby protecting the country's sovereignty.
Hence the decision to restrict their movement is not only 'irresponsible'
but also counter productive to the ongoing peace talks, the Chairman of
Rashtriya Prajatantra Party Pashupati SJB Rana said: "I am concerned
that the state "It is regrettable if the army movement has been restricted to within five kilometers of their barracks," former Chief of the Army Staff and member of the Standing Committee of the Raj Parishad Gen. Sachit SJB Rana told Kantipur Sunday. Army Spokesman Col. Deepak Gurung said the Army had no comment and had not received details of the agreement between the Government and Maoist peace negotiators until Sunday-a public holiday. The second round of peace talks held last Thursday decided to confine the army within the five kilometers range around the barracks as demanded by the Maoists. nepalnews.com am/br May 12 JICP comes under fire for negligence The Judicial Investigation Commission on Property (JICP) has been criticized for its alleged negligence while black listing people not submitting their property details as some names of people who had submitted the details have been included in the black list, Nepal Samacharpatra reported. Chief of the Comptroller's office in Bhojpur, Sher Bahadur K.C. said in a press release Sunday that though he had submitted his property details on Asad 31, 2059 BS and was given the registration number 4050, he was taken aback to find that his name too had been included in the black list. Similarly, Central Vice President of Nepal Intellectual Council Bhim Prasad Neupane said that he had also submitted his property details and was given registration number 1133 but still his name was carried among the defaulters. Cine artiste Basundhara Bhusal has also expressed her surprise about the inclusion of her name in the list though she had already submitted her property details. Similarly, former President of the Nepal University Teachers' Association (NUTA) Bhimsen Das Shrestha said that his name too had been kept in the black list though he had already submitted the forms outlining the details of his property. nepalnews.com am May 12 The World Cultural Net is organizing a week-long China festival in the capital from September 1 to 7 to mark the 49th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Nepal and the Peoples' Republic of China. A 30-member team of
acrobats from inner Mongolia will present acrobatics and cultural programmes
during the festival. According to Deepak Sarkar, President of World Cultural
Net, 14 Chinese films This will be followed by an exhibition of photos portraying China's natural settings, culture and festivals. The International Convention Center at New Baneswore has been chosen as the venue for the festival. nepalnews.com am May 12 Koirala defends political parties A few days after
King Gyanendra warned leaders not to launch a political stir, Nepali
Congress President Girija Prasad Koirala Sunday defended the stance of the
political parties claiming that the parties began protesting against the
King only after he went overboard exercising power not given by King Gyanendra granted audience to prominent journalists of the major newspapers recently and warned political leaders not to heat up the streets when the nation was moving ahead in the road to peace. Koirala told the media that a constitutional monarch is not supposed to express his views through the newspapers but through the political parties. Most of the newsmen who attended Koirala's press conference were the ones who had been granted audience by the King recently. Koirala said the present political crisis could be overcome by forming an all party government having the representation of the Maoists within the framework of the Constitutional of Nepal 1990. nepalnews.com am May 12 Police, opposition clash Police and five opposition party demonstrators clashed in Kathmandu and other urban centers in the kingdom injuring many, CPN-UML leader Raghuji Panth from Lalitpur told Nepalnews. Five opposition parties defied a ban on torch processions slapped in the Valley since the last 22 days during the anti-King protests , eyewitness and police said. The Home Ministry earlier Sunday issued a statement that torch processions had been banned in the Valley since April 19. The clashes, after 6.30 in the evening occurred soon after the Royal Nepal Army said it was ready to protect national interest amid sloganeering against the King. Opposition protests had been peaceful until Saturday. Among those injured were Arjun Narsingh K.C., spokesman of the Nepali Congress, Amrit Bohara of the CPN-UML and Amik Serchan, Chief of the Sanyukta Janamorcha. Central committee member Pradip Gaywali was also injured in the Kathmandu while Bhim Rawal was injured in Dhangadi, Panth said. Two youth leaders were seriously injured in Kathmandu, Pantha said. Traffic was held up as police and protesters exchanged brickbats at Ratna Park and Bhotahiti for nearly 30 minutes after the processions emerged from Ason; police beat back demonstrators with sticks, eyewitnesses said. Police raided the office of the CPN-UML next to the Nepal Electricity Authority at Ratna Park, eyewitnesses said. Besides Kathmandu, clashes have been reported from Lalitpur, Dhangadi, Janakpur, Rajbiraj, Biratnagar and Dharani, Panth said quoting initial party reports. Two policemen were among the injured, police said. Opposition have been holding nation-wide protests since Thursday. nepalnews.com br/rh May 11 Army irked by Opposition comments The Royal Nepal Army said Sunday it is "ready at any time to protect the country's national interest, sovereignty, independence and the territorial integrity" on the fourth day of an indefinite movement against King Gyanendra. The Defence Ministry and the Royal Nepal Army said in a communiqué Sunday their "grave attention" has been drawn to recent "objectionable, inhuman, rude, disrespectful and unbecoming" comments for sometime from leaders of political parties against the King who is the symbol of the kingdom's national unity and a center of faith. The Ministry did not identify the parties but said they have been in the government in the past. The Ministry said such comments are coming