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Former prime minister Sher Bahadur Deuba has been admitted to Sahid Ganga Lal Memorial Hospital where he was treated for high blood pressure Sunday, his Secretary Jivan Shrestha said. Deuba was hospitalized after returning to the capital from a campaign tour in Birgunj. Deuba, president of the Nepali Congress (Democratic) will most likely be discharged today. nepalnews.com br May 13 Former member secretary of National Sports Council (NSC) Binod Shanker Palikhe has resigned as general secretary of Nepal Taekwondo Association and president of Nepal Judo Association Monday, he said. Palikhe resigned amid published reports that the NSC, Nepal's supreme sporting authority, was sacking him. Palikhe tendered his resignation in a letter to the NSC. Palikhe resigned as the Council earlier dissolved the Nepal Cricket Association. nepalnews.com br May 13 The Commission for the Investigation of the Abuse of Authority (CIAA) Monday filed corruption charged against Krishna Kumar Ghimere, former chief of the National Construction Company (NCC), at a special Kathmandu court Monday, CIAA said. CIAA has sought recovery of Rs.14.85 million from Ghimere. Ghimere also worked as general manager of the Nepal Yatayat Sansthan during a long government career. nepalnews.com br May 13 Securicor Gurkha
Service Ltd. (SGS), Hong Kong, contributed Rs.300,000 to the Prime
Minister's Relief Fund Monday. SGS Managing Director Glenn Tracey handed
over the contribution to Prime The dollar slipped Tuesday by another five against the rupee. The Nepal Rashtra Bank fixed Tuesday's buying rate at Rs.77.01 and selling rate at Rs.77.59 to the dollar. Monday's buying and selling rates were Rs.77.05 and Rs.77.64 respectively. The dollar has slipped by 28 paise in a fortnight. The dollar began weakening against the Nepali rupee with the start of the the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq. nepalnews.com br May 13 King could help Nepali prisoners in Thailand: Parks Ben Parks, an American national who has been trying to help 37 Nepalis languishing in Thai jails Monday sought audience with King Gyanendra and said the monarch could play an important role to get the Nepalis back. According to published reports, Parks said, "We would like to request the King to instruct the concerned Ministry for the formulation of laws that could pave the way to bring back the Nepalis who are serving jail terms in Thailand." The Prisoner Transfer and Exchange Treaty (PTET) Committee Nepal has submitted a petition for an audience with the King to rescue the Nepalis serving jail terms in Thailand. Nepalis have been serving jail terms in Thailand on charges of drug trafficking. As many as eight Nepalis are serving life sentences in Thailand while 25 others are serving 25-year jail terms. The Thai government sometime back had sent a proposal to the Nepal government to sign an agreement to take back the prisoners as the Thai prisons were already crowded. nepalnews.com am May 13 Maoists abduct five in Paachthar A group of Maoists have abducted five persons from Phalaicha Village Development Committee in northern part of Paachthar district, Nepal Samacharpatra reported Tuesday. The Maoists kidnapped the five persons with the view to recruit them in the peoples' army, relatives of the victims informed the Chyangthapu security post. Those abducted were Buddhi Begha, Kumari Begha, Dila Begha, Durga Begha and Manjeeta Begha. A team of security personnel from the Chyangthapu security post has been mobilized to look for the five persons, according to the Paanchthar district police. The whereabouts of the five persons abducted on May 6 is not known yet. nepalnews.com am May 13 Dr. Bhattarai criticizes govt. Dr. Baburam Bhattarai, chief Maoist peace negotiator Monday criticized the government of lacking seriousness to steer clear the peace talks, the second in two years to a logical and successful conclusion. He said rumours would only contribute to disrupt the talks. Addressing a seminar "Role of Academic Community in the Changing Scenario" organized by the revolutionary student wing, Bhattarai said the seriousness of the government towards the talks was questionable, as it had not disclosed its agenda so far. On the issue of protests against the decision to delimit the army's movement within an area of 5 kilometers from the barracks, Dr. Bhattarai said, "We did not mean it that way, we had demanded that