CPN-ML urges to withdraw POL price hike

Kathmandu, Nov. 2 (RSS): A meeting of the CPN-ML politburo chaired by its president Mrs Sahana Pradhan took various decisions on current issues and intra-party affairs.

The meeting strongly demanded that His Majesty’s Government reverse its decision to hike prices of petroleum products.

The meeting criticised some constituents of the nine-left party group that happened to join hands with some outsiders causing confusion among the people but urged them to help strengthen the working unity among the nine left parties.

The meeting also called on all left parties, small or big, to lend hands of cooperation to intensify the actions launched by the nine left parties.

Referring to the Maoist stand of holding talks with the government to free the country from terror and violence, the meeting positively evaluated the recent informal talks held between a maoist leader and the Home Minister.

The party also urged the government to make public the list of people who have disappeared.

The meeting also decided to present the proposal aimed at taking different lines of opinions to the organized members of the party at the next central committee meeting.

The 15th central committee meeting will be held on Nov 23.

Plane damaged in Lukla, no one hurt

BY A STAFF REPORTER

Kathmandu, Nov. 2: A Dornier aircraft overshot the Lukla runway and sank into a nearby mound without hurting any of its four passengers and three crew-members at 9:52 this morning.

The aircraft belonging to Gorkha Airlines and registered as 9N-ACV is severely damaged, according to Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal (CAAN). No sooner it touched down the runway of the Lukla Airport, the air-plane went out of control after its right landing gear was felt to be out of order, the aircraft’s pilot Captain P.V.P. Gupta was quoted as saying by CAAN.

After losing its control the aircraft crash-slid into the mound at the right outer-side of the runway.

After the incident, Lukla Airport remained closed for fixed winged aircraft for the whole day today. "Since the crashed Dornier disturbed the aircraft movement on the runway, the airport had to be closed," said a CAAN press statement. "The airport will be opened after a technical team makes an on-the-spot inspection."

In yet another important decision, CAAN grounded all the Dornier aircraft being operated throughout the Kingdom immediately after the incident today. "They will be allowed to resume their flights only after making minute inspections of these aircraft’s landing gears and nose wheels."

CAAN has also formed a three-member technical team to investigate the incident. The team will submit the report within one month.