at a time when efforts are being made to establish peace and tranquility in the country through peace negotiations. The Ministry said such parties should instead be playing an "exemplary role in restoring peace and tranquility" when "some relief is being felt." Such utterances undermine the country's independence, sovereignty and the territorial integrity of the nation and create confusion, the Army said. nepalnews.com br May 11 Maoists obstruct humanitarian efforts The Maoists created obstacles during the "goodwill project" of the Royal Nepal Army to provide health and other services to people in insurgency-affected districts in far west Nepal, including Rukum and Rolpa, the Defence Ministry said Sunday. The Royal Nepal Army West Pritana Military Headquarters, Nepalgunj, with the cooperation of civilian hospitals in the area, closed down the health camps in the districts. The Army immediately did not have figures of the number of people treated at the camps. Some independent newspaper reports said Sunday some Maoists visited the camp in Darchula for treatment. The Ministry accused the Maoists for violating a 22-point code of conduct between the government and rebels by extorting fixed sums of money from families of army, police, civil servants and families of British Gurkhas and Singapore Police in Dhading and other districts. The Ministry said it took "serious objection" to the code violations. nepalnews.com br May 11 Bajura may be air-linked again A Royal Nepal Airlines (RNAC) Twin Otter landed at Kolta airport in Bajura district in far west Nepal Sunday during a successful test flight, Channel Nepal said quoting a RNAC official in Dhangadi. The successful test flight opens the possibility of resuming suspended air flights to and from the district. The report did not say when the flights suspended during the insurgency will be resumed. nepalnews.com br May 11 Maoists open Kathmandu office, other details Maoists for the first time opened an office at Shanti Galli in Anamnagar in the capital Sunday morning, a member of monitoring team overseeing peace talks said. The office phone number was not immediately available. The enquiry of Nepal Telecommunications Corporation said a telephone number of the Maoist office has not been registered at 197 as yet. Chief Maoist peace negotiator Dr. Baburam Bhattarai said the "contact" office will remain during the period of the peace talks. "There was no alternative but to make peace talks a success," Dr. Bhattarai told reporters at the office. "Political agenda will be discussed in the third round of peace talks," Dr. Bhattarai said. Talks are entering a "serious phase," he said. He said Maoist political demands did not figure in the previous two rounds of talks; the second round was held Friday. Representatives of Gurkhas Sunday asked Maoists to withdraw a rebel demand to stop their recruitment in Indian and British armies. The Gurkhas demanded the withdrawal of the rebel demand during an interaction programme in the capital with rebel negotiators Ram Bahadur Thapa and Deb Gurung. An end to the recruitment was one of 24 demands presented by the rebels to the government. nepalnews.com br May 11 Shailendra Kumar Upadhaya donates Former foreign minister Shailendra Kumar Upadhaya donated his body for
medical research to Upadhaya, one of four peace talks facilitators between the Government and Maoists, announced the donation at an eye donation camp in the capital Saturday. "Nothing is more pleasing than to contribute something to society," published reports said Sunday quoting Upadhaya. Senior Advocate Krishna Prasad Pant also donated his body after death to
the Hospital several The NEPSE index fell a marginal 1.31 points at the end of five-day trading Friday. The market opened at 209.51 points Monday and closed at 208.20 points Friday. Commercial bank share index fell from 205.23 to 203.37 points during the weekly trading. Commercial bank shares captured 50.07 percent of the market. Nabil Bank Ltd. led the market with shares worth Rs.1.47 million traded. Altogether 42,762 shares of 48 out of 63 listed companies worth Rs.9.68 were sold in 1,583 transactions. nepalnews.com br May 11 PABSON Saturday asked the All Nepal National Independent Students' Union (Revolutionary), ANNISU-R to negotiate an end to a fee dispute charged by private schools after Maoist students Thursday padlocked fee counters and account departments in the schools, the Association said. PABSON Saturday formed a nine member monitoring committee under vice chairman B.N. Sharma to fix a fee ceiling after rebel students charged the schools for fixing exorbitant fees at the start of the new academic year. PABSON formed a six member dialogue committee under the chairmanship of PABSON President Umesh Shrestha to talk with the communist students. nepalnews.com br May 11 Effigies burnt to protest royal move Leaders and activists of five mainstream political parties across the nation burnt the effigies of what they called 'regressive' forces in their third round of protest against the royal move of October 4. The third round of protest ended peacefully despite skirmishes between the striking activists and the police at Bagbazar intersection, according to published reports. Police arrested 54 demonstrators in Mahendranagar and Kanchanpur as they attempted to burn 'effigies' symbolizing 'regressive' forces, Nepal Samacharpatra reported. Those arrested were released after some hours, according to the daily. Security was stepped up in the capital Saturday evening to stave off any untoward incident. Police managed to snatch an effigy at Baghbazar but the protestors got another one immediately and set it ablaze. The police also tried in vain to douse the burning effigy in Ratnapark. The demonstrators went around the major thoroughfares of the city chanting slogans against the royal move. The demonstrators gathered at Bhotahity for a meeting after going around the city centers. Addressing the meeting Nepali Congress leader Nara Hari Acharya said the movement would be given continuity until the King agreed to give back the democratic rights enjoyed earlier by the people. nepalnews.com am May 11 |
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