the army should maintain a distance of 5 Kilometers from the Maoists wherever they are." He said that it would be wrong to think that the party had come to the negotiating table because it had lost its strength. nepalnews.com am May 13 13 die of mysterious disease in Kalikot Thirteen people have died within the span of a month in Ramnakot Village Development Committee of the remote hilly district of Kalikot from a contagious disease carrying symptoms of cold, cough, fever and the infection of the throat, Radio Nepal reported. The village is situated 24 kms north of district headquarters. The disease spread in wards seven, eight and nine of the VDC from the first week of Baishak. The elderly and children have been most affected by the disease, according to reports coming the district. nepalnews.com am May 13 Three killed, four injured in road accident Three people were killed and four others injured when a loaded tractor met with an accident at Saano Galdaha in Palpa district Monday evening, Radio Nepal reported quoting district police sources. The tractor was transporting goods from Kharsaticket of Rupandehi district to Rampur in adjoining Palpa district. The tractor fells off a road after the tractor's trolley became unstable. Those killed in the accident were Dhani Ram Tharu, driver of the tractor from Bhujauli VDC in Rupandehi district, Raju Tiwari of Rupandeshi Kharsaticket and Lal Bahadur Thakuri from Dandakot VDC in Palpa district. Four others injured in the accident are undergoing treatment at the United Missions Hospital in Tansen. nepalnews.com am May 13 Second phase protest announced, other details Five opposition
Monday announced a second phase national week-long protests against King The parties will organize sit-ins in villages and chant anti-government slogans next Monday and will surround district headquarters on the last day of the protests next Thursday. The parties will obstruct highway traffic Sunday. Professionals may organize independent protests when parties do not have their own programmes, the parties said. Parties did not announce protests of all seven days of the week-long second phase protest. Five parties claimed the first phase of the protest against what they call "regressive" actions of King Gyanendra that began May 8 was successful. Five opposition parties obstructed traffic around Ratna Park for 20 minutes after five in the afternoon Monday and marched through the city to protest Sunday's violence blamed by them on police. Students at Tribhuvan University torched a parked motorcycle inside the University premises Monday afternoon one day ahead of the sixth day of the first phase of the protest when demonstrators will obstruct the movement of government vehicles. Students Monday afternoon protested Sunday's violence by obstructing vehicular traffic by burning tires in front of several campuses in the capital , including Tri-Chandra Campus, eyewitnesses said. Darkness plunged
parts of Kathmandu for 30 minutes from 7:30 PM in response to a call by the Sudip Pathak re-elected HURON Chief Sudip Pathak was re-elected Sunday chief of the Nepal Human Rights Organization of Nepal (HURON) for a second three-year term, a member said. Pathak got 107 votes and defeated his nearest rival Birendra Keshari Pokhrel by 54 votes. HURON, founded by
late Rishikesh Shaha in the Panchayat era, is Nepal's first human rights Chief of the Army
Staff, Gen. Pyar Jung Thapa, inspected army installations in the
central and Three Koreans and their Sherpa guide scaled the 8516 meters high Lhotse, the world's fourth tallest peak, Sunday morning, the Ministry of Tourism said. The three Korean climbers were identified as: Mu Taek Par, 34, Bong Yeul Lee, 35, Sang Hyok Kwon, 24, and the Sherpa guide was Nuri Tsheri Sherpa, 33. The 2003 Korean expedition is led by Sang Wong Chung. A Japanese team was the first to climb the peak through the difficult west face this spring. The expeditions climbed the peak despite a bad weather spell that hit the region where Mount Everest is also located. nepalnews.com br May 12 Three killed, 11 injured Three persons were killed and 11 others were injured overnight when a bus overturned in Sindhuli, Radio Nepal said quoting police. The accident occurred near the Bhiman military barrack. The injured are undergoing treatment at a hospital in Janakpur. Other accident details were not available. nepalnews.com br May 12 |